The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation rejected the initiative to pay students to students of scholarships, taking into account the average point. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the department.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the expansion of the Customs Union will benefit the entire region, RIA Novosti reports. “I am convinced that the expansion of the number of members of the Eurasian association will benefit not only the participants themselves, but also the region as a whole. Of course, subject to all the requirements of our organization, ”Putin said during a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation determined the necessary list of clothing allocated by the state by the prisoners of correctional colonies and prisons. This was reported by the press service of the department. The corresponding order “On the approval of the norms of the clothing allowance of convicts to imprisonment and persons contained in the investigative insulators” was registered by the Ministry of Justice on December 19 of the current year.

The government received the Rosalkolregulilation to lead the work on the preparations for the bill of deputy Viktor Zvagelsky “On the restriction of retail sale and consumption of non -alcoholic products”, which could be the first step to transfer the segment of non -alcoholic power engineers under the control of the alcoholic regulator, Izvestia reported.

Ex-employee of the American special services Edward Snowden said he considers his mission to be fulfilled, reports The Washington Post . In an interview with the newspaper, Snowden said that in terms of personal satisfaction, his mission was fulfilled: "I have already won." According to the author of mass revelations, he wanted to give society the opportunity to independently decide whether he should change.

Former US CIA employee Edward Snowden will congratulate the residents of Great Britain on Christmas, in his appeal, which will show Channel 4 on December 25, he will talk about the threats of total surveillance in the world, AP reports. Snowden's appeal was recorded with the participation of American journalist Laura Poratras in Russia. In it, a former employee of the special services talks about the risks associated with the loss of the right to the secret of private life.

The left and right are Montecki and Capuletti of modern political mythology. In four senses at once. Firstly, the plague is for both of them at home. Secondly, due to the archaic of the confrontation-taking into account the accelerating historical time, a comparison with the Trojans and Achaeans would be even more correct. Thirdly, by the intransigence and depths of fundamental contradictions - I want to recall the Swift stupids and witnesses.

Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov died on the evening of December 23 at the 95th year of his life in the clinical and diagnostic center of Udmurtia on the evening of December 23. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health of the Republic reported the exact time of the death of the legendary gunsmith - it was not at 19 hours 14 minutes.

Materials of the criminal case against ex-employees of the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused of fraudulent embezzlement of sheets and towels totaling 5.5 million rubles were sent to the Lublin court of Moscow, Kommersant reports.

The State Duma deputy from the United Russia party, Yevgeny Fedorov, proposed to cancel the priority of international law on national law, Izvestia reports.

During the analysis of the rubble formed as a result of the explosion of the police building in the Egyptian city of El-Mansur of the province of Dacaly, the bodies of 14 dead were found, the Associated Press reports. Earlier it was reported about 11 dead. The number of wounded exceeds 100 people. Most of the dead and victims are police officers. The main version of the explosion is the operation of an explosive device in a car parked near the building.

The raiders stole over four million rubles from carriers of money in Moscow The attackers stole 4.2 million rubles during an armed attack on carriers of money on Tikhoretsky Boulevard in the southeast of Moscow. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the metropolitan police.

The head of the missionary department of the Tomsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Maxim Stepanenko was dismissed from his position and transferred to the position of an ordinary employee of the department, Interfax reports. The corresponding order was given by Metropolitan of Tomsk and Asinovsky Rostislav in connection with Stepanenko’s statements about single mothers.

The Federal Reserve Service of the United States decided to gradly terminate the third round of the quantitative softening program that began in September 2012. This round was that the Fed monthly bought bonds of the US government and mortgage bonds, reinvested income in its portfolio of securities in the same bonds and held the basic interest rate at 0.25% per annum.

Maria Alekhina Maria Alekhina Photo: Grani.ru Polit.ru talked with the Pussy Riot group Maria Alekhina, who was released on December 23 from an amnesty colony. Maria, tell me, what do you think, has the excitement ruined around your process of the meaning of the same action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior? It depends on what to understand by this. Of course, I am aware that the broad masses did not understand our action, but something important happened.