Despite the new decline in oil prices, the ruble has so far weakened only until August minimums. Even by the then standards, at the current price of a barrel, the dollar should already cost at 80 rubles.

Yakov Gordin, historian, co -editor of Zvezda magazine In the immediate plans of Yakov Gordin - to end the memories of his service in the army and write a book about Peter the Great Yakov Gordin , together with his colleague Andrei Aryev, for a quarter of a century, leading the oldest Russian literary magazine "Star" , celebrates his birthday with a creative evening at the Anna Akhmatova Museum in a fountain house.

Participants in the tripartite contact group in Minsk On Tuesday in Minsk, the last meeting of the trilateral contact group to resolve the conflict in the Donbass, consisting of representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE, ended the last this year At the last meeting of the trilateral contact group to resolve the situation in the east of Ukraine, an agreement was reached on the complete and unconditional regime of silence in the Donbass from December 23.

Radio Liberty correspondent Roman Super shares the experience of obtaining Israeli citizenship and tells why this is needed In Russia, for the first time, 16 years after the end of "Big Aliya" there is an increased activity of citizens who want to repatriate to Israel. In 2014, 4685 Russians left for permanent residence in Israel. The zero number of repatriates from our country did not reach 2000 people a year. Growth is more than double.

- The new US economic sanctions against Russia- the Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko was released from the colony- the library of Ukrainian literature in Moscow is going to close

Another hero of the week is Anatoly Borisovich Chubais. The commotion was made by the New Year's Corporate Corporate Rusnano, at which the head of the state corporation says that she has a “very much money” and promises employees the “second prize”. The words were too provocative - very soon the video from the party was already at the disposal of the LifeNews channel and began to diverge over the network.

The protesters demand to recalculate votes in the elections of the mayor of Krivoy Rog, November 22, 2015 Remove the Vilkula and appoint new elections in Krivoy Rog for the second day require the protesters to the parliament The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ahead of schedule terminated the powers of the Krivorozhsky city head of Yuri Vilkul and appointed extraordinary elections of the mayor of Krivoy Rog on March 27, 2016. The corresponding bill was supported by 239 people's deputies.

Valery Khomyakov, husband of the injured Larisa Solomatina The husband of the victim, political analyst Valery Khomyakov, connects the attack with the anti -corruption activities of Solomatina in Sokolniki Sokolniki Larisa Solomatin on Tuesday, an attack, was attacked at the deputy of the municipal assembly of the Moscow district. Radio Liberty was announced by her husband, political analyst Valery Khomyakov.

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The 20th Mission of the Falcon-9 launch vehicle ended almost in the same place where it began For the first time in history, the first step of the Falcon-9 rocket returned to Earth, and this changes the rules of the game in the astronautics. Even for Russia December 22, the shortest night of 2015. The US Air Force base at Cape Canaveral.

Memory of Leonid Vladimirov

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Peskov states that Putin is not involved in the new criminal case against the ex-head of the Yukos “They have gone crazy” - this is how Mikhail Khodorkovsky commented on the statement of the Investigative Committee on his absentee arrest on charges of murder.