A court in the Cambodian city of Sihanoukville extended the arrest of Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky for an indefinite period, Russian Consul in Cambodia Pavel Seskanov told Interfax on Saturday. “According to the law, you can arrest a person in Cambodia for 48 hours, then the arrest can be extended at the request of the prosecutor. The arrest has already been extended indefinitely - it could be 48 hours, it could be 3 months, or six months,” Seskanov noted.

The ship of Cambodian sailors who brought the famous Russian oligarch down from heaven to sinful earth probably has a name. They kept silent about its combat power, so perhaps it was even a fragile little boat with several armed men on board. But for the citizens of modern Russia, still tipsy from the New Year's feast, the news from Cambodia carries almost the same positive charge as the messages about the legendary "Potemkin" did to their revolutionary ancestors.

Education and healthcare have some similarities. Both areas are funded by the state. And it should remain that way. A citizen comes to a specialist and receives services. The state pays the specialist a fixed fee per month, regardless of any conditions of his work, and the citizen receives the services that the specialist gave him, practically without being able to choose who to turn to. To whom he was sent, he goes to whom.

Help or not help prisons? I don't know. In the village of Ikovka there is a zone, it has a library, and the library does not have enough books. The villains are sitting in prison, without irony. The mode is strict, so the photo is dull. Life, in fact, is also dull. We decided to help with the equipment of the library. We decided - they helped . For what? After all, they are sitting there not for hacker hacks and a “pirate” video, even their Khodorkovsky is not.

A patient of the Pokrovskaya Hospital in St. Petersburg has been detained, allegedly through whose fault there was a fire in the medical facility that claimed the lives of three people. On the night from Friday to Saturday, a fire occurred in the emergency room of the Pokrovskaya hospital in St. Petersburg, as a result of which three people died and two were hospitalized, according to the website of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the city.

Without a doubt, it has been an interesting year. Reconstruction of the stadium, successes of the Olympians, rallies, “Russian Knights”, “Civil Forum”, city administration on social networks, the arrival of oppositionists, the accident with Komov and a million rubles in the village of Golovchino. In general, 2012 was most remembered for real deeds and empty words. Like two sides of the same coin, good and... not even evil, but rather idleness.

Photo: Reuters The rating of the influence of world leaders from Foreign Policy, which was vigorously reported by the Russian media on January 4 (in connection with Vladimir Putin’s second place in it), turned out to be a canard. In fact, Putin was dubbed “the most influential person on the planet” not by the editors of Foreign Policy, but only by one of its bloggers, Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group think tank, who posted his informal survey of experts on the magazine’s website.

Because Putin is the first in the world, I, as a citizen of a country that has such a president, should feel a sense of pride and respect for my leader. I don't feel it. For some reason it doesn't work. Why? I'm trying to figure it out. Here, for example, is the case of the great Gerard Depardieu. The artist was offended in his homeland, in France, and he applied for Russian citizenship.

“The Chechen authorities confirmed that they had involved Russian nationalists in the development of ethical guidelines for local youth - January 4, 2013. As Interfax reports with reference to one of the republican websites, Minister of National Policy Murat Tagiyev explained this step by the need to avoid the one-sidedness of the document.

An indispensable attribute of the New Year's Eve in our country is such a funny ritual as summing up the past 12 months plus preparing - as a seasoning for Olivier salad - a forecast for the coming 12 months. Alas, it is impossible to avoid this, just like avoiding your own funeral; not all, but for some reason many believe that the processes are determined by the calendar and the change from the 31st to the 1st, and nyears to n+1 themselves affect something.

Back in February of last year, I kept wondering why Vladimir Vladimirovich publicly and so heartfeltly before the elections "...he said, his eyes sparkling: “Guys! Isn’t Moscow behind us? We'll die near Moscow, How our brothers died!" The rest of the poem was: "And we promised to die, And they kept the oath of allegiance We are at the Battle of Borodino." And, grinning, I sinfully thought: this is clearly too much, the PR people have overdone it.

In New York, 55-year-old Muscovite Vladimir Zdorovenin, extradited to the United States from Switzerland and pleading guilty to cyber fraud, was sentenced to three years in prison. After serving his sentence, he will be immediately deported to Russia. Vladimir Zdorovenin was found guilty of participating, together with his son Kirill, in a fraudulent scheme for illegally gaining access to bank accounts via the Internet. According to the prosecution, in 2004-2005.

Hi all! Here is my first post this year. I’ve been in a wonderful place for several days - the village of Artybash. Here we have celebrated the New Year with tourists. The village is located on the shores of Lake Teletsky. In the summer season and New Year's holidays, this is a kind of tourist Mecca, a lot of people come here to spend their free time.

The top-News from the sea-Ocean flashed with joyful news that, they say, our President Vladimir Putin was recognized as the most influential politician on the planet that Vladimir Vladimirovich headed the rating drawn up, as our media wrote, "an authoritative American magazine Foreign Policy." However, American pen workers who made this fresh rating, as they say, in every fireman, “first place of the rating” formally left empty.