The International Hockey Federation (IIHF) has canceled the youth World Cup due to cases of coronavirus infection in several national teams. This is stated on the organization’s website. Photo: IIHF The decision was made after Russia counted the technical defeat in the match with the Slovakian national team due to coronavirus with one of the players. RIA Novosti reported that we are talking about a positive test on the Covid-19 at Matvey Machkov.

The Russian youth hockey team was awarded a forfeit defeat in the group stage match of the World Championship with the Slovakian team. It is reported by RIA Novosti. According to the agency, striker Matvey Michkov passed a positive test for COVID-19. Because of this, the Russian team will be counted as a defeat with a score of 0:1.

During the hearings in the Martan Court of Grozny in the case of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, who were forcibly taken from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya in February, the witnesses from the investigation said that they signed the testimony that the investigator had given them. This was told by Novaya Gazeta in the press service of the Crisis group SK SOS. Saleh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev.

The Federal Agency for Tourism (Rostourism) has proposed two work options for tour operators, one of which involves the introduction of escrow accounts for them. attention to the bill RBC drew . It is proposed that the bank freezes the money of the tourist on a special account, and the tour operator gets access to it only within three days after the person returns from the holiday. The trip will be financed by the tour operator itself or a bank loan.

Inflation in Russia this year reached 8.39%, according to the preliminary data of Rosstat. Interfax notes that this is the maximum indicator since 2015. Schedule: Rosstat In 2020, annual inflation was 4.9%, in 2019-3%. In 2015, when this indicator became a record, it reached 12.9%. At the same time, in December, inflation in Russia slowed down and amounted to 0.82%. In November, it was at 0.96%, in October - 1.11%.

Sports results of 2021. Version of "new" Country Russia after the victory at the World Beach Football Championship. Photo: EPA-EFE At the end of December, many media summarize the traditional sports result of the year. Choose the best athletes and the team, distinguish a memorable event, recall scandals and sensations ... "New" for the twentieth time makes their own rating. We remind you that, unlike many other similar lists, in our tablets there are no two points: failures and disappointments.

The Federal Security Service of the Vladimir Region opened a case against a resident of the region who did not report posts that his friend posted on VKontakte about last year's terrorist attack in France. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the FSB. The man, whose name is not reported, became a defendant in the case of failure to report a crime (Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code).

New Year's Lecture Dmitry Bykov Illustration: Lecture "Direct Speech" “Matrix” is an object of a cult, and admit that you did not love it and never loved it, risky, but we, sinful, are not used to. Most cults in art - by the way, are not only modern - are created by people whose self -esteem rises sharply from acquaintance with the cult product.

In the house of I.S. Ostroukhov in the pipe exhibition "Dickens in Russian mirrors" opened At the exhibition "Dickens in Russian mirrors." Photo from social networks On the eve of the New Year and Christmas, the house of Ostroukhov, which is part of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V.I. Dalya, turned into Charles Dickens House. The New Year's Exhibition dedicated to Dickens has become another work of museum workers at the junction of painting and literature.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg changed the preventive measure from detention to a ban on certain actions for blogger Yuri Khovansky, who is accused of justifying terrorism because of a song about the Dubrovka terrorist attack in 2002. This was announced by the head of the human rights organization "Agora" Pavel Chikov with reference to the lawyer Alexander Peredruk. The court decided to release Khovansky in the courtroom.

The European Court of Human Rights has stated that the execution of the decisions to liquidate Memorial International* and the Memorial Human Rights Center* should be suspended pending their decision on the complaint against the law on “foreign agents”. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta in Memorial itself. The ECHR in its letter refers to the 39th rule of its own regulations. It allows judges to take interim measures, including those aimed at protecting the applicant.

In the ranking of the “Man of the Year”, according to the version of “Levada”* Russians, politician Alexei Navalny took the second line. In the first place is Russian President Vladimir Putin, follows from the data of the Levada Center (is at the disposal of Novaya Gazeta). 26% of the respondents called Putin the "man of the year", the respondents surrendered 5% of the vote for Alexei Navalny and Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu.

How the journalists and activists live who had to leave. Podcast "What is new?" One of the most striking results of this year was a new wave of emigration of journalists, activists and human rights activists. In the New Year issue of the podcast "What is new?" We wanted to give a voice to those who are now unsafe to live in Russia. We talked with those who moved to the two most popular cities of Russian emigration - Tbilisi and Vilnius.

Ivan Zhdanov's father, Yuri, was sent to a pre-trial detention center for "violating his travel ban and proper behavior." This was announced on Instagram by Navalny's lawyer Ivan Zhdanov, and lawyer Vladimir Voronin confirmed it to Novaya Gazeta. “He was arrested and taken into custody. There are no other comments yet, ”the lawyer said.

A court in St. Petersburg acquitted the defendants in the rape case in the former orphanage No. 10, reports . Fontanka Four convicts who were in custody were released in the courtroom - the former head teacher of the orphanage Mikhail Yelin and his former pupils Andrei Solovyov, Pavel Prikashchikov and Kirill Pokalyuk. The fifth defendant in the case, Honored Teacher of Russia Stanislav Vinogradov, who died during the trial, was also found not guilty.