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.

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".

On December 18, the IPhone 6 smartphones at the official dealer of Apple in Russia went up by 30%, the Russian News Service reports with reference to the store employee. On December 15, the iPhone 6 16 GB cost 39,990 rubles, now its price is 59,990 rubles. iPhone 6 Plus 16 GB cost 46,990 rubles, now its price is 66,990 rubles.

The Grand Prix of the International Documentary Film Film "Artdokfest", who ended in Moscow on Wednesday, received the Danish tape "The person lives for the best" director Hannah Polaki, telling about the mother and daughter living in the greatest trash in Europe, which is located in the Moscow Region, RIA Novosti reports, citing the festival press service.

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.

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 Russian community has high hopes for a press conference of President Vladimir Putin, which takes place on Thursday in Moscow, in anticipation that the head of state will formulate an action plan to get out of the economic crisis. The issues of conflict in Ukraine, about the confrontation between Russia and the West on this subject, as well as the sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation, also promise to become the main topics.

Since 2015, a new project has been starting in the penitentiary institutions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory on the fate of their relatives who fell in jail. It is assumed that with the help of SMS service of mobile communications companies, the warders will be able to complain to the families of prisoners of their poor behavior and report on this punishment.

In the Chinese province of Sychuan, residents of one of the villages asked the authorities to remove from it an eight -year -old boy named Kun Kun, infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). More than 200 people signed a petition to expel the child, including his own grandfather, Reuters reports citing the local newspaper Zhenmin Zibao . A terrible diagnosis was made to the child three years ago, in 2011. It turned out that he became infected with HIV in the womb.

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.

Belarus will not devalue the national currency after the sharp collapse of the Russian ruble. About this, as Interfax reports, said President of the country Alexander Lukashenko. “Our position remains the same.