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2013 is coming to an end and we are happy to sum up the results: who managed to achieve something, who met their love, who were lucky, and who were not so lucky. Let's look back together and find out what interesting things happened in the world in 2013.

Album of the Year

Lady Gaga has finally released her third studio album ARTPOP, not forgetting to tease the audience with her extravagant outfits.

50 shades of grey

Finally, we learned that the most scandalous novel over the past few years is going to be filmed. Fans of the book were very dissatisfied with the chosen actors, but we still decided to give Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan a chance and now we don’t know what to take to the cinema: popcorn or handcuffs?

Cant of the Year

Miley Cyrus successfully shone with her scandalous antics all year long. First, she learned to move her body (at least one of its points), and then she decided to smoke a joint at the 2013 MTV EMAs.

decadent resignation

For which an entire era has ended! What will please us (or upset?) Nicolas Ghesquière is still unknown, but not everyone is happy with such a change.

Opposition wedding

Ksenia Sobchak really likes to play a representative of the opposition movement, and a real oppositionist must be well encrypted, so even the guests did not know about the wedding of Ksenia and Maxim Vitorgan.

First dad

Benedict XVI became the first Pope to step down from his obligations. This hasn't happened in over 600 years!

dog scam

What will they do to attract tourists! For example, a Chinese zoo passed off a Tibetan mastiff dog as a lion. But here's the bad luck: the lion began to bark at the tourists!

HIV cure

Scientists from Mississippi claim that with the help of a new vaccine they managed to cure a little girl from HIV. Great, now it remains to find a cure for cancer!

newborn prince

No smoking

In Russia, a law on smoking was adopted, now the whole society has split into two opposing camps: smokers and non-smokers. Alas, no special actual changes are visible yet, but we hope that soon there will still be fewer smokers.

Farewell, Iron Lady!

One of the most famous women Mira passed away on April 8. The world will miss her iron will and sharp mind.

Girl's best friends

The largest and most beautiful pink diamond in the world was sold at auction for $83 million. Sotheby's has something to be proud of!

Place on the map of Russia

No, we are not talking about fancy restaurants or cool clubs. The city of Chelyabinsk is a new fashionable direction! And all because of a celestial body that exploded over the city, which damaged more than 4,000 buildings.

Premiere of the Year

The film "" was eagerly awaited, but while they were preparing for the premiere, they managed to remember the 1920s, and then it started. Everything from fashion shows to interior design, was saturated with the atmosphere of the roaring twenties.

Madonna's new teeth

The famous pop diva did not waste time on trifles and made herself gold lining on her teeth, and in order to surpass other stars, she generously sprinkled them with diamonds.

Sensation of the Year

Angelina Jolie's beautiful breasts are no longer the envy of women, but all because the star decided on a double mastectomy - an operation to remove the mammary glands.

lone wolf

The divorce of Vladimir Putin shocked our country, everyone has somehow come to terms with his image of an exemplary family man, but still a real wolf should walk alone.

tragedy of the year

At the end of November, the star of the film "Fast and the Furious" left the world. The 40-year-old actor passed away so suddenly that many still cannot believe it.

Seeing off the next year, it is customary to sum up, remember important events, regardless of whether they were positive or negative. The outgoing 2013 turned out to be a difficult year for Russia and Yamal, filled with memorable events and fateful decisions. Let's try to remember the most interesting of them.

On January 1, a ban on the sale of beer in non-stationary retail outlets (stalls and kiosks) came into force.

In Yamal, the issuance of universal electronic cards to the population has begun, combining in one document a passport, a bank card, driver's license, insurance policy, pension certificate, etc.

It was announced the start of the implementation of a unique project for Russia - a polar resort with the loud name "Arctic Tourism Center". According to the project, it will be located near Salekhard and will consist of a modern hotel with 300 beds, 10 business class villas with an area of ​​500 sq.m., 30 business center cottages and 10 VIP-level villas.

At the beginning of the year, the heads of OAO Gazprom and OAO NOVATEK, Alexei Miller and Leonid Mikhelson, signed an agreement on the establishment of a joint venture for the production of liquefied natural gas in Yamal.

Gerard Depardieu received a Russian passport.

The ex-Governor of Yamal, Yuri Neelov, bred a new breed of pigeons.

In March 2013, the reporting and election conference of the YNAO reindeer herders union was held in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Leonid Khudi was re-elected Chairman.

In the Primorsky Territory, a criminal case was closed on the fact of causing harm to the health of a conscript soldier from Noyabrsk, Nikita Akishin, who on September 27, 2012, received severe chemical burns with sulfuric acid while serving. Initially, the case was initiated against senior lieutenant Alexander Khvostov, he was accused under the article of negligence, but the investigation did not see anyone's fault in this incident, except for the fault of the soldier himself, who was only following the order.

On the Salekhard-Surgut highway, a head-on collision of KAMAZ and Land Cruiser vehicles took place, in which the management of the Service Drilling Company was killed. The driver of KAMAZ was recognized as the culprit, he received 3 years in prison.

The Yamal Peninsula is one of the priority areas for oil and gas production.

It snowed in Nadym.

Over 400,000 rubles were collected for the scrap metal collected during the second ecological expedition to Bely Island. The entire amount was transferred to the Yamine Charitable Foundation.

The first large harvest of Arctic honey was harvested in Nadym.

In the capital of Yamal, an underground gaming club, organized by an official, was liquidated.

It was announced that the boiler house of the Arctic port of Sabetta would heat water in the Gulf of Ob.

