- 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.

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.

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.

A survey on the streets of Moscow was conducted by Svyatoslav Leontyev.

Joseph Blatter Blatter called FIFA to remove him for 8 years from working in football and categorically rejected all the accusations of involvement in corruption Former President FIFA (International Football Federation) Joseph Blatter said he was leaving football forever. In an interview with the American newspaper Wall Street Journal, Blatter called the FIFA decision to remove him for 8 years from working in football .

Prison No. 2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation in the Vladimir Region The government wants to ban public observers from asking “unnecessary” questions to prisoners Maryana Torocheshnikova: In December 2015, the Russian government submitted to the State Duma a bill amending the current law on public monitoring commissions (POC) .

Nadezhda Savchenko gave judges who will surely hide her in jail, a home -made New Year tree Ukrainian lawyer Alexander Plakhotnyuk will not be able to participate in the process of Nadezhda Savchenko as her defender. The petitions of the Ukrainian military and lawyer Ilya Novikov that Plakhotnyuk represent the interests of the accused, the court rejects three times in a row within a meeting.

Anatomy of pop music guests: Boris Barabanov, musical observer of Kommersant Publishing House; Artem Rondarev, music critic

Irakli Garibashvili Garibashvili did not name the reasons for his resignation The chairman of the Georgian government, Irakli Garibashvili, announced the resignation, explaining the decision by the fact that in two years of his stay as prime minister he was able to fulfill his function to withdraw the country from the crisis and created the backlog for the future. The most likely successor to Irakli Garibashvili is called the head of the Foreign Ministry George Quirikashvili.

The new chairman of Yabloko Emilia Slabunova is about the fresh party strategy, Lev Schlosberg and Grigory Yavlinsky The chairman of the Yabloko party Emilia Slabunova , who was elected for this post last weekend in the dramatic atmosphere of the night congress , holds the first working meetings in the new quality, clarifying the strategy and developing the new tactics of his organization.

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.

Such calculations were made by the national rating agency by order of the Kommersant newspaper Until 2018, the Russian financial market may lose two trillion rubles due to a moratorium on pension savings in 2016. Bank losses can amount to 500 billion rubles, and the stock market - one and a half trillion. It is there that non -state pension funds are invested in pension savings. Such calculations were made by the national rating agency on the order of the Kommersant newspaper .