The entry of Ukraine into NATO, preparing for which Kiev actually began, will lead to a complete breakdown of relations between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance, RIA Novosti said on Wednesday, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Antonov, commenting on the decision of the Verkhovna Rada on the abolition of the non -block status of the country.

On Tuesday, December 23, the Office for Supervision of the quality of food and medicines of the US government (FDA) reported the upcoming cancellation of a lifelong ban on gays to become donors of blood, writes The New York Times . Nevertheless, this does not mean a complete cancellation of restrictions: at the same time, 12-month quarantine is introduced from the last homosexual sexual intercourse, after which a man can become a donor.

The defense of Johar Tsarnaev, accused in the case of a terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon , asks to postpone the beginning of the trial until September 2015 in connection with the "extreme complexity" of the process.

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation canceled the Decision of the Investigative Committee on the termination of the criminal case against the former deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow - the head of the Main Investigation Department (GSU) of Vladimir Morozov, the Kommersant newspaper reports.

The tariff for parking in the pilot area of ​​paid parking will be 60 rubles per hour. This was reported by Fontanka.ru with reference to information from the city committee for the development of transport infrastructure. As you know, in the first quarter of 2015 in St. Petersburg, a pilot area of ​​paid parking, limited by Liteiny Avenue, Kirochny, uprising and Nevsky will work. Currently, there is already an installation of parking meters.

“However, other deputies who were in favor recalled how non-aligned status did not help to contain Russian aggression under two important interstate agreements. They remembered the Budapest Memorandum, where for the renunciation of its nuclear status, Russia, the United States and Great Britain guaranteed Ukraine the security and inviolability of its borders.

Russian volunteers who are involved in hostilities in the Donbass receive tens of thousands of rubles per month for this. They get to the territory of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine from Russia, including in trucks with humanitarian aid , said Vladimir Efimov, head of the special forces of the Sverdlovsk Region, said in an interview with the E1.RU Internet publication.

Military investigators intend to verify whether the former member of the US Navy of the US Navy was given secret information, Robert O'Neill, who had previously declared himself a man who shot the al-Qaeda leader Ben Laden in 2011, reports TASS with reference to the Daily Beast .

The State Duma proposed to revise the decision of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, which was adopted 25 years ago, in which the war in Afghanistan is called non -morale and political terms. A member of the deputy committee on defense, chairman of the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans, Franz Klintsevich, made the initiative to make a “fair assessment” of the conflict. “It is time to give a fair assessment to the Afghan war, necessarily fixed at the official level.

The American naturalist Paul Rosali , who participated in the loud project of the Discovery television channel "Eated alive", where a giant anaconda swallowed him in a special suit, spoke about his disappointment with the resulting show.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of the city of Moscow the day before issued a decision to recover from the actress Anastasia Zavorotnyuk of the debt under a loan agreement, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports. The lawsuit in the amount of 540 thousand dollars was filed by the Russian Mortgage Bank, which applied to the court due to the fact that Zavorotnyuk violated the terms of the loan agreement.

The Hollywood star Adam Sandler for the second year in a row was recognized as Forbes by the most “overpayed” actor of Hollywood. In the annual rating made in a publicly released on Tuesday, Sandler again turned out to be the leader of the list of Hollywood stars, who brought the smallest dividends to the capital invested in them. According to the magazine, on average, for each dollar paid to the actor, the film producers received only $ 3.20.

In November of this year, the average loan rate dropped to 2.44% per annum. This is the lowest level for all the time of observation. The previous record was recorded only a month earlier - in October it was 2.51%, reports CZ News Info . “In November, almost all large banks were reduced by a decrease in bets, which influenced a further decrease in average rates.

The Bloomberg agency analyzed the main investment objects this year - from currency to stock, long -luging markets and raw materials, and compiled a list of the best and worst. According to the agency analysts, all the main world currencies have fallen in price to the dollar since the beginning of the year. The dollar strengthened in relation to the euro by 11%, and to Yen - by more than 12%. Indian rupees have the best results - she lost only 2.4%to the dollar.

The bill on the "animal tax" proposed by the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, did not find understanding in the State Duma of Russia. In an interview with the radio station , Moscow says a member of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Tax, Vladimir Fedotkin spoke out against such an initiative. “Because this is again a population on the population. Over the past year, we have already sketched so many direct and indirect encumbrances on the population.