During the meeting of the head of state with the leadership of the Federal Assembly, the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin suggested, together with the judges of the Constitutional Court, scientists and experts "see how the constitution and the norms laid down in it work today, how much they meet the provisions that were adopted." It is reported by Interfax.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that serious support will be provided to exporters in the non -people sector, RIA Novosti reports. “Of course, we will support our exporters, first of all, of course, in the non -resource sector - high -tech areas, agriculture,” the head of state said at a meeting by representatives of business circles. He added that the government will continue to improve the business climate in Russia.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called on the West to refrain from participating in the new provocation of Ukraine in the Kerch Strait, RIA Novosti reports.

More than a third of the Ukrainians surveyed (35%) do not believe that after the presidential election the situation in the country will change, the rating sociological group according to the results of their own research reports. “About 31% of respondents expect that the situation in Ukraine as a result of the upcoming presidential elections will improve. 35% of respondents believe that the situation will not change, only 15% claim that it will worsen, ”the group’s website said.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called future presidential elections the reason for the termination of martial law in the country, RIA Novosti reports. “The Russian threat did not go anywhere, if not for the election, we would ask Rada to extend martial law,” Poroshenko said at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council. According to him, martial law did not affect citizens of Ukraine or the country's economy.

One of the main topics of the X Gaidar forum, which will be held from January 15 to January 17, 2019, will be business education. Within the framework of the forum, several expert discussions will be held at which various aspects of this sphere will be discussed. On the first day of the forum, January 15, the key session “Eijal Strategy” will be held, the moderator of which will be the vice -rector of the RANEPA Sergey Myasoedov.

During the meeting of the head of state with the leadership of the Federal Assembly, the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin suggested, together with the judges of the Constitutional Court, scientists and experts "see how the constitution and the norms laid down in it work today, how much they meet the provisions that were adopted." It is reported by Interfax.

The bio-armyologist Nicole Smith-Guzmán from the Smithsonian Institute of Tropical Research in Panama, examining the skull from the ancient burial ground, was surprisingly discovered from him the “dive ear”-a characteristic bone ledge in the auditory channel. After further studies, she came to the conclusion that among the inhabitants of this region there was a group of people whose main occupation was the mining from the sea bottom of mollusks or pearls.

Legislative Yuan - the Taiwan Parliament - adopted the law on the support of the national languages ​​of the country. The Minister of Culture Taiwan Chen Lichun said that the new law is aimed at ensuring the language diversity and equal development of all languages ​​and cultures and is based on the idea that the language serves not only a means of communication, but also a cultural and historical value.

The traffic police will work about the liability of the driving schools, whose graduates fall into an accident, reports TASS . “Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov instructed to work out the issue of liability of driving schools, who release drivers, through the fault of which an accident has occurred within two years. We will work on this, ”said Mikhail Chernikov, chief inspector of road safety. He added that driving schools should teach future drivers a sense of responsibility on the road.

At the annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literature, which ended in Denver, scientists talked about the Aramaic inscription on the vessel of the 9th century BC. It is the oldest famous spell in Aramaic. The inscription was found during the excavations of the ancient city of Samal , near the modern village of Zinjirli in the south of Turkey. The city arose no later than the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. e. And he was inhabited by the Hittites. About 720 BC. e.

Russia and Belarus could not reach an agreement on economic “nuances”, so before the New Year another meeting will be held at the highest level, said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. “Some new nuances of economic after the New Year appear, so the Belarusian side believes that compensation is necessary. The Russian side does not agree in everything, ” RBC quotes Peskova.

Japan intends to withdraw from the International Commission on Kitov Providence (IWC) and resume whaling in July 2019, Kyodo reports. “There are completely confirmed scientific data on sufficient whales. However, some countries ignore them and do not demonstrate readiness to bring positions closer.

On December 26, 1908, Euphrosyne Kersnovskaya, a prisoner of the Gulag, a memoirist was born. Personal business Euphrosynia Antonovna Kersnovskaya (1908-1994) was born in Odessa in an intelligent family. Father - Criminologist Anton Kersnovsky worked in the Odessa Judicial Chamber, his mother - Alexander Caravasili was a teacher of foreign languages.

The Governor of the Amur Region Vasily Orlov called the main version in the case of hepatitis C of more than 20 children negligence, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, the doctors of the Amur Regional Children's Clinical Hospital, whose patients were sick with hepatitis, allowed repeated use of medical supplies, including gloves. The situation has been investigating since the summer.