The Russian government has approved a new, fifth in a row, pension reform. From January 1, 2015, all Russians will have to save for their future pension not the usual rubles, but points.

Two residents of Salekhard Alexei Korotkov and Konstantin Neganov went on a hiking trip to Russian capital. By the end of December, the Salekhards had traveled 3,000 km, visiting 12 Russian cities. They dedicated their journey to the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk.

Novy Urengoy and Salekhard took over the Olympic torch relay. The Olympic Flame crossed the Arctic Circle and drove across Yamal on a reindeer sleigh. In addition, for the first time in history Olympic Games The torch relay visited the North Pole, in outer space and at the bottom of Lake Baikal.

In Russia, 10 categories of driver's licenses have been introduced, including the right to scooters and an automatic transmission.

Rescuers were looking for an An-26 plane, which, according to unknown persons, had made an emergency landing in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Joker, who sent rescuers to look for a non-existent plane, faces up to 3 years in prison.

A Boeing 737 passenger plane of Tatarstan Airlines, flying from Moscow, crashed while landing at Kazan airport. The plane crash claimed the lives of six crew members and 44 passengers.

Salekhard hosted the International Festival of the countries of the Arctic region "Art-Arctic" and the semi-final stage of the XXII All-Russian television competition "TEFI-Region" in the direction of "Educational and entertainment television broadcasting".

Residents of Russia began to be fined for smoking in public places.

In the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug they announced their intention to introduce a complete ban on the extraction of muksun, then it was decided to leave permission only to representatives of the indigenous peoples of the North.

The Cup of Russia in judo among men and women was held in Novy Urengoy.

The court delivered a verdict in the criminal case of Kuliyev, from the blow of which the veteran died afghan war Ivan Shaporenko. The prosecution asked for the defendant 9 years in prison with serving directly in the colony, but the court sentenced him to one year and 9 months of restriction of freedom with a ban on visiting mass events and the payment of one million rubles to the victims as compensation. The prosecutor's office of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug appealed the verdict.

Salekhard landed the largest aircraft in the world for the first time.

The law on the so-called abolition of mobile slavery came into effect. Now you can change the operator, while maintaining the phone number.

A brigade returned to Salekhard, which from November 6 to December 4 carried out environmental work on Bely Island. The participants of the ecological expedition worked for several weeks in the conditions of the polar night.

The Russian currency has its own symbol.

Another high-ranking official Alexander Kaliberda left Yamal. He was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Urals Federal District.

It was announced that school graduates would receive multi-colored certificates instead of medals.

In Noyabrsk, during searches in the office of the director of the Municipal Institution "Directorate of the Municipal Order" in Noyabrsk, a tiny bundle of powder was found white color- cocaine, as was later established. The official said that the substance helped him make brilliant decisions. The supplier of cocaine for managerial needs was taken into custody, the drug addicted official was fired.

Prosecutor's Office of Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region achieved a review of the acquittal in a criminal case against Salekhard City Duma deputy Valentina Agafonova, who presented a fake diploma when applying for a job.

The Governor of Yamal, Dmitry Kobylkin, announced that the construction of the bridge across the Ob between Salekhard and Labytnangi would begin in the winter of 2014-2015.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service approved the sale of Yamal LNG shares to a Chinese energy company.

The last days of December were overshadowed by the terrorist attacks in Volgograd, during which 31 people were killed and more than 100 were injured.

Recently it became known that Pavel Astakhov is leaving the post of Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation. Immediately after the vacation, the children's ombudsman leaves of his own free will. The reason for this was largely an ambiguous question to the girl who survived the tragedy at Syamozero. Astakhov asked the child in the hospital: “Well, how did you swim?” After that, almost 42,000 people signed a petition for his resignation. The editors of Komsomolskaya Pravda recalled the participation of the Ombudsman in the lives of children from the Samara region.

Almost the first visit of Pavel Astakhov to our region took place in 2010. Then he personally rescued Yulia Kruglova from Togliatti from the pre-trial detention center. The girl, being pregnant with her fifth child, ended up in a prison hospital with terrible conditions. Mother of many children had to spend three years in the colony for fraud on an especially large scale. Pavel Astakhov came to the next court session in Tolyatti. So he wanted to morally support a pregnant woman. As a result, the sentence was left the same, but given a reprieve for 12 years.

Why waste taxpayer money to keep these women behind bars? Astakhov asked. - Let them raise children, work and compensate for the damage caused. ()

In September 2013, the infectious diseases department of the hospital named after M. Semashko. One of the patients complained that the children were left alone for a long time without supervision, they were locked in the ward, the kids were freezing because they were not warmly dressed, the conditions were ugly. Then the Children's Ombudsman came to Samara. Astakhov scolded the medical staff, but was in no hurry to draw conclusions. Already later in in social networks he wrote that the facts about the staff of the hospital. Semashko found their confirmation. However, a year later, the investigators closed the case, saying that no corpus delicti was found. ()

Pavel Astakhov also reacted to the terrible story that happened to 4-year-old Nastya Kazakova from Samara in 2012. The girl was walking near the drain collector of the thermal power plant, where there were no fences. The child could not resist and fell into the pond. Unfortunately, there was no one to come to her aid and the girl drowned. Astakhov reacted with lightning speed. Literally on the day of the tragedy, he asked the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, to check all versions of Nastya's death. Alas, those responsible for the death of the child were never found. The case was closed a year later. And the employees, through whose fault the fences were not installed, were fined. ()

