The Soyuz-2.1B launch vehicle with the Frigate acceleration unit and the new generation of Glonass-K will be launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk Region) on Monday night. New satellites must significantly increase the accuracy of the positioning of the GLONASS system. The Start of the Soyuz-2.1B missiles is scheduled for 00:52 Moscow time Monday. On Friday, the rocket with the Glonass-K satellite is installed at the starting complex of the site 43.

In the unit near Pskov, the paratrooper killed his colleague and wounded two more. According to the local "Pskov Information Agency" , the emergency occurred in the 104th regiment of the 76th Airborne Forces division in the petiole. There is no official information about the incident. Pai, citing several sources in the unit, claims that the murder occurred on November 29.

The American boxer Elliot Seymour, whom the 62-year-old actor Mickey Rourke sent a knock on the Moscow ring, turned out to be a homeless vagabond. According to the Daily Mail , this man has been living on the street for a year and a half and often sleeps in parks. Recall that last Friday to the GCZ "Russia" RURK, who returned to a professional ring after 20 years, defeated his 29-year-old rival in the second round.

Former Bolshoi Prime Minister Nikolai Tsiskaridze was elected to the post of rector of the Vaganovsky school on Saturday, RIA Novosti reports. Previously, Tsiscaridze certified and recommended for the election the commission of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, urged Russians not to use American smartphones and social networks and replace them with domestic analogues. He published a post about this in his account on the American social network Instagram . “I'm starting to use Yotaphone! I am proud of our developers!” The head of Chechnya wrote.

The State Council of Tatarstan introduced a bill to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, which is offered not to transfer a day off on Monday, if the holiday falls on Saturday or Sunday, writes the Russian Newspaper .

Moldova chooses a new parliament on Sunday, polling stations opened at 8:00 Moscow time. And they will work until 22:00 Moscow time. 101 deputies will be elected for a five -year term, 21 political party, one electoral bloc, and four independent candidates claim to the parliament.

The Kamazov columns of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia were delivered to Lugansk and Donetsk by the next batch of humanitarian aid, Oleg Voronov, deputy head of the National Center for Management in the Crisis Situations of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia. On the eve of Interfax and RIA Novosti , it was announced that the current - the eighth - Gumkkonta will be the first to check the Ukrainian border guards.

In Kazakhstan, there was an explosion of a gas cylinder in a residential building: seven people died, eight more were injured, reported by the Department of Emergencies of the Almaty Region. The incident occurred in Taldykorgan on the night of Sunday. The explosion thundered in an apartment two -story residential building, Interfax reports. "When conducting emergency rescue operations, employees of the traffic police of the Almaty region discovered seven dead and eight victims.

Deliveries from Iran under the program "Oil in exchange for goods" will begin in the near future, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia Alexei Ulyukaev told reporters during a visit to Tehran. Lists are "coordinated", we are talking about the supply of grain and a wide range of non -resource goods.

The Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation agreed on the privatization of the 19.5% of the Rosneft State Conference, the agencies of RIA Novosti and TASS say, citing its sources. Formally agreed the alienation of 19.5% of Rosneft shares in Rosneftegaz for subsequent privatization, and the decree has yet to be signed by the Prime Minister Medvedev. According to RIA, the privatization price should not be lower than the 2006 IPO, that is, $ 7.55 per share.

The relevant committee of the State Duma on labor, social policy and the affairs of veterans said that they would not support the bill on reducing the number of holidays at the expense of the weekend proposed by the State Council of Tatarstan. The parliamentarians of Tatarstan were offered not to transfer the holidays on Monday, which fell on Saturday or Sunday. They argue the need for amendments by the fact that long holidays reduce labor productivity and destabilize the work of enterprises.

In Hong Kong, early morning on Monday (Sunday evening of Moscow time), OCCUPY CENTRAL activists were sharply activated: hundreds of people in helmets and protective masks from the camp in the Admiralti area moved to the police cordons in an attempt to break through to administrative buildings, reports South China Morning Post . And in total, the "mobilization" protest rally has collected thousands of protesters. There are victims and detainees.

The former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi opposed a single European currency, suggesting Italy to return his own, which could be in circulation in parallel with the European one. At the initiative of the Berlusconi Party “Forward, Italy” in Rome and Milan the night before the protest against the policy of the government of Matteo Renzi, the night before.

The meeting of the Jerusalem District Court in the case of the extradition of the priest Gleb Gromovsky, accused of pedophilia , was postponed to Russia on December 29 at the request of protection. This was announced by TASS by a representative of the State Prosecutor General’s Office of Israel. Earlier it was reported that after studying the case file, the Israeli authorities are ready to issue a suspect.