The State Duma deputy from "Fair Russia" Oleg Mikheev introduced a bill on Thursday to the chamber on Thursday, which is proposed to introduce excise taxes on harmful foods - chips and soda water. “Our budget in the crisis is needed as air, because in the budget for 2016 we have already reduced health costs by 8%. It will be reasonable and fair if the income from the trade in harmful food at least cover the damage to the health of the nation,” TASS agency quotes the deputy.

The mortgage housing lending agency (AIZHK) summed up the first results of the program for assistance to mortgage borrowers after its serious processing. In two weeks of the updated program, the assistance of 14 borrowers has already been approved. Prior to this, in more than six months of the program, only one loan was restructured on it, it recalls Kommersant .

The authorities of the Italian city of Milan introduced a temporary ban on the movement of private vehicles in daytime clock to fight air pollution, reports La Repubblica . The ban will be valid on December 28, 29 and 30. From 10 to 16 hours in the city it will not be possible to drive by car, as well as on motorcycles and scooters.

The head of the opposition party of Zimbabwe "Movement for Democratic Changes" Morgan Tswangirai accused the wife of the country's president Robert Mugaba of seizing power, reports The Guardian . In his opinion, it was the wife of the 91-year-old leader Zimbabwe Grace Mugaba who leads the country, and her husband retired after the "palace coup". In addition, Tswangirai believes that the government is not able to influence the situation.

Employees of law enforcement agencies in St. Petersburg are investigating the abduction of a 42-year-old large businessman Sergei Lifshits, who disappeared immediately after the victory in court. The subject of litigation was a loan of 100 million rubles, and his former companion from the environment of the Tambov leader Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarina) nicknamed Kum was opponent Lifshitsa.

The main Santa Claus of Russia from Veliky Ustyug and the Kostroma Snegurochka at a press conference on December 23 spoke about preparations for the New Year holidays. The wizard also answered several sore questions, including paid parking in Moscow, the Prosecutor General of Chaika and terrorists of the Islamic State banned in the Russian Federation ( Daish ).

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) discovered portable radio stations on the territory of the Skolkovo innovation center, which interfered with the equipment of the equipment of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. "The territorial administration of Roskomnadzor for the Central Federal District received an appeal of one of the military units near Moscow.

The word of the year, according to the authoritative American explanatory dictionary, Merriam-Webster for the first time became a suffix. This was reported on his website . The suffix "-IM" is an integral part of the seven "Izm", which in the past year became record holders not only in the total number of requests, but also in the dynamics of an increase in interest in them. These are the words “socialism”, “fascism”, “racism”, “feminism”, “communism”, “capitalism” and “terrorism”.

The Russian authorities have compiled a list of Turkish construction companies that will continue to work in the Russian Federation after imposing sanctions. According to Kommersant , there are ENKA, which once reconstructed the State Duma building, Renaissance Construction, which built an office for Gazprom, Odak Group, which was the contractor for the construction of the Kul-Sharif mosque in Kazan.

The authorities of the Kemerovo region issued a reward to a resident of the region who achieved impressive success in getting rid of excess weight. In just a few months, a 43-year-old woman was able to drop almost 40 kilograms. For this, the authorities of the region handed her a certificate for five tons of coal. The corresponding promise was previously given by the head of the region Aman Tuleyev. Currently, the fuel has already been delivered to the woman’s house.

In the Vladimir region, a teenager came up with an unusual explanation of his long absence of a house for his parents. He lied that hooligans attacked him, and in order to convince his mother and dad, he asked his friend to break his hand. A friend who, with understanding, reacted to this request, has now become a defendant in a criminal case, says on the website of the regional administration of the Investigative Committee. The incident occurred on the evening of December 3.

The decision to expand on December 26 of the paid parking zones for another 291 plots of Moscow streets was adopted by municipal deputies along with residents, and disputed issues were “resolved with the entry of specialized services and municipal deputies,” the chairman of the Council of the municipal deputies of Moscow Vladimir Dudochkin said in the first deputy head of the Constitutional Committee of the State Duma RF, co -chair of the Moscow headquarters of ONF Vyacheslav Lysakov.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan declassified documents regarding a number of events of the 1970s and 1980s. Of these, some details of the Boeing 747 disasters became known, flying from New York to Seoul and a Soviet fighter shot down over Sakhalin. According to TASS, the United States was secretly informed by Japan that the liner was shot down by mistake, while Washington publicly claimed that the USSR deliberately destroyed the plane.

The Senegal refugee, who has been living in Spain for several years, won 400 thousand euros (about 30.5 million rubles) in the annual Christmas lottery. Shortly before that, a 35-year-old native of West Africa lost his work. A man named Ngama became one of the 1600 owners of lottery tickets. The cash prize draw was held on Tuesday, December 22, writes The Guardian with reference to La Voz de Almeria .

The Roman authorities announced the complete termination of traffic for two days - December 28 and 29. This decision was made on Thursday due to the high content of harmful substances in the atmosphere, reports IL Messaggero . Unusually warm weather and the lack of rains for three months led to the concentration of harmful particles. The level of air pollution significantly exceeds the permissible norm.