President Vladimir Putin, during an official visit to India, stated after negotiations in New Delhi with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that bilateral relations "are developing progressively in all directions" and "Moscow will adhere to the chosen line." The Russian leader announced several areas of cooperation at once - from the communications sector and the fuel and energy complex to the joint development of the Arctic and Cosmos.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, a criminal case has been instituted on the murder of a prisoner in an investigative insulator. The victim was strangled by his cellmate, and homophobia was the alleged motive for reprisal. Criminal punishment faces a 25-year-old convict who confessed to the murder, the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

In the UK, I became interested in Faberge’s egg, which Russian President Vladimir Putin presented to the Hermitage. The British Tax Service said that the Russian businessman Alexander Ivanov illegally took advantage of the VAT refund when buying. According to British tax authorities, in the museum founded by Russian Alexander Ivanov in the German Baden-Baden , there are jewelry, including the Rothschilda egg, for which VAT was underpaid when they were purchased in London over the past 15 years.

The vice-president of the St. Petersburg hockey club SKA and a member of the board of the Continental Hockey League ( KHL ) Roman Rotenberg became the first vice president of the Russian Hockey Federation (FHR). The corresponding decision was made after a series of negotiations that took place this week, informs the press service of the Federation . It is planned that in this position, Roman Rotenberg will oversee the issues of the interaction of the FHR and the KHL.

By February 2015, the Moscow government will transfer the owners of apartments to the ownership of the first 2.717 square meters of non -residential basements located in apartment buildings without judicial procedures, the city property department said . As explained in a press release, under the current legislation, the city could not transfer the basement of residential buildings into property without a judicial settlement at the request of the owners of the apartments.

The ninth column of Russian humanitarian aid arrived at the Don Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the Rostov region, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies. Earlier, the Ministry of Emergencies did not exclude that the New Year Christmas trees can be sent to children in Donetsk and Lugansk as humistry to children in Donetsk and Lugansk.

According to the forecasts of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN, the Russian economy in 2015 will be in a state of stagnation. In 2015, Russia's GDP growth will be only 0.2%, according to the world economic situation and prospects for 2015 prepared by this department. A year earlier, the UN predicted that in 2015 the GDP of Russia will grow by 3.6%, Interfax reports.

The Thai government decided to cut out a scene with a portrait of Hitler from the film, which caused indignation at the ambassador of Israel Simon Rhodeda and a public organization that fights the propaganda of Nazi subjects in an Asian country. The head of the administration of the Prime Minister Pannada Discool said that a fragment where the portrait of the head of the Third Reich meets will be removed from the film.

The next year, real estate prices in Dubai will fall. The reason for the reduction in prices will be the departure of buyers from Russia, Europe and Asia, as well as a smaller volume of secondary real estate sales, writes Prian.ru with reference to the forecast of experts of Arqaam Capital. In the III quarter of 2014, houses for houses fell by 4% compared to the previous three months, and apartment prices - 1% for the same period, say analysts at Muhammad Kamal and Muhammad Haidar.

Moscow police detained a man suspected of a cruel robbery. The attacker inflicted dozens of stab wounds with the victim, and then abducted her bag. The prey criminal became 1000 rubles. The moment of robbery is recorded on a video published on the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The attacker disappeared from the scene of the crime, leaving the victim to die.

A tourist from Russia Mikhail Kuznetsov, who suffered in an accident in Thai Pattaya, will not become a disabled person. Local doctors were able to keep his leg to the man who suffered in the accident, which occurred on December 2. Of the Russians who were injured during the disaster, he was alone on the operating table.

Sixty -five rubles will cost the next year a pack of cigarettes in Russia. Now its average price is 53 rubles. The increase will occur primarily due to the planned increase in excise taxes on tobacco, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . True, the excise taxes themselves will add only a few rubles to the price of a pack (their increase is 8%), and the average price of a pack of cigarettes should amount to 57-58 rubles. “However, the experience of this year talks about something else.

In Russia, over 1300 minors, more than 7,000 children disappeared and put on the wanted list, were killed in Russia for the nine months of the murderers. Such statistics were voiced on Thursday at the collegium of the RF IC, the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin. "In 2013, in 2013, the investigating authorities investigated over 17 thousand crimes against minors, 593 murders, more than 1,500 rape, almost 4,500 facts of sexual violence, " Interfax quoted Bastrykin.

The Presidential Council for Interaction with Religious Associations and Organizations today urged today to respect the rights of believers in the zones of military conflicts. The statement concerns the concern of the fate of believers of traditional religions in the territories of the Middle East, North Africa and Ukraine.

Due to the fall of the ruble, Belarus will receive a discount on Russian gas, RBC reports. The signing of a new three -year gas supply contract between Russia and Belarus may take place next week.