The head of the Baltic media group (BMG) Oleg Rudnov, who was called the "friend of Putin" in the press, died today in the 67th year of life. According to TASS, representatives of the media group reported this. According to BMG representatives, "he died in one of the foreign clinics after a long illness." Press Secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov told Interfax that the Russian leader expressed his condolences to the relatives and friends of Oleg Rudnov.

North Korea turned to Russia with a request to sell her Su-35 jet fighters. According to the South Korean newspaper Joongang ilbo , the appeal of the DPRK authorities was transferred by a member of the Presidium of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Korea Labor Party, Secretary of the Central Committee of the TPK Koya Ryon HE during a recent visit to the Russian Federation.

The head of the Ukrainian government Arseniy Yatsenyuk gave an interview to the German television channel ARD. He called on Germany to be jointly rebuffed by the foreign policy claims of Russia. At the same time, the Ukrainian politician compared the Russian Federation with the Soviet Union, whose troops "invaded both Ukraine and Germany." These statements, which are given by Tagesschau , caused a scandal and gossip in the Russian press.

The number of citizens of Ukraine who entered Russia, by the beginning of January 2015, increased 1.6 times. This was announced on the air "Russia 24" by the head of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of the Russian Federation Konstantin Romodanovsky. “Moreover, this is not only the inhabitants of the southeast of Ukraine. Moreover, the number of people who came from Moldova increased. People vote with their feet, I can’t name it otherwise,” the head of the migration service said.

Several Ukrainian media attributed to the Russian rap artist Timur Yunusov, known as Timati, the words about the support of terrorists who attacked Paris on the editorial office of the Charlie Hebdo satirist magazine. In their notes, online publications refer to Instagram Timati_yunusov , while the artist’s real account is Timatiofficial . This is confirmed on his official website .

The weather in the Moscow region is assigned an "orange" level of danger in connection with snowfall, strong wind and icing. According to TASS in the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation, this level is the penultimate scale accepted by weather forecasters. It warns of the possibility of damage from the predicted weather conditions.

50 kilometers north of Paris, a special operation to detain Sheriff and Said Kuashi is carried out, who are suspected of massacre , arranged at the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo magazine. The brothers have already been discovered, but they managed to capture the hostages after the chase accompanied by shooting. Unofficial information about the victims appeared.

Due to rapidly falling oil prices, the small Texas company WBH Energy announced its bankruptcy. She had been engaged in the production of shale oil and gas in North Texas for three years, where she owns 2.5 thousand acres of land and 37 wells. The company's debt reached $ 50 million, Reuters reports. This is a rather small company and, according to local analysts, its bankruptcy does not speak of the crisis of the industry as a whole.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov denied the publication in the Western media on the purchase of Villa Putin in Spain. “No, this is not so. This is a non -original joke,” Peskov said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. Earlier, the British tabloid The Daily Mail has published an article that states that Putin allegedly became the owner of the villa in Spain, where he plans to grow elite grape varieties.

Russia and Thailand are considering the possibility of switching to national currencies in trade mutual settlements, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said an official visit to Thailand. “We talked about considering the possibility of switching to local currencies using brats and rubles in our trade relations. This will give additional advantages to our companies.

The weather conditions in the Javanese Sea zone, where on December 28, Airbus Air Asia Indonesia crashed with 162 people on board, by the evening of December 9th again worsened. In this regard, the next attempt to lift the tail of the liner from the day the submariners will undertake after the occurrence of darkness, reports the Indonesian portal Detik.com .

In Los Angeles at the age of 84, the Australian actor Rod Taylor, who played the main role in the famous thriller of Alfred Hitchcock "Poultry", reports, reports People magazine. The actor died on Wednesday at home surrounded by relatives and friends. World Slava brought him a role in the film by Alfred Hitchcock "Birds", shot in 1963 and combining elements of a fantastic thriller, a film-catastrophe, a film of horror and melodrama, RIA Novosti reports.

In the east of Paris on Friday, a shootout occurred between the police and an unknown man armed with Kalashnikov’s automatic machine. According to Les Echos , after shooting, the attacker captured several hostages. “At least one person is wounded,” the witnesses of the incident said. Local media, citing a source close to the investigation, report two dead. However, according to Reuters, the police refute these messages. It is known that several hostages were captured by an attacker.

In France, law enforcement agencies established the identity of a man who, on the eve of the morning, who shot a police officer in a Paris suburb, Monruzh, the Le Parisien newspaper reports. According to some reports, the suspect belongs to the radical Islamist group. His surname is not reported.

The Chairman of the EU Council Donald Tusk, who is on a visit to Latvia, after a meeting with the country's prime minister Laimdota, Latvia called Latvia "an ideal place to establish relations with Russia and other eastern countries." The chairmanship of this Baltic country in the EU began in very difficult conditions, when you have to deal with many external and internal problems. "One of these problems is relations with the eastern countries - neighbors.