How Demyan Kudryavtsev came to own the country's best-respected newspaper Photo: Alexandra Mudrats / TASS By the end of 2015, Russia’s main business newspaper, Vedomosti , will finally pass to a single owner: Demyan Kudryavtsev. All of the publication’s foreign co-founders—Sanoma Magazines, Financial Time Group, and Dow Jones—have sold him their shares. He has pledged to develop the daily newspaper using his own resources.

The column of truckers, stopped by the traffic police near the Moscow Ring Road, at the request of the police turned around and headed to their camp on the 91st kilometer of the Kashirskoye Highway. According to RBC, a police car is driving ahead of the convoy. The police detained two representatives of truckers, including the camp coordinator on the Kashirskoye Highway, Alexei Ulyanov. They were later released, said .

A convoy of trucks was stopped on the Don highway. The police are demanding that truckers leave, threatening to make arrests and evacuate their vehicles. Cars are blocked 500 meters from the Moscow Ring Road. There are 20 police cars, a riot police bus and two tow trucks on site, Dozhd reports, citing truck driver coordinator Alexei Ulyanov. Ulyanov himself was detained by the police, reported Open Russia correspondent Ilya Vasyunin.

The police detained seven participants in a meeting with deputies of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which was dedicated to the introduction of paid parking in Moscow. The detainees were taken to the Tverskoy police station. According to OVD-Info, they are going to be left in the department until the morning. One of the detainees, a disabled person of the second group, was released from the police. The names of all those detained are unknown.

Armed formations of the Syrian opposition are helping the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Russian military in the fight against the "Islamic State" (the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia) . This was stated by the head of the main operational department of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces Sergei Rudskoy.

Photo: Graça Castanho page on Facebook President of Portugal Grace Castanho stopped participating in the election race due to a storm that fell on the island of San Migel on which she lives. The storm destroyed a significant part of the signatures collected in its support. As the politician said to register her candidacy, she needed to provide eight thousand signatures. And she managed to collect them.

Frame: gasturbine101 / youtube Since December 21, in the USA, all drone owners will be required to register their devices in a special database. For violation of this order, a criminal punishment is provided - it will be possible to go to prison for three years or receive a fine of $ 27 thousand. "Medusa" recalls seven unusual drones that have already ceased to be toys (and whose owners may not be easy in the USA).

The manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19M has docked with the International Space Station. The docking took place in manual mode due to problems with the Kurs system . The broadcast was hosted by NASA's official website. The Soyuz includes Russian Yuri Malenchenko, American Timothy Kopra and European astronaut Timothy Pick. For Malenchenko, this flight is already the sixth, Kopra has been in orbit once before, for Peak, the expedition was the first.

From Putin to Trump: an overview of threats to international stability from Bloomberg Photo: Rex features / Vida Press The publication Bloomberg News asked several dozen experts - current and former diplomats, economists, analysts and consultants in the field of finance, geopolitics - to evaluate threats of international stability and on the basis of this to compose ten worst scenarios that the world may encounter in 2016.

The scientific vessel Akademik Nikolai Strakhov, stuck in Sri Lanka, finally set off for Kaliningrad. Crew member Alexei Filimonov told Meduza that on December 15, around 7:00 pm Moscow time, it left the shipyard in Colombo. According to him, "Academician Nikolai Strakhov" will follow through the Suez Canal. The journey will take approximately 30 days.

Daniil Turovsky - about the new episode of "Star Wars" (without spoilers) Frame: lucasfilm / walt disney On Thursday, December 17, in cinemas, Star Wars will be released around the world. Awakening of power.

On Pushkin Square, police officers pushed back some of the participants in the meeting with the deputies of the Communist Party. The live broadcast is conducted by photographer Philip Kireev. The meeting is dedicated to the introduction of paid parking in Moscow. The area was cordoned off by the police. Those who were behind the cordon were pushed back because, according to the police, they blocked the sidewalk.

In the Arkhangelsk region, a cruise missile hit a residential building during a test. According to News29, the rocket hit house number 9 on Borovaya Street in the military town. As a result, the house caught fire, but no one was hurt. The Ministry of Defense officially announced that the rocket fell near the village of Nenoksa. However, the department does not say that she got into the house.

Screencap: Omsk DTP / YouTube A woman living in Omsk has become a local celebrity for acting where officials have failed, repairing potholes throughout the city. In doing so, Veronika Bobrus has earned the rebuke of the mayor's office, which accuses her of behaving irresponsibly, meddling in work that should be done by professionals, it says.

Joint project "Medusa" and Borjomi Shot: RIA Novosti / Scanpix January 1-for someone is difficult, and for someone a day who has completely fallen from life due to a festive night with a generous feast and toasts until the morning. Borjomi - mineral water with a unique composition that returns the taste of life in the morning, cleansing the body, and allows January 1 to happen. Who knows, maybe this is exactly what you will happen that you will remember with warmth for more than one year.