On Monday, on Monday, the cost of Brent oil futures with the supply in February 2019 during trading on the ICE exchange in London sank by 6.32% and amounted to $ 50.42 per barrel, TASS reports with reference to trading data on Monday. The last time the oil price of this variety was below the level of $ 51 per barrel on August 31, 2017. The price of a WTI oil futures fell by 5.66%, to 43.01 dollars per barrel.

The Russian authorities intend to introduce into the legislation the norm on the mandatory equipment of trucks in Russia sensors for measuring the axial load to combat the advantage, they write Vedomosti . According to the publication, such a proposal is contained in the passport of the National Project "Safe and high -quality roads", which the government must approve on December 24.

Last week, a video blogger and former NASA engineer Mark Robert published a video on his YouTube channel, dedicated to the fight against thefts of parcels, which couriers in the United States leave on the thresholds of houses. Robert constructed the heading parcel, which was a “bomb” scattering sparkles, and removed the reaction of several thieves, flattered to the device disguised as Apple Homepod.

The Secretary Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Thomas Greminger is afraid of exacerbation of relations between Moscow and Kiev in the absence of political will to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. The Swiss diplomat said this in an interview with the German newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

"I read:" Trump gives Syria to Iran and Russia. "In my opinion, nonsense. Russia will not contain Assad’s regime. If in Soviet times such support around the world was from the state budget, now the Russian political establishment considers this budget to its common fund and just does not want charity from its own pockets. Share with people. ")" - writes an orientalist on his Facebook page.

Google did not appeal the penalty of 500 thousand rubles assigned to Roskomnadzor for failure to comply with Russian legislation to remove references to the resources prohibited in Russia. “We can confirm that we decided not to dispute the fine, we will pay it,” the company’s press service told TASS. Recall, Roskomnadzor on December 11 fined Google half a million rubles for non -alignment of the federal state information system (FGIS) to receive information about blocked sites.

From January 1, 2019, the First Deputy Minister of Defense of the United States will become the acting head of the Pentagon after the departure of this position James Mattis. This was announced on Sunday on his Twitter President Donald Trump. “I am glad to announce that the talented First Deputy Minister of Defense Patrick Shanakhan will become the acting head of the Pentagon from January 1, 2019.

Denis Dragunsky “The death of fact, post-truth and other nasty things appeared a very long time ago. The victorious communists brought this to the world. All the statistics of the Soviet era are complete lies, manipulation, fabrication, etc. Starting from economic growth figures and ending with “friendship of peoples,” the writer notes on on your Facebook page. “Economic indicators were inflated by 2-4 times.

The Olympic champion in Biathlon Anton Shipulin in the near future plans to announce the completion of a sports career, says the URA.RU portal. According to the source, the 31-year-old athlete had heart problems. This season, a native of Tyumen did not take part in the competition of the World Cup. Instead, the biathlonist is preparing to speak at the Christmas Race commercial tournament, which will be held on December 29 in Germany.

The head of the female correctional colony number 14 in Mordovia Yuri Kupriyanov and several of his subordinates were removed from the performance of duties after checking the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), during which information was confirmed about the actually slave labor conditions of convicted women. This was announced by the deputy director of the FSIN Valery Maksimenko to reporters on December 24.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets headed the organizing committee of the 2019 Winter Universiade, replacing Vitaly Mutko, who was removed from the organizing committee, as chairman. As TASS notes, the decree on changes to the composition of the organizing committee was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. Let us recall that last week Mutko lost the post of president of the Russian Football Union, which he previously held for many years.

The Primorsky Regional Court lifted the arrest from illegally caught killer whales and Belukh in the Primorsky Territory contained in the center of overexposure. Interim measures were imposed on more than 100 marine mammals about a month ago. "In the seizure of property to be canceled, the investigator to refuse to satisfy the request of the investigator," the court press secretary Yana Sheremet told TASS on December 24.

On December 21, the Tver Court of Moscow was detained by the police detained by the general director of the City Landowners Association and the City Reconstruction of five -story buildings Valery Chernyshov. A criminal case of fraud has been instituted against the businessman.

The authorities of South Korea fined the German BMW Auto Concert for 11.2 billion won (approximately $ 9.93 million) for an unexplored malfunction, as a result of which numerous cases of car fire were recorded, Vedomosti write. According to Yonhap , this year in South Korea, about 40 cases of fire of BMW cars fire were recorded. In August, the company announced the recall of 100 thousand cars.

The Presidential Administration recommended that the regions introduce posts responsible for Internet communication under governors.