The long -term chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Vladimir Churov, judging by him, is one of the most stringing domestic civil servants in the crisis conditions in which the country has ended up at present. In particular, he claims that he does not wear expensive costumes and eats very modestly. “I have all Russian costumes, one Belarusian. I have no costumes more than three thousand rubles,” he said on the air of the Russian News Service .

The American manufacturer General Motors has stopped supplying its cars to dealers in the Russian Federation due to the instability of the ruble exchange rate. An official representative of the company told TASS about this. According to him, supplies have been stopped indefinitely - until the ruble exchange rate stabilizes. At the same time, GM production sites in Russia - the plant in St.

The Haiklif school, located in the city of Kraistcherch on the south coast of Great Britain, was closed after information about shooting near the building. This was reported by TASS with reference to the local police. According to the agency, no one was injured. The educational institution was cordoned off. Employees and students of the school are inside the building for security purposes.

Lincoln is going to bring a new flagship sedan to the market in 2016, designed to replace the MKS model, reports Livecars.ru . The new model will be called Lincoln Continental, used for brand cars in 1939-1948 and from 1956 to 2002. This was on the air of CNBC by Canadian singer Neil Young, hosting Lincoln negotiations on the installation of Pono's musical application for brand cars developed by him. Young founded Pono Music in 2012, notes Motor.ru .

The police of Ukraine are looking for criminals who have committed a daring armed robbery of a jewelry salon located in Borispol of the Kyiv region. At the same time, the attackers shot from automatic weapons, reports "Correspondent.net" with reference to the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In Thailand, losses are calculated from a sharp decrease in the share of the Russian market in the total volume of tourist flow. According to experts, the Russian segment according to the results of this year will be reduced by 30-50%, TASS reports. The turbulence in the Russian economy was most hit on the resort business of Pattaya. It is this Primorsky city for relaxation that most tourists from the Russian Federation prefer to rest.

About 400 Russian sailors, who were in the French Saint-Sazer, where they learned to manage the Mistral helicopter-bearer, went home. Sources to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed that the crew is already on the way. According to the plan, they had to arrive with the ship, but the French side has not yet given permission to transfer the first of the two Mistral of the Russian Federation, and the sailors had to return "their own".

The government began to offer anti -crisis measures that would help to cope with economic difficulties . First of all, it is proposed to do capitalize banks, and first of all this will affect system -forming banks. For example, a decree has already been signed on the allocation of Vnesheconombank (VEB) of 30 billion rubles.

Andrei Rublev became the first Russian tennis player recognized by the International Tennis Association (ITF) the best player of the year among juniors, the organization’s press release said. The seventeen -year -old Rublev completed 2014 in the first place in the Junior ITF rating. In the past season, he first won the Grand Slam series tournament in his age category - Roland Garros, and also became a two -time prize -winner of the youth of the Olympic Games in Nanjing.

The GSU of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation of St. Petersburg completed a preliminary investigation of a criminal case instituted in the fact of a brawl in a Petite institution with the participation of two employees of various law enforcement agencies. The hooligan trick was shot on camera, and the video was published by Fontanka.ru . The reason for the fight was the adjective "blue", said to one of the visitors in uniform.

According to the results of 2014, the total loss of Russian airlines will grow more than six times, reaching an amount of about 30 billion rubles. The loss of Russian air carriers in 2013 amounted to 4.7 billion rubles. The deterioration of the situation is, firstly, with a change in the structure of air transportation and, secondly, with the devaluation of the ruble.

Residents of Russia are increasingly afraid to make large purchases and take loans, showed a survey "Consumer behavior of Russians: purchases and loans" conducted by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on December 6-7, 2014. Three quarters of the population are forced to save, and the ratio of respondents with this position from the 3rd quarter increased by 21% in just a couple of months. Most of all they cut their expenses poorly educated (77%) and elderly (73%) people.

A polling public opinion of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation, which was released on Thursday, conducted by the Associated Press and the American National Center for the Study of Public Opinion (NORC), showed that 81% of Russians support President Vladimir Putin. As noted in the study , the inhabitants of Russia are random around Putin, the rating of the approval of the policy of which is currently much higher than two years ago.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow on Wednesday arrested the former head of the Bashneft company Urals Rakhimov, on the international wanted list, the Kommersant newspaper reports. As reported, earlier an entrepreneur living in Austria sent answers to the investigator Alexei Veseliev to the questions posed by him.

The number of people who infected Ebola fever, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) for December 14, reached 18,603, of which 6915 died, reports Reuters. It is noted that there are signs of a slowdown in the incidence of incidence in Sierra Leone, although last week 327 new cases of disease were recorded here. Of these, 125 - in the capital of the country Fritown.