In 2014, two teenagers died of a drug overdose in Samara Orphanage No. 1. A special commission immediately arrived at the institution, sent by the commissioner under the President of the Russian Federation for children's rights. Astakhov wrote on social networks, saying that this is not the first time such cases have occurred in this institution. Immediately after checking the commission, the court sentenced acting. director of the orphanage to 3 years of "conditions". Allegedly, the woman knew about the addictions of the boys, but was silent. There were rumors that the institution would be closed, however, it still works. ()

In 2015, after an appeal to the President of Togliatti Sofya Babich with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy, Astakhov also perked up. The girl asked for a simulator with a treadmill and turned to the head of state for help. Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Pavel Astakhov, who contacted the regional government. "The simulator for Sofya Babich (15 years old, cerebral palsy) is already on the way! Thank you for your promptness! The issue of helping 15-year-old Sofya from Togliatti has already been resolved. Thank you to everyone who cares!" Astakhov wrote on his Twitter account. ()

Life in the Samara Region is full of events. The past year was no exception. And it doesn't matter that 2009 turned out to be a difficult, crisis year: there was a place for everything - sadness, joy, laughter, and tears. Some events will be remembered for a lifetime, some will go down in history, some will not be remembered in a year. But be that as it may, the site site identified five of the most striking events and incidents that shocked the province, made them rejoice or cry ...

This event truly turned out to be an event with a capital letter for the province. And not only for her. Let's remember how many rock fans from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and other cities came to the Red Plowman field to see rock legends: Alisa, DDT, Vyacheslav Butusov and others who performed on the same stage under the Samara sky. On the eve of the event, at night On June 11, if you drove your personal car near Krasny Pakhar, or walked in the vicinity, next to the summer cottage, you could watch crowds of non-resident rock fans set up camps in abandoned summer cottages, burn fires in the "woods", sing their favorite songs and with Muscovites, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Rostovites were looking forward to the morning... Then it didn't matter what city you were from.

And in the morning, in the scorching sun, they listened to their idols, not paying attention to the heat of 35 degrees. The only pity is that the organizers of the event did not take care of their guests, because many out-of-town rock fans wondered how it was possible to build only one canopy from the sun, only on the VIP stand, leaving the rest of the audience to languish from the heat? And why it was impossible to bring your own water (regular - with or without gas), if in order to buy life-giving moisture on the territory of the festival field, you had to overpay (well, this is still customary) and, moreover, stand in line of 60-100 people in thirty-five degree heat .

But in any case, all this, like any bad thing, tends to be erased from memory. But the good thing is that people have seen almost all the legends of modern Russian rock - it is unlikely to be forgotten.

Not only the past year was remembered well. For some, it turned out to be a real tragedy ... The accident happened on Friday morning, on the M-5 highway in the Zhigulevsk region. The truck, whose brakes failed, crashed into a passenger bus and three passenger cars. The driver of the truck was sent to intensive care in a serious condition, he died a few days later. In total, 18 people were injured in a car accident (including 15 passengers of a minibus).

The published lists of victims included a woman who was eight months pregnant. They were immediately taken to the Zhiguli hospital, to the maternity ward. Doctors gathered a council, because there was a threat of premature birth. However, everything worked out - the woman escaped with only a concussion and after a while was discharged home. She gave birth, by the way, in hometown- in Tolyatti - on time.

It was not an easy year for the Samara football team "Wings of the Soviets". The long-awaited victories were replaced by unfortunate defeats, all this was aggravated by the difficult financial situation of the club, its multimillion-dollar debts. At the same time, not all fans were sympathetic to the team. At many matches, remarks shouted out from the stands were increasingly heard: “Slutsky, don’t dishonor the team!”, “Slutsky, leave!” teams, they said: “This is a real coach!”, “He will bring the team to the right level!” and so on.

In any case, Slutsky was not destined to stay in the game. On October 9, before the evening training, Leonid Slutsky said goodbye to the club's leaders, the players and his assistants. “This is my decision, which I hope will only benefit the team. Almost two seasons spent in Samara, I will always remember well. Unfortunately, the second half of this season we are not in the best way. In such situations, it is difficult to keep high level energy, which is necessary for a coach. I would like to thank the leaders of KrylyaSovetov, all the team players, my assistants and club employees with whom I had the opportunity to work, as well as the Samara fans who create a unique aura at Metallurg. I have no doubt that Wings of the Soviets have a good future, ”said then Leonid Slutsky.

Yury Gazzaev, ex-coach of FC KAMAZ, was appointed to the post of head coach of the team. Do you need to comment now? Someone yes, but someone wants to look into the eyes of the fans who shouted at Slutsky during the Wings' home match with CSKA to go home ...

The issue of stray dogs has worried the residents of the city throughout the past year... Of course! There are not so few stray animals in Samara, as it might seem to some of the high-ranking officials, who travel exclusively in official foreign cars with personal drivers. But now it's not about that.

Provincial parliamentarians at the plenary session in the first and second final reading adopted the draft law on regulating the number of homeless animals in the territory of municipalities. The document provides that measures to ensure the safety of the population of the province from the adverse effects of stray animals should be carried out by the administrations of municipalities at the expense of local budgets, as well as in accordance with municipal legal acts.

Whether the document will affect the number of people bitten and infected by stray animals, we will find out in the coming 2010.

