New Year holidays in 2015 will last 11 days. This was reported by RBC with reference to the draft resolution on the postponement of the weekend, introduced by the Ministry of Labor to the Government of the Russian Federation. According to the resolution, the Ministry of Labor offers weekends on January 3 and 4 (Saturday and Sunday), coinciding with non -working holidays, to transfer to January 9 and May 4, respectively.

When a passenger aircraft is entered at Anapa Airport, unknown people tried to blind pilots with a laser. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The incident occurred on the evening of August 19. The aircraft followed Anapa from Vnukovo. There were 26 people on board. The crew completed the standard. The circumstances of the incident are established. Which airline was performed by the flight, is not specified.

Igor Svinarenko Yugoslavia was here The second part of the conversation from the “Drinking” cycle of the writer and journalist Igor Svinarenko with the Croatian diplomat and intellectual God Kovachevich . Between the war in Yugoslavia and today's events on the Donbassa, whatever one may say, and the similarity is visible, so it is time to remember how it was and how it ended . The first part of the conversation BOOO KOVACHEVICH : ... Then the States refused Milosevich in support.

Member of the Commission for the Development of the real sector of the economy of the Public Chamber of Russia, Mikhail Lermontov, said that public dealers are offered to ban the purchase of imported drinks for protocol events, Izvestia writes. In the near future, the commission headed by Lermontov will discuss this initiative and offer for consideration to the State Duma. According to him, officials can do with vodka and Crimean wines.

In the American city of St. Louis (Missouri), police shot a 23-year-old man, reports CNN . According to her, the policeman opened fire on the African American, allegedly threatening the guard of order with a knife. From the wounds received, the man died on the spot. According to the head of the police department of St.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev will hold a meeting on the integrated development of new territories of Moscow on August 20, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reports. The meeting will also be attended by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services Mikhail Men, Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and head of state corporations.

Tajik migrants in Moscow Polit.ru offers your attention the five news of the day. The selection included the three most read news, one news selected by the editorial office, and the most unusual , in our opinion, news today. 1. Tajik diaspora planned a 100-thousandth rally in Moscow The public movement " Tajik labor migrants " plans to hold a mass action in Moscow in defense of the rights of workers in the fall of 2014. This was reported on August 20, the Rain television channel.

Unknown people fired at the morgue in Honduras-nine people died, including seven relatives of the murdered man who came to take his body, reports on Wednesday the AP agency with reference to the head of the local medical examination service. The incident occurred on Tuesday in the city of San Pedro-Sul in the northwest of the country. According to the head of the forensic medical examination of the city, five armed people in masks drove up to the morgue in two cars and opened fire.

The fact that the world, and after it, the Russian economy crept into depression is already an obvious fact. There is no growth anywhere except China and the countries of Southeast Asia. Yes, and this growth is, so to speak, the “parasitic” nature - using the cheapness of their labor and, accordingly, the low cost of finished products, manufacturers of July countries capture the markets of developed countries, aggravating the already difficult situation of these economies.

Photo: King's College London The characteristics of children's drawings allow us to evaluate the intellectual development of their authors in ten years, shows the study of psychologists from the royal college in London. To establish this, the researchers conducted tests with 7752 pairs of the same -eating and multi -tier twins. Four -year -old children were invited to draw a child. The drawings were evaluated on a 12-point scale, depending on the presence and desired number of parts of the body.

The area of ​​forest fires in the Siberian Federal District increased threefold per day, as of August 20, 137 forest fires with a total area of ​​11270.6 hectares were recorded. This was reported by the press service of the Department of Rosleskhoz for the Siberian Federal District. Over the past day, the area of ​​forest fires in the Siberian Federal District grew 3.1 times - in the morning of Tuesday 3625.6 hectares of forest burned.

The crisis energy headquarters, created by order of the Ukrainian government under the chairmanship of Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman, begins the information campaign “Energy Independence of Ukraine” to tell the public about the need to save gas, writes RIA Novosti . The campaign will use both direct advertising and informing citizens, business and state bodies about the need to save energy and replace gas with other types of fuel, which are enough in Ukraine.

In the Moscow region, unknown people raid the construction site and stole about 80 metal floors for a pedestrian bridge. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The attack occurred on the night of August 20. Several robbers penetrated the construction site located on the 45th kilometer of the bypass road of the Simferopol highway in the Podolsky district of the Moscow Region.

As a result of an Israeli air strike in the capital of the Gaza Strip, a woman and a child were killed and 16 more people were injured, AFP reports, citing doctors. It was previously reported that the Israeli army launched a retaliatory strike on the Gaza Strip after three rockets were fired from there towards Israel. The corresponding order to the Israeli army was given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Having stopped flights due to EU sanctions, the Dobrolet Lawkoster began to study options for resuming activities. The Board of Directors of the airline discussed the possibility of re-registering the company to a new legal entity or switching from Boeing aircraft to Russian SSJ-100, but did not make a certain decision, Kommersant writes.