More than thirty Russian filmmakers turned to the head of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev with a request to shift from the post of the head of the State Film Fund Nikolai Borodachev and to appoint the head of the Department of Cinematics of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Telnov instead.

“Four days ago I expressed timid - very timid, contrary to common sense and internal logic of rotting of the“ this country ”(TM) - hope for a“ miracle that sometimes happens. ”Alas. Alas. Comrade Grudinin was enough for four days and three interviews in the media in order to exhaustively explain to me - miracles are canceled,” the historian writes in his blog .

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the ceremonial form of Russian athletes for the 2018 Olympic Games in South Korea. This was announced on Friday by the head of the ZASPORT ekiper Anastasia Zadorina. "We are opening an equipment center for athletes who will go to the Olympics. The design of the form is approved by the IOC, we received official confirmation from them.

US President Donald Trump said that he was disappointed with continuing oil supplies from China to North Korea bypassing the sanctions of the UN Security Council, and threatened to tighten the approach to trade with China. He stated this in an interview with The New York Times . “I am disappointed. You know that deliveries are ongoing,” Trump said, explaining his tweet , in which he said that the PRC authorities continue to supply oil to the DPRK.

In Australia, an elderly couple won a chic mansion in the lottery for $ 4.1 million. Pensioners bought a lottery ticket on the eve of Christmas and did not even imagine that luck would soon smile at them. In addition to the mansion, the couple will get another 80 thousand dollars in gold ingots. The popular in Australia, the RSL Art Union lottery annually plays luxurious real estate worth more than $ 26 million.

From January 1, 2018, a restriction on the assembly of cars that do not comply with local environmental standards begins to operate in China. In this regard, the China since the New Year prohibits the production of 553 models of different brands, Bloomberg reports. According to the agency, this list includes, in particular, Audi, Shevrolet, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and BMW, as well as Chinese FAW.

On the eve of the New Year, Yandex launched a service that generates congratulatory music clips, and is performed by their voice assistant Alice, recently criticized by the head of Sberbank by German Gref. According to N+1 , the Yandex service generates short clips in which Alice reads poems from search queries composed by Yandex Autopoem . The music used for the background was composed using a neural network, which was trained on melodies of various genres.

In Yekaterinburg, the prosecutor’s office launched a criminal case against a construction company, which back in 2012 undertook to build floating houses on the lake. The houses were supposed to appear on the shores of Lake Berezovoy in the Oktyabrsky district of Yekaterinburg. Buyers were promised a "picturesque secluded place", the low cost of apartments, convenient transport accessibility and a guarantee of up to 70 years.

Russian biathlonists Ekaterina Yurlova -Perkht and Alexei Volkov became the winners of the Christmas race - a commercial competition, traditionally held since 2002 at a football stadium in German Gelsenkirchen. According to the press service of the Biathlon Union , the Russians excited the results of the mass start and the persecution race, in which they showed the result of 33 minutes 21.4 seconds, allowing one mistake in eight fire borders.

The American company Genovation Cars announced an ambulance premiere of the GXE electric sports car, created on the basis of the Chevrolet Corvette C7 Grand Sport, which will be more powerful and faster than the new generation Corvette ZR1 . The novelty is promised to present at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) consumer electronics exhibition in Las Vegas on January 9.

A Taxist woman from Rostov-on-Don returned to customers the money forgotten in the passenger compartment-4 million rubles. Those limited themselves to oral gratitude, and the employer wrote to her a prize, reports 161.ru. The driver of Oksana Milovanov drove a married couple to the bus station - they were afraid to be late and quickly left the salon. After the order, she stopped onto the car wash and found a black cellophane bag in the cabin.

The Skipa team Victoria Moiseeva defeated the team of Anna Sidorova in the struggle for the right to speak at the main start of the four -year -old - Winter Olympic Games in 2018 in Pyeongchang. The Kerling’s qualifying tournament among the women's teams in the Sochi Kerling Center "Ice Cube" ended in five matches of the series to four victories (4-1), the press service of the Russian Cerling Federation informs.

Inflation in the Russian Federation in 2017 amounted to 2.5% - at least in the entire recent history, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said. True, according to experts, this is not for long.

At Bangkok Airport, a family of Zimbabwe citizens who live there for several months were accidentally discovered. Four adults and four children arrived in the capital of Thailand in May and tried several times to go to third countries, but again ended up in Bangkok. They refuse to return to their homeland due to fear of persecution.

The idea to release foreign exchange bonds that would greatly simplify the Russian business elite to the return of monetary assets from abroad, belongs to the owner of the ECT group and the RBC media holding Grigory Berezkin, Reuters reports with reference to several sources. This information was also confirmed by a federal official in an interview with Vedomosti .