Viktor Alexandrovich Tarkhov, the mayor of the city of Samara, is a status, significant, controversial and discussed figure. He tried to do a lot of good things for the city, but what we remember most of all is the shoes of the blogger Papilkin, which he launched at the mayor at a press conference on the results of Mr. Tarkhov's mayoral activities. The reason for the flight of blogging shoes to a high-ranking person was the intemperance of Mr. Papilkin - he began to ask the mayor about his connections with a certain Mr. Dohly, tried to ask the head of the city why Tarkhov did not answer his question about ex-husband the mayor's daughter. According to Papilkin, the ex-husband of Lyudmila Tarkhova, Ivan Motynga, is a criminal authority and even "... the shadow mayor of Samara." It is worth noting that Mr. Tarkhov answered all Papilkin's questions during the press conference. However, the host of the event stopped the debate between the mayor and the blogger on the third question, since the time of the conference was clearly regulated. This is what made Papilkin angry.

It is worth adding: the site's correspondent heard rumors that a month earlier, several journalists from a well-known Moscow news agency arrived in Samara, who were actively interested in the life of Mr. Tarkhov's daughter. Perhaps this is just a coincidence. But the fact is still interesting.

Summing up all of the above, it remains to add only one thing: every year something happens that makes you think, worry, cry and laugh. But let's remember - everything that happens to us, in whatever city of our region we live, depends primarily on ourselves. Let's think about each other, try to be a little kinder and more attentive to our neighbors, be patient and spend 2010 in such a way that later it would not be embarrassing to say: I live in the Samara province.

The past year was marked by many joyful, sad, unusual and strange events.

The Russians danced the Harlem Shake, volunteered for a flight to Mars, became Heroes of Labor, rewrote the history of the country, imprisoned Navalny, pardoned Khodorkovsky, made cruises on the "philosophical ship", smashed the vegetable warehouse in Biryulyovo, saw off Nelson Mandela and the Aquarium group on their last journey and smoked together in the wrong places.

RBC invites readers to remember the highlights of 2013 with us. Note that events are by no means ranked chronologically or by "importance". In the near future we will share with you the continuation of our selection.

Renunciation of the Pope. Teflon Francis

Catholic Church in February 2013 is experiencing a historic moment: for the first time in the last 600 years, the Pope abdicates the throne. Benedict XVI makes this decision because, according to him, due to his age he is no longer suitable for the service of the Church.

Argentine Jesuit Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first pope from the New World, is chosen as the new pontiff. He takes the name Francis in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Pope Francis is distinguished by great humility and deep faith, while delighting followers with funny confessions about falling asleep during prayers or that he knows the profession of a bouncer.

Two weeks after his election, Francis performs a foot-washing ritual in a Roman juvenile prison, breaking another standing ovation. Soon, the people's love for the pontiff becomes so strong that the nickname Teflon Pope grows on him - for invulnerability to criticism.

Matchkryazh and others: Navalny against Kirovles

Alexei Navalny, who became an icon of the protest movement in the wake of the For Fair Elections rallies, is paying for his popularity with criminal cases, the most notorious of which is the Kirovles case. The opposition leader and his former business partner Pyotr Ofitserov are accused of organizing the embezzlement of the property of this state-owned enterprise in the amount of 16 million rubles.

The trial of the politician is taking place in Kirov. The public, reading out the "Twitter" of Navalny and his press secretary Anna Veduta, is learning new "forest" terms - "match log", "balance", "sawlog". An impressive troop of journalists and supporters of the politician leaves for each meeting from Moscow.

On July 18, the Leninsky District Court of Kirov, headed by Judge Sergei Blinov, sentences Navalny to five years in prison, and Ofitserov to four. They are taken into custody right in the courtroom. Protests are taking place in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities against the verdict. About 10,000 people gather at Manezhnaya Square in the capital. They besiege the State Duma, scribble the building with revolutionary slogans and block the central streets. The police violently disperse the demonstrators, detaining many.

In the evening of the same day, the prosecutor's office will appeal against such a swift arrest of the convicts. On the morning of July 19, the Kirov Regional Court releases Navalny and Ofitserov on bail not to leave until the verdict comes into force. This decision allows the oppositionist to participate in the Moscow mayoral elections. Already after the elections, in mid-October, the Kirov Regional Court will consider an appeal against the politician's sentence and replace him and Ofitserov with a real term for a suspended sentence.

Navalny says that “it’s strange to call it a victory,” especially since this sentence deprives him of the opportunity to participate in future elections, but promises to continue to engage in politics. Currently, the opposition leader and his brother Oleg Navalny are defendants in a “cosmetic case”: they are accused of embezzling 26 million rubles. from the Yves Rocher Vostok company.

War in Syria

Syria, in which the civil war has not ceased for almost three years, in 2013. risked repeating the fate of Libya and surviving foreign intervention. Western states began to seriously consider the possibility of invading the republic after a chemical attack in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, which occurred on August 21.

As a result of the use of sarin, according to various estimates, from 281 to 1,729 people die. The Syrian authorities and the armed opposition blame each other for the death of people. The US, UK, France and Turkey say the Bashar al-Assad regime is killing its own citizens. Human Rights Watch concludes that government troops are involved in the deaths. The Russian Foreign Ministry, in response, presents evidence of the non-involvement of the Assad regime in the use of chemical weapons.

Damascus was saved from invasion thanks to the position of Russia, which proposes to transfer Syrian chemical weapons under international control. This initiative is supported by key Western leaders (Obama, Cameron, Merkel, Hollande), as well as representatives of Syria, Iran and China. In December 2013 The British newspaper The Times will call Putin "international person of the year", primarily noting his success in resolving the Syrian conflict.

However, the bloody conflict in Syria continues. According to the UN, since the start civil war 128 thousand Syrians were killed, more than 2 million citizens were injured. About 1 million more have left the country.

