Alexey Ulyukaev. Photo: Sergey Bobylev / TASS Contrary to the expectations of many, the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow sentenced the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev to eight years in a maximum security colony. This is a verdict that fully meets the priorities of Igor Sechin, and no one dared to cross his path, standing to defend Ulyukaev. Vladimir Putin did not do this: obviously, not out of fear, but because of the lack of a sufficient desire to understand what happened.

The Bank of Russia decided to reorganize Promsvyazbank (PSB) with the participation of the Consolidation of the Banking Sector (FKBS). This was reported in the press release of the regulator. According to the decision of the Central Bank, the FKBS is entrusted with the function of the Provisional Administration of the PSB.

There are many discoveries in evolutionary biology: a violently developing paleogenetics clarifies our ideas about the origin of species, and sequencing of the genes of modern people made it possible to prove that now there is a negative selection of genes. The head of the Department of Biological Evolution at Moscow State University, the author of the popular science bestseller “Human Evolution” Alexander Markov told Republic about the most important studies of 2017 in this area. 1.

Former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, found guilty of receiving a bribe from Rosneft in the amount of $ 2 million, sentenced to eight years in a maximum security colony. The broadcast of the court session is carried out by the Mediazon and RBC . Ulyukaev was taken into custody in the courtroom. In addition, the former minister was imposed an additional punishment in the form of a fine. Its size will exceed 130 million rubles. Ulyukaev said that he understands the verdict.

Photo: Evgenia Novozhenina / RIA Novosti In Moscow, the winners of the 11th Kandinsky Prize were called. This was reported on Facebook by the award. In the “Scientific Work” nomination, Alexei Bobrikov , the author of the collection “Russian idea on the souvenir counter” and other essays (post) Soviet art ”became the laureate. The winner in the nomination "Young Artist" was recognized by Sasha Pirogova with the Mono project.

The Bank of Russia reduced the key rate to 7.75% per annum. This was reported in the press release of the regulator. “Inflation is at the level of 2.5% and will gradually approach 4% to the end of 2018. The extension of an agreement on restrictions on oil production reduces the slide risks on the horizon to a year. With this in mind, the Bank of Russia reduced the key rate by 50 basic points.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov and the Minister of Civil Aviation of Egypt Sheriff Fathi signed a protocol that provides for the resumption of the air offense between the states. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Transport. “This is the first step towards the resumption of air communication between our countries. <...> However, a lot of work is ahead, so we need to finish domestic procedures to resume the air offense.

The Oxford dictionary chose the word Y Outhquake (definition - significant cultural, political or social changes caused by actions or the influence of youth). This was reported by the official website of the dictionary. Youthquake was first introduced into circulation by the former editor of Vogue magazine Diana Vriland in the 1960s to describe the young culture of the leading London . But recently, the number of requests for this word has grown by about 400%.

Historical eras in Russia are separated from each other with significant trials. The era of great terror is the path from the work of the industrial Party to the Kirov case and from it - to the "great processes" over the right and left slope. This ended all the processes such as the “business of doctors” who signaled the onset of the fiasco system. The era of Putin so far is the road from the Yukos case to the Magnitsky case and from him to Kirovles.

The FSB of Russia prevented the attack in St. Petersburg, which the supporters of the Islamic State planned to be arranged on December 16. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the FSB. On December 13-14, law enforcement officers detained seven participants in the conspiracy ISIS cell. With the help of a suicide bomber, they intended to arrange an explosion “in one of the cult institutions”, as well as blow up home-made bombs “in places of mass location of people”.

Everything is known in comparison, and now, perhaps, it is already time to nostalgic for those times when the genre of public apologies brought, as you might guess, under pressure, was monopolized by the Chechen authorities and, above all, Ramzan Kadyrov, that is , if someone publicly apologizes , it was not necessary to read-and so clear to whom.

The Central Bank of Russia estimates the volume of pre -capitalization of Promsvyazbank at about 100-200 billion rubles. This was told by the deputy chairman of the regulator Vasily Pozdyshev, Interfax reports . “The lower border, I would say 100 billion rubles, but this is an optimistic scenario. The most realistic scenario is 200 billion rubles. Perhaps the interim administration will find something else, these are preliminary assessments, ”Pozdyshev explained.

Members of the Hitler Youth in Munich, 1935. Photo: Photo12 / Uig / Getty Images All books of the British writer and journalist John Savija are somehow devoted to youth culture. In the mid-1980s, he wrote the official biography of The Kinks, and in the early 1990s-perhaps his main bestseller "England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock". In the book "Teenage.

The time of memes and hashtags calls for life strange names for transport projects. Already the “Moscow central diameters” - it seems that in the geometry lessons they taught that the diameter should pass through the center, and there are no non -central diameters. So far, apparently, the Moscow authorities themselves do not fully imagine how it will look: according to the statement of the vice-mayor Maxim Liksutov, the exact scheme will appear only in the first quarter of the next year.

The Central Bank decided to appoint a temporary administration in Promsvyazbank (PSB). About this with reference to sources write “Vedomosti” and “Kommersant” . It is expected that the regulator will announce its decision on Friday December 15. It is assumed that PSB will fall under the sanitation procedure as a systematically significant bank.