In Russia, there is a storage demand for certain types of goods, primarily for household appliances and electronics. In part, such record sales are associated with the upcoming holiday, but the main reason is the desire of people to invest their depreciating rubles before the inevitable increase in prices. As a result of this mass purchase of goods in some Moscow stores, for example, their complete or partial absence is already noticeable. Photos taken by a smartphone show more To curtail

Lukashenko about what is flying to demand from Russia payments in dollars

France. Woman with a flag of Russia at the pier in the port of Saint-Lazara A ship with Russian military sailors, who trained for service on the French helicopter Mistral, left the port of Saint-Lazar and went to Russia. According to the French media, the Smolny training ship set sail on Thursday afternoon and headed for the Atlantic Ocean. The representative of the Armed Forces of France said that the final decision on the supply of Mistral ships has not yet been made.

Vladimir Putin praises the questions of journalists at his press conference, December 18, 2014 All 19 detained activists who were going to ask questions to Russian President Vladimir Putin , who had a press conference today, were released from the Presnensky police department. It is reported by "OTD-Info". One of the activists Natalya Khasanova said that everyone was released without drawing up protocols.

US President Barack Obama has not yet signed the so -called "Law on Liberty in Ukraine" adopted at the end of last week, which, among other things, provides for the expansion of sanctions against Russian corporations and functionaries, as well as the provision of combat weapons to Ukraine.

To the question of the so -called legalization of torture in the United States. What the UN will hear about the state of human rights in Belarus. Türkiye: "Cyprus" and consequences.

Premiere of the film about Peter Vaile The film was shot by Olga Loginova and Valentin Baryshnikov . The title is a reference to the last lifetime book of a long -term employee and editor -in -chief of the Russian Radio Service Service, writer Peter Vile "Poems about me." Filming took place in places related to his life-New York, Prague and Venice. The name of the book "Poems about me" if not impudent, then certainly fresh.

Ukrainian politician talks about his experience in participating in the talk show of Russian television The Tok show "Politics" , which was released on December 17 on the air of the First Channel of Russian Television, did not go according to the scenario. One of the participants in the program, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Odessa, Alexei Goncharenko, broke the familiar scheme.

Jennifer Gaspar deportation notification In the City Court of St. Petersburg, the consideration of the case Jennifer Gaspar against the FSB has ended today. At the previous meeting, December 16, Judge Sergey Leontyev ordered representatives of the FSB to provide a secret conclusion for consideration in the case, on the basis of which Jennifer Gaspar was deprived of a residence permit in Russia. This was reported by the Radio correspondent Freedom Viktor Rezunkov.

The poster of the match in memory of the truce of December 1914 A sports match was held in Britain in memory of the Christmas truce in the First World War one hundred years ago In December of this year, a centenary of the spontaneous Christmas truce was celebrated in 1914 during the First World War: then British and German soldiers, having ceased military operations, met in a draw.

In 1991, two communist empires broke up. First, Malaya Yugoslavskaya, then Bolshaya Sovetskaya. They broke up for the same reason, but broke up very differently. The "spiritual scrapers" of communism are decayed and nothing already kept the brothers smaller in the orbit of the senior imperial brother (sister) - Serbia and Russia. The nature of the collapse was determined by the attitude of the Serbian and Russian peoples, respectively.

Viktor Rezunkov about hearing in the City Court of St. Petersburg, Gaspar against the FSB