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.

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.

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.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev demanded that the government begin to fulfill the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, voiced by him in the Address of the Federal Assembly, RIA Novosti reports. “Vice-premiers, ministers, and heads of departments, in accordance with the spheres of their competence, must already direct their activities to the fulfillment of the goals that the president in the message,” Medvedev said at a government meeting on Thursday.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 head of the Lithuanian Seima National Security Committee, Arthrats Paulausskas, announced the disclosure in the Baltic Republic of the Belarusian Spy Network, Delfi.lt reports. Earlier, the capture of two people was reported - a sanitary inspector from Kaunas, detained in January, and an electrician from the ORO Navigacija enterprise.

The inhabitants of New York, dissatisfied with the justifying verdict for a policeman who strangled the African American Eric Garner, began to gather in the area of ​​the Grand Central station for a spontaneous protest. It is reported by Reuters . Currently, citizens shout slogans. Police officers who have been in the station do not take active actions in relation to the audience. Another action continues in the Stamiten Island area at the place where the murder occurred.

Participants in the search operation discovered the bodies of four more crew members of the South Korean trawler "Orieng-501", which crashed in the Bering Sea near the shores of Chukotka. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the marine coordination and rescue reporter of the port administration Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka Arthur Retz.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case on the fact of an attack on police officers in Grozny, which occurred on the night of December 4. This is stated in the message posted on the official website of the department. The case was opened under Articles 317, 208, 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“ALIVERY OF THE LIFE OF Employees of the Law Enforcement Authority, the organization of illegal armed formation or the participation of weapons in it”).