Russian singer Oleg Gazmanov may become an all -around Lithuania: in the Baltic Republic, they are outraged that the artist on December 12, on the Day of the Constitution of the Russian Federation at a concert in the Kremlin, performed the song "Made in the USSR". In Vilnius, they saw in this shameful provocation and political propaganda.

In the Stavropol Territory, a sentence was sentenced to a 28-year-old native of Dagestan, who is found guilty of sexual violence against a representative of the Cossacks. The motive for reprisals was unfulfilled debt obligations. By a court decision, the accused Magomedshapi Gadzhiev will spend three years behind bars. He will serve his sentence in a penal colony of general regime, the official website of the regional administration of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

The Hollywood actor and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Las Vegas on the National final of Rodeo, where he conquered fans of horses with his children's enthusiasm and ease. Each year, the Professional Association of the Cowboy Rodeo completes the annual program of almost 700 competitions by the National final of Rodeo in Las Vegas.

Monitoring the effectiveness of universities in Russia, conducted by the Ministry of Education and Science, together with Rosobrnadzor, ended - according to the results of the study, 373 university were recognized as ineffective. The work of 45 universities and branches decided to "optimize". Minister of Education Dmitry Livanov said that only seven state universities were among the ineffective.

Assistant Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, ex-head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko, as last year , made a New Year's appeal to compatriots. And as before, he called on Russians to be patriots: do not leave for hot countries for the New Year holidays. “You should not go to the sea. Stresses associated with a sharp change in climate in the middle of winter are not needed. This is a serious test even for a almost healthy person,” Onishchenko quotes Interfax quoted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin for the anniversary time spoke the day before with the message of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, which turned out to be a few minutes shorter than last year’s address of the Russian leader to both chambers of parliament. The reaction of officials to the performance of the head of state followed immediately (read the footnotes PS in the material Newsru.com).

The Russian male team won 4x7.5 km in the third stage of the Biathlon World Cup in French Ansi, the press service of the SBR reports. The Russians consisted of Ivan Cherezov, Alexander Loginov, Evgenia Garanichev and Anton Shipulin overcame the distance in 1 hour 14 minutes 1.8 seconds, allowing five misses on fire lines. The second place was taken by the Germans (5 mistakes, +0.3 seconds). The Austrians closed the top three (7 misses, +26.8).

Moscow traffic jams again became ten -point, according to the Yandex.prokka service. Even the deputies complain about the situation: the Communist Anatoly Lokot, as it turned out, is late on Friday evening for an important plane, and wanted to take a service car because he was afraid not to be in time. But he faced an unexpected problem.

A park of popular unity and consent will appear in the Russian capital. The presentation of this project of the inter-religious council of Russia took place at his meeting in the Public Chamber, the Interfax-religion portal in the press service of the Council said on Friday.

Cell operators ensured the full coverage of the five federal routes in the framework of the program to increase road safety and to implement the ERA-GLONASS system, the Ministry of Communications said . The work on ensuring mobile communications was carried out on federal roads M5 Ural, M6 Caspius, M53, M55 Baikal and M60 Ussuri. These vehicles pass through 20 regions of Russia from Moscow to Vladivostok, forming the transport corridors of North-South and West-East.

With the support of the Russian Geographical Society, the Airpano photo project will publish on December 16 a virtual tour of the 107 spherical panoramas of Moscow, removed from a bird's eye view. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the project. "Spherical panoramas differ from ordinary photographs in that the viewer himself can turn the image in any direction, change the viewing angle, bring closer and remote separate areas of the panorama.

Investigators of the Primorsky Territory opened a criminal case on the murder of a minor young man in the village of Artemovsky. The body of a 17-year-old teenager with a penetrating wound in the chest area was found on December 12, 2013 in the area of ​​a local culture house located on Dneproevskaya Street, the official website of the regional administration of the IC of the Russian Federation reports. “Despite the resuscitation actions of the doctors, the guy died,” the press release says.

In the capital of Iraq, they are looking for prisoners who made a mass escape from the investigative insulator. Several dozen people were at large, who are also suspected of terrorist activities. Some of them managed to find in hot pursuit. On Friday morning, a group of prisoners of the Baghdad prison Al-Adela stole at the police weapons, after which the criminals shot two law enforcement officers and broke free, AP reports.

The future of the Moscow hockey club Spartak, which has lost the General Sponsor on Friday, will become clear after the meeting of the board of directors and the meeting with the leadership of the Continental Hockey League (KHL). The club has no other sources of financing. On December 13, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation announced the recall of the license at the Investbank , which has since 2009, which has been the General Sparsor of Spartak.

Deputy Minister of Labor Andrei Pudov, speaking at a round table in Moscow, said that pension savings are not the property of citizens and talk about their possible inheritance incorrectly. “There is an illusion that the funds of pension savings are funds themselves. These are funds that the employer pays,” he said, noting that the deductions made by citizens themselves voluntarily (which are certainly their property) and the deductions that the employer for a citizen produces.