Holy Stories Viktor Pelevin and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

In the photo the first Chinese aircraft carrier Work will be carried out in the port of Dalyan China authorities officially announced the construction of the second aircraft carrier for the country's naval forces. According to the Chinese Ministry of Defense, work will be carried out in the North-East Porta Dalyan.

Hour with Veronika Valley

Brussels On New Year's Days in many countries of the world, security measures have been strengthened In Belgium, the next suspect was arrested in involvement in the attacks in Paris on November 13. This was announced on Thursday by the Prosecutor General of the country in Brussels. According to the agency, the suspect was detained on Wednesday during a police raid in the Brussels district of Molenbek.

Launch of the Iranian missile "Emad" New sanctions will be imposed against Iranian corporations and companies of other countries for work to create a ballistic missile The Obama Administration is preparing new sanctions against individuals and companies involved in Iran to create ballistic missiles, The Wall Street Journal reported with reference to informed sources. Potential objects of sanctions are 12 legal entities and individuals in Hong Kong, united Arab emirates and in Iran itself.

In 2016, a party of Putinists may appear in the Czech Republic. Is her success awaiting? "A quarter of a century of unambiguous and thoughtless orientation to the West drove us into a trap. We became accomplices of crimes in Iraq, Libya and Syria, which were the causes of multimillion -dollar migration to Europe.

Events associated with terrorism and refugees dominated the news headlines in 2015. The geography of attacks by radical Islamists covers the territory from Syria to the streets of Paris. Hundreds of thousands of refugees, escaping from violence and conflicts in their countries, poured into Europe. This selection includes photographs of some key events of the last 12 months. Show more To curtail

The work of the sites has been violated for several hours The failure on Thursday of the sites of the British television and radio broadcasting corporation of the BBC in the organization itself was explained by the hacker attack. We are talking about the so-called DDOS attack , when the site is disabled by submitting a large number of false queries. Within a few hours, visitors to the sites received an error message when loading the contents of the page.

- Ukraine in 2016- internal problems and relations with Russia- the European Union awaits new refugees and is looking for new ways to reduce the threat of terrorist attacks- "swamp business"- the fourth year of political repression

One of the shares in Dacca against the murder of bloggers, May 2015 Six more defendants in the case received various prison deadlines On Thursday on Thursday, the court issued two death sentences in the case of the murder of an architect, blogger Rajib Heider. One of the convicts is still on the run, so the verdict was carried out in absentia.

Vitaly Portnikov - about the results of 2015 for Ukraine, as well as about expectations and hopes for the year 2016 In 2015, military operations continued in eastern Ukraine, the activity of which, fortunately, has significantly decreased in recent months. Crimea remains annexed by Russia.

Writer Maxim Kantor sums up the results of 2015 It was a year of phenomenal lies. There is no such year that the authorities and ordinary citizens do not lie. But those who lie, always suspect a possible exposure. In my memory, there was no such time that the lie was declared the basis of all logical constructions. In the outgoing 2015, a lie became in Russia a dominant cultural/social/historical force.

Two more regional NPOs are included in the List of "Ino -Agents" December 31, 2015 Office of the Public Organization “Baikal Ecological Wave”, Irkutsk The Law on NKO- "Inoagents" has been in force in Russia since 2012. About 110 organizations have already been included in the register of the Ministry of Justice The Yekaterinburg Society "Memorial" and the Trans -Baikal Public Ecological Center "Dauria" are included in the register of NGOs that perform the functions of foreign agents.

Power line in the Kherson region The only power transmission line transmitting electricity from Ukraine to Russia annexed by Russia stopped working late on the evening of December 30 The supply of electricity from Ukraine to the Crimea annexed by Russia was discontinued due to the collapse of the support line of the Kakhovka-Titan power line in the Kherson region. This was announced on Thursday by reporters by the representative of Ukrenergo Zinovy Butsvo.