The EU authorities have again tightened anti -tobacco legislation, reports EURONEWS . The production and sale of flavored cigarettes was prohibited. The ban will enter into force in 2016 and will spread to cigarettes with the smell of vanilla and fruits. Already in 2020, menthol products will be banned for sale. Information about the dangers of smoking according to the new rules should occupy at least two -thirds of the area of ​​a cigarette pack.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the main advantage of joining the World Trade Organization. According to him, the most important thing is an increase in confidence in the Russian economy, "since we begin to work according to general rules." Putin assured that joining the WTO will protect Russian goods in international markets, for example, chemical products and metal products. “Our European partners still impede the receipt of our fertilizers on the market under various pretexts.

There are no uncomfortable questions for President Vladimir Putin, and a rich practice of press conferences proves this. The presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said this in an interview with Russia 24 . Peskov added that such conferences give Putin the opportunity to find out about what is currently happening in the country. The press secretary noted that possible issues are carefully predicted before press conferences.

The leadership of Russian correctional colonies will produce amnestied prisoners without delay. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the Administration of the sentences and special accounting of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Sergei Esipov. According to Esipov, the administration of the relevant institutions is not interested in delaying the deadlines for the application of the amnesty act.

The Ministry of Regional Development called the 20 most effective constituent entities of Russia, reports Prime . Tatarstan took the first place in the ranking. In second place was the Belgorod region, and in the third - the Voronezh region.

For the first time, a club from South America could not break into the final of the club football championship . The second semifinal duel between the Moroccan Raja Casablanca and the Brazilian “Atleiro Mineiro” ended with the victory of “Casablanca” with a score of 3: 1. On the 51-minute, the score was opened by the Yajur, but Ronaldino managed to restore the balance on 64-minute.

Russian President Vladimir Putin began the ninth large press conference, which takes place at the Center for International Trade. The hall contains a record number of journalists - 1382 people, 10% of them are represented by foreign publications. Putin will not be able to answer all questions, so the urnalists try to attract the attention of the president with bright tablets. Journalists are selected by Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, as well as sometimes Putin himself.

At least 41 people died as a result of a series of terrorist attacks in Iraq, AFP reports. In particular, 20 Shiite pilgrims were killed when a suicide bomber undermined himself in one of the tents, in which Shiites stopped on the way to the city of Karbel. In addition, at least 40 people received injuries as a result of the explosion. Two explosions also occurred in the cities of Yusifiy and El Latifia-16 more people became their victims, about 40 were injured.

The Russian Orthodox Church believes that law enforcement officers need to deal with the staging of the play “Perfect Husband” at the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov. This was stated by the head of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church and the Company Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Interfax reports. “From my point of view, there was a desecration of a crucifix symbol when something similar to him was portrayed by an almost completely undressed woman,” he explained.

A group of Brazilian zoologists published an article in the Journal of Mammlicy, where it reported the opening of a new type of tapir. Earlier, four of the existing species belonging to the genus of tapirs were known: the Chera Tapir lives in Southeast Asia, the Central American, equal and mountain tapirs in America. Tapir number five received the name of a small black tapir, or Tapirus kabomani .

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow stopped the criminal prosecution of four defendants in the case of riots in Bolotnaya Square in May 2012, Interfax reports. By court decision, Maria Baronova, Nikolai Caucasian, Leonid Kovyazin and Vladimir Akimenkov were amnestied. The last two are released from custody in the courtroom. The State Duma on December 18 declared an amnesty dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Russian Constitution.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the state would not nationalize Gazprom and the property of the oligarchic layer. Journalist Maria Solovyenko from Vladivostok asked Putin to “take everything away” from the oligarchs, and then grateful Russians will appoint Putin the “honorary lifelong president of Russia”. Putin recalled that the people belong to the people under the Constitution, but they must be used correctly. He recalled that Gazprom’s control package was returned to the state.

Putin once again talked with reporters at a press conference . Already the beginning of a presidential conversation was fascinating. “It should be noted that agriculture, workers of the village, of course, seriously helped the economy in general.” But the main thing is still politics, even when Putin spoke of the economy, he still talked about politics. What can you do, such a position has such a genre.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych said that a package of documents signed on Tuesday in Moscow does not contradict the course of Kiev on European integration. “There is no contrast to any exchange rate of Ukraine on any integration. Here we are not talking about integration, we are talking about economic relations, ”Yanukovych said in an interview with Ukrainian television channels.

Scientists have found that a number of genes related to adaptation to ultravioletus went to some people from Neanderthals. Intellectual partner of the project In 2010, he was read by the Neanderthal genome . It was an ambitious and difficult task; Its main complexity was in the mediocre state of DNA in fossil samples. After the genome was read, it became possible to compare it with the genome of modern people.