It becomes obvious that Islamic radicals, including Russian speakers, are fighting on the side of the Syrian rebels. On the video recording of the execution of Catholic priests, published in mid-summer 2013, one of the militants can be heard speaking Russian with a strong Caucasian accent, explaining to the “cameraman” of the execution from what angle it is better to film it.

euromaidan

Viktor Yanukovych's refusal to sign an association agreement with the EU brings Ukrainians to the streets of Kyiv who see themselves not as Scythians and Asians, but as full-fledged Europeans. On Maidan Nezalezhnosti, as in 2004, tents are springing up, people are singing the anthem of Ukraine and waving flags, demanding freedom and not wanting a new USSR. The media call what is happening in the capital Euromaidan. The authorities are quickly fed up with this, and with an eye on Moscow, they arrange the dispersal of the demonstration.

The act is short-sighted: from 500,000 to a million people go to the center of Kyiv for the next one. Unlike Russians, who are accustomed to the fact that rallies are generally banned, in Ukraine people are upset by the boorish attitude of the president and the company. The opposition seizes the buildings of the Kyiv City Hall and the House of Trade Unions, the crowd is trying to storm the presidential administration. The chains of the Berkut (an analogue of the Russian riot police) are being stormed by a bulldozer and groups of “titushki” (an analogue of Russian gopniks), journalists and deputies are trying to protect the security forces from provocateurs.

Russians are surprised at the self-organization and fighting spirit of Ukrainians, Twitter is teeming with bots accusing Euromaidan supporters of parasitism and sodomy, Donetsk holds its own rallies “For Yanukovych and Stability”, where Russian example bring state employees. The hero of numerous memes is the host of Russia 1, Dmitry Kiselev, who says in his program that the “blue European commissioners” from the coalition of Sweden, Poland and Lithuania are trying to use Ukraine to foment war with Russia - and in general, they are trying to take revenge for Poltava.

Yanukovych travels first to China, where he admires the terracotta army of Emperor Qin Shihuang-di, and then to Moscow. At the same time, he promises that Ukraine will not join the Customs Union, and, on the contrary, will sign an association agreement with the EU. In the end, Kyiv receives from Putin a generous new year gift- $15 billion loan straight from the National Welfare Fund and a hefty discount on Russian gas. However, in his New Year's address, Yanukovych makes it clear that he does not intend to forget about the European Union.

Art fades: shocking is our everything

By the end of 2013 Red Square is becoming the main Russian newsmaker, attracting strange, in the language of contemporary art lovers, installations and performances.

November 10, St. Petersburg artist Pyotr Pavlensky as part of the action, dedicated to the Day an employee of the internal affairs bodies, nails his scrotum to stone paving with a nail. He states that the action should become "a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of modern Russian society."

The taken aback policemen do not understand for some time what to do with the artist, but then they still decide to cover him with a blanket, separate him from the square and take him to the hospital. At first, law enforcement officers do not find corpus delicti in Pavlensky’s actions, but then they nevertheless initiate a criminal case against him under the article “hooliganism”.

Following the St. Petersburg artist, a resonant action was organized by the company Louis Vuitton, which installed a giant suitcase on Red Square. It was supposed to host a charity exhibition "The Soul of Wanderings", but the branded "casket" in the very heart of Moscow caused such sincere public indignation that the authorities advised the company to dismantle it.

Chavez

Hugo Chavez, defender of an island of socialism in the capitalist world, lost his war, but not to an ideologically alien system, but to cancer. Chemotherapy from his Cuban friends does not work. Autumn 2012 he wins the presidential election again, but he will not have time to go through the inauguration ceremony. March 5, 2013 Venezuelan national television announces Chavez's death.

His successor, Nicolas Maduro, proposes to embalm the leader, but it was decided to abandon this idea after consultations with Russian experts. Mourning is declared by the South American states, Iran, Belarus and even Western Sahara. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko cries during the farewell ceremony.

Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher, the symbol of Britain in the 80s, passed away on April 8, 2013. The cause of her death was a stroke. The country mourns, but there is no unity: few of the British politicians during the years of their rule have incurred such sincere popular hatred. While Thatcher is being buried in St. Paul's Cathedral in the presence of royal family, longtime punk rockers and former demonstrators walk the streets singing the anthem: “Ding-dong! The Witch is dead!" ("Ding dong! The witch is dead!") from the movie "The Wizard of Oz" 1939.

Two years before Thatcher's death, the movie The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep was released. leading role. Some celebrities and viewers say it's "unethical" to make a biopic about live politics.

Berezovsky

The body of the former "gray eminence" of the Kremlin is found on March 23, 2013. in his house ex-wife Galina, 40 km from London. An autopsy reveals that Boris Berezovsky died by hanging. The police do not exclude the assistance of a "third party", but the version of suicide is called more plausible.

That same evening, it turns out that before his death, Berezovsky wrote two letters to Putin, intending to make peace with Russian President. The disgraced oligarch admitted that he had made many mistakes and asked the head of state to give him the opportunity to return to Russia. Putin refuses to publicize the contents of the letters "for ethical reasons."

Alien guest: Chelyabinsk meteorite

February 15, 2013 The Chelyabinsk region is visited by an unexpected visitor - the largest meteorite that has fallen to Earth since the time of Tunguska. According to NASA, when entering the atmosphere, its diameter is about 17 meters, and its weight is about 10 thousand tons. Within 32.5 seconds, the celestial body is destroyed. The total power of the explosions is 440-460 kilotons of TNT, and the blast wave goes around the Earth twice.

