Grain on the elevator. Photo: 134.su Russian grain exporters stopped purchases, "until the situation with the provision of grain and its prices in the domestic market is stabilized." This is stated in the statement of the National Association of Exporters of Agricultural Products signed by its President Sergei Balan.

Fighter "Aydara". Photo from the page of the battalion on Facebook During the day, militants in eastern Ukraine committed nine armed provocations. Five Ukrainian fighters were killed and seven were injured, the National Security and Defense Council information and analytical center reports . Over the past day, in the area of ​​the Donetsk airport, militants fired at the positions of Ukrainian forces from sniper and small arms three times.

Vladimir Putin on the exercises of the Navy. Photo of the Kremlin press service It is necessary to establish the joint work of industry and the armed forces to master new equipment and on its timely commissioning. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense, the Kremlin press service reports .

Alexey Navalny in Zamoskvoretsky District Court. Photo by Andrei Novichkov/Grani.ru On the posts of the parties in the Zamosvoretsky district court of the parties in the "postal case" of the Brothers Navalny, the prosecutor Nadezhda Ignatov, for Alexei Navalny 9 years of general regime, for Oleg Navalny - 8 years of general regime. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces" from the courtroom.

The helicopter carrier of the Mistral class. Photo from the site www.rfi.fr To date, France has no reason for the supply of Russia for helicopter carriers of the Mistral type. According to TASS, this was stated by President of the country Francois Hollande. “I stated this several times: at the moment there is no sufficient progress to, from the point of view of France, there could be a supply,” the head of state said upon the end of the EU summit in Brussels.

Bentley Continental. Photo by Bentley In Moscow, robbers beat the general director of the company for the sale of cars and took 10 million rubles from him, TASS reports with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the incident occurred on Thursday around 22:00 on General Belov Street. The criminals in the Audi car provoked an accident with the Bentley Continental machine owned by the victim.

State Duma. Hard of news The State Duma adopted in the second and final third readings a law that allows the government to allocate to banks up to 10 percent of the funds of the National Welfare Fund for financing infrastructure projects. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". As the agency notes, as of the beginning of December, 10 percent of the FNB funds were equivalent to 394 billion rubles.

Petro Poroshenko. Photo: President.gov.ua President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko submitted a bill on the country's refusal of non-block status to the Verkhovna Rada, the press service of the head of state reports . He defined the bill as urgent for an extraordinary consideration.

State Duma. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The State Duma adopted in the second and third final readings the law on increasing insurance compensation for deposits from 700 thousand to 1.4 million rubles, TASS reports . Corresponding amendments are made to the law "On insurance of deposits of individuals in the banks of the Russian Federation" and the Law "On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation".

Central Bank. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The Central Bank introduced special observers of foreign exchange operations to the fighting operations to combat speculators, Izvestia reports with reference to a number of top managers of large banks. “Representatives of the regulator are observing the currency operations that the bank is conducting.

Denis Pushilin. Photo: @denmakmmm Representatives of the Ukrainian authorities and self -proclaimed "republics" during the video conference could not agree on the date of the new round of negotiations in Minsk. This was stated by the representative of the DPR in negotiations by Denis Pushilin, TASS reports . The agenda of the meeting requires improvement, said Pushilin.

Currency exchange. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The Central Bank does not exclude the introduction of restrictions at the exchange rate points for the establishment by banks of spreads, that is, the difference between the purchase and sale rates, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of the deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia Mikhail Sukhov.

Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: kremlin.ru The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is sure that Vladimir Putin supports his fight against terrorism. Kadyrov made the corresponding statement on his Instagram, commenting on the last press conference of the Russian leader. “The president noted that my statements in connection with the terrorist attack in Grozny fully corresponded to the expectations of people,” Kadyrov wrote.

Alexander Lukashevich. Photo: Mid.ru Russia will not disregard the hostile actions of Washington, the fault for the consequences completely falls on the American side. This is stated in the commentary of the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich in connection with the signing by the US President of the Law on "Support for Liberty of Ukraine". “This text has nothing to do with the task of“ supporting freedom ”in Ukraine or anywhere else.

Ali Nazirov. Photo: fn-volga.ru The judge of the Pugachevsky district court of the Saratov region Boris Smirnov sentenced the 18-year-old native of Chechnya Ali Nazirov by 9 and a half years of the general regime on charges of murder of a demobilized paratrooper Ruslan Marzhanov and the attempted murder of a certain Artem Glushchenko. This was reported on the court website. The total punishment was issued by partial addition of the deadlines appointed by Nazirov for each of the episodes.