Finnish company Sanoma has sold its Russian assets, Vedomosti reports, citing Sergey Azatyan, head of the InVenture Partners fund, who headed the investor pool. Sanoma sold its stake in Hearst Independent Media Publishing, which owns Fashion Press, the publisher of Russian versions of Cosmopolitan, Esquire and other magazines. The company also sold 100 percent of the shares of Mandadori IM LLC, which publishes Grazia magazine in Russia.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation proposed introducing an article “Smuggling of light industry goods” into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The text of the bill is posted on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts. For smuggling committed by an organized group, the Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes imprisonment for a term of seven to 12 years, as well as a fine of up to two million rubles.

A fire broke out in the Savelovsky shopping center in Moscow. The fire broke out in one of the pavilions on the first floor of the building. Firefighters arrived at the scene and extinguished the fire. There is no information about the victims. An emergency services source also told the agency that three people were rescued from the upper floors. “Currently, the premises are being checked,” the source said. Moscow Agency

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin was stripped of his post as deputy head of the World Russian People's Council (VRNS). The corresponding resolution was adopted at a meeting of the Presidium of the VRNS dedicated to the results of 2015.

As a result of airstrikes carried out by an international coalition in Syria and Iraq, ten leaders of the Islamic State (the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia) were killed . This was stated by the representative of the US Armed Forces Steve Warren. According to Warren, among the dead are Abdul Qader Hakim and Sharaf al-Muadan, allegedly involved in organizing the November 13 attacks in Paris.

Frame: "Belarusian Svaboda" / YouTube The Belarusian service "Radio Liberty" was able to capture the local Santa Claus without a beard. And it turned out that the double of Alexander Lukashenko was hiding under the mask of a fairy -tale hero. Belarusian Svaboda Dzed Maroz Padoma on Lucashian / under the mask of Santa Claus - Lukashenko? We are talking about Santa Claus on the "Stalin Line"-the historical and cultural complex near Minsk.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law that will allow the country's government to impose economic sanctions against Russia. On December 24, the relevant law was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada. The document was submitted by the government of the country. It allows “in case of discriminatory or unfriendly actions on the part of a state recognized by the Verkhovna Rada as an aggressor country”, to introduce additional retaliatory measures.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on increasing the cost of providing privileged categories of citizens with free medicines. The “financial cost standard” in 2016 will be increased from 707 to 758 rubles per person per month. The head of the Association of Manufacturers of Pharmaceutical Products and Medical Devices, Sergei Kolesnikov , told RIA Novosti that in 2015, medicines in Russia rose in price by 17-50 percent. According to Kolesnikov, prices will continue to rise in 2016.

RBC analyzed the secret agreement of the state with the company Igor Rotenberg Photo: Mikhail Japaridze / TASS / Scanpix Since November 15, the Plato system has been working in Russia through which a federal route is charged from heavy trucks. The introduction of this system led to massive protests by truckers; Not only because this is additional expenses, but also because the Plato operator is half belongs to Igor Rotenberg.

During the restoration of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Pereslavl-Zalessian, archaeologists and epigraphists discovered several wall inscriptions, including the inscription of the 12th century, which refers to the murder of Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky in 1174. The names of his killers are also listed there - and not all of them were known earlier. This inscription is the oldest dated written monument of North-Eastern Rus'.

Gazprom canceled the tender for the construction of sections of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline with a total length of 822 kilometers. This tender was supposed to be the largest in the history of the company, its amount reached 156 billion rubles. The reason for the cancellation of the competition "Gazprom" did not name. The tender for the construction of 822 kilometers of the "Power of Siberia" became known at the end of November.

Lawyers of the Roskomsvoboda organization, on behalf of seven thousand users of the RuTracker torrent tracker, filed a complaint about the eternal blocking of the resource. The complaint (if the court accepts it) will be considered after the New Year. The complaint will become a further basis for applying to the Constitutional Court for compliance with the provisions of the “anti-piracy” legal act of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

The best reporting frames of 2015 Photo: Hedayatullah amid / epa / leta The photo editors "Medusa" chose the best shots of 2015. Photo: ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU / EPA / Leta July 13, 2015 A street musician near the crisis of stores in Athens closed due to the crisis. Due to economic difficulties, Greece was on the verge of leaving the Eurozone. Photo: TVBS / Zuma / Vida Press February 4, 2015 The fall of the aircraft of the Transasia airline in Taibe. As a result of the crash, 39 people died.

An aide to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Nikita Anisimov, denied reports that Rogozin accidentally wounded himself in the leg while shooting at a shooting range. According to Anisimov, the Deputy Prime Minister was injured during handball training, after which he spent several days on sick leave. “Dmitry Olegovich is at work, today he held a meeting on the Vostochny cosmodrome,” Anisimov said.

"Carnegies" on "Medusa". Alexander Gabuev - on the results of the Asian policy of Russia in 2015 Photo: Rao Aimin / Xinhua Press / Corbis / Vida Press Medusa continues a joint project with the Moscow Center of Carnegie . In the next material, journalist Alexander Gabuev sums up the results of the Russian “turn to the east”, declared after the annexation of Crimea and the introduction of Western sanctions.