In the capital, the “week of final colleges” began - all departments summarize their activities for the year, often in the form of a front report to the authorities. It began with the final collegium of the Ministry of Defense, at which the president was present - it was not without statements about nuclear missiles.

Roman Lunkin , Vsevolod Chaplin Unification Cathedral 112.ua In Kyiv, in the presence of President Poroshenko, the Unification Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was held. The Primate of the CPC of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of Epiphanius created at the Cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Only two of the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, who were immediately deprived of the dignity, took part in the cathedral.

Former US President Donald Trump President Michael Flynn, during the interrogation, told the FBI agents that the former chief of GRU Igor Sergun died in 2016 in Lebanon. According to the official version, Sergun died in the boarding house near Moscow, although the information that his life was cut off in the Middle East had appeared earlier.

Scientists from the University of California at San Francisco, institutes of David Gladstone, the University of Georgia and the North-Western University of the North-Western University discovered an previously unknown protein in the human body, which can give doctors a new method for treating Ebola viral fever. Ebolavirus belongs to the Filoviridae family, whose protein shell contains a single RNA chain.

The film Konstantin Khabensky “Sobibor” was not included in the short list of the Oscar Prize in the “Best Film Language” nomination, follows from the information on the Prize website . Films from Colombia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mexico, South Korea were applicants for the receipt of film tanks. The Polish film “Cold War”, which was recognized as the best European film of 2018 according to the European Film Academy, also entered the short list.

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Experts sum up the results of the outgoing year for the Russian nuclear industry. Sergey Pikin , head of the Energy Development Fund: For me, the three most important events in the nuclear industry this year are the continuation of construction within the country and the launch into commercial operation of new units at our Russian nuclear power plants - the fourth at Rostov NPP and the first at Leningrad NPP-2.

The average bribe in Russia amounted to 609 thousand rubles, and especially large ones - more than eight million rubles, said the representative of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Alexander Kurennoy. According to him, the data cited by RIA Novosti , the data was taken from criminal cases on bribes for nine months of this year. The amount of all bribes identified during this period reached 1.8 billion rubles, most of them (1.5 billion) were obtained on an especially large scale.

World defense expenses in 2018 increased to $ 1.78 trillion and broke the 2010 record ($ 1.69 trillion), RBC writes with reference to the annual report of the British Military-Political Edition of Jane's IHS Markit group. The total defense expenses of the world countries in 2018 increased by 4.9%. Russian expenses - by 1.4%. The indicators are given in permanent dollars in 2018. Russia was in 7th place in terms of defense costs ($ 51.6 billion).

As part of the upcoming X Gaidar forum, experts will discuss issues of training personnel in the field of public administration of the CIS countries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that prohibits placing currencies on street board. The document is published on the official portal of legal information. The Central Bank proposed amendments to the law on foreign exchange regulation in order to fight illegal points of exchange of currency. The law approved by the State Duma on December 11 was approved by the Federation Council. The document comes into force from the day of official publication.

Russia increased investments in the US government bond by $ 210 million in October, according to the website of the American Ministry of Finance. Russian investments reached the level of $ 14.629 billion: 3.240 billion are invested in the long -term treasury papers of the United States and 11.389 billion in short -term ones. Most of all, China is still investing in American government bonds, but its share decreases for the fourth month in a row, Kommersant writes.

For five years, the military counterintelligence of the FSB of Russia prevented four terrorist attacks aimed at military personnel, said the head of the Department of Military Counterintelligence of the FSB of Russia, Colonel General Nikolai Yuryev. According to him, TASS quoted by TASS, that over these five years they managed to stop the activities of 25 terrorist and extremist groups and prevent six terrorist crimes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called it fundamentally important to correctly determine the goals to spend the military budget, TASS reports. “It is very important, this is a fundamental question, to correctly determine the priorities where to spend money ... not to scatter them, but to make the right decisions and direct resources to where they will give the maximum effect,” he said at an expanded meeting of the Russian Ministry of Defense College.

A group of paleontologists under the leadership of Michael Benton from the University of Bristol and Baoyu Jiang from the University of Nankino came to the conclusion that some pterosaurs of hair -like threads on the body turned into primitive feathers.