How and where to write to prisoners: all addresses by one link Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" In 2020, we entered with a long list of political prisoners. In the lists of Memorial at the end of 2019-628 people persecuted for political reasons. But we must understand that only those whose affairs became quite resonant or whose relatives were able to get to human rights defenders fall into the lists of human rights organizations.

On the material evidence, Chernobyl and the mysterious connection of things Illustration: Peter Sarukhanov / "New" From the editorial office The video blogger Yegor Zhukov put figures on the table in front of him depicting the family of frogs. During the searches, the frogs were seized by the investigation: they later proved “calls for extremism” in court. Like, since Zhukov does not deny that he shot the video, since his frogs, then, is guilty.

Why Gazprom made concessions in the gas dispute with Ukraine There has been a thaw in gas relations between Moscow and Kyiv. On Friday, Gazprom paid $2.9 billion to Naftogaz, thus fulfilling last year's decision of the Stockholm Arbitration. Years of litigation, accompanied by mutual attacks, freezing of assets and seizure of Gazprom's property abroad, are close to rational resolution for the first time.

On December 27, the FSB detained two Russians who were preparing terrorist attacks in St. Petersburg during the New Year holidays. This is reported by TASS with reference to the department. According to the FSB, the detainees planned to carry out terrorist attacks in crowded places. The department received data about this from partners from the United States. Materials confirming their preparation of terrorist attacks were confiscated from the detainees, the FSB noted.

Kyiv and unrecognized republics of Donbass exchanged prisoners: details, quotes, reaction Ukrainian captive and military "DPR". RIA Novosti Last update - dated December 30, 9:24 (Moscow time) December 29, 2019. The column with prisoners near the village of Othadovka before the start of the exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and the unrecognized republics of Donbass.

The 42nd department appeared in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which will deal with work in the field of international information security. This was reported on the ministry's Facebook page. The department will develop and implement state policy in the field of international information security, including the fight against the use of information technology for military-political, terrorist and other criminal purposes.

Unknown people have made publicly available the personal data of more than 28,000 users of public services in one of the Russian regions. It is reported by "Kommersant". The publication notes that the data can be downloaded from one of the forums specializing in leaked databases. According to the founder of DeviceLock Ashot Hovhannisyan, among the posted data are the full name, date of birth, SNILS and TIN, phone number, email and information about children.

The Governor of the Moscow Region Andrey Vorobyov promised that all landfills in the region will be closed in 2020. He stated this on the air of the Russia 1 TV channel, Interfax reports . “We hope to win by the end of 2020, when we close all city landfills, they will no longer exist in nature, as such, to exist,” he said. Interfax notes that 28 out of 39 solid waste landfills in the Moscow region have been closed, and 11 more are planned to be closed by 2021.

Oleg Sentsov's story about prison and will Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New" This year, on September 7, an important event of the year occurred - 35 to 35 exchange of 35. The Ukrainian and Russian sides exchanged prisoners and convicts. Among those who have pardoned the President of Russia - Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years on wild false charges of terrorism. Sentsov spent five years in IK-8 in the city of Labytnangi, in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, on the Arctic Circle.

Photo: Grigory Sysoev / RIA Novosti In “Contemporary”, a farewell was farewell to the artistic director of the theater Galina Volchek, who died on December 26 at the 87th year of her life. During the ceremony on the screen, the photos of the wolves were replaced by each other and a living orchestra played. Fans, colleagues, students, cultural figures and politics came to say goodbye to the actress and director - only a few hundred people.

Almaty International Airport has published a minute-by-minute chronology of the Fokker-100 plane crash, in which 12 people died and dozens more were injured. “In order to have a complete understanding of what happened in the first minutes after the disaster, we present a minute-by-minute chronology of the actions of the Almaty airport services,” the report says. According to the airport, the plane took off at 07:21, and disappeared from radar a minute later.

UPDATED 17:17 According to the administration of the President of Ukraine, the exchange of prisoners between Kiev and the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass has been completed. “76 Ukrainians are safe in Ukraine-controlled territory. Details later,” the message says. The DPR Ombudsman Daria Morozova specified that the republic gave 52 prisoners to Kiev, taking 60 of its supporters in exchange.

In 2019, the wealth of the richest Russians increased by 21%. This is evidenced by data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI), which includes the 500 richest people in the world. According to the agency, they have earned $51 billion this year.