Why did Bitcoin grow to record values ​​again, and what does this mean for the future financial system of the world? Photo: Reuters The reason for provocative meditation today is noble: on November 30, the most popular cryptocurrency in the people's masses Bitcoin set the All Time High, breaking its own record set by December 16, 2017.

Nikolai Shamalov, a close acquaintance of President Vladimir Putin and the father of Kirill Shamalov, whom Important Stories named as the former son-in-law of the Russian leader, in 2019 withdrew from among the major shareholders of Rossiya Bank. This was discovered by the publication itself. Shamalov Sr. ceased to own almost all shares after his son’s divorce . The divorce became known in 2018. In February last year, Shamalov Sr. had 9.643% of Rossiya shares.

Exile demons: from Nikita Mikhalkov to everyone else Illustration: Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" The Russian Orthodox Church called for believers not to expel demons on their own. About this through the lips of Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate, reports RIA Novosti. Authoritative sources, probably believers will listen to them. Only the problem has long gone beyond the scope of the scope of the status of pattern.

Who should not be vaccinated with Sputnik V? This week, Russians (first of all, social workers, teachers and doctors) began to be vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. Our special correspondent Ivan Zhilin took root in Sputnik V and in the latest edition of the podcast "What's New?" told us about the procedure, side effects, the number of people in clinics and the level of confidence in the Russian vaccine.

Kazakhstan is shocking for parliamentary elections: it destroys observers and hints at the Internet problems Photo: RIA Novosti At the end of last week, a quiet constitutional revolution occurred in Kazakhstan. The Central Election Commission a month before the parliamentary elections (held on January 10, 2021) issued a resolution in which all the current laws and articles of the Constitution introduced an actual ban on independent observation in polling stations.

A coronavirus vaccine developed by British company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has shown efficacy and safety during interim trials. The results are published in the scientific journal Lancet. About 12,000 residents of the UK and Brazil took part in independent trials. The effectiveness of the vaccine, on average, was estimated at 70.4%. At the same time, the method of vaccination affects the effectiveness of the drug.

The National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) demanded the sentence of former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy to four years in prison, two of which are conditionally, according to the so -called “case of wiretaps” . This was reported by the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta from the Paris Palace of Justice.

The Moscow City Court awarded 100,000 rubles in compensation to Muscovite Tatyana Litovkina, whose two children were poisoned in kindergarten at school No. 1095 in 2017. Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer with the Anti-Corruption Foundation, announced this on Twitter. The court ruled to recover 50,000 rubles from the school, and another 50,000 from the Moskovsky Shkolnik company, which supplied the food. She is associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin.

A Russian woman is being deported from Belarus after serving an administrative arrest due to videos and images on the social network with negative comments about the security forces. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs. They said that a 24-year-old Russian woman came to the country a year and a half ago to work, she had a registration for temporary residence.

The Japanese delivered soil from an asteroid to Earth - they look for samples of water and traces of organics in it "Hayabusi." Photo: Wikimedia At the Tokyo Handa Airport at dawn on December 8, a small business jet arrived from Australia, from which an impressive metal box was unloaded with considerable precautions.

Pursuit of journalists, flag warfare, Matroskin's scarf and a fine for panties Photo: RIA Novosti From the day of the latest presidential elections in Belarus, “End of the World”, or, as the Belarusians themselves say, “The next bottom” is expected here almost every day. At first it was not believed and it was ridiculous, because it seemed to be someone's ridiculous trick, but when madness became regular, the jokes ended.

On December 8, 1945, Dynamo Moscow returned from the Tour of Great Britain, which immediately became legendary Photo: RIA Novosti Today, Russian clubs in European competitions are inferior to the Austrians and Belgians, and 75 years ago, just six months after the war, silent guys in T -shirts with a capital letter “D” produced a splash at foggy albion. They endured the founders of football from Chelsea and Arsenal and taught the Cardiff and Glasgow Rangers lesson.

Mass poisoning with chlorine vapor in the Astrakhan basin occurred due to the fact that an employee of the complex who worked on the first day mixed up the tanks with two different liquids. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

At the age of 78, the last Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of aviation Yevgeny Shaposhnikov died. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the head of the apparatus of the "Club of military leaders" Nikolai Deryabin. Kavashkin Boris / TASS The funeral, according to Deryabin, will be held at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery in Mytishchi. Shaposhnikov headed the USSR Ministry of Defense from August 23 to December 26, 1991.

Rushing positions to the coronavirus, Smolny drowns the business with prohibitions, but does not spare millions to develop tourism Photo: RIA Novosti In 2019, Petersburg accepted more than half a million guests on New Year's holidays, spending about 1.8 billion rubles on the banks of the Neva. This winter, a tourist for the cultural capital is a source of infection, not profit.