On January 1, while the average person was caught up in the New Year holidays, rallies in memory of Stepan Bandera were held in Ukraine, dedicated to the next anniversary of his birthday. There were torchlight processions, bright slogans and, as usual, calls to send Muscovites to the vigorous Matryona. Of course, Bandera is a hero of Ukrainian history who had high personal qualities. Pure, bright, fanatical, devoted to the cause and the Motherland.

St. Petersburg "Nochlezhka": direct and indirect assistance Daytime social service of the St. Petersburg organization for helping the homeless "Nochlezhka" . Here they help with check-in at the shelter, help with paperwork, and provide support in other situations that prosperous citizens cannot imagine. The reception is in progress. A man comes in. Crazy eyes on a leather skull. The gaze darts. Reality, apparently, is difficult to perceive. Drug addict. Doesn't answer questions the first time.

The radio station "Echo of Moscow" stopped broadcasting in Omsk. Love Radio will take its place. TRC "Antenna-7" - a network partner of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" in Omsk - notified about the reduction of employees of local programs from February 1. However, on January 3, Echo broadcasting in Omsk was stopped, reports the local portal BK55 .

Photo: Reuters The scandal began back in December 2012, when Depardieu acquired an old customs house in Belgium near the border with France and moved there. France Prime Minister Jean-Mark Ero, who introduced a tough tax policy of the government, criticized the department and called his act a "miserable attempt." The department in response sent an open letter to the Prime Minister along with a passport and social card, published in the Sunday newspaper Journal du Dimanche.

Photo: Reuters According to the daily updated Bloomberg rankings , the fortune of the Spaniard Amancio Ortega, founder of the retailer Inditex SA, operator of the Zara retail chain, has increased the most. He improved his fortune by $22.2 billion, and now has $59.3 billion in his accounts, according to Bloomberg. Inditex shares grew by 66.7% in 2012 and this allowed it to rise to third place in the ranking.

I have little in common with Gerard Depardieu. But there is something, and it is very rare. Both he and I renounced French citizenship. The average person probably thinks, these are idiots, scumbags, both of them! Who refuses French, with Paris... I gave up earlier than he did, back in the fall of 2011.

On January 3, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that increased the punishment for organizing illegal migration from five to seven years. The fine for organizing the illegal entry into Russia of foreigners and stateless people, as well as their illegal stay in the country or illegal transit passage through Russia has increased to 300 thousand rubles.

Just before the New Year holidays, blogger and member of the opposition Constitutional Court Rustem Adagamov, better known under the nickname drugoi, was accused of pedophilia. No, it was not the investigators and courts of Russia or Norway, where Adagamov lived, who were accused, but his ex-wife, both online and in a video interview . In addition, the ex-wife stated that she has serious evidence of the guilt of “The Other”.

Scientific data, considered unshakable, is nevertheless subjected to regular re-checking by pundits and ladies. Firstly, they do not really trust their colleagues because of the rapidly growing number of scientific falsifications, and secondly, the scientific fraternity desperately needs sensations to receive more and more grants, because life is becoming more expensive. Animals in the deep sea are much older than previously thought.

“In accordance with paragraph “a” of Article 89 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, to satisfy the application for admission to citizenship of the Russian Federation by Depardieu Gerard Xavier, born in 1948 in France,” the press service of the President of Russia quotes the text of the Decree “On Admission to Citizenship of the Russian Federation” .

Stop wondering whether it’s good or bad that Depardieu now has Russian citizenship (even though he didn’t ask for it). It seems to me that this person will be very comfortable in Russia. For example, last August, while intoxicated on an airplane, Mr. Depardieu relieved himself in a bottle, but then decided to just pee on the floor. Arrested and sent to the police station.

I leave the British Museum, after a few steps I find myself at the intersection of the new Oxford and Museum Streets. A huge banner on the office building over the entire height of the facade is striking from the far corner: a female figure in a bright dress, very similar to the now reigning Queen Elizabeth, only in his youth. Some oddities do not allow me to take this for an advertising poster. I get closer. It seems rather, on a street art trick.

The current system of Russian higher education has accumulated many critical problems, and the fact that the Ministry of Education and Science has launched a major reform is certainly correct. You can make a large list of problems, but the general idea boils down to the following: we have a lot of higher education in our country, but its quality is extremely low (not a single university is even among the top 100 in the world).

Mikhail Shchapov has a hot time now. A few days remain before Christmas. We need to agree with the angels about the meeting, take gifts from them and deliver to the addressees in accordance with requests. Angels are residents of Chelyabinsk and the region, addressees - guys from orphanages who shared their dreams in letters. Mikhail Shchapov is 36 years old. 17 of them he is engaged in charity work. How to measure generosity?

Here director Govorukhin plucked up courage and was even slightly offended by President Putin for granting Russian citizenship to actor Depardieu. What terrible news, it’s just number one, everyone is talking about it, as if nothing good has ever happened to us. But a lot of good things happened: prosecutors, for example, got an increase in their salaries, and they didn’t forget about us, they raised our prices for almost everything, and soon they will raise them for the rest as well.