World oil prices on Friday demonstrated a new decrease due to the decision of the state-owned company of Saudi Arabia Saudi Aramco to provide large discounts on Asia and the USA for January futures. On Friday, December 5, reports Bloomberg . As of 08:22 in Moscow, the cost of Brent oil on the London Exchange was reduced by 0.71% to $ 69.58 per barrel. The price of the January futures for oil of the WTI brand dropped by 1.30% - up to 66.51 dollars per barrel.

Software manufacturers approve of the idea of ​​Vladimir Putin to refuse to revise the tax policy for four years. Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, but the minister had already changed his mind, announced the need to cancel the preferential VAT for the sale of software. About this writes "Kommersant" .

The British book publishing house Gilgamesh Publishing invited its readers to get acquainted with the most ambiguous political figures of the 20th century from an unexpected side, evaluating the culinary addictions of cruel and decisive rulers. Food can affect your mood, the work of your intestines and, ultimately in your opinion, are sure of the authors of the study, Victoria Clark and Melissa Scott.

The Ukrainian prosecutor's office announced the disclosure of the murder of the political figure Alexander Kostrovko, who was the head of the organization for the fight against corruption and organized crime created by the Maidan activists. According to investigators, the crime is in no way connected with the social position of Kostrovo - the man was killed by a homosexual, allegedly offended by harassment on his part. The alleged killer was detained on Thursday night.

The court in New York refused the chimpanzees of human rights in the first process of this kind. The judges decided that although the chimpanzees are completely independent, they cannot be responsible for any actions and they cannot understand the essence of the social contract that unites people. To expand the category of human rights to the most intelligent among primates was required by an animal protection lawyer Stephen Wise, the founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project.

In Brussels, it is not yet ready to comment on reports on a loan agreement of 390 million euros of the Gazprom Unicredit bank, today said the official representative of the head of the EU diplomacy, Federica Mogherini Maya Kosyankchich. Today, Gazprom said that he signed a 390 million euros with Unicredit with Unicredit.

The criminal drama "The most fierce year" Jay Xi Cheendor was awarded the title of the best picture of the past year according to the National Board of Review National Board of the National Society. The awards will be presented on January 6, 2015, BBC reports. The main character of the film is an immigrant from Latin America, who arrived in the United States in the early 1980s with ambitious dreams and soon really achieved great success in business.

Labor migrants in Russia will receive the right to medical care and sick leave from next year, reports Rossiyskaya Gazeta , publishing two relevant laws. The publication believes that the payments for medical insurance prescribed in the law will make the work of migrants not only more protected, but also less profitable for employers. For this, two documents have been adopted: amendments to the Labor Code and in certain legislative acts on social insurance issues.

The International Festival of Independent Cinema "2morrow/Tomorrow", in which two loud premieres of 2014 will be presented - the French paintings "Metamorphoses" by Christophe Honore and Party Girl, directorial trio Marie Amashukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Tace, will open at the Moscow Cinema "Fitil" on Friday, RIA Novosti said with RIA Novosti link to the press service of the festival.

The American enthusiastic engineer James Befurt developed a robot machine and wrote a program for her to automatically approve all girls' mobile dating services, writes Businessinsider . The young man demonstrated the work of his cunning invention at the battery on YouTube. The stylus mounted above the smartphone moves from side to side, imitating the pile along the screen. Thus, the machine helps to mark the pages of absolutely all girls as the user who liked it.

In the Moscow Cultural and Educational Center "Pokrovsky Gate" the day before, a presentation of the book of the chairman of the information department of the Russian Orthodox Church (SIF) Vladimir Legoyda "Man in the skin of the Dragon" took place. According to the author, the main idea that he wanted to convey to the reader is that faith cannot be left in the fence of the temple: to be a Christian means always and everywhere follow the commandments of the Savior.

The group of volunteers at the beginning of next week will go on an expedition to Vygozero in the Segezhsky district of Karelia, at the bottom of which a mysterious funnel was found, presumably formed as a result of a meteorite fall. This was announced by TASS Coordinator of the International Research Association "Cosmopois" in Petrozavodsk Mikhail Gusakov. The group will include divers. “We will explore the bottom, funnel. We will have metal detectors and other devices.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on Friday awarded the composer Alexander Pakhmutov the highest church female order - the holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Princess Olga, the first degree, RIA Novosti reports.

US President Barack Obama put forward Aston Carter to the post of Minister of Defense of the country instead of the resignation of Chuck Heigel. Against the backdrop of a conflict with the Islamic State, the fourth Minister of Defense under Obama will be a Pentagon veteran - a 60 -year -old physicist who never served in the army, writes The Wall Street Journal .

For the first time in history, the British museum was transferred to another country by one of the exhibits of his famous collection of the Parfenon marble sculptures: a statue of the river God Ilissos went to the Russian Hermitage, RIA Novosti reports. “The British Museum is a museum of the world for the world, and nothing demonstrates it better than the Parthenon sculpture, which we temporarily pass on to the St.