The Russian representative office of the Chinese company Xiaomi announced the entering the domestic market of the Xiaomi Mi 5s flagship smartphone, which was presented at the end of September. Russian buyers have available a version of the device with 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of basic memory in silver or golden colors. The cost of a smartphone is 30,990 rubles.

Konstantin Sonin “I myself am not a big fan of Star Wars, so I did not know that the leading actor in the first (“ fourth ”) film - Princess Leah - Carrie Fisher, who died yesterday in Los Angeles, is a hero in life. Namely, that 15 years ago she publicly spoke about her psychiatric diagnosis - a bipolar disorder (earlier it was called earlier “Manic -depressive psychosis”), ”writes an economist, professor at the University of Chicago and HSE Konstantin Sonin in the“ living magazine ” .

Syrian rebels announced on Thursday, December 29, that the agreement with the government on the ceasefire also applies to the Syrian al-Qaeda-Jebhat al-Nusra (Jebhat Fath al-Sham), which was banned in the Russian Federation and not mentioned in the list of armed groups published in the published Ministry Syria. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the representative of the Syrian rebels.

The court granted the claim environmental prosecutor's office to invalidate the lease agreement land plot of 2.5 hectares on the shore of Lake Baikal and its return into municipal ownership of the Olkhonsky district of the Irkutsk region, the regional prosecutor's office said in a statement .

The Far Eastern Energy Company (DEC) plans to limit the supply of electricity to Dalspetsstroy, which is the general contractor for the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome. The builders violated the terms of the energy supply contract without making timely calculations, the website of the DEC unit "Amunernergosbyt" reports. To date, the amount of debt has reached 17 million rubles.

"There are two New Year's Russias. But one New Year's Russia is coming. She writes a post a couple of weeks before the weekend - who's going where, tell me - Eilat, Tai, Bali? - and then she puts away her panties, cream, glasses, a book by Hanya Yanagihara and, taking photographs at Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo, the last cup of coffee and the line at control is scattered all over the world,” the journalist writes on his Facebook page.

The Minister of Defense of Japan Tomomi Inada paid a visit to the Yasukuni temple, where, according to legend, the souls of the Japanese military who died on the battlefields rest. This happened the day after the Inada in the Japanese delegation visited Pearl Harbor - the place of the bloody attack of the Japanese army on the American military during the Second World War. This is her first visit to the temple since taking office in August of this year.

The Central Bank from December 29 withdrew licenses from Moscow NKB banks and "on the Red Gate". In credit organizations, a temporary administration has been appointed by the validity of the bankruptcy trustee or liquidator. The powers of the executive bodies of banks are suspended in accordance with the law. Both banks are participants in the deposit insurance system.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested the chairman of the board of directors of Ust-Luga OJSC, the President of Industrialists of the Leningrad Region and the multimillionaire Valery Israilit. “They arrested, fully satisfied the application of the investigation, for 25 days until January 21,” Interfax told in court, clarifying that the charges were brought under the article “Fraud committed by a group of persons on an especially large scale”.

The Parliament of Colombia approved a bill protecting the demobilized rebels from the Levoradical Group "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia" (RVSK) from pursuing for small crimes committed during the 52-year-old armed conflict with the authorities. But the amnesty will not be applied to group members who have committed serious crimes, including mass murder, sexual violence and abduction of people.

The Federal Air Transport Agency and the Almaz-Antey concern completed the tests of the new flight management center (TsPU) in Moscow. The air traffic system has already been approved and can start its work in March 2017, the Kommersant newspaper reports. And by the fall, it is planned to introduce a new scheme for the movement of aircraft over Moscow, which will increase the throughput by 50%. TRSI TRSIs lasted four years.

Inter RAO, RusHydro and the Commercial and Industrial and Industry (CCI) of the Russian Federation-the largest creditors of the Peresvet problem bank, which is called the Bank of the Russian Orthodox Church, turned to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with a request to support the proposal for the sanitation of this credit institution, Interfax reports, citing a source in the financial and economic bloc of the government.

The fees of Russian films in 2016 doubled in the international rental. In 2015, 20 Russian films raised $ 17 million, and in 2016 - $ 35 million, the Roskino press release said. "In 2016, we first received the support of the Ministry of Culture, and I hope, having seen impressive results in the international direction with modest financial investments, the ministry will find the opportunity to increase the volume of state support," TASS quoted by Roskino as Ekaterina Mcituridze quoted.

The social network "VKontakte" launched a service of history for publishing photographs and videos self -emerging after 24 hours, similar to the Stories section on Instagram. A message about the launch of a new function was published on the social network blog . “You can take photos or shoot videos up to 12 seconds. Add graffiti, stickers or text - tell us about what you are doing now, or congratulate your friends on the upcoming holidays.

The elected US President Donald Trump critically responded to additional sanctions that the congressmen and President Barack Obama proposed to introduce because of the allegedly taking place of Russian intervention in the electoral process in the United States. “I think we should deal with our own life,” Trump said at a meeting with reporters at his estate in Palm Beach, Florida.