The Central Bank clears the Banking Polyana from dry and fallen banks, nothing more, so figuratively described by a series of reviews of licenses from Russian banks the first deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia Alexei Simanovsky. The review of licenses is forced solutions in the absence of other options, he said in an interview with ITAR -TASS.

American skaters will perform at the Sochi Olympics in a new sports form, which will allow them to show higher results and, possibly, will give an advantage over rivals from other countries. The overalls are called "MACH-39". The development took two years and tens of millions of dollars. All work was classified, and less than two dozen people had access to them.

“It didn’t all start suddenly. First, after the resignation of the Ministry of Regional Development Govorun and Deputy Prime Minister Surkov, Putin stopped attacking Medvedev’s government. Then he allowed the experiment with Navalny in the Moscow mayoral elections, right up to disavowing the decision of the Kirov Court. Then the competition policy was proclaimed. Roizman was allowed to become mayor. Nemtsov broke into the Yaroslavl Duma. Finally, the first pardon happened even earlier.

The Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko decided to transfer the Birgin’s building on the rifle of the Vasilievsky Island, which is one of the symbols of St. Petersburg, said Governor's spokesman Andrei Kibitov. "The governor made the final decision that it would be placed in the exchange building on the shooter in. Exchange will be transferred to the state Hermitage to create the Museum of the Russian Guard and Heraldry.

The metropolitan investigators opened a criminal case against a man who is suspected of sexual crimes. The attacker attacked the apartments for girls. At the same time, he pretended to be a diabetic who urgently needed sugar. Under the investigation was 47-year-old Stanislav Titov, who was already previously convicted of pedophilia.

On December 26, an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Echo of Moscow radio station was held, at which a new composition of the board of directors of the company was elected. And the question of re -election of the CEO of Echo of Moscow will be considered at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders in February 2014.

Taiwanese authorities found Apple guilty of coordinating retail prices for the iPhone. The American company indicated to local communication operators at what price they should sell mobile devices. The size of the fine is about 663 thousand dollars.

In Ukraine, a new rebellion has matured - this time a journalistic. Representatives of the press, outraged by the beating of colleagues and social activists Tatyana Chornovol, who actively participated in the shares of Euromaidan, will massively protest throughout the country.

The US administration does not comment on reports that President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle allegedly discuss the possibility of a divorce and so far remain together only for their daughters, as well as for political reasons. The press service of the White House was made to understand that by tradition they do not intend to respond to such publications that regularly appear in the American yellow press , ITAR-TASS reports.

The head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov believes that the outgoing year was not good for the ministry, one of his main results was the preparation of the budget strategy until 2030.

The police of Tatarstan detained four men who are accused of kidnapping a person and murder. Two suspects are first -year students of Kazan educational institutions. 19-year-old Vladimir Komissarov, 20-year-old Ivan Tikhonov, 31-year-old Fidail Sibgatullin and 35-year-old Maxim Kulakov were involved in the reprisal of the businessman, reports the official website of the Republican Directorate of the RF IC.

Applications with the requirement to verify the production of the Chekhov MHT "Perfect Husband" were transferred to the Investigative Department of the IC of the Russian Federation for Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

Steve Khojson, the financial director of Scotland Yard, resigned after embarrassment during a speech at a business meeting. In his speech, the Briton without a second thought used the idiomatic expression "Negro in the Polennik", which accidentally caused listeners of the association with racism.

The Russians reacted positively to the decision of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to have mercy on the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Interfax reports with reference to sociologists. Two-thirds of Russians (63%) were informed that the head of state agreed to have mercy on Khodorkovsky, a third of citizens (33%) learned about this during a survey, which the experts of the Levada Center conducted on December 20-24 in 45 regions of the Russian Federation.

The Supreme Council of Transnistria in the first reading approved the bill introducing the effect of Russian federal legislation on the territory of the unrecognized republic. 30 deputies voted for the required minimum of 29 votes. If the document is approved, Russian laws in the PMR will be priority, and its own legislative acts will become "suboffer".