Intellectual partner of the project Four hours of work in the garden, three hours of leisurely walking or an hour of running a cowardly per week by 31% reduce the risk of kidney stones in women. This was found out by American researchers from the school of medicine at the University of Washington. According to one of the research leaders, Dr. Matthew Sorensen, on the contrary, high -calorie food and lack of physical activity increase the likelihood of kidney stones.

The State Duma in the third final reading adopted a law obliging to use transparent voting boxes in elections and referenda, RIA Novosti reports. According to adopted amendments, the CEC should purchase boxes for voting from transparent and translucent material until December 31, 2014. Funds for these purposes will go from the federal budget funds, and order technological equipment, including voting boxes, the CEC will have to be in the “inter -election” period.

The American missile cruiser barely escaped a clash with the Chinese warship in the neutral waters of the South China Sea, reports Reuters with reference to the statement of the command of the US Pacific Fleet. The incident occurred on December 5th. The American cruiser Cowpens had to take an unplanned maneuver in order to get away from a collision with a Chinese ship, the name and type of which are not specified.

Everyone should stay in Russia for the New Year, said the main person in ideologically verified trolling. That is, the former chief sanitary doctor, and now assistant to the prime minister, Gennady Onishchenko. “You shouldn’t go to the sea. The stress associated with sudden climate change in the middle of winter is unnecessary. This is a serious test even for a practically healthy person,” he told Interfax on Friday. “Spend these days in the climate zone in which you are located.

The Central Bank revoked the license to carry out banking operations from the Moscow Investment Bank as of December 13, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the regulator’s message. Investment Bank ranks 80th among the largest banks in Russia with assets of 75.6 billion rubles, and is also a participant in the deposit insurance system. Investment Bank on Thursday suspended banking operations in Kaliningrad due to panic among depositors, but reported taking measures to restore liquidity.

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The company "Intellectual and Description Bureau", created by the St. Petersburg branch of the Rodina party, appealed to Rospatent with a request to register the trademark "Without the use of the labor of migrants", the newspaper RBC Daily reports. In case of registration, a trademark will be able to use companies that do not use the work of illegal migrants in the manufacture of their products or the provision of services.

The oil and gas company. Rosneft will conduct a corporate celebration of the New Year at the expense of employees, RIA Novosti reports. This year, state -owned workers for the first time voluntarily participate in celebrations. On the fifth of December, Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at a press conference of the “All-Russian Popular Front” “Forum of Actions”, called for the New Year's corporate parties at the expense of state-owned companies, and not from the state budget.

In January 2014, a bill will be submitted to the State Duma, proposing to foresee in the legislation the normative definition of the concept of “irresultative (ineffective) use of budget funds”, Izvestia write with reference to a source in the chamber. At the same time, the interlocutor of the publication in the White House explained that this bill was prepared as part of the execution of the instruction of President Vladimir Putin, which he gave at the State Council in October this year.

Russian swimmer Evgeny Korotyshkin won the gold medal of the European Championship at a distance of 100 meters of Butterflya, RIA Novosti reports. The first place Korotyshkin brought the result of 49.68 seconds. The second place was taken by Gervia from France with a result of 5.09 seconds. The third was the German Steffan Dabbler with a result of 50.23 seconds. The European Swimming Championship in short water is held in Danish Herning.

Moscow is ready to sign an agreement on facilitating visa formalities with the European Union, and begin negotiations on concluding an agreement on visa -free regime, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Alexei Meshkov. Meshkov raised this topic in negotiations in Athens in connection with the upcoming chairmanship of Greece in the European Union.

Intellectual partner of the project Specialists of the NASA space flight center Susan Strahan and Natalya Kramarova studied in detail the ozone hole over Antarctica and came to the conclusion that a decrease in chlorine level in the atmosphere, which occurs thanks to the Montreal protocol on the protection of the ozone layer of the Earth, until it affects the size of the ozone hole.

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a peace treaty with the M23 group, Reuters reports with reference to the representative of the President of the country Manoa Eskis. According to him, the agreement between the parties was signed in Nairobi. It implies the dissolution of the armed group, its demobilization and rejection of violence as a method of action.

The Russian team set a world record at the European Swimming Championship in short water, RIA Novosti reports. In a mixed relay with a complex swimming of 4x50 meters, Russians showed the result of 1 minute 37.63 seconds, improving the time of the world record by 0.21 seconds. The “gold” of the European Championship in the mixed relay of Russia was brought by Vitaly Melnikov, Julia Efimova, Svetlana Chimrov, Vladimir Morozov.

Hip-hop to the performer Roma Zhigan (Chumakov) is charged with robbery, Interfax reports with reference to the leader of the ethnopolitical movement “Russians” Dmitry Demushkin . According to him, the accusation of the rapper was brought under the second part of Article 162 of the Criminal Code. He faces up to 10 years in prison. In the near future, the corresponding preventive measure will be chosen. Chumakov refused to testify.