Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the Belarusian colleague Alexander Lukashenko to a New Year's dinner for a separate conversation, RBC reports. Vladimir Putin noted: “I propose this order: we will listen to how our colleagues worked, then we will give the delegations the opportunity to still chat, and then I want to then separately invite you to a worker, New Year’s.” On December 25, Lukashenko arrived in Moscow on an official visit for negotiations with the Russian leader.

The man stole the bus and sent him to the crowd of pedestrians in the Chinese city of Lunyan, reports Xinhua . At least five people became victims of the collision, including a policeman. Another 21 people were injured. According to unconfirmed reports, the criminal had a knife. The man was detained, data about his personality and motives are not given. #Breaking : A Bus Ran Into Pedestrians after Being Hijacked by a Man with A Knife on Tuesday in Longyan, Southeast China's Fujian Province.

Empty wallet / pixabay.com In recent years, the level of expert community has been raising more and more questions. The number of current-show participants who have their own judgment on the current topics of public life, primarily politics and economics, go off the way. Often, experts confidently talk about enormous experience and outstanding achievements, but in fact this sometimes turns out to be a soap bubble.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that in the Kremlin they heard about the scandal around the trip of children of officials from the Bryansk region in Turkey at the expense of the charity fund, RBC reports. Recall that the children of officials from the city of Klintsy of the Bryansk region visited the Turkish city city of Demre, the trip was paid by the International Charity Fund named after Andrei Karlov.

Paleontologists from the Museum of Natural History in Milan and the Bologna Geological Museum named after Giovanni Capellini described a new genus and a type of dinosaur based on the petrified remains found in Northern Italy more than twenty years ago. It belongs to the Ceratosauridae family, which is part of a large Teropod suburb, or predatory dinosaurs. The new species received the Latin name Saltriovenator Zanellai .

Regional themes will be one of the main topics for discussion at the X Gaidar Forum, which will be held on January 15-17, 2019 at the Presidential Academy. On the first day of the forum, January 15, a presentation of the rating of innovative regions of Russia will be held. The methodology of its implementation was developed by the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia (AIRR) in 2012, together with the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

The head of the administration of the Verkhnebureinsky district of the region, Alexei Maslov, continues to insist that a meteorite fell in the remote area of ​​the Khabarovsk Territory, Kommersant reports. Earlier, Maslov said that a huge meteorite fell 70 kilometers from the village of Chekund and blocked the riverbed of the Bureya River. However, the head of the Chekunda rural settlement, Alexander Skamemirny, said that no one noticed in the settlement of the meteorite fall.

Ilya Karpyuk Rally against raising retirement age The Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov admitted that protests against raising the retirement age forced the government to postpone the beginning of the second stage of pension reform, the introduction of a funded pension through the mechanism of individual pension capital (IPC). “I will tell you frankly that the question of the IPK shuttle due to the fact that pension changes were very difficult.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov proposed contacting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the question of the son of the former dictator of Libya Muammar Gaddafi to the Russian leader, Interfax reports. Peskov noted: “It is better to receive information in this case in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Because I still do not know whether it was through diplomatic channels whether it was transmitted or not.

The Russian government added 245 individuals and seven legal entities from Ukraine to the sanctions list, RBC reports. Thus, 567 individuals and 75 companies from Ukraine have come under Russian sanctions as a whole. Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order to expand anti-Ukrainian sanctions.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held a meeting on topical issues of cooperation with Russia on the eve of a working visit to Moscow-on December 25, his President Vladimir Putin will accept it, the press service of the Belarusian leader reports . During the meeting, Lukashenko said: “I am not saying a fraternal state, because, as they inform me, this is not perceived in Russia. Allegedly, new people came to whom this concept is unacceptable. Well, we will be partners.

The First Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov announced the readiness of the Russian side to subsidize the Belarusian refineries to compensate for the losses from tax maneuver, RIA Novosti reports.

On the eve of the New Year, the chief freelance specialist-narcologist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation dispelled a number of myths associated with alcohol use, Interfax reports. Thus, the expert denied the existing opinion that the use of oil or other fat before alcohol would protect against intoxication.

The Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov admitted that protests against raising the retirement age forced the government to postpone the beginning of the second stage of pension reform, the introduction of a funded pension through the mechanism of individual pension capital (IPC). “I will tell you frankly that the question of the IPK shuttle due to the fact that pension changes were very difficult.

Scientists from the Museum of Natural History of the University of Oxford, the University of Kansa, the University of Lebanese and the Geological Museum in Valencia described insect larvae preserved in amber from the Cretaceous period.