Screenshot: The New York Times The New York Times has prepared an infographic about the 28-month travel of the Curiosity of Mars. The material published a video from the pictures taken “from the eye” of the Mars -Rock for all the time of its stay on the planet. Image: The New York Times Under the video is a timeline combined with a card: you can track what he did and what photos the device was taken from landing in August 2012 to December 2014.

The Central Bank explained how it plans to help banks and other financial institutions survive the crisis. Press releases from the Central Bank are not always easy to understand, so we decided to translate each item into Russian.

The price of a barrel of Brent oil at auction on the ICE exchange in London rose on the evening of December 17 to $62.93 (+4.64% to the opening of the exchange session). At auction in New York, a barrel of WTI rose 3.18% to $57.71 per barrel. Exchange analysts attribute the rise in prices to the actions of traders, pointing out that no fundamental reasons for the rise in oil prices have been recorded. Brent quotes are used to calculate the price of Russian oil grades, including Urals.

Vox - about what the Russian currency crisis threatens the West Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Corbis / All Over Press Russia has been experiencing the largest ruble devaluation since 1998 - since the beginning of the year, the Russian currency has doubled in price in relation to the euro.

US President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro on December 17 made statements about the beginning of the process of normalizing bilateral relations. Obama and Castro's addresses were aired on American and Cuban television, respectively, at the same time. Obama said that a number of steps will be taken soon to restore bilateral trade and financial relations, and the necessary steps will be taken to resume full-fledged diplomatic ties.

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Michael Garcia, who was investigating the circumstances of the granting of rights to Russia and Qatar to host the World Cup, has resigned from his post as head of the investigative chamber of the FIFA ethics committee.

The Kushchevsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory found Nadezhda Tsapok guilty of fraud and sentenced her to imprisonment for a term of 6 years and 6 months, taking into account part of the term of imprisonment not served in another case, as well as a fine of 500 thousand rubles. Tsapok's accomplice, a lawyer for the Artex-Agro company she heads, Ekaterina Stukalo, received 3 years in prison, until her child reaches the age of 14, the department said.

The Bank of Russia announced that commercial financial institutions may temporarily fail to comply with certain standards. Thus, the Central Bank supported banks in the face of a sharp devaluation of the ruble. One of the regulations - limiting the full cost of consumer loans - was supposed to come into force on January 1, 2015, but has now been postponed until July 1, 2015.

The head of AFK Sistema Vladimir Yevtushenkov has been released from house arrest. This was announced on December 17 by his lawyer Vladimir Kozin. According to him, no other preventive measure was applied to Yevtushenkov. Yevtushenkov was detained on September 16 as part of an investigation into the Bashneft case and placed under house arrest. On November 14, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended Yevtushenkov's house arrest until March 16, 2015.

According to the results of the trading session, on December 17, the dollar index of RTS grew by 14.16%, reaching the value of 718.26 points. At the same time, the Ruble MICEX index continued to decrease, falling by 2.11% to the mark of 1413.79 points. The dollar and the euro also continued to decline.

Shot: Evening Urgant / YouTube November and December 2014 turned out to be especially difficult for the Russian economy: the fall of the ruble and the cost of oil no longer seemed to be far away, unable to influence the life of “ordinary Russians”. It is not surprising that they also spoke about the crisis in humorous television programs, which usually try to do without a socio-political agenda. "Medusa" decided to find out what "crisis" jokes offers television to Russian viewers.

Personal experience: how Belarusians survived their currency crisis Photo: Alexander Saenko / Photoxpress In less than a year, the dollar and euros in Russia has doubled in less than a year, the fall of the ruble has already turned out to be much more serious than during the 2008 crisis, and has not yet slowed down. The active actions of the Central Bank, which increased the key rate to 17%, do not help the ruble and the active actions of the Central Bank.

The US and Cuba will begin talks on the full restoration of diplomatic relations, including the reopening of embassies. US President Barack Obama is expected to make a statement on relations with Cuba at 20:00 Moscow time. At the same time, Cuban leader Raul Castro will address the nation with a statement on relations with the United States. On December 17, Cuban authorities released American citizen Alan Gross, who had been imprisoned for about five years.

The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading amendments on the entry into force of the law on the storage of personal data of Russians processed on the Internet on servers in Russia from September 1, 2015. It was originally planned that the law would come into force on September 1, 2016, but in September 2014 a group of deputies from all factions submitted a bill to the State Duma to postpone this deadline to January 2015.