The meteorite reaches the Urals already pretty emaciated, but still manages to make a lot of noise: the shock wave breaks the glass in 4.5 thousand buildings, blows the roof of the Chelyabinsk zinc plant and damages the Traktor Ice Palace. Behind medical care 1 thousand 613 people apply, two of them end up in intensive care.

Jokes instantly appear on social networks: “The inhabitants of the meteorite watched the approach of Chelyabinsk with horror”, “The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation checks for involvement in the fall of the meteorite Alexei Navalny.” Russian scientists decide to name the meteorite after the city. The fall of the meteorite made local businessmen become more active: the very next day, its fragments are sold on the Internet. Prices range from 500 rubles to several million.

The largest meteorite fragments with a total mass of 654 kg are lifted from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul on October 16 during a special expedition.

Interim "News"

On December 6, one of the two state news agencies, RIA Novosti, was liquidated by a presidential decree. On its basis, the international information agency "Russia Today" is being created, headed by Dmitry Kiselev. At a meeting with the team, he says that the time of "detached, distilled journalism" is over and that "Russia needs love."

Colleagues in the workshop sympathize with the employees of RIA Novosti, noting that "it was too human construction." Ex-editor-in-chief Svetlana Mironyuk says that those who created and developed the agency were treated unfairly. At the end of December, it became known that the head of the Russia TV channel was appointed editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya. Today Margarita Simonyan.

Abolition of "mobile slavery"

In December, the Russians were granted liberation from mobile slavery: a law came into force on the introduction of the Mobile number portability (MNP) service in the country when changing a mobile operator. The Big Three operators stated that they are ready to provide the service, but they are not sure about its quality.

The cost of changing a mobile operator is from zero to 100 rubles. Studies show that from 15 to 25% of Russian subscribers want to port their number, but on the first day of the operation of this service, only 230 people used it.

Wood grouse of the year: "resignation" of the head of Russian Railways

June 2013 there is almost a sensation: the editorial office of news agencies receives a government press release about the resignation of the head of the Russian railways» Vladimir Yakunin. Half an hour later, it becomes clear that the news was fake.

For this short term First Vice President of Russian Railways, former governor Sverdlovsk region Alexander Misharin, whom correspondents call en masse to confirm this information, manages to accept congratulations.

Yakunin reacts calmly and even slightly trolls the population: the duck, they say, did not affect the taste of the stewed capercaillie, which President Putin treated him at the time of the spread of disinformation.

In December 2013 According to Yakunin, the authorities found the perpetrators who organized his pseudo-resignation, however, in the interests of the investigation, he does not name them, adding only that they will not be able to sleep peacefully.

Hero of Labor

Putin revives the title of "Hero of Labor". It will be awarded "for achieving outstanding results in the state, public and economic activity aimed at ensuring the well-being and prosperity of Russia”. New heroes will receive from the state as much as the Heroes of Socialist Labor - 35.2 thousand rubles.

The first Heroes of Labor of the Russian Federation are conductor Valery Gergiev, director of the N.N. Burdenko Research Institute of Neurosurgery Alexander Konovalov, machine operator Yury Konnov, mining machine operator Vladimir Melnik and turner Konstantin Chumanov.

"Cancellation" of the Tatar-Mongol yoke and the October Revolution

November 2013 a group of Russian scientists presents to President Putin the concept of a new educational and methodological complex, on the basis of which a single history textbook for Russian schoolchildren will be created.

The main thing that the public pays attention to is from the course national history the concepts of "Tatar-Mongolian yoke" and " October Revolution". Instead, more neutral “Horde yoke” and “The Great Russian Revolution” appear.

The authors of the concept include education among the “difficult issues of national history”. Old Russian state and the role of the Varangians in this process, the accession of Ukraine to Russia, the transformation of Peter I, the assessment of serfdom, the fall of the monarchy in Russia and the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, the autocracy of Stalin and the causes of repression, etc.

The last "difficult question" is "causes, consequences and assessment of the stabilization of the economy and political system Russia in the 2000s.

Putin's divorce

A unique event in an emphatically Orthodox country - the president is getting a divorce. Lyudmila Putina declares that the marriage is over due to the fact that she practically does not see her husband. Vladimir Putin stresses that there are people who are "absolutely incompatible" with publicity.

Rumors about the wedding of Putin with the deputy-gymnast Alina Kabaeva dispelled the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. He stated that in the life of the head of state "there is no other woman", and such assumptions are just "Internet exercises".

anti-piracy law

While Western artists are massively saying that creativity should be publicly available, and the Iron Maiden group is holding a super-successful tour of the cities South America, in which their songs were illegally downloaded most often, in Russia the State Duma adopts an "anti-piracy law".

Copyright holders have the right to demand through the courts the blocking of sites that host illegal content. Large "containers" - for example, "VKontakte" or rutracker.org - prefer to negotiate with the owners of rights and delete expensive files. Social network users are trying to cheat by renaming their favorite songs. Not only audiophiles suffer, but also fans of TV shows: “Game of Thrones”, for example, is almost impossible to download or watch for free anywhere.

In October, it becomes clear that the situation in the field of combating piracy, as usual, has been brought to the point of absurdity: the Lopukhovs, ordinary users of torrent trackers, receive 4 years in prison each. Large Russian film companies had claims against them for 38 billion rubles.

The world is not far behind Russia, however: prohibitive laws force the largest torrent tracker The Pirate Bay to roam through domain zones. Its owners are preparing to launch their browser, which will allow you to surf the Internet, bypassing all obstacles.

