Photo: Trust Bank // Google.maps service Experts commented on the future of Trust Bank and the reduction in deposit rates and explained whether to put money on deposits. The collapse of the ruble has caused quite a stir in the banking sector. Trust Bank was on the verge of bankruptcy. As it became known, the reorganization of Trust Bank will be carried out, as some experts previously assumed, by the Otkritie financial corporation .

Photo: Two police officers were detained in Moscow on suspicion of organizing the theft of construction materials from the Skolkovo innovation center. According to investigators, the incident occurred on December 23. On the mentioned day, using a Niva official car, the detainees were taken to the territory of the Skolkovo innovation center, located in the Mozhaisky district of Moscow on the street. Novaya, 100, two Azerbaijanis who were the direct perpetrators of the crime.

Group "ZIP" - "Scolopendra" (2011). From the NCCA collection Photo: NCCA press service The results are summed up not only for 2014: “Object of Art” is the best and most important of all that has been added to the collection over the past couple of years.

Photo: Not a single government in the Russian Federation can maintain legitimacy while remaining indifferent to its people // Russian Look The vice-president of Rosneft, journalist Mikhail Leontyev, summed up the results of 2014 and reflected on what 2015 will bring to Russia. – Everything that does not kill us makes us stronger – in this regard, it was a very good year for Russia.

Photo: Elena Sikorskaya / Russian Look Indian surgeons successfully performed an operation to remove 80 teeth from a seven-year-old child. On December 24, a young patient was admitted to a hospital in Indore in Madhya Pradesh with an abscess in his jaw. Doctors discovered that the boy had a complex odontoma, in which up to 80 extra teeth had formed in the child’s gums. The operation lasted about four hours.

Photo: Investigators believe that Nesterov and a number of other participants in the deal distributed $212 million among themselves // Vasily Smirnov / Russian Look A criminal case was opened against the ex-general director of the Khrunichev Center Vladimir Nesterov.

Photo: The family of the murdered woman moved from apartment to apartment // Anton Belitsky / Russian Look Police in Krasnoyarsk detained a woman from Kyrgyzstan who beat her four-year-old daughter to death.

Leonid Parfenov Photo: Russian Look Russian journalist and TV presenter Leonid Parfenov strongly denied accusations of bribery. According to Parfenov, “nits from the anti-Navalnov site” on behalf of the unknown political figure Alexei Bozhenov accused him of receiving 10 thousand dollars for filming a video against Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny . As Parfenov stated, he did receive an invitation to appear in the video, but it was about a video in support of Navalny.

Photo: The Prime Minister wore Arabic clothing // You Tube Relatives of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to persuade him not to convert to Islam. On December 29, it became known that historian Warren Dockter from the University of Cambridge, while working on the book “Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East,” discovered a letter in which the great politician was persuaded to abandon Islam.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation officially banned the activities of the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra in Russia Photo: Global Look Press The Supreme Court upheld the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office to recognize members of the Islamic State (IS) as terrorists. Along with IS, Jabhat al-Nusra was also recognized by a court decision as a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in Russia.

Photo: Father raised a worthy successor // Russian Look Neither their young age nor the year of crisis prevented Artem and Igor Chaika from becoming a businessman and an official, respectively. The 39-year-old son of the Prosecutor General of Russia, Artem Chaika, has, one might say, already eaten a ton of salt in business, having built a diversified business empire, which includes both a supplier of crushed stone for Russian Railways and the largest salt producer.

Andrey Illarionov Photo: Viktor Chernov / Russian Look Dmitry Bykov talked with Andrei Illarionov, Putin’s ex-adviser on economics, about the Novorossiya conflict. Andrei Illarionov, a former economic adviser to Putin, later one of the most consistent and irreconcilable oppositionists, now works at the Cato Institute in Washington and spends most of the year in the USA, where we met with him: – What do you think is the future of Novorossiya? – Do you mean Eastern Donbass?

Photo: A man showed resilience during a man-eating shark attack // Global Look Press A white shark bit an American in the waters of the Pacific Ocean near the Californian city of San Luis Obispo. On December 29, details emerged of a white shark attack on a surfer in the waters of the Pacific Ocean near the city beach of San Luis Obispo in the United States. According to eyewitnesses, the shark grabbed the thigh of a 50-year-old man while he was in the water with a group of 12 athletes.

Photo: Shura: If I had a million, I would fly into space // Anatoly Lomokhov / Russian Look The singer had to keep his earned fees in plain sight so that he would not be robbed during his performance. Shortly before the New Year, we asked Shura what he wished for himself, what New Year's Eve was the most memorable in his life, and how he would celebrate December 31st, having a million dollars at his disposal. “If I had a million, I would fly into space,” the artist begins to dream.

Photo: Natasha Koroleva and Sergei Glushko really want to have another child, but they are not succeeding. It’s impossible to imagine New Year’s Eve without Natasha Koroleva. Bright, shocking, cheerful, she is the decoration of any TV show, as we will be able to see again this year. Our correspondent talked to the artist about how she is preparing for the winter holidays and what she will wish for when the chimes strike. - Natasha, do you burn a piece of paper with a wish at midnight?