The Central Bank, under the conditions of the ruble devaluation, is ready to make currency interventions without volume restrictions, the press service of the Bank of Russia reports. According to the regulator, the current ruble course deviated from the fundamentally sound values ​​and its further devaluation creates the prerequisites for the risk of financial stability in the country.

Georgia significantly reduced the number of flights of Russian airlines, Kommersant reports. At the request of the national carrier of Georgian Airways, the country's civil aviation agency refused to resolve regular flights in Tbilisi Transaero, and also reduced the number of Aeroflot and Siberia flights from 14 to 10 per week from December 8. According to Transaero sold to tickets, passengers will be able to fly away with charter flights.

The residence of the Ukrainian Santa Claus near Kiev will not work this year, since the funds intended for its financing were aimed at conducting a special operation in the Donbass. This was reported by the RSN with reference to the source "Ukrposhta". Ukrposhta did not exclude that children who decided to send letters to Santa Claus this year will not receive an answer due to the lack of financing of this area.

An international group of scientists from Poland, Switzerland, Norway and the United States established that under certain conditions, people can see infrared light. Using the retinal cells of mice and people, as well as infrared lasers, the researchers found that when laser impulses follow quickly, retinal photosensitive cells sometimes get a double infrared radiation blow. When this happens, the eye is able to detect light, which goes beyond the visible area of ​​the spectrum.

The fault for the record fall of the Russian ruble lies with foreign investment funds that carry out a coordinated attack on national currency through their agents and financial intermediaries in Russia. This was stated by the head of the foreign intelligence service of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov, reports Bloomberg . So he commented on information about speculation with the Russian currency. “Any speculations have specific schemes, and the schemes have participants,” he said.

A group of researchers in Leiden studied the collection of the famous anthropologist Eugene Dubois , who in 1890 on the island of Java found the remains of a representative of the hominids. Dubua gave him the name Pithecantropus Erectus - the monkey -man is eager. Now Pithecanthropus is considered a Javanese variety of the species of homo erectus "Direct man." Dubois collections are stored in Leiden in the Naturalis Biodield Center Museum.

The MiG-29 plane crashed in the Moscow region, both pilots managed to eject, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Moscow Region told Interfax . The law enforcement agencies said that the pilots diagnosed compression injuries of the spine. It is noted that one of the pilots was taken to a local hospital, the other will soon be evacuated to Moscow due to its extremely serious condition.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to introduce certification of medical workers. He announced this when the annual message was announced to the Federal Assembly on the air of the Rossiya TV channel. Putin emphasized that medical care should not be imitated. “In the social sphere, you cannot imitate attention to people, we must recall such a concept as a reputation,” the president explained.

President Vladimir Putin during the message to the Federal Assembly promised that the Matkapla program would be saved until 2017. The President noted that in the near future it is planned to bring the average life expectancy in Russia to 74 years. Putin announced 2015 by the year of combating cardiovascular diseases.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the doubling of road construction for the development of regions and economic independence. He announced this when the annual message was announced to the Federal Assembly on the air of the Rossiya TV channel . “The subjects of the federation should come close to putting the roads in order, for this additional sources of filling in road funds are allocated,” Putin said.

The Government of the Russian Federation distributed 92 billion rubles of subsidies to support agriculture in the regions of the country. This was reported by the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on the announcement of the "Day of Silence" in the east of the country on December 9, the press service of the head of the Ukrainian state reports. On Thursday, Petro Poroshenko held a meeting with the heads of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, during which measures were determined to ensure the implementation of the Minsk agreements on the “Day of Silence”.

Since 2015, Russian state -owned companies will in legislatively purchase part of goods and services from representatives of small and medium -sized businesses. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to a source in the state apparatus. According to the interlocutor of the publication, a government decree providing for the introduction of quotas for the specified purchases was under consideration at a meeting at the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov.

The United States does not achieve the international isolation of Russia, said US Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OSCE in Basel, RIA Novosti reports. “The United States and countries that support Ukraine sovereignty are not striving for confrontation. We do not have such an intention to isolate Russia in connection with its actions, ”Kerry explained.

The Armenian parliament on Thursday ratified the Republic’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union, Interfax reports. For the adoption of the document, 103 deputies voted, against seven. Three more parliamentarians abstained. The Armenian joining Treaty to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) was concluded on October 10. The corresponding order was previously signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.