John Kerry. Photo of the press service of the State Department of the United States In the coming days, it will be possible to get out of the crisis in Ukraine. According to RIA Novosti, US Secretary of State John Kerry stated this. According to him, he observes constructive steps from Russia. Kerry noted that Washington does not aim to suffer from the sanctions imposed on Russia. "We do not want the Russian people to suffer, this is not our goal.

Igor Sechin. Photo: Government.rf The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, called a provocation rumors about the company's participation in the collapse of the ruble, Interfax reports . He denied the information that the oil company bought a currency for 625 billion rubles received from a record for the Russian market for the release of exchange bonds deposited last week. All plans for Rosneft to attract ruble loans do not provide for the conversion of these rubles into currency, Sechin emphasized.

Dollars. Photo http://www.debteradication.com The public organization "Rossiya Russia" will send an appeal to the Ministry of Economic Development with a request to legitimize the use of conventional units in store price tags, as well as in the execution of state contracts. According to Izvestia, this was announced by the vice president of the organization Alexander Zharkov.

The building of the ECHR. Photo: echr.coe.int A collegium of five judges of the European Court of Human Rights refused Russia to transfer its petition to the Great Chamber to revise the decision in the Yukos case. It is reported by "Kommersant" with reference to sources in the ECHR. According to the Rules of the ECHR, the parties in respect of which one of the chambers was made can be asked to transfer the case for consideration by 17 members of the Grand Chamber of the court.

Svetlana Krivsun Svetlana Krivsun dispatcher, accused in the case of the aircraft disaster in Vnukovo, lost a child due to stress, RIA Novosti reports. “Against the backdrop of a long nervous tension, my client had a miscarriage,” the dispatcher’s lawyer said. Despite this, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the term of home arrest Krivsun until April 23. Now Krivsun is undergoing drug treatment of the house.

Central Bank. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru From Tuesday, the Bank of Russia has increased the key rate from 10.5 percent to 17 percent. This is stated in the message of the regulator. The loans of the Central Bank will be provided at a floating interest rate. "This decision is due to the need to limit the newly increased devaluation and inflation risks that have recently increased," the statement on the Central Bank website said. The decision to increase the rate was made late at night.

Fleet exercises. Frame NTV The Ministry of Defense summed up the results of a comprehensive sudden verification of combat readiness of the troops group in the Kaliningrad region. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of Lieutenant General Andrei Kartapolov. The exercises took place from December 5 to 10.

Special receiver in Simferopol. Photo by L. Volkova/onk-ru.info The Russian government approved a list of diseases, in the presence of which citizens cannot be placed in a special meter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for serving administrative arrest. The document developed by the Ministry of Health is published on the government portal. Disabled people and blind people were released from serving the arrest.

Obama plays a pool. Photo: Pete Souza US President Barack Obama will sign a law that allows him to impose new sanctions against Moscow until the end of this week. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the press secretary of the White House Josh Ernest. On Friday, the US Senate unanimously approved the law on support for freedom in Ukraine , which, in particular, allows Obama to impose new sanctions against Moscow.

Sergey Magnitsky. Photo from the site www.russian-untouchables.com The European Court of Human Rights requested a copy of all the materials of the criminal case against Russia who died in the pre -trial detention center of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergei Magnitsky. This was reported by "Vedomosti". Russia must answer 10 questions of the ECHR.

Alexander Turchinov and Petro Poroshenko at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine 12/16/2014. Photo: President.gov.ua President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appointed secretary of the National Security and Defense of the country of the former speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Alexander Turchinov. The signing of the relevant decree is reported on the website of the head of the Ukrainian state.

Gazprom building. Photo: gazprom.ru The official representative of Gazprom Sergey Kupriyanov denied information about the estimated 25 percent personnel reduction. "Information that plans for reducing numbers are now discussing is not true," RIA Novosti reports the words of Kupriyanov.

Olga Golodets in the Ufa kindergarten. Photo: edufa.ru In Russia, the number of poor will inevitably increase, primarily due to young families with children. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets at the All-Russian seminar-meeting on the development of the social sphere, Interfax reports . "We end a year with 15.7 million poor in the country. But in the context of inflation, their number will grow inevitably, especially among families with children," said Golodets.

At the captured school in Peshavar. Frame Dawn TV channel As a result of the attack of a group of Taliban on a school in the city of Peshavar in Pakistan, 126 people were killed, most of which are children aged 12 to 16 years old, BBC reports . All six terrorists participating in the attack were also killed. On Tuesday morning, a group of six armed Taliban, including suicide bombers, burst into the audience under the control of a military school and opened shooting.

George Matyushkin. Photo: minjust.ru Moscow has legal grounds that allow you to ignore the decision of the ECHR on the payment of compensation to former shareholders in the amount of 1.866 billion euros. According to Interfax, a representative of Russia in the Strasbourg court - deputy head of the Ministry of Justice Georgy Matyushkin stated this. “Speaking back even when this decision was made in the summer, we said that the actions (Russian.