After a two-day state visit to Kazakhstan, French President Francois Hollande traveled to Moscow to discuss the Ukrainian crisis with Vladimir Putin. The heads of the two states will meet at 16:30 Moscow time at Vnukovo airport. The decision to meet was made by Francois Hollande a few hours before leaving Kazakhstan. RFI special correspondent in Kazakhstan Anisa al-Jabri reports that the proposal for a meeting with the Russian president is an initiative of the French side.

British singer PJ Harvey will release a book of poetry. The Hollow Of The Hand collection will include works written during Harvey's trip to Kosovo and Afghanistan. Details from Anna Akimova and Liliya Ponomareva. Photo: Alexey Kudenko, Kommersant / buy photo PJ Harvey became famous in the UK with the release of her debut album Dry in 1992.

The Russian driver of the Formula 1 world championship team, Toro Rosso, Daniil Kvyat, was recognized as the best newcomer of the year according to the International Automobile Federation. The FIA ​​press service reported this on December 6. The award ceremony took place at the FIA ​​gala evening in Doha, Qatar, TASS reports.

Law enforcement agencies of the Dnepropetrovsk region opened a criminal case into the destruction of the monument to Vladimir Lenin in the city of Novomoskovsk, RIA Novosti reported on December 6 with reference to the Ukrainian TV channel 24. According to the police, today around noon about 70 people came to the monument. Those gathered attached the monument with a cable to a car and knocked it off the pedestal, and then smashed it.

The plane detained in Nigeria does not belong to Russia, and the crew is also not Russian. A TASS correspondent was informed about this on December 6 at the Russian Embassy in Nigeria. “The plane detained in Nigeria, which the media wrote about earlier today, does not belong to Russia, and the crew is also not Russian,” said the embassy representative.

Every $1 billion invested added one ruble to the dollar exchange rate 17K 3 min. ... After a three-week break, the Central Bank resumed the practice of foreign exchange interventions, selling about $3.6 billion in the first week of December. However, these actions were not enough to stop the depreciation of the ruble - during the week, foreign currencies rose in price by more than 3.4 rubles.

Negotiations between the presidents of Russia and France at Vnukovo-2 airport lasted about two hours, TASS reported on December 6. Vladimir Putin was pleased with the meeting and called it constructive. The heads of state discussed the situation in Syria, the Iranian nuclear program and the Ukrainian crisis. The parties expressed hope that France and Russia will find a way out of the critical situation.

Oil and gas companies operating on the Sakhalin shelf have not yet experienced significant difficulties due to sanctions and drops in oil prices, Plenipotentiary Representative to the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev told reporters in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on December 6. He said that he held a meeting with the regional government and oil and gas companies, where these issues were discussed, among other things.

Officials are seeking lawyers to pursue the case at London's High Court The government of the Samara region intends to continue the trial in 2015 in the High Court of London to recover from the heirs of Boris Berezovsky 989.4 million rubles, which the deceased owed while working at LogoVAZ.

How will Germany's relations with Russia and the United States develop? The head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladislav Belov, and MGIMO associate professor, political scientist Mikhail Troitsky talked with Kommersant FM hosts Mikhail Taratuta and Maxim Mitchenkov about Germany’s relations with Russia and the United States and about the future of the country in the international arena.

His message on December 4 broke all records for television ratings The President's Address to the Federal Assembly this year attracted a record number of viewers on television. According to preliminary data from TNS Russia, the broadcast on three channels was collectively watched by more than half of the Moscow television audience over 18 years of age.

Two members of the murdered on Nagatinskaya street. in Moscow, families worked at the Botkin hospital. As a law enforcement source told Interfax on December 6, she was found dead on December 5 on Nagatinskaya Street. The 52-year-old woman was an accountant at the State Clinical Hospital named after. Botkin, her 28-year-old son worked as a nurse in the same hospital. In addition, the bodies of the woman’s 50-year-old husband and a 76-year-old pensioner were found in the apartment.

Context Today, the section of the Sokolnicheskaya metro line from the University to Yugo-Zapadnaya station will be closed throughout the day to connect the new Troparevo station. Free compensatory “M” buses will be launched between stations, for which the traffic organization in the area will be temporarily changed. In particular, the backup of Vernadsky Avenue in the section from Stroiteley Street to Lomonosovsky Avenue will be open only for public transport.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he did not discuss the delivery of the Mistral with the French President, TASS reports on December 6. Putin noted that Russia proceeds from the fact that the contract will be fulfilled. “We proceed from the fact that the contract will be fulfilled,” the Russian President noted. He also expressed the hope that France would otherwise return the money already paid to it.

The sister of US citizen Luke Somers, captured by terrorists in Yemen, reported his death during a rescue operation, AP reports on December 6.