Context 746 1 min. ... The Dzerzhinsk court changed the preventive measure for Deputy General Director of PKP AKBS LLC Anastasia Gudym. According to lawyer Andrei Guzev, her detention was replaced with house arrest with the right to take her child to school and to doctors. Let us remind you that Anastasia Gudym, along with three other managers of the AKBS arms company, is accused in a case of illegal arms trafficking.

Russian diplomats suspected of fraud and illegally obtaining medical benefits in the United States can defend their position in court or return to Russia, US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said on Wednesday. “All diplomats, of course, have immunity. Therefore, they have the opportunity to make a decision: either fight against this, that is, defend their point of view in court if they do not agree with the accusation, or return home,” RIA Novosti quotes Mr. McFaul.

The CSKA Moscow players failed to qualify for the Europa League, losing to the Czech “Victoria” in the last match of the group stage of the Champions League and finishing fourth in the quartet, RIA Novosti reported on December 11. The meeting of the final, 6th round of Group D “Victoria” - CSKA took place on December 10 in Pilsen and ended with a score of 2:1 in favor of the Czech club.

In Kyiv, unknown persons reported that Boryspil International Airport, Zhulyany Airport and the city's Central Railway Station were mined. As Interfax reports, citing the police press service, the message was received on Wednesday afternoon. Emergency services are on site. One of the passengers told the agency that passengers at Terminal B of Boryspil Airport, which accepts charter flights, were asked to urgently leave the premises due to an emergency.

investments After a major project to organize railway communication in Sochi for the Olympics, next year Russian Railways will begin even larger-scale construction - increasing the capacity of the Eastern training ground. The modernization of the BAM and Trans-Siberian Railway, estimated at 560 billion rubles, should increase the carrying capacity of these two highways by 55 million tons by 2018. However, forecasts of the potential cargo base say that this will not be enough.

The Kremlin will coordinate national policy The Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Interethnic Relations of the Ministry of Regional Development has been “increased and strengthened with personnel,” but “it will not become a member of the Ministry of Nationalities,” the head of the department, Igor Slyunyaev, said yesterday.

The Tver Regional Court on Wednesday will consider a complaint against the sentence of rural teacher Ilya Farber. His son Peter is not allowed to attend the meeting. “Today is the first time! I'm not allowed into the courthouse! Everyone is waiting for the start of the performance, talking peacefully in the corridor, discussing the program of today's comedy and its results. Everything is as usual.

The manufacturer led Russian smartphone sales Second-tier smartphone manufacturers continue to squeeze the leaders, according to Euroset data. In November, two Fly models - IQ238 Jazz and IQ4404 Spark - became the best-selling in the Russian cellular retail market, allowing the British company to enter the top 3 vendors in smartphone sales for the first time.

Context According to Kommersant's information, the general director of the international news agency Rossiya Segodnya, Dmitry Kiselev, met yesterday with the editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti, Svetlana Mironyuk, and the head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, Mikhail Seslavinsky. Mr. Seslavinsky’s department declined to comment. The press service of RIA Novosti confirmed that the meeting took place and the transition period of the agency’s work was discussed.

The buildings of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the center of Tomsk are becoming the property of the regional administration, said Oleg Pravdin, chairman of the committee on budget, economics and property, at the next meeting of the city duma. “As far as I know, the Ministry of Defense buildings on the street. Nikitin are still being transferred to the ownership of the region,” he said. Mr. Pravdin noted that the transfer procedure has already begun.

The police detained Dmitry Taskaev, vice-rector for infrastructure development of the Northern Arctic Federal University (NAFU), while receiving a bribe of 1.5 million rubles, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the SUSK for the region. “Taskayev is suspected of receiving a bribe of 1.5 million rubles; he was detained while transferring the money,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

What will happen to the Exchange building on the spit of Vasilyevsky Island is still unclear today. Will it become one of the next irreparable losses, will it be preserved for posterity, after everything that happened to it? Since 1939, the Exchange building, reminiscent of an ancient Greek temple, has housed the Central Naval Museum, transferred here from the Admiralty, where exhibits have been stored since the time of Peter the Great.

The Khabarovsk Territory faces a three-year budget deficit and rising debts The Legislative Duma of the Khabarovsk Territory considered the law on the regional budget for 2014-2016 in its final reading. The document provides for an annual deficit of at least 7.3% of income, a steady increase in lending and the volume of domestic debt. The opposition saw in this signs of the inevitable “bankruptcy of the region,” but was unable to disrupt the adoption of the document.

Inflation in Kalmykia in November amounted to 1% The consumer price index in Kalmykia in November amounted to 101%, since the beginning of 2013 - 107.5%, Kalmykiastat reports. Including food products (including alcoholic beverages) in November compared to October increased in price by 1.1%, since the beginning of the year - by 6.6%. Interfax-South

The governors of three regions of the Ural Federal District - Natalya Komarova (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug), Dmitry Kobylkin (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) and Vladimir Yakushev (Tyumen Region) discussed cooperation in the field of ecology, conservation and enhancement of biological resources of the Ob-Irtysh fishery region. As a result, an agreement was signed between the regions.