On December 19, 2013, in Moscow, in the “President -Hotel”, a ceremony of awarding the winners of the “Innovation Time - 2013 Time” prize was held - an independent award for achievements in the field of innovative activities, which received public and business recognition. The purpose of the award is to identify and encourage the best innovative projects and practices aimed at stimulating and introducing innovative developments.

On December 25, Sergey Belokonev called on all interested parties and bodies (including the presidential administration) to connect to a previously actively criticized strategy of state youth policy in Russia until 2025. According to the media reports, on December 16, the head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, Rosmolodezh, Sergey Belokonev, was sure that the “Russian youth policy strategy until 2025”, prepared by its department, would be approved in early 2014.

On December 24, 2013, in the city of Kurchatov (Kursk region), unified public discussions were held in the form of a round table based on materials for the justification of licenses for the placement of power units No. 1 and No. 2 of the Kursk NPP-2, the press center of the Kursk NPP reports. Round table - a new stage in the preparation of permits for the placement of power units No. 1 and No. 2 of the substitution station of the Kursk NPP -2.

Due to problems with the delivery of UPS and FedEx, thousands of people could not get their Christmas gifts, CBS reports. In the companies themselves, delays were explained by poor weather in a number of US regions, as well as strong workload. How many addressees could not receive gifts on time, the companies were not specified, but, according to the media, we are talking about thousands. “We make every effort to deliver the parcels on time.

2013 became heroic in basic indicators for OJSC "Concern" Rosenergoatom ", the head of the concern, Yevgeny Romanov, said on December 26, commenting on the results of the outgoing year. It is reported by IA REGNUM . The head of the concern noted that the year was even more intense than they expected at the beginning.

The AN-12 military transport aircraft crashed during the flight from the factory of the Novosibirsk airfield Yeltsovka to the Irkutsk-2 airfield, Interfax reports with reference to the source in the emergency services of the Irkutsk region. The plane crashed at the airport in Irkutsk. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the pilots, presumably, died. There were six crew people aboard.

The General Director of SNIIP OJSC Igor Burtsev commented on the results of 2013. 2013 was difficult for our institute, but productive. SNIIP OJSC took part in competitive procedures with a victory coefficient of more than 75% (contracting this year in the amount of over 2.6 billion rubles). We entered a new site for ourselves - designing control and control systems of nuclear power plants.

The Ministry of Economic Development advocated a decrease in the threshold for non-taxable recovery of Internet purchases to 150 euros. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the deputy minister Alexei Likhachev. The official explained that such an idea is discussed in a working order. Likhachev noted that the mayor does not consider it necessary to reduce the duty -free threshold of the duty rate of 30%that operating after excess.

Intellectual partner of the project The Russian Ministry of Education and Science will create a special Internet portal to observe the work of the dissertation councils, simplifying the submission of documents for the scientific degree of the candidate and the Doctor of Sciences and discuss dissertations. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Lyudmila Venodova .

The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs freed from the guard of lawyer Elena Tishchenko, who is accused of laundering funds stolen by the ex-head of BTA-Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov, Kommersant reports. Despite the extension of Tishchenko’s detention by the court until February 2014, the investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs changed the preventive measure for a recognizance not to leave due to the fact that the woman is actively cooperating with the investigation.

The cause of the AN-12 transport aircraft in Irkutsk, according to preliminary data, was a technical malfunction, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the Russian aircraft industry. A source of the agency noted that the plane was piloted by an experienced crew, which repeatedly performed flights along the route, and the weather at the airport was satisfactory.

Apple will pay Taiwan to the authorities of Taiwan 670 thousand dollars for interfering in the country's pricing policy, reports The Wall Street Journal. The decision on the fine was made by a fair trade commission. FTC considered that Apple violated article 18 of the act of fair trade. The company intervened in the price policy of the three main operators Taiwan Chungwa Telecom, Far Eastone Telecommunication and Taiwan Mobile.

To replace the Ground Forces of the Ground forces of the Ground Forces of Colonel General Vladimir Chirkin, who resigned in connection with the case of a bribe, the commander of the troops of the Central Military District, General Nikolai Bogdanovsky, Kommersant reports. Information about the change of work of General Bogdanovsky was confirmed by the sources of the publication to the Ministry of Defense.

The traffic police who shot down the Novosibirsk inspector Olga Melnichenko, who, after the accident, wrote to her friend SMS “Zay, I killed the cop”, was released, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the senior inspector of the GUFSIN in the Kemerovo region Alena Sobolev. According to her, the girl completely left for the appointed deadline, after which she was released from a correctional institution in October, but this became known only now.

The Russian ship “Academician of Shokalsky”, blocked by ice in one and a half thousand kilometers from the southern coast of Australia, will be able to independently get out of ice captivity when a wind change, Interfax reports with reference to the representative of the Far Eastern Regional Research Hydrometeorological Institute, which belongs to the ship. According to the representative of the DVNIGMI, at present the east wind holds the ice fields.