Alexander Lukashenko (left) and Vladimir Putin (right) In Moscow, on Tuesday, a meeting of the presidents of Russia and Belarus will be held. According to official information, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko will discuss the issue of bilateral relations and energy prices. In Minsk, they are concerned about the reform of taxation in the oil sector of Russia, which will lead to a rise in fuel for Belarusian oil refineries.

The consequences of Tsunami in the province of Banten, Indonesia, December 24, 2018 In Indonesia, the number of victims of the tsunami in the Sunda Strait is growing: local authorities confirmed the death of at least 429 people. About one and a half thousand were injured, even more than 150 are missing. Hundreds of residential buildings and hotels were destroyed. A spontaneous disaster occurred on Sunday night - in a trial, sharing the islands of Java and Sumatra.

The Russian government has expanded the list of individuals and legal entities of Ukraine in respect of which sanctions have been imposed. The head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev, wrote on Twitter that he signed the corresponding decree "to protect the interests of the Russian state, companies and citizens of Russia." The document is published on the government website. Now in the sanctions list of 567 individuals and 75 legal entities .

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Andrey Karlov An interesting story unfolded in the small city of Klintsy, in the Bryansk region. Journalists of the publication Klints.info learned that several dozen children went to Turkey for free at the expense of the charity fund. But, by a strange coincidence, many of them turned out to be children of local officials, including the mayor of the Klintsov Oleg Shkuratov. And local officials, also by the will of chance, were not the poorest people, especially the same mayor.

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The Iraqi government declared Christmas a public holiday. On the eve of the country was visited by the Secretary of State of Vatican Cardinal Pietro Passolin. The local Christian community expressed the