We publish the prefaces of the famous journalist and writer Oleg Moroz to two of his books: “So who destroyed the Union?” and “Why did he choose Putin?” “So who destroyed the Union?” Dear friend! Much has been written about the collapse of the Soviet Union. So much that for a person who is not very “in the know”, it is not so easy to figure out what exactly happened in the last years and months of the life of the Soviet empire...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia should go to the elections of governors with direct vote. The current head of state stated this in the message to the Federal Assembly , the live broadcast of which is now on the channel "Russia 24". “It is necessary to give all active citizens the legal opportunity for participation in political life.

In the coming years, it will be extremely important for the Russian nuclear industry to maintain a high rate of development and continue the construction of new nuclear power plants, said Sergei Kondratyev, head of the sector of the Economic and Finance Institute of Energy and Finance Foundation. Sergey Kondratyev , head of the sector of the Economic Department of the Institute of Energy and Finance Foundation: Over the past years, the nuclear energy of Russia has developed a leading pace.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he would not allow “outside interference” to the country's domestic policy. The head of state said this in the message to the Federal Assembly, the broadcast of which is on the channel "Russia 24". “We will not let the provocateurs and extremists draw society into their adventures, and we will not accept the interventions from the outside into our internal affairs,” Medvedev noted. - Russia needs democracy, not chaos.

The director of the Norilsk Nickel Marketing Department Anton Berlin acted in a public conversation “How to invest money” organized by Polit.ru in the lecture of the Polytechnic Museum. He said that in recent years, interest arose in the world, in fact, in raw materials, because previously the purchase of shares was considered a traditional form of investment.

The National Council of Syria, representing the opposition forces in Libya, appealed to the Security Council and the League of the Arab states with a terbrand to hold an emergency meeting on the fact of murder messages in Syria over the past 48 hours 250 people, AFP reports. The statement of the National Council of Syria, distributed on Thursday, calls for the UN Security Council to save the country's people from "acts of genocide".

Representatives of the Investigative Committee (SK) searched the Capital Business Center in the capital's business center in connection with the new episodes of the criminal case against the former State Duma deputy from the LDPR Ashot Egiazaryan, the RIA Novosti website reports. Details of the search are still unknown. The criminal case against Egiazaryan is investigated by the Main Investigative Department of the SK.

The Chairman of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation Vladimir Churov appealed to the head of the Council for Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fedotov with a request to defend the rights of members of the district election commission, Interfax reports. Last Thursday in Moscow, the All -Russian meeting of the heads of regional election commission was held following the results of the Duma elections and preparation for the presidential.

The publication " Arguments.ru " publishes an article by political scientist Oleg Nemin. On December 24, a new action "For Honest Elections" should be held. The Russian opposition wants, at least, to repeat the quantitative result of the previous campaign in Bolotnaya Square. Then, from 25 thousand to 100 thousand people, to protest against the elections, came out, according to various estimates.

After the New Year, a shortage in the beer and wine market is expected in Russia. According to Kommersant , citing sources in the industry, the Russian government did not approve the standards for excise stamps, while the production and import of low -alcohol products without applying brands will be prohibited since 2012. The sale of low -alcohol drinks without excise stamps will be allowed until 2013, but the production and import of weak alcohol may stop.

State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin believes that the proposals for reform of the Russian political system proposed by President Dmitry Medvedev in his annual address to the Federal Assembly are not related to the rally on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow. “Some will say that the proposals appeared under pressure from Bolotnaya Square.

For several years, waste dumps caused Lake Baikal damage to 1.5 billion rubles. According to RIA Novosti , the press service of Rosprirodnadzor stated this, referring to the results of the study by the Federal State University of Subreginovodkhoz. The customer of the work was the department of Rosprirodnadzor in the Irkutsk region.

On December 21, a record amount of precipitation fell in Moscow - 13 millimeters. According to RBC with reference to the Moscow Reference of Moscow and the Moscow Region, this is the first weather record of the current winter. Earlier, the record of the day on December 21 was set in 2002, then 6 millimeters of precipitation fell per day. At the same time, this winter is still 5.7 degrees warmer than the norm, and 2011 as a whole by 1.7 degrees is warmer than average values.

Rosneft became the world leader in oil production according to the results of nine months. This was written by Kommersant with reference to the materials of the oil and gas company. In the nine months of 2011, the company's production amounted to 88.6 million tons. The next “Rosneft” in terms of production was the American Exxonmobil, which produced 87 million tons of oil.

Since the beginning of 2012, residents of the capital will be able to complain about the quality of mobile communications on a hot line. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the representative of the metropolitan department of information technology. According to the interlocutor of the agency, Muscovites will have several ways to talk about the quality of the cellular communications he provided.