The twenty-year master plan for the development of the Krasnodar resort city of Gelendzhik, adopted in November, provides for the creation of a cable car system and the construction of new helipads. “It is possible to organize suspended systems along the coastline of Gelendzhik Bay, uniting all districts of the city, including the Thin and Tolsty Capes,” says the general plan of the municipality, quoted by Interfax .

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday, December 7, held a meeting in German Hamburg, at which they discussed the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo. This is stated in a statement by the official representative of the US State Department John Kirby.

The FSB officers, together with the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, conducted searches in the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes and Combating Corruption (GubipK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Interfax reports with reference to the situation.

A summer boom in the entrance tourism market in Russia can be repeated on the New Year holidays, the newspaper Kommersant writes. Representatives of independent reservation systems talk about the growth of 33% of the interest of foreign tourists in traveling to Russia for the period of New Year's holidays amid a decrease in the cost of air tickets. The organized tourism market, according to experts, is unlikely to be able to repeat this success: Russian winter scares such travelers.

The number of citizens with cash income below the subsistence minimum in the third quarter of 2016 increased by 0.9 million, or 5%, and in annual terms amounted to 18.8 million people compared with 17.9 million a year earlier, Interfax reports with reference to the preliminary data of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). Compared to the second quarter of 2016, the number of poor decreased by 1 million people, or by 5.1%.

Transstroy Corporation JSC, in the summer with a scandal of the Zenit Arena stadium, may remain without the last current state order in St. Petersburg. The city administration sent a notification to terminate the contract for the construction of the Yuzhnoye Depot for 6.6 billion rubles.

The State Tretyakov Gallery closed a live queue for the exhibition "Roma aeterna. The masterpieces of the Pinakotek of the Vatican. Bellini, Rafael, Caravaggio" Due to tickets of tickets. “From December 15, the entrance will be carried out only by pre -purchased tickets - a live queue in the cash desk for tickets for the nearest session, the museum is forced to cancel to combat resellers,” the museum’s press service quoted TASS.

Experts are concerned about the steady reduction in the population of giraffes on Earth. According to the International Union of Nature Protection (IUCN), over the past 30 years, the number of these animals has decreased by almost 40% due to poaching, regional conflicts and the expansion of agricultural land. If in 1985 the population had from 152 thousand to 163 thousand individuals, then to date, it has declined to approximately 98 thousand.

In the Kaliningrad region in the city of Gusev, a 58-year-old man at about 12:40 committed an act of self-immolation near the recently consecrated church of all saints on Lenin Avenue on Thursday, December 8, the New Kaliningrad website with reference to eyewitnesses to the incident. He parked in the parking lot in front of the temple, doused himself with gasoline and the car, got into the car and set fire to it.

The Sports Arbitration Court in Lausanne (CAS) deprived the silver medal of the 2016 Olympic Games of the Russian boxer Misha Aloyan, whose doping tests previously gave a positive result for tuaminogeptan. The athlete’s coach then explained that the forbidden drug entered the Aloyan body as part of drops from a cold. "Aloyan is convicted of violation of anti -doping rules, after his test, taken in the competitive period on August 21, showed a positive result on Tuaminogeptan.

Leonid Slutsky quarreled with the fans of the Moscow CSKA after his farewell match as the head coach of the army. The incident occurred at the end of the meeting of the final round of the Champions League group stage against the English Tottenham, in which the army team lost with a score of 1: 3 and deprived themselves of a chance of continuing the struggle in the spring stage of European cups.

The sovereign fund of Qatar (Qatar Investment Authority), which, together with Glencore in a parity joint venture (50% in the consortium) acquired 19.5% of the state shares of Rosneft, did not comment on this transaction. According to experts, the role of the fund is generally incomprehensible. QIA is the state investment fund of Qatar, the financial assets of which include shares, bonds and property, precious metals and other financial instruments.

Russian citizens paid housing tax for the first time under the new rules - when it was calculated based on the cadastral value, which was close to the market value. As a result, from 28 pilot regions where an updated tax was introduced this year, tax officials plan to collect an amount equal to last year’s collections of this tax from all over Russia.

Deputies of the State Duma at a meeting on December 7 adopted a bill in the second reading, which suspended the indexation of maternity capital before January 1, 2020, TASS reports. At the same time, as RIA Novosti notes, the adopted draft law provides that since 2018, all social payments will be indexed once a year from February 1 by actual inflation. Currently, indexation is carried out according to the forecast level of inflation and at different times.

Kirill Shulika December 8, 2016 marked the 25th anniversary of the signing by the Russian Federation of Belarus and Ukraine of the “Belovezhskaya Accords” (the official name is the “Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States”), which stated the cessation of the existence of the USSR as “a subject of international law and geopolitical reality.” These agreements meant not only the legal formalization of the collapse of the USSR, but also the death of the empire.