What new laws the State Duma made Russians happy for the New Year: a review of the "new" and experts Photo: RIA Novosti This week, the lower house of parliament officially closed the autumn session. The last two days of work - December 18 and 19 - State Duma deputies worked actually without stopping, which is a kind of New Year's tradition: all the bills that are most important from the point of view of parliamentarians are trying to approve right now.

After opening the archives, Latvia publishes the names of those who collaborated with the KGB: in the country scandal Photo: Reuters In Latvia, the so -called “CH bags” began to publish - documents of the KGB of the Latvian SSR. The first portion was published on December 20, another part of the documents will appear in the public domain in May next year.

The accused in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case (the organization is recognized as terrorist in Russia and is banned), wheelchair user Amir Gilyazov from Chelyabinsk, was released from medical institution No. 3 on his own recognizance. His wife Aigul Gilyazova reported this to OVD-Info.

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested until February 19 the doctor of the Yuventa Medical Center, Armen Oganesyan, accused of rape (Part 1 of Article 131 of the Criminal Code) and sexual assault (clause “a” of Part 3 of Article 132 of the Criminal Code) in relation to patients who were under anesthesia. As reported in the telegram channel of the joint press service of the city courts, Oganesyan does not admit his guilt.

Elena Khusyainova, chief accountant of RIA Federal News Agency (FAN), filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation and demanded 5 million rubles in moral compensation. The statement of claim was registered by the Sestroretsky District Court of St. Petersburg, according to the telegram channel of the joint press service of the city courts.

The vice-governor of St. Petersburg, Igor Albin, suspected activist Alla Andreeva, who the day before complained to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the problems of deceived equity holders, of lies and self-promotion. “Remember that she is also a dubious journalist (we tried to find at least one publication of this author, alas, we did not succeed). <...> It is very embarrassing for me to talk about this, but all the “activities” of Alla Andreeva resemble self-promotion.

Denis Mikhailov’s bank accounts, the coordinator of the staff of the politician Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, blocked as a security measure in the prosecutor’s suit by almost 11 million rubles. “This means that, firstly, all my cards are actually blocked, and a negative amount with six zeros flaunts on the balance sheet.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Tatarstan intends to transfer almost 900 shelters and anti-radiation shelters to the stage of readiness by 2020. This was stated by the head of the department of the department for the region, lieutenant general of the internal service Rafis Khabibullin, writes "Business Online". According to him, today the bomb shelters are 64% ready for operation - this is a little more than 700 objects.

The European Union (EU) has extended economic sanctions against Russia by six months until July 31, 2019, said in a statement. the EU Council “Given that no progress [in the implementation of the Minsk agreements] has been made, the European Council has taken a political decision to extend economic sanctions against Russia,” the report says. The decision to extend the restrictive measures was taken unanimously.

Valery Ivanov, who died in penal colony No. 40 of the Lviv region in the city of Drogobych, convicted of participating in hostilities on the side of the LPR, was found to have a fracture of four ribs and a closed craniocerebral injury during an autopsy, the Russian Foreign Ministry claims, citing unnamed sources . According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, it follows that Ivanov was probably killed.

The Murom city court sentenced local resident Vladimir Morozov to a year and eight months of restriction of freedom for bitcoin mining using the computer servers of the State Integrated Telecommunications System of one of the region. It is reported by TASS. Morozov was found guilty under the second part of article 273 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (creation, use and distribution of malicious computer programs).

The jury in the Bryansk Regional Court acquitted all the defendants in the poppy case, according to the court's website. "By the verdict of the jury, all the defendants are acquitted on all counts," — said the representative of the court. Among those whose decision was announced on December 21 was businessman Sergei Shilov, who tried to bring two batches of poppies to Russia in 2010.

The cost of one trip on the Troika card on public transport in Moscow will increase from 36 to 38 rubles. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Moscow Department of Transport. “The cost of a single ticket for 60 trips will be 1.9 thousand rubles instead of 1,765 rubles. The validity of the ticket from the date of purchase will be 45 days, as most passengers manage to use the ticket faster.

Glory is free. Evening snow. Premiere The history of the creation of this song goes to the distant 1974, when Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union. In the West, the Gulag Archipelago already thundered, and one smart producer, Janusz Christ, occurred to release the soundtrack to the famous book. Thus, the Gulag Song record was born, camp songs performed by the young chansonnier of the fame of the free (Mazura), who emigrated from the USSR.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has arrested William Browder, the founder of the British fund Hermitage capital, in absentia in the case of organizing a criminal community (part 1 of article 210 of the Criminal Code), reports . TASS Browder's lawyer, Alexander Antipov, opposed the arrest request: “Browder has not been notified of the charge, the criminal case, or today's hearing.