President Vladimir Putin said that it is not worth "loading" the oil industry. It is reported by Interfax . Putin urged to leave the tariffs of Russian Railways for the transportation of oil products. According to the president, the increase in tariffs will lead to an increase in the costs of oil workers "for so many indicators." “Why are we, at the expense of the oil industry, will we keep the rest of the economy? We will overload everything there for one industry? ”He asked.

The State Duma on Friday, December 20, adopted in the second and third readings a law that introduces responsibility for public calls for separatism in the Criminal Code. In the first reading, the document was also approved last week, December 17.

The chairman of the Committee of Civil Initiatives (KGI) Alexei Kudrin called the liberation of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky with the main political event of the year. He told about this to the Polit.ru correspondent. Kudrin evaluates the pardon of Mikhail Khodorkovsky positively, although he does not believe that it will somehow affect the Russian investment climate.

The metropolitan police decides on the prosecution of a man who fired during the movement of the wedding motorcade in Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. The police checked 35 participants in the motorcade, one of which, a 29-year-old resident of the Moscow Region, turned out to be a “shooter”. He gave out a traumatic gun not registered in his name - it was from him that he shot several times into the air.

At the Johannesburg airport, the Boeing 474 passenger plane belonging to the British Airways airline crashed into a two -story building, Daily Mail reports. The incident occurred on the night of December 23, when the aircraft ranged into a runway at the JNB airport. Boeing was supposed to fly to London. 182 passengers were on board, all of them were evacuated, no one was injured. According to eyewitnesses, the plane has damaged the wing. The building was not reported about how damage was caused.

Russia will be able to demand from Ukraine to pay the issued loan "on the most stringent legal procedures." This was stated in an interview with Russia 24 television channel First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. So the official answered the question of whether Ukrainians could join the Association with the European Union.

A man who fired at non-departmental security officers upon leaving the territory of the Skolkovo innovation center was a 28-year-old resident of the Moscow Region, a disabled person of group II, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is noted that during the detention, the man received multiple injuries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the State Council criticized the government for non -fulfillment of the May decrees of the last year and demanded to close “normative debts”, Interfax reports. “In general, both the federal and regional authorities do a good job of fulfilling instructions. At the same time, life itself is changing, people do not feel real improvement, representatives of the public regularly indicate this during our meetings, ”the president said.

This year, Mechel's losses reached $ 2.25 billion. This was reported on the company's website . During the year, losses increased four times. At the same time, the revenue of Mechel decreased by 19% and amounted to $ 6.7 billion. The profit of metallurgists fell by 55%, to $ 6-8 million. As the CEO of the company Yevgeny Michel said, losses can be explained by “one -time non -propelled write -offs”, as well as a weak market conjuncture.

Intellectual partner of the project In Russia, a single portal of state support for the innovation business (AIS "Innovation") began work. The Innovation.gov.ru portal was developed by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation for innovative development of Russia until 2020.

The chairman of the State Duma of the sixth convocation, Sergei Naryshkin, instructed the deputies to develop an exam for knowledge of the Russian Constitution for those who wanted to enter the public service, Interfax reports. This order of the speaker is timed to the 20th anniversary of the Constitution and the Russian parliament.

Russia filed its first lawsuit in the WTO, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the deputy head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Likhachev. The lawsuit is addressed to the European Union, Russia requires the cancellation of a package of energy corrections during anti -dumping investigations in relation to domestic enterprises of the metallurgical and chemical sectors.

Coca-Cola will be able to register the original contour of its bottle as a trademark, Izvestia write. The company won Rospatent's dispute on this issue. Previously, Rospatent refused to recognize the bottle of a trademark, stating that it did not have distinctive features and can be used for other drinks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the award by the Order of Alexander Nevsky Academician, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Vladimir Fortov, according to Monday at the official Internet portal of legal information.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky appeared in public-on the eve of the first press conference of the disgraced businessman after his sudden release after a ten-year imprisonment. Before that, he still managed to give a great interview to the chief editor of The New Times, Evgenia Albats. If someone was expecting stunning revelations from the former head of Yukos, the former owner of “factories, newspapers, steamboats”, one of the richest people in the country, then he was disappointed.