At the end of this year, scientists from North Korea conducted tests of telemetry equipment for ballistic missiles, reports Yomiuri with reference to their own sources. According to the agency, this fact indicates that the DPRK continues to develop nuclear weapons, and the current actions of the country's authorities are aimed at demonstrating their determination of the United States.

The largest American newspapers could not release their numbers on December 29 because of an unknown computer virus that struck the printing house of Los Angeles and the Tribune Publishing Publishing House in Chicago. It is reported by Associated Press . Without circulations were Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Traibune, and the Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun newspapers were disturbed by the layout.

In 2018, the cost of the ruble to the dollar fell by 21.1%, to the euro - by 15.5%. At the last auction, the dollar traded 69.8 rubles, and the euro - 79.99 rubles each. About this writes RBC . According to experts, in 2019, the ruble rate may decrease to $ 75. The ruble began 2018 with values ​​of 57.6 rubles/dollars. and 69.2 rubles/euro. During the year, the Russian currency survived two waves of fall.

In less than a month, representatives of the Twitter service will meet with Roskomnadzor employees to discuss the transfer of servers with personal data of Russians in the Russian Federation. “Twitter representatives proposed organizing a meeting in January. The subject of the conversation is the implementation of the law on the localization of personal data in the territory of the Russian Federation, ”the press service of the department told Interfax .

The Pobeda airline reported that on December 29 and 30, 17 of its international flights were detained at Vnukovo Airport. The total time of delays was 10 hours, the Moscow Agon reports. The press service of the air carrier said that the flights were detained due to the fault of employees of the border service. Lawkoster is going to recover all expenses for illegal departure delay through the court.

At the end of this year, scientists from North Korea conducted tests of telemetry equipment for ballistic missiles, reports Yomiuri with reference to their own sources. According to the agency, this fact indicates that the DPRK continues to develop nuclear weapons, and the current actions of the country's authorities are aimed at demonstrating their determination of the United States.

In Yekaterinburg, police seized 85 kg of synthetic substances worth 3.4 billion rubles from a local drug dealer. It is reported by URA.RU. The dealer supplied the entire Ural-Siberian region with smoking mixtures. The substances were highly concentrated and used to produce smoking mixtures. The seized volume would be enough to prepare more than 1.5 million doses. In involvement in the spread of drugs, a resident of Yekaterinburg Eugene born in 1992 is suspected. Now he is arrested.

The coast of the island of Iturup on the night of December 29 was overwhelmed with herring Ivasi. This was reported by local residents who posted the appropriate video on YouTube. The population of the island comes to the sea to take more fish with them. “A gift for us for the New Year! The herring of Ivasi along the entire coast of Iturup was thrown out tonight. This is real fishing! Fish! " - said one of them. According to Sakh.com , herring carried it on land due to a strong storm.

Representatives of the American company Twitter in January 2019 will meet with the leadership of Roskomnadzor to discuss the execution of legislation on storage of users data in Russia. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the RKN. The exact date of the meeting will become known later. Earlier, the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, promised to finish the company Facebook and Twitter if they did not stop keeping the data of Russians abroad.

President Vladimir Putin played in a friendly match of the Night Hockey League on Red Square in Moscow in the evening of December 29. It is reported by Interfax . The game was attended by Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu and hockey players Alexei Katasonov, Vyacheslav Fetisov and Pavel Bure. Putin's team won with a score of 14:10, reports " R-Sport " President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, with whom Putin held negotiations before the match, refused to go out onto the ice, citing employment.

In the village of Verkhnyaya Berezovka in the suburbs of Ulan-Ude, a private helicopter Robinson crashed. As a result, four people were killed, TASS reports. The helicopter collapsed to the ground immediately after takeoff from the private helicopter site in the village. He caught fire. This happened on the territory of the recreation center, in the non -residential massif between the Orange House complex and the Center for Eastern Medicine. Now the fire is eliminated.

On the first day of the New Year, a new polar expedition will leave from the Havani Cape Town. Scientists on the Agulies II research ship have reached the Antarctic Sea of ​​Wedell and, using autonomous uninhabited underwater devices, they will explore Larsen's shelf glacier. The expedition has another goal. Scientists seek to find the remains of the Endyurans ship, which sank in these waters in 1915. The British naval officer and Anterctic researcher Sir Ernest Shekleton commanded Entyurans.

Director Marlene Khutsiev was taken to one of the Moscow clinics on the evening of December 29, reports " 5 Channel ". The 93-year-old director categorically refused to go to the hospital alone. He is in the same room with his wife Irina Solovyova. His condition is evaluated as difficult. Marlene Khutsiev was born in Tbilisi on October 4, 1925. In 1952 he graduated from the All -Russian State Institute of Cinematography.

The government has submitted a draft resolution that establishes new rules for registering vehicles. So, when registering the car, the car owner will be able to receive numbers only of the region in which he himself is registered. It will be possible to register a car in any traffic police department. This decision will enter into force on August 4, 2019. It is worth noting that the autonomers were tied to a particular region until 2013.

On December 30, 1371, Vasily I, Grand Duke of Moscow, collector of Russian lands, was born. Personal business Vasily I Dmitrievich (1371-1425) was the eldest son of Dmitry Donskoy and Suzdal Princess Evdokia. After Khan Tokhtamysh ruined Moscow in 1382, his father sent a ten -year (according to other sources - thirteen -year -old) Vasily to the Golden Horde to represent in a dispute with the Tver Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich (about fifty) for the Vladimir Principality and Novgorod.