The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation after checks of bread manufacturers due to the possible increase in prices for their products was initiated by the first business in the flour market. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich said that the increase in food prices in the Russian Federation in 2015 may exceed 10%.

The Rockstar Patent holders consortium, uniting Apple, BlackBerry, Ericsson, Microsoft and Sony, agreed to sell the RPX California Cleaning Company for telecommunication technologies. According to the newspaper Vedomosti , the package includes more than 4,000 patents, and the transaction value will be $ 900 million.

“Recently, Prime Minister Medvedev has been drawn to speculate on economic topics. Literally two weeks ago, he went live and shared with the journalistic fraternity his views on what is happening in the Russian economy. He noted that the government has not yet revised the budget, although it was drawn up at the rate of $104 per barrel - and this despite the fact that Urals oil is already 40% cheaper, about $60.

The Japanese artist Magumi Igarashi, who makes art objects depicting her own vagina, charged with obscene behavior, she was facing a imprisonment of up to two years and a fine of over 20 thousand dollars, the BBC Russian service reports. The 42-year-old artist, according to the investigation, exhibited her work in a sex shop in Tokyo. In addition, she sent other people with digital data on the basis of which can be printed on a 3D printer of the model of its vagina.

“Since the political life of people, free competition, free discussion of the goals of the state have been practically destroyed in our country, and all politics comes down to the approval of the central government, the discussion about the president has been simplistic to the level of “are you for or against Putin.” Today he is the personification of the symbolic power of a country yearning for its lost status as a great power and the opportunity to show Kuzkin’s mother to the entire West.

The head of the Union of Orthodox Citizens Valentin Lebedev made a statement that Russia should become independent of the dollar and usury interest.

Players of the Penza team of the Higher Hockey League (VHL) Diesel continue the strike caused by wage arrears. At the same time, the club management does not have information that the match with the Ust-Kamenogorsk Kazzinkin-Torpedo, scheduled for Thursday, will take place. This was reported to TASS in the press service of Diesel .

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak denied the information that his children supposedly live, work or study abroad. “None of my children known to me ever lived, did not study and did not work abroad,” TASS quotes his statement on the air of the Russia 24 television channel on December 25. Kozak added that he does not understand where this information came from and why they spread without evidence, the agency reports.

With enhanced security measures, Christmas services in Catholic cathedrals in Egypt will be held on Thursday. The country's authorities announced the introduction of the most stringent measures for the duration of Christmas and New Year's holidays from December 25 to January 7, the Al-Masri al-Yaum publication reports today. In particular, a ban on car parking in the immediate vicinity of religious objects is introduced.

The holiday, which in most countries of the planets meet on the night of December 25, is called Catholic Christmas in Russia. However, this is far from the case, because together with the Catholics this holiday on the Gregorian calendar is also celebrated by Lutherans, Anglicians, some methodologists, Baptists and Pentecostals, as well as 11 out of 15 local Orthodox churches using the New Union calendar, which so far (until 2800) coincides with the Gregorian.

In Vladivostok, conscientious thieves returned the stolen New Year's gifts, learning that they are intended for pupils of seaside orphanages. “At night, the attackers opened the volunteer car at which there were gifts for 55 orphanages of the orphanage. Valuable things, boxes with gifts were stolen from the car. The volunteer immediately turned to the police,” Svetlana Kanya, head of the Svetlana Kanya charitable foundation, told Interfax .

The investigation in the Bashneft case returned all the things and documents seized from him during the search, including a foreign passport, the Kommersant newspaper reported to the head of the AFC system, Vladimir Yevtushenkov. Thus, the Investigative Committee removed the last restrictions from Yevtushenkov, and now he will be able to leave the country for the New Year holidays, if he wishes, notes the publication.

Housing owners in Moscow, who planned the sale of their apartments, against the backdrop of a weakening of the ruble and deterioration of the economic situation, began to actively remove real estate from sale until better times, RIA Novosti writes with reference to realtor reports. The managing partner of Spencer Estate Vadim Lamin says that at the moment, housing sellers in the secondary market are welcome to selling objects.

The authorities of St. Petersburg could not reach a compromise with a resident of the Muruzi House on Lithuania Avenue of St. Petersburg Nina Fedorova in the process of resettlement of a communal apartment to create a museum of the poet Joseph Brodsky there. It is reported by "Interfax." “We must meet with a citizen of Fedorova. But she does not want to move away, she is against this. Well, you don’t have to move it away.

Gasoline at Moscow gas stations is getting cheaper for the second week in a row, but in the coming days prices can again go up. Exchange quotes for fuel per week have already increased by 4.6%, and fuel manufacturers are already preparing for a significant one, about 1 ruble per liter, increasing prices in January, writes RBC . Players in the market explain this entry into force of tax maneuver in the oil industry, as well as an increase in the value of credit resources.