Because around me, it seems, there is not a single person left who is able to talk to me about anything else. And also because some people display astonishing ignorance. However, we ourselves are to blame for the latter - we haven’t made excuses all these days, so we turned out to be extreme. When a Dozhd journalist asks Governor Belykh, “How can a state channel post such a recording without watching it?” — I understand that he is not a journalist at all.

Lovers of beer from the New Year will have a hard time. The city authorities intend to rigidly regulate the retail turnover of alcohol in Moscow. From January 1, beer will become a full -fledged alcoholic drink . Accordingly, the metropolitan retail network awaits significant changes in the rules of trade! And this means that this type of alcoholic uses will be banned for sale in pavilions and kiosks. As for the bars, shops that did not have licenses, the points of sale will have to get it.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The orphanage from the Far North and the Far East to relocate to the North Caucasus is offered by the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Alexander Torshin. The senator offers not to transfer the orphanage, but to create a special program according to which Caucasian families could take orphans. The upbringing of children in the Caucasus pays great attention, the senator believes.

The Arkhangelsk Regional Court overturned the decision to reduce the sentence of Platon Lebedev, according to which he could be released in the summer of 2013. The case was sent for a new trial. The Arkhangelsk Regional Court overturned the decision of the Velsky District Court to reduce the sentence of the former head of the MFO "MENATEP" Platon Lebedev, according to which he should have been released in July 2013, and sent the case for a new trial in a different court.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory at a meeting on Friday adopted in the third and final reading the regional budget for 2013 with a deficit of almost 9 billion rubles, or about 12.3% of expenses, reported an Interfax correspondent who was present at the meeting. Regional budget revenues were approved in the amount of 63.7 billion rubles, expenses - 72.6 billion rubles.

For the third day, the most discussed news among civil activists in the city of Penza is information about administrative pressure on activist and coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergei Padalkin. The story is briefly described here: http://leftpenza.ru/news/kak_v_penze_chest_putina_zashhishhajut/2012-12-12-1042 and here: http://leftpenza.ru/news/kak_valerij_savin_menja_v_armiju_otpravljal/2012-12-14-1044 . If this information is not fake, then I will briefly remind you of the previous events.

Photo: PublicPost Solidarity activists Taisiya Alexandrova, Anna Kornilova and Yuri Nabutovsky ( they were searched on Tuesday ), according to the Investigative Committee, participated in seminars on seizing power (using the example of “color” revolutions) in Lithuania. The investigation believes that these seminars are related to negotiations between Georgian politician Givi Targamadze and oppositionists Leonid Razvozzhaev, Konstantin Lebedev and Sergei Udaltsov.

According to the local press, on December 9, 2012, the Far Eastern Fashion Theater of Anna Karpus and the editors of the fashion magazine "Fashion Collection Khabarovsk-Vladivostok" held a professional modeling competition among teenagers "Little Model of the Far East 2012". IA AmurMedia writes that forty participants aged from 10 to 16 years old delighted all the spectators who gathered that evening, December 9, at the Velicano club with their beauty.

The “Ossetian cart” should not again be placed across the path of the Russian locomotive! /The authorities themselves are against direct elections of governors in North Ossetia, but they forgot to ask the people again...?! Do they want to abolish the system of direct elections of governors in North Ossetia? Yesterday (13.12.12) a number of media reported that ALLEGEDLY in North Ossetia they want to abolish the system of direct elections of governors...

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court proceeded to interrogate the accused in the case of preparing the so-called armed coup in Yekaterinburg . On December 12, defendants Viktor Kralin and Alexander Ladeyshchikov gave evidence. And today the main accused was interrogated - retired Airborne Forces Colonel, veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Leonid Khabarov .

Photo: ITAR-TASS Today, as expected, a verdict was handed down to former policeman Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who was accused of murdering Anna Politkovskaya. The court found him guilty of assisting in organizing the murder of a journalist and sentenced him to 11 years in prison in a maximum security colony. The state prosecution asked for 12 years for him. Pavlyuchenkov, who was under house arrest, was taken into custody in the courtroom.

In the early 90s, Hong Kong was presented to us as a clear example of the effectiveness of British colonial rule: a thriving economy, democratic freedoms, social guarantees. For the average person, Hong Kong success seemed to be something eternal and unchangeable: “well, firstly, there are English people there, and secondly, there is capitalism there.” So it was always good there.

The Council expresses extreme concern regarding the ineffectiveness of negotiations between representatives of the Moscow government and the organizers of mass actions planned for December 15 this year. d.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the opposition Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg on theft of 55 million rubles in the field of cargo transportation. "Oleg and Alexei Navalny committed theft fraudulently in a trading company in the amount of more than 55 million rubles," said the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin on Friday Interfax.

In Ivanovo, a 35-year-old local resident was finally charged with attempted murder of the head of the regional OFAS Alexander Borovkov, committed on January 16, 2012, the press service of the ICR Investigative Directorate for the region reported on Friday.