AeroSvit airline has resolved the issue of payment for services at Boryspil airport, said Sergei Kutsy, assistant general director of the airline for public relations. At the same time, Boryspil Airport reported on its Facebook page that it had received a message from AeroSvit about partial prepayment for services for the next days. The airport is currently awaiting a letter of guarantee for the entire amount that the airline must transfer to the airport under the contract for weekend services.

Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform whose explosion in 2010 led to the worst environmental disaster in US history, has agreed to pay US authorities $1.4 billion. Transocean pleaded guilty to criminal and civil charges. Of the total amount to be paid by Transocean, $400 million will be used to pay off fines in the criminal case and $1 billion in the civil case. An environmental disaster off the coast of the United States occurred on April 20, 2010.

The Russian men's team won the relay race at the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof, Germany, RIA Novosti reports. On January 4, the Russian team consisting of Alexey Volkov, Evgeny Garanichev, Anton Shipulin and Dmitry Malyshko showed a result of 1 hour 20 minutes 35.2 seconds. The second place was taken by the Norwegian team (+8.4). The top three winners were completed by the German team (+39.3).

Egyptian security services have discovered a warehouse containing several surface-to-air missiles and anti-tank shells in the northern Sinai Peninsula near the border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the Security Directorate of Egypt's North Sinai province said.

The legend of the American film industry George Lucas and his girlfriend, 43-year-old owner of an investment company Mellody Hobson, announced their engagement, RIA Novosti reports. This is the second marriage for the 68-year-old director. From his previous union with editor Marcia Louis Griffin, he has three children: Amanda, Katie and Jett.

The share price index at trading on the PFTS stock exchange increased by 1.25 points, or 0.38%, to 331.95 points. The trading volume for the day amounted to UAH 38.612 million. Since the beginning of the year, the PFTS index has increased by 3.26 points, or 0.99% from 328.69 points. Based on materials from the Ukrainian News Agency

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Crimea entered into a memorandum of cooperation with the Crimea-Dairy company on the restoration of the activities of the state enterprise "State Farm-Plant named after May 1". As reported in the main information department of the Council of Ministers of Crimea, the total investment will be $16.9 million.

The goalkeeper of the Spanish national team and Real Madrid, Iker Casillas, was recognized as the best goalkeeper in the world for the 5th time in a row according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). “The winner of the 25th annual vote for the title of the best goalkeeper in the world, conducted by the IFFHS, for the 5th time in a row was the Spaniard Iker Casillas.

French actress Brigitte Bardot has threatened to follow the example of Gerard Depardieu and change her French citizenship to Russian citizenship if two sick elephants from the Lyon Zoo are euthanized, AFP reports. Ms. Bardot, a prominent animal rights activist, is pressing the city to intervene to prevent the euthanization of elephants suffering from tuberculosis and posing a threat to other zoo residents.

Fire in the annex to the State Academic Central Puppet Theater named after S.V. Obraztsova fire in Moscow was extinguished, there were no casualties, a representative of the capital’s State Emergency Management Directorate told RIA Novosti . As previously reported, the fire broke out at about 17.25 in the basement of a three-story extension adjacent to the five-story theater building, people were evacuated.

Lawyers for the main defendants in the case of explosions in Ukrainian cities in 2011-2012 told Kommersant about their vision of the high-profile case Next week, the Industrial District Court of Dnepropetrovsk will continue to consider the case of explosions in Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and Zaporozhye in 2011-2012. The next court hearing is scheduled for January 9.

Boryspil International Airport, due to violation of financial discipline by the AeroSvit airline, is suspending service to the air carrier's flights, starting with flight VV 257 Kyiv - Copenhagen at 12.50 on January 4, the airport reported on its page on the social network Facebook.

Residents and guests of Moscow, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod and a dozen other cities in Russia and Ukraine can now get acquainted with the technology of “augmented reality” using a useful example. A new tour app overlays historical photos onto camera images, allowing you to see what the city was like a hundred years ago and visually compare it to the current situation.

In Kyiv, an anonymous person reported that the central office of the Kyivstar mobile communications company had been mined. According to the capital's police headquarters, today at about 12.30 a message was received via special line 102 from an unknown citizen about the company's central office being mined. However, he indicated the wrong address: Demievskaya Street.

Switzerland's oldest private bank, Wegelin and Co, will close after a number of American clients used it to evade taxes. The bank will pay the US government $57 million. Representatives of Wegelin admitted in court in New York that they knew about the secret accounts of American citizens hiding from tax audits. US Department of Justice officials responded by saying that finding defaulters and those who condone them is a priority for the department. Wegelin & Co bank was founded in 1741 in St.