The head of the Russian Ministry of Energy, Alexander Novak, announced the signing of a contract with the Ukrainian side, which will ensure uninterrupted supply of Crimea by electricity. On Tuesday, December 30, the press service of the department reports . The report clarifies that the contract is concluded between the Center for Settlement (Tsor) and Ukrinterenergo.

Screams of the Airasia liner, which disappeared on December 28, were discovered in the ocean. This was reported to the head of the Civil Aviation Department of Indonesia is reported by Agence France-Presse. The head of the Indonesian search and rescue agency Bambang Soelisto told Reuters that he was 95% confident in the belonging of the discovered fragments of the missing liner. The alleged details of the aircraft, as the Associated Press reports , were found near the island of Borneo.

Russian sailors who were trained on the French helicopter carriers Mistral returned to Kronstadt on the Smolny training ship. About this with reference to an unnamed source in the Russian Ministry of Defense is reported by TASS. Another interlocutor of the agency noted that the crews of the helicopter carriers will go on vacation.

First they took us to the police department, but halfway there new instructions arrived. They brought me home and didn’t let me out of the apartment. Under the door are five soldiers of the 2nd operational regiment — Alexey Navalny (@navalny) December 30, 2014

2014 was also a year of words. And even an endless stream of stunning events, of which each is a testimony of the dawn of some new, still unprecedented world, did not overshadow these words. On the contrary, any event was lightly growing in speeches about, they were quoted, thereby producing new words, and if the words could be driven by pipes to the west for dollars, we would simply not feel the fall of oil prices.

Continuation - mass detentions began on Manezhnaya Square → Aleksey Navalny, who was under house arrest, was detained on Manezhnaya Square, a press secretary of the corruption of Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter. On the video broadcast from the scene, it was clear that Navalny was walking along Tverskaya Street towards Manezhnaya Square and talked with journalists. A group of police officers pushed the media employees and dragged the opposition to the bus.

Futures contracts for the purchase of North Sea oil brand Brents fell to $ 57 per barrel - the fall in the evening of December 29 amounted to about $ 3. The previous time oil was so cheap in March 2009. For the barrel of the American WTI, they give less than $ 53.

2014 was not only the year of the death of a stable ruble, but also the year of the death of most styles of the Russian language. An official, politician, diplomat, economist, top manager and layman now speak the same way: Kazenchin, Argo, the language of the Boulevard Roman, Stand-Apa and fairy tales.

Suburban trains can be canceled in 20 Russian regions due to low compensation for falling income to carriers, said Deputy Head of the Ministry of Transport Alexei Tsydenov, Interfax reports. “When ensuring the level of compensation for the income of carriers in the volume of this year, there is a threat of cessation of suburban transport in more than 20 constituent entities of the Russian Federation,” he said, without specifying which regions are in question.

The United States authorities introduced four more Russian officials to the Magnitsky List. This was reported by the US Department of Finance on December 29. The sanctions list includes the head of the apparatus of the head and government of Chechnya Magomed Daudov and the Deputy Minister of the Interior of Chechnya, Alaudinov.

Against the background of bad and very bad forecasts regarding the future Russian economy, some still manage to make out the moments that inspire hope. The resource about the financial markets of Seeking Alpha publishes the post of one of the investors who assures that the Russian economy is not as bad as it seems. Of course, the author of the post notes, the situation in the Russian market is unlikely to noticeably recover in the near future.

On the Norman Atlantic ferry, the Russian ferry there was not Russian citizens. About this RIA Novosti was told by the head of the consular department of the Russian embassy in Italy Sergey Patronov. He added that two men with the names of Doroshenko and Sholokh (it was previously reported that it was a man and a woman) are citizens of Ukraine. Now they are on the San Giorgio ship of the Italian Navy, which will deliver them to Brindisi.

Continuation - OMON pushed demonstrators from Manezhnaya Square → On Manezhnaya Square, the dispersal of demonstrators began to express discontent with a verdict in the case of the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny. The video broadcast from the event shows that riot police lined up in several chains and supplants the protesters from the square. The police through the loudspeakers are asking the audience to disperse.

Continuation: • The detainees by the court on the sentence by Navalny were accused of disobedience to the authorities → The defense of Oleg Navalny filed a complaint about the change in the preventive measure from the unsubscribing wizard after the sentence in the Yves Rocher case, lawyer Olga Mikhailova told RIA Novosti. “The defense of Oleg Navalny has already filed a complaint in which she asks him to let him go from the guard before the sentence enters into legal force,” she said.

The Cossacks, based in the city of Stakhanov, Lugansk region, demanded the resignation of the government of the self -proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, headed by Igor Plotnitsky. The corresponding appeal was published on YouTube on December 29.