Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which citizens with three or more children will be able to get housing instead of land plots. The document is posted on Monday on the official Internet portal of legal information, RIA Novosti reports. The law proposes to citizens with three or more children, with their consent, to provide the right to choose alternative measures of social support to provide free residential premises to replace the provision of land.

The President of the United States Barack Obama said that his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin made a major "strategic mistake", "annexing" Crimea. The American leader said this in an interview with national public radio (NPR) shortly before leaving the annual vacation, which he spends in Hawaii.

Anton Oreh “Our sworn partners are leaving Afghanistan. The Taliban are slowly creeping up on Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, and we say that we will not send our troops there and we do not want to post border guards on the border, limiting ourselves to some not very expensive assistance. We recognize ISIS as terrorist organization, and Islamism is a serious threat. But I don’t want to get into Afghanistan again. Sending border guards is also useless.

On the morning of December 30, the two Russian crews of Mistral, which were in the French Saint-Sazer, where the sailors learned to manage the helicopter carriers, returned to Russia. All 400 sailors on the Smolny training ship arrived at the Leningrad naval base in Kronstadt, Business Petersburg reports. The crews of the helicopter carriers will now go on vacation, TASS was told in the General Staff of the Navy.

The Central Bank of Russia recalled on Tuesday, December 30, a license to carry out banking operations at the Volga-Credit Samara bank, the regulator’s press service said . The license was withdrawn in connection with the non -fulfillment by the Bank of Federal Laws regulating banking, and regulatory acts of the Central Bank, sufficient capital below 2%, reducing the amount of own funds below the minimum value of the authorized capital.

In the Kemerovo region, a woman accused of beating a guardian of order is judged. The crime was committed in a cafe, where the suspect celebrated his liberation from places of imprisonment with her husband. The prosecution was charged with a 28-year-old resident of Kemerovo, the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

The Swedish national team defeated the Russian team in the group stage match of the youth world hockey youth championship in Canada. The Scandinavians won 3-2 thanks to the double of Gustav Forsling and the puck of Axel Holmstrem. The Russians distinguished himself twice Vyacheslav Leshchenko. With the score 2: 2 in the third period, Ivan Barbashev abandoned the puck, but the judges did not record the capture of the opponent.

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) sent written warnings to large portals on December 30: BFM.RU, Polit.ru, Business Online and Mediazone. Claims to them are the publication of socially dangerous articles. In which publications violations of the law were discovered, Roskomnadzor does not specify.

The legend of French cinema Pierre Richard is preparing a surprise to his fans. In March 2015, a new picture with the participation of Richard is planned in France. This is a series of short tapes based on Chekhov’s stories, of which the film will be consisted of, TASS reports with reference to the actor representative. The director is Jean-Pierre Moka, who, together with Pierre Richard, called for the shooting of Gerard Depardieu.

The General Motors concern again patented the Crossvolt trademark, LiveCars.ru reports with reference to Autoblog. According to journalists, most likely this name will be used for the "all -terrain" modification of the new generation Chevrolet Volt hybrid. For the first time, the VOLT model in the CROSSOVER body was presented at the Beijing Auto Show, which took place in 2010, in the form of a prototype called Chevrolet Volt MPV5 Electric Concept.

Trading in the Russian foreign exchange market began on December 30, 2014 by a decrease in the course of the Russian currency. At the opening of trading on the Moscow Exchange, the cost of the dollar increased by almost one ruble, and the euro - more than one and a half rubles. But after it became known about the verdict to the brothers Navalny , the ruble sharply strengthened.

The Schiluch volcano, erupting in Kamchatka, once again threw out a column of ash. Its height was six kilometers. There are no settlements on the path of the loop spread, nozzles were registered in the Ministry of Emergencies. Prior to this, a similar emission occurred in early December. “Given the direction of the wind, the ash cloud spread east of the volcano by 35 km. There are no settlements from the volcano from the volcano,” the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies said .

During the New Year holidays, the documentary cinema center with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the first time in Moscow presents the best documentaries for teenagers. Children's documentary cinema is the special pride of the world's largest festival of non -game films IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam) and Dutch documentary. Kids & docs are collected in schoolchildren from 10 to 17 years old.

Honda plans to start sales of the next generation CR-V crossover in the spring of 2015, reports JCNews.ru . In September, at the Honda Motor car dealership in Paris, she showed the CR -V model in the version for Europe - before this, the debut of American modifications had already taken place. The company itself called restyling "bold", but, in fact, it almost completely repeats the improvements implemented on the American version.

The sanctions of the United States and the European Union against Putin's friends brought in an inevitable change of business elit, writes the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, wondering: "Why do Timchenko and Rotenberg sell assets for their children?" Putin's friend Gennady Timchenko, recalls the publication, demonstrated his incredible instinct to the public: he sold 44% in Gunvor oiling company Torcbieran Torcvist exactly the day before the publication of the first sanction list of the