The Governor of the Murmansk region Marina Kovtun congratulated Russian pilots on long -distance aviation, publishing a photograph of a secret military airfield near Olenegorsk, from which the Russian VKS, in particular, strikes the Islamic State (a terrorist organization banned in Russia). After some time, the photo from Twitter disappeared, but the meticulous bloggers managed to make a print screech, the Flashnord news agency reports.

Russia rapidly increased military power and has established itself on the world arena with assertiveness, unprecedented since the Cold War, thereby aggravating the contradictions with the West. About this writes The New York Times.

The next weekend on December 26-27, 11 stations will be closed in the Moscow metro, the press service of the metropolitan subway reports . From 22:00 on December 25 to the opening of the subway on Monday, December 28, they will close: - The lobby of the Marxist station station, - Southern lobby of Orekhovo station, - Southern lobby of Sviblovo station, - Northern lobby of Otradnoye station.

More than 20 famous Russian musicians wrote a collective letter with a sharp criticism of the bill already adopted in the first reading, according to which concert organizers are required to join self -regulatory organizations (SROs) and pay annual contributions. Otherwise, they will have to pay a fine of 500 thousand rubles in the first violation and one million rubles - with repeated.

Vladimir Churov, who has headed the Central Election Commission since 2007, will soon leave his post. this on Thursday The Dozhd TV channel reported , citing anonymous interlocutors at the Central Election Commission. The appointment of new members of the CEC will take place in March 2016, just then it may turn out that no one will delegate Vladimir Churov to the CEC.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the head of state did not express any complaints about the work of the head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Vladimir Churov, TASS reports. Journalists asked Peskov to comment on the reports that appeared in the media that Churov might lose their position of the head of the CEC in March 2016, when the reassignment of members of the Central Election Commission underwent.

Grigory Gritsenko Border on the castle photo: vesti.ru The Russian-Ukrainian restrictions expected in the new year-this time in trade-become the next in a long series of acts of negative impact of the policy on the economy. Let us recall the previous series - the undermining of the power lines along which the energy supply of Crimea and the ban on the cargo message with the peninsula were ongoing.

Roscosmos announced the successful launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Express-Amu1 telecommunications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. According to the representative of the department, the launch took place at the calculated time - 00:30 Moscow time - and completed the Russian space program for 2015, Interfax reports. The satellite of the target orbit will take 9 hours 12 minutes.

On December 25, 1958, Konstantin Kinchev, a rock musician, leader of the Alice group was born. Personal business Konstantin Evgenievich Kinchev (real name Panfilov, 57 years old) was born in Moscow. His father Evgeny Panfilov was the rector of the Moscow Technological Institute. Mother - Lyudmila Panfilova taught at the same university the resistance of materials. In childhood, he was fond of hockey, participated in the All -Union Tournaments "Golden Washing", trained in Spartak.

The deputy prosecutor of Russia Alexander Zvyagintsev resigned. According to TASS , today the Federation Council satisfied his statement. It is noted that the 67-year-old Zvyagintsev, who worked as the deputy prospector of 15 years, "is relieved of his post on the basis of his report in connection with the retirement of the length of service." The media reported permissions at the Prosecutor General in early December.

The Israeli police arrested a Russian citizen A. Yu. Burkov in the US Order. The Israeli authorities reported this to the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, the Russian Foreign Ministry said . The Russian was detained at Tel Aviv International Airport on December 13. On December 24, the Israeli side informed the Russian embassy that the Russian was arrested by the American request.

Maxim Russo Mikhail Sokolov Natasha Chetverikova/Polit.ru On December 24, another lecture was held at the Turgenev library named after Turgenev as part of the Public Lectures Polit.ru project. Specialist in the sociology of science and education, professor of the European University in St. Petersburg Mikhail Sokolov gave a lecture on the topic “How do professors become? Design of academic institutes and comparative sociology of academic quarries.

An attacker who tried to attempt on the deputy speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andrei Parubiy was a citizen of the Russian Federation, follows from the message on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. According to the results of the pre -trial investigation, a Russian named Sokolenko threw a grenade under the feet of Parubia last December last year.

On December 24, another lecture was held at the Turgenev library named after Turgenev as part of the Public Lectures Polit.ru project. Specialist in the sociology of science and education, professor of the European University in St. Petersburg Mikhail Sokolov gave a lecture on the topic “How do professors become? Design of academic institutes and comparative sociology of academic quarries.

Maxim Kovtun took first place in the Russian Figure Skating Championship in a solitary male category, TASS reports. Thus, the 20-year-old Kovtun is a three-time champion of the country. By the sum of the short and arbitrary programs, Kovtun scored 266.13 points. The second was Mikhail Kolyada (260.73 points). In third place - Alexander Petrov (248.64 points).