Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country will find other suppliers of gas and oil to replace Russia. Russia, Erdogan said, speaking on the air of one of the local channels, so far has not demonstrated that the crisis in bilateral relations will affect cooperation in the energy sector. Nevertheless, he said, in the current circumstances, Turkey is looking for new suppliers.

The New York Times published a front-page editorial for the first time in 95 years. The column printed in the December 5 issue is titled "Stop the Gun Epidemic in America." The editorial talks about the need to impose restrictions on the free circulation of weapons in the United States. “Certain weapons, such as the slightly modified assault rifles used [for the massacre] in California, as well as certain ammunition, should be out of reach of ordinary citizens,” the column reads.

The Russian Defense Ministry is surprised by statements that the United States does not see how smuggled oil from terrorists goes to Turkey, and considers that this looks like direct patronage of smuggling. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian military department, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

Russia intends to sue Ukraine if Kyiv fails to pay off its $3 billion debt by December 20, according to a statement released by the Russian Finance Ministry.

Photo: Yuri Goldenstein / "Paper" The Australian hairdresser Nasir Sobany arrived in St. Petersburg and took up a haircut of St. Petersburg tramp to draw attention to the problem of homeless people. The publication "Paper" took a picture of eight men who went through the hands of the dog and masters from the network of hairdressers for Chop-Chop hipsters.

The leader of the Night Wolves bike club, Alexander Zaldostanov (Surgeon), said that truckers protesting against the introduction of tolls for heavy vehicles on federal highways should “be patient”. “Perhaps, the introduction of Platon is unfair, but now the country is incurring huge expenses, so it is necessary to be patient and even show heroism,” the Surgeon said on the radio station “Moscow Speaks”.

Andrey Korolev, CEO of Territorial Generating Company N2 (TGK-2), accused of fraud, has been removed from his post. Such a decision, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reported, was taken by one of the district courts of Tver.

Moscow doctors working in the system of compulsory medical insurance (CMI) were suspected of postscripting procedures that were not actually performed on patients. The Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova instructed the federal fund for mandatory medical insurance to verify information on the registration of procedures, said Oleg Salagay, director of the department of public health and communications of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

On the website of one of the largest newspapers in Norway, Aftenposten, a message was published about the death of Santa Claus. An obituary that appeared in the classifieds section said that Santa Claus died on December 3 at the age of 227 in the Nordkapp, Norway's northernmost point. "The farewell will take place on December 28 at 13:00 in the chapel at the North Pole," the obituary said, accompanied by the symbol of the cross.

Photo: NASA / JHUAPL / SWRI The New Horizons prob has sent Pluto's surface photos in the maximum possible resolution. The resolution of the pictures taken during the rapprochement of the probe with the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015 is about 77-85 meters per pixel.

Colombian authorities have announced that they have found a sunken Spanish galleon, which is believed to be carrying gold, silver and emeralds. . conference Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos tweeted about the discovery of the ship, which bore the name "San Jose", promising to tell the details at a special press The ship "San José" sank in 1708 in the Caribbean Sea near the port of Cartagena after a battle with the British fleet.

32 Azerbaijani oil workers died as a result of a fire on an oil platform in the Caspian Sea. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the head of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Oil Workers Mirvari Gakhramanli. According to her, 42 people were evacuated from the burning platform. Officially, the Azerbaijani authorities and the heads of the state company SOCAR, which owns the platform, have not confirmed the information on the death toll.

It is better for Russians to spend the New Year holidays in the country, refusing to travel abroad, says Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor. Holidays in Russia, Popova said, will avoid the risk of infectious diseases, both acute and chronic. For those who decide to go on vacation for the New Year holidays abroad, the head of Rospotrebnadzor recommends taking reasonable precautions to avoid the risk of illness.

The "Islamic State" (in the Russian Federation the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned) announced that its "supporters" staged the massacre in San Bernardino. This statement was made on the air of the ISIS radio station. It does not follow from the statement of the militants that Siad Farouk and Tashfin Malik, who killed 14 people, acted on the orders of ISIS, and the terrorist organization knew about their plans.

The truckers who were dissatisfied with Plato drove up to Moscow. Reporting Ilya Azar Photo: Evgeny Feldamn / "New Gazeta" For the third day, on the approaches to Moscow there are dozens of truckers protesting against Plato - a system for charging a fedal route fee. Fores are parked in Lyubertsy and Khimki; Drivers are waiting for colleagues from Dagestan and are trying to develop a plan for protest actions.