A year and a half after the introduction of a grocery embargo, most Russians still support this measure and consider it a productive response to the sanctions policy of the West. This is evidenced by a survey conducted by the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ). According to him, the number of Russians who approve of the introduction of the embargo is 73% in November 2015 against 84% in August 2014.

Fedor Dostoevsky, recognized master of psychological prose, became the most cited of Russian writers in the world scientific community. Psychologists, psychiatrists and neurologists refer to it, the Kommersant newspaper writes with reference to the research of Thomson Reuters. The second place with a large margin from the leader was taken by Leo Tolstoy, in the third - Alexander Pushkin.

In Tomsk they will judge for the murder of an employee of a local security company serving a local store. The press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee reports that the tragedy in the Merry Tagged store broke out on December 2. A drunk buyer arranged a brawl in the trading floor - he turned several racks, and then copied the need there.

Moscow calls on the authorities of Montenegro to hold a referendum on the issue of joining this country to NATO. This was announced on December 16 by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova. According to her, "the situation in Montenegro is not easy, we are talking about the domestic political crisis, which is accompanied by protests of citizens," TASS reports.

The German media this week made a harsh criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin - they gave him negative characteristics and tried to convict military crimes in Syria and Lie. So, the Bild tabloid called Putin a “war criminal”, blaming him not only the support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al -Assad, who, according to the publication, crimes against his people, but also the participation of the Russian Federation in the bombing of the civilian population.

Some of the funds made from the sale of tickets to the first sessions of the French cartoon "The Little Prince" according to the work of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, they will sacrifice the wards of the Charitable Foundation "Give Life" Chulpan Khamatova and Dina Korzun. “The story about the little prince is a story about each other. It seems to me symbolic that the large rental of this cartoon begins with such a kind and important charitable campaign.

A civil activist who opposed the development of nickel deposits in the Voronezh region was beaten near her own entrance in the city of Borisoglebsk. The incident occurred at about six in the morning, when Svetlana Kuznetsova was going to go to work, the 7x7 online publication reports. Kuznetsova said that in the morning at the entrance she was expected by a man in a mask. He hit her first on the head, and then on the back.

The Chinese submarine simulated a blow by winged missiles on the American aircraft carrier Reagan when the ships in the Japanese Sea are closer at the end of October, says The Washington Free Beacon . According to the official representatives of the American Ministry of Defense, the actions of the crew of the Chinese submarine violate the Code of conduct with unplanned contacts at sea, adopted in 2014 and designed to reduce the risk of shootout between marine courts.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that after 30 days, trade with the Crimean peninsula will completely stop, reports the Details.ua portal. "It is forbidden to supply work, goods and services for all customs regimes, with the exception of personal things, socially significant food and humanitarian aid," Yatsenyuk emphasized, opening the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. The decision of the Government of Ukraine will enter into force in a month.

A new series of photographs from the teachings of the Chinese military, who are forced to train in severe frost, appeared on the network. At minus temperatures, soldiers on the border with Russia practiced naked waist -on, simultaneously rubbing themselves with snow. The exercises in severe weather conditions also took place in the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous District of the PRC, where the military at least did not undress.

Magnitogorsk "Metallurg" signed a contract with striker Alexander Semin, informs the press service of the team of the Continental Hockey League. The agreement with the 31-year-old player is designed until the end of the current season, he will perform at Magnitogorsk under the 28th number. Recall that the Montreal club recently put Semin to the draft of failures , from which a hockey player has not taken away none of the other NHL teams.

The Government hour was held in the State Duma, which was performed by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. The meeting was held closed, deputies told about its results. According to them, Shoigu did not talk about expenses for a military operation in Syria, did not name the deadlines for its completion and did not comment on the possibility of a land surgery. But the head of the ministry said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation could reach the Euphrates in Syria, RBC reports.

In Sudan, the death sentence was sentenced to twenty-five Muslim men, including three teenagers. They are accused of adhering to the "wrong" direction in Islam. The "deviations" by faith was arrested in Hartum in November. They spent more than five weeks in prison, where they taught the foundations of the "right" faith. Last Monday they were released on bail.

The floods caused by the Typhoon "Nona" (the international name "Melor") took the lives of 11 people in the Philippines, reports Yahoo! News . Millions of people were left without electricity. Typhoon fell upon the country from the Pacific Ocean, provoking strong floods on the central islands and bringing down pouring rains to the capital - Manila.

The launch of the second thread of the Energomost from the Krasnodar Territory to Crimea did not save the republic from the shortage of electricity that arose after the energy unit of the peninsula. Under these conditions, the Crimean authorities did not cancel the emergency mode, as planned earlier. The leadership of the republic promises that power outages will be minimal, three to four hours a day, or the deficit will not be noticeable at all.