Who will take the post of Chairman of the CDU after her departure Headquarters of the HDS. Photo: Reuters On November 29, after the extremely weak result of Christian democrats in the Gessen federal land, Angel Merkel announced that in December the party chairman would leave, and after 2021 would not run for German chancellors. Whether she could hold out until 2021 is also a question: Merkel herself repeatedly said that the leader of the ruling party should occupy the post of chancellor.

The Investigative Committee for the Amur Region initiated a case of abuse of authority (part 1 of article 286 of the Criminal Code) against unnamed employees of the Amur IK-3 after the publication in the media of photographs of Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, a member of the Tsapkov gang, with delicacies, according to a message on the website of the department .

A new lecture from the cycle "Myths of Russian Society" together with the Gaidar Foundation: Julia Lezhnina will read The Yegor Gaidar Foundation, with the information support of Novaya Gazeta, continues the cycle of public lectures “Myths of Russian Society”, designed to dispel stereotypical ideas about Russian society.

The US Treasury has added three individuals and nine entities to its sanctions list against Russia in Ukraine and Crimea, according to a statement on the ministry's website.

The Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, temporarily suspended the head of the department for the Primorsky Territory, Sergei Gryzykhin, from his duties, according to a statement on the website of the Investigative Committee. As the reason for the decision, only the “low performance” of the IC management under his command is indicated. An official check was launched against him.

From January 1, the threshold for duty-free importation of goods for personal use into Russia by land transport will be reduced from 1.5 thousand to 500 euros. This is stated in the decision of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which was signed by Finance Minister Anton Siluanov on behalf of the Russian side. At the same time, the threshold for importing by air for Russians remains the same - 10 thousand euros.

The Communist Party held an unauthorized procession on the day of the October Revolution Photo: "New Gazeta" Experts recognized Petersburg with the city with the largest number of protests for 2018. The reason was calculated by the weak interaction of the previous regional authorities with the townspeople. However, the new regional authorities still follow the habits of the old.

The second day of the "theater case" Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" The first meeting in the case of the Seventh Studio moved through an unexpected scenario. After the long monotonous speech of the prosecutor Lavrov, in which he listed the “7 studios” transactions, after the defendants refused to recognize the lawsuit because they organized not a criminal group, but just a theater troupe ...

The former head of the Serpukhov District, Alexander Shestun, who is accused of particularly large-scale fraud, will remain under arrest until February 13, 2019. This decision was made by the Basmanny Court of Moscow, a Novaya Gazeta correspondent reports from the courtroom. The prosecution insisted that the extension of the arrest was necessary due to ongoing investigative actions in the case. The court took into account these circumstances, but did not accept the arguments of the defense.

Shooting in a bar in the US city of Thousand Oaks, California, was opened by 28-year-old Ian David Long. This is reported by CNN with reference to police sheriff Jeff Dean. The police officer said that according to preliminary data, the attacker committed suicide. He said that nothing was known about his motives and added that the man was a veteran of the Marine Corps. a shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in California Recall that there was .

In the zone and in the wild, the bandits perform the same role - they do the dirty work for the bosses We were all worried that in Russia the prisoners were kept in inhuman conditions. That they are mocked like Ildar Dadin. But, fortunately, it turned out that this rule does not always work. There are lucky ones for whom a prison is a five-star hotel. Crabs, caviar, and all that.

Report from the journalistic forum, where they taught patriotism and convinced that Norwegian salmon causes cancer Photo: Tatyana Britskaya / "New Gazeta" Norwegian salmon causes cancer, the coastal villages of the Northern Kingdoms live in fear, and the Western media write about the environmental problems of the Murmansk region in order to discredit Russia - under such slogans, the journalistic forum was held in Murmansk and Kirkenes.

Dagestan journalists put the alley of the memory of the dead colleagues. The republic does not have money for a monument Participants in the opening ceremony. Photo: Ziyavudin Uvaisov Today, in the center of Makhachkala, a ceremony of laying the alley of memory of dead journalists was held. The organizer was the Union of Journalists of Dagestan, relatives and colleagues were present.

Those who created the “troll factory” organized the DDOS attacks against the media, beat bloggers and “dismissed” the chief editor of RIA Novosti. Interview with ex-Rosternik Evgeny Prigozhin Evgeny Prigozhin. Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS The man who stood at the origins of Mediahperia Evgeny Prigozhin - Andrei Mikhailov, is the master of Black PR, the organizer of provocations against Forbes and other media, “the dad of all trolls from Olgino” gave an interview with Novaya Gazeta.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Volgograd Region began verification of information on the detection of a urn near the police department in Volgograd documents with criminal cases. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the press service of the Office Svetlana Smolyaninov.