Pardon Khodorkovsky

The words "a thief should be in prison" became so boring for journalists that on December 19, during Putin's traditional four-hour press conference, no one asks the question about Khodorkovsky's fate. At the end of it, the president himself has to declare that he is ready to sign a decree pardoning the disgraced businessman.

The next day, December 20, the decree was indeed signed. On the day of his release, the ex-head of Yukos flies to Berlin, where he meets first with his son Pavel, and then with his parents. It turns out that Khodorkovsky wrote the petition for clemency because of the need to take care of his sick mother. In addition to the petition, he writes a personal letter to Putin in which he describes the situation.

Khodorkovsky is not going to return to Russia yet, as well as to engage in business or politics. He is also not ready to become a sponsor for the Russian opposition - "not so rich." According to Pavel Khodorkovsky, it is the iPad that delights his father in freedom, not food or luxury goods.

Closing of the Baikal pulp and paper mill

February 2013 Russian government decides to close the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill (PPM) - the largest source of pollution of Lake Baikal. "It's time for us to muster up courage," Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on this occasion.

It was assumed that the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill would be closed gradually, over the course of two years, and the liquidation of the waste of the enterprise would take several more years. In its place, an "economic zone of tourist and recreational type" will be created.

In December, it becomes known that the enterprise has already officially closed, but "about 500-700 employees remain at their jobs." The cost of closing the pulp and paper mill is estimated by the authorities of the Irkutsk region at 42 billion rubles.

"The Case of the Experts" and the Philosophical Steamboat

Back in 2011 Member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Tamara Morshchakova presents a report expert group, which refers to "fundamental violations" during the trial of the second Yukos case.

After some time, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation comes to the conclusion that the work of lawyers and economists who conducted an examination of the verdict to Khodorkovsky and Lebedev was allegedly paid from money laundered by businessmen. Experts are summoned for interrogations, and searches are carried out in their homes.

One of the most famous and influential Russian economists, NES Rector Sergei Guriev, not sure that he will not face imprisonment at birth, turns into a French economist. Following him, others leave - for example, ex-deputy chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Aleksashenko goes on an internship in the United States. He was "gently pushed by the Russian authorities" to this decision.

Critics say that "liberals have screwed themselves up and are rushing to the 'philosophical steamer'." Guriev, on the other hand, believes that "it is better in Paris than in Krasnokamensk."

Tandem Milonov-Mizulina

State Duma in 2013 behaves no less actively than in the past, and is actively churning out new "prohibitive" laws. The country introduces penalties for promoting homosexuality and insulting the feelings of believers. funds mass media from now on, it is forbidden to swear, and the Soviet law on propiska is once again becoming a harsh reality under the pretext of fighting "rubber apartments".

Deputies Mizulina and Milonov command the parade. The first wants to consolidate the dominant role of Orthodoxy in the Constitution and ban the promotion of oral sex, the second proposes to punish Internet users for jokes on social networks and seeks to destroy children's beauty contests.

"Apple tensed up": Russian Janus among smartphones

At the beginning of December 2013 Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov presents Prime Minister Medvedev with the first Russian smartphone, the YotaPhone. He has two screens at once - normal and black and white, like e-books. With the second, the smartphone works even with a practically discharged battery.

The Russian gadget is assembled from foreign parts in Singapore, but Chemezov says he has already found a suitable domestic factory. YotaPhone costs 18-19 thousand rubles - cheaper than new iPhone. "Apple tensed up?" - jokes Medvedev. Of course, they answer in the affirmative.

The collapse of Russian Post

"Post of Russia", the habit of vilifying which has become almost ineradicable among the inhabitants of the country, in April 2013. breaks all records of distrust. Huge postal blockages appear at Moscow airports. The amount of accumulated mail is so great that a five-day ban on accepting international parcels is introduced at Sheremetyevo.

Due to the collapse, the head of the Russian Post, Alexander Kiselev, was fired. The former CEO of Tele2 Russia Dmitry Strashnov becomes the new CEO. The first positive changes are coming soon: in the summer of 2013. Russian Post guessed to send parcels from China to Far East not through Moscow, but through Novosibirsk.

Russian Prime Minister Medvedev predicts that if the Russian Post does not change, it may disappear. However, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications wants to leave the company in state property until 2018

Heavenly train: low-cost airline "Dobrolet"

After the disappearance of SkyExpress and Avianova, Aeroflot decides to make its own attempt to create a domestic low-cost airline. The name is chosen symbolic - "Dobrolet". That is how the first Soviet air carrier was once called, which later became Aeroflot.

The former head of Avianov, Vladimir Gorbunov, becomes the head of Dobrolet. The new low-cost airline is going to be based at Domodedovo Airport, and its fleet at the time of launch will consist of eight Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft in a single-class configuration.

The head of Aeroflot, Vitaly Savelyev, promises that ticket prices will be 40% lower compared to "classic" airlines. But, according to him, it will be a "hard product" - with seats like in an electric train, non-refundable tickets, paid baggage and meals, foreign pilots and booking tickets only on the airline's website. The first flights should take place in the spring of 2014.

Games that… GTA V and Console Wars

In September 2013 a new part of the game series about an American car thief gangster is coming out. This is one of the most anticipated releases of the year: in the first 24 hours since the launch of GTA V, publisher Take-Two Interactive made over $800 million in revenue, and over $1 billion in three days.

At the same time, another large-scale battle of the Console Wars era is taking place in the world. In the gaming world, two opposing camps are formed - owners of the Sony PlayStation 4 and fans of the Xbox One.

