The President of the Boeing International and the head of the strategic and business planning unit of the Corporation Shepard Hill announced his intention to resign on April 1, 2015, reports PRNewswire with reference to the company's press release. 62-year-old Hill held key positions in Boeing over the past 18 years. Since 2006, he has occupied one of the seats in the executive council of the company.

The Government of the Russian Federation proposed to allow advertising the wine of domestic production on television and radio. The corresponding bill is posted on the Cabinet website. The United Russia faction from the State Duma deputies Viktor Zvagelsky and Elena Nikolaeva, as well as the fair Rosse Vladimir Mashkarin, was supplemented with the bill in the government to amend the Federal Law “On Advertising”.

The President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev announced the possibility of filing a claim against American tennis players Serena and Vinus Williams. It is reported by TASS . “The Russian Tennis Federation is now deciding whether we will sue the Williams sisters on a biased attitude,” Tarpishchev explained.

The anti-terrorist operation (ATO) in the southeast of Ukraine cost Kiev 100 million hryvnias or about 6.3 million dollars daily, TASS reports with reference to the statement of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. According to the president on Saturday at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (National Security and Defense Council) of Ukraine, the costs of the ATO are “a huge amount for our country. But we will not save on defense.

The Europeans got acquainted with the avocado after the Spanish conquistadors penetrated Mexico at the beginning of the 16th century. This fruit was the first to mention Martin Fernandez de Ensiso in the book “The Summer of Geography, which talks about all the provinces and parts of the world”, published in Seville in 1519. Soon, the testimony of another author appears - Gonzalo Fernandez de Ovedo, who writes in 1526: “In the center of the fetus there is a seed similar to a purified chestnut.

The Federation of Jewish communities of the Czech Republic objected to the decision of the President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman to invite his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin to events dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust next month, Bloomberg reports. The possible visit of Vladimir Putin to Prague of the Czech Jewish community considered the "inappropriate".

In Berlin, unknown people tried to rob a fashionable shopping center, reports Focus Online . As a result, at least 11 people suffered from the use of tear gas. Four armed men in masks took part in the attack on Kadewe's shopping center. The attack lasted a few minutes, after which the criminals disappeared in a passenger car. How much money the robbers managed to carry away is not yet reported. Currently, all the circumstances of the incident are being clarified.

In the Tutaevsky district of the Yaroslavl region, the driver of a foreign car died in an accident involving a Passzhir bus. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region. According to the press service, on the evening of December 19, on 43 kilometers of the Yaroslavl-Rybinsk highway, the driver of the Renault Sandero car lost control and drove into the oncoming lane.

On Saturday, the operator of the Fukushima-1 emergency nuclear power plant announced a complete removal of nuclear fuel from one of the four nuclear power plants, Kyodo News reports. In total, 1535 fuel rods were extracted from the fourth reactor basin. At the same time, 1331 the rod was previously in the active zone of the reactor, and another 204 were never used. As noted in the company Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), cleaning the premises of the fourth power unit took a year.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said that the indexation of pensions in the country in 2015 would require an additional 112 billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports. “The amendments will be made in the near future. We are moving exactly according to the law, and all people will receive an indexed pension in time, ”she said.

The collapse of the ruble and innovation in the legislation will in the near future to the outflow of labor migrants from Russia. Moreover, it is likely that law -abiding foreigners will leave the country - those who are not used to observing all laws are from the New Year in more favorable conditions. Muhammad Amin “Yes, migrants leave Russia.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin said that Cuba will not be submitted to the principles in exchange for US promises. He reported this to the TASS correspondent after a meeting with the chairman of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of Cuba Raul Castro in Havana.

US President Barack Obama signed a decree on the introduction of new anti -Russian sanctions, Reuters reports citing a White House statement. The document prohibits the export of goods, services and technologies from the United States to Crimea, the import of Crimean products to the United States and investment cooperation of American citizens and companies with individuals and legal entities of Crimea.

In the coming year, the Ukrainian traffic police will undergo large -scale reform, which in its content will be similar to the reform of the road police in Georgia. This was reported by TASS with reference to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko. “Next year, it is planned to introduce electronic systems that will have to replace the work of the inspector with a wand.

The access of Russian Internet users to the Facebook page, which organized a meeting of the supporters of the opposition Alexei Navalny, was blocked by the administration of the Russian segment of this social network. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press secretary of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky. It was this department that previously required such a block, guided by the Law of 398-FZ.