This was proved by the great coach Nikolai Semenovich Epstein, the 100th anniversary of which is celebrated on December 27 Photo: RIA Novosti Well, the person was not lucky to be born at the end of December.

New Year in the Fugitive family Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New" Danil, a fugitive, convicted for two years, is a defendant in the first wave of “Moscow business” for a month already in a colony in the village of Ponazyrevo, Kostroma region. When he was arrested in August, his daughter Alice was only two months old. And today, her first teeth are already being cut, and she repeats her first word - “dad”.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Dmitry Ilchenko, Nikolai Kaznin, Alexander Komissarov and Dmitry Mityanin in the case of embezzlement during the construction of the city metro. This was reported in the telegram channel of the joint press service of the city courts.

After the sentence. Postscript to the Kotov case, one of the most high -profile affairs of the year Photo of lawyer Maria Aismont Immediately after the recent press conference of Putin, the journalist of Rain made a small feat-broke through to the president with a question about Konstantin Kotov, an activist who received four years in September and was already serving his term. He did not throw glasses at the police, did not write evil twes, he just went outside when he considered it necessary.

The correspondent of the "Novy" went to visit the defendant of the second wave of "Moscow business" to Vladimir Emelyanov, who was unexpectedly released Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" 28-year-old Muscovite Vladimir Emelyanov is a defendant in the second wave of “Moscow case”, who was convicted under the article “Application of violence in relation to the authorities” (Article 318 part 1). He was threatened up to 5 years in prison. Vova is an orphan.

The Khimki city court returned to the prosecutor's office the case of embezzlement of 330 million rubles from the budget of the state corporation Roscosmos NPO named after Lavochkin. This was reported to RIA Novosti by lawyer Sergei Shostak. The public prosecutor petitioned for the return of the case. “The public prosecutor came out on his own with the return of the case to the prosecutor, but in fact with the return of the case for additional investigation,” the lawyer said.

The Cherepovets City Court of the Vologda Region arrested the head of the regional branch of the organization "For Human Rights" Grigory Winter for seven days. This is reported by the joint press service of the courts of the region. Winter was found guilty of petty hooliganism (part 1 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Journalist Ivan Kolunov - about how his life has changed after liberation Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New" Ivan Golunov, of course, is a journalist of the year. The Golunov’s case will enter the textbooks of history as an example of unprecedented solidarity of not only Russian journalists, but also ordinary citizens against police lawlessness. December 2019. Ivan Golunov.

In Moscow, at the metro stations, the last pickets in support of political prisoners were held this year. Ilya Azar. Photo: Telegram channel #metropield “Today is the last metropect in 2019. We have been standing for ten weeks. For more than 3200 pickets there was not a single detention! And during this time they managed to free five political prisoners, ”the organizers of the action said. Maria Alekhina.

Gazprom paid $2.9 billion to Naftogaz Ukrainy in accordance with the decision of the Stockholm Arbitration. It is reported by RBC. “In order to fulfill the agreements reached in Minsk on December 20, Gazprom made a payment of $2.9 billion in accordance with the decision of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and Industry, within the period stipulated by the protocol of December 20,” a company representative said.

Women are discriminated against in elections of all levels to regional legislative assemblies, they are elected there less frequently than male deputies. This is stated in the study "Transparency International - Russia". The number of women in regional parliaments, as the researchers found, is less than 15% of the total number of parliamentarians. The data from the September elections were not taken into account, since the study was prepared before them.

The person involved in the "Moscow case" Andrey Barshay, accused of violence against a policeman, was transferred to a pre-trial detention center after a psychiatric examination was carried out at the Serbsky Institute. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by his lawyer Svetlana Baiturina. “He was transferred to a pre-trial detention center, the examination is over. Today we went to him and could not get in; we were told that it had already been sent,” she said.

Nord Stream-2, Skripals Pack and Deripaska's claims: an overview of the main sanctions events of the year Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters In 2019, the sanctions pressure of Euro -Atlantic countries on Russia continued to increase.

In Elista, the world court decided to put Elena Baturina, the widow of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, on the criminal wanted list. A libel case was opened against her, RBC reports . Back in September, Erentzen Manzheev, the financial manager in the bankruptcy case of Viktor Baturin, the brother of Luzhkov's widow, who was vice president of the Inteko company, wrote a statement against Baturina.

A criminal case was opened against the co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, Musa Malsagov, for organizing an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). This was announced on his Facebook by his lawyer Magomed Bekov. According to the lawyer, the investigator called him and said that the activist had been transferred to SIZO-6 in Vladikavkaz.