Evgeny Makarov, who spoke about torture in the Yaroslavl colony - what happened to him, which he dreamed about to will and how he relates to those who tortured him Evgeny Makarov. Photo: Sergey Petrov/ especially for "New" On New Year's Eve, it is customary to draw victories and defeats, and one of our largest victories in the past year is, of course, the case of the Yaroslavl colony No. 1.

How one colonel rewrote the history of England Valery Etnukov in the center. Photo: Facebook.com/rusembusa Valery Etneukov, senior adviser to the Russian Embassy in the United States, holds the position of attache of the Russian police (representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) in the States. In his dissertation, Colonel Etnekov discovered that England in the XVII - XVIII centuries. Rules control.

Five reasons for the stagnation of the Russian economy: the version of the economist Igor Nikolaev Photo: Peter Kovalev / TASS On December 24, the cost of a barrel of oil of the Brent brand dropped below annual minimums - up to $ 51. The December spells of member countries OPEC+ did not support her for a long time. But the ruble still holds. How to understand this? Economist Igor Nikolaev told Novye what happened to the Russian economy for 2018, and what shocks can expect it in the future.

In 2018, the number of premeditated murders and attempted murders decreased by 12.6% in Russia. This is reported by the Prosecutor General's Office of the country. “The number of murders, attempted murders decreased by 12.6% (from 9,060 to 7,914), by 5.4% (from 22,834 to 21,609) - facts of intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm,” the agency said in a statement.

CONTINUATION Alexey Chernov was informed at the Sberbank branch that no restrictions were placed on his accounts. “They said at Sberbank that there were no restrictions, and why I received this SMS, they cannot understand,” Chernov told Novaya Gazeta.

Authorities fired the head of Rosstat for pessimism Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian economic authorities finally responded to a deterioration in the economic situation in the country, which lasts the fifth year in a row. The reason for the indignation of officials was that the effect of the pre-election increase in salaries to state employees by November has exhausted themselves, and the real disposable incomes of the population again moved to the fall (-2.9% in annual terms).

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin proposed to analyze the Russian Constitution for compliance with the requirements of the time. This is reported by Interfax.

A resident of Yekaterinburg, Yulia Savinovskikh, whose guardianship authorities took away her adopted children after breast removal surgery under the pretext that she was allegedly going to change her sex, left Russia. Savinovskikh told the publication “Takie Dela” about this. According to her, she moved with her family to Spain, where she received protection because she received threats that she could lose not only her adopted children, but also her natural children.

But so far only from Syria. And the head of the Pentagon left the administration Photo: EPA The unexpected announcement of Donald Trump for the withdrawal of troops from Syria, the reduction of the military group in Afghanistan and the subsequent protest resignation of the Minister of Defense James Mattis shocked the Washington Politmond. Although Trump announced some time ago about the victory in Syria over IG ( a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation - approx. Ed.

The Investigative Committee for the Republic of Altai began checking media reports that a deputy of the Chemalsky district beat up an administrator, a singer and a 14-year-old relative of one of the victims in a cafe. This was reported on the website of the department. According to preliminary data, according to the Investigative Committee, a drunken deputy, Yuri Korneev, on the evening of December 22, after a New Year's corporate party, refused to pay the bill in a cafe.

US President Donald Trump told a seven-year-old boy that at his age, believing in Santa Claus "is the limit," according to ABC News. Trump and his wife Melania took part in the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) project, during which participants answer questions from children about the whereabouts of Santa Claus. During one of the conversations, Trump asked a seven-year-old boy named Coleman if he believed in Santa.

The Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences has established a Commission to counter the falsification of scientific research. This was announced on Facebook by the Executive Director of the Evolution Foundation Petr Talantov.

Syrian children in Noginsk: Russian officials and their own parents interfere with education Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" Several dozen families of Syrian refugees with children live in Noginsk near Moscow. Many of them are fluently in Russian and Arabic, but are hardly able to read and write. They don’t take them to Russian schools, so boys from an early age are forced to go to work, and girls sit at home before marriage.

The Supreme Court of Crimea did not receive appeals from 4 out of 24 Ukrainian servicemen detained by Russian border guards on November 24 off the coast of Crimea - Andrei Eider, Andrei Artemenko, wounded during shelling, SBU officer Vasily Soroka, and also the senior sailor of the Yana Kapu tugboat Vladimir Tereshchenko. After being wounded, Eider, Artemenko and Soroka were in the hospital in Kerch, the Kerch city court chose the measure of restraint for them.

The Supreme Court of Russia, in a decision adopted on December 25, called the unjustified and frequent transfers of prisoners illegal, reports . Interfax “Repeated transfers from one institution to another, not due to the need to perform <..> procedural actions or to ensure the personal safety of a person deprived of liberty, may indicate a prohibited form of treatment,” the decision says. The document also notes that changing the place of serving a sentence should not be arbitrary.