Amnesty: “prisoners of Bolotnaya” and participants Pussy Riot on the loose

Following the economic amnesty, the country is waiting for a wider one, timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Constitution. In addition to the usual categories of convicted citizens for such cases - pregnant women, disabled people and Chernobyl liquidators - it also applies to those convicted under the article "Hooliganism". Thus, the amnesty affects members of the punk band Pussy Riot, Greenpeace activists from the Arctic Sunrise, and even some defendants in the “bog case”.

Four "prisoners of the Bolotnaya" - Nikolai Kavkazsky, Vladimir Akimenkov, Leonid Kovyazin and Maria Baronova - are released on December 19. In accordance with the terms of the amnesty, only those activists who were not charged with Article 318 - the use of violence against a representative of the authorities - are released.

On December 23, it's the Pussy Riot members' turn. Maria Alyokhina is the first to be released from the Nizhny Novgorod colony. A few hours later, she is followed by the sex symbol of the action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. They immediately promise to create an organization "Zone of Law", which will protect the rights of prisoners.

Greenpeace activists accused of hooliganism, who are massively under house arrest, can only wait for official papers on its cancellation and leave Russia.

Unlicensed Master Bank

On November 20, the Bank of Russia revokes the license from Master-Bank, which was one of the hundred largest banks in Russia. This is the largest bank that lost its license in last years, and the Deposit Insurance Agency will have to return more than 30 billion rubles to its customers.

The head of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, says that the bank "was involved in servicing the shadow economy network." Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Mikhail Sukhov speaks of 100 violations of the "anti-money laundering" law.

Russians, accustomed to paying for purchases with bank cards, start to panic. Since Master Bank, which was a large processing center, served the cards of about 260 banks, many customers who do not have cash with them have difficulties directly at the cash desk.

The chairman of the board of VTB 24, Mikhail Zadornov, did not encourage the Russians, noting that there are other candidates for bankruptcy in the top 50 Russian banks.

pension reform

On New Year's Eve, the State Duma and the Federation Council quickly pass the laws "On Insurance Pensions" and "On Funded Pensions." Their authors argue that the size of the pension will be higher for those citizens who work longer and get more, and also hint that it is more profitable to direct the funds to the formation of the insurance, rather than the funded part of the pension.

In addition, from 1 January 2015 the pension will be calculated according to a formula that is simply incomprehensible to the majority of the population. Her important element- a mysterious individual pension coefficient, which must be higher than 30 in order to receive an old-age insurance pension.

The Russians' new favorite toy is a pension calculator that "doesn't believe" that there is a wage below the subsistence level in the country. Vice Speaker of the State Duma Lyudmila Shvetsova suggests removing the pension calculator from the websites of the Ministry of Labor and the Pension Fund as soon as possible in order to “not cause confusion.” Meanwhile, Prime Minister Medvedev is calculating his future pension - 70,000 rubles. - and explains: "I have a big salary, so my pension turned out to be good."

"Acid" scandal at the Bolshoi Theater

In January 2013 the tense atmosphere at the Bolshoi Theater turns into an acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet, Sergei Filin. Near the house of the choreographer on Troitskaya Street in Moscow, an unknown person approaches him and splashes acid extracted from a car battery in his face.

Owl undergoes more than 20 operations, but still has poor vision. The investigation and the court consider the soloist of Bolshoy Pavel Dmitrichenko to be the customer of the crime, who is sentenced to 6 years in a strict regime colony. The director of the Bolshoi Theater Anatoly Iksanov in one of his interviews states that the ballet premier Nikolai Tsiskaridze may be involved in the attempt on the choreographer.

Both of them soon lose their jobs at the Bolshoi: first, the theater refuses to renew the contract with the dancer, and then Iksanov is removed from his post amid a corruption scandal. After the director leaves, American ballerina Joy Womack adds fuel to the fire. According to her, they demanded 10 thousand dollars from her for going out in the play, and her colleagues suggested that she find a sponsor so that he could negotiate with the leadership of the Bolshoi about her performances.

Office romance: Serdyukov and Vasilyeva

Throughout the year, the Investigative Committee has been procrastinating the case of Oboronservis, but still brings ex-head of the Ministry of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov under the article. The former official is suspected of negligence, due to which the elite recreation center "Zhitnoye" in the Astrakhan region, owned by his son-in-law Valery Puzikov, was landscaped at the expense of the department.

The key person involved in the case, Yevgenia Vasilyeva, has been under house arrest for many months in a 13-room (according to rumors), and then a 4-room (according to her own admission) apartment in a company with her literary talent and 19 kilograms of jewelry. In November, the investigation charges her: Serdyukov's faithful friend faces up to 12 years in prison.

In an interview with RBC, Vasilyeva says that Serdyukov was an effective minister, but he "had many enemies, like any real reformer." According to her, the investigation tried to extract from her "any defamatory information" about the ex-head of the Ministry of Defense, but she pretended not to understand what it was about.

After the entry into force of the amnesty in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, experts argue whether Serdyukov falls under its effect. Nobody makes any official statements about this. Currently, the ex-minister is under house arrest.

Two months before the initiation of a case against Serdyukov, an event occurs that may have an impact on the fate of the ex-minister: the media report that he returned to his family and asked for forgiveness from his wife. Yulia Pokhlebenina, the daughter of Viktor Zubkov, a prominent member of Putin's team, filed for divorce in the spring of 2012, but it is not known whether the court granted her request. The story of Serdyukov's novels gets a continuation in December: Vasilyeva for the first time openly declares to journalists that she "has a personal relationship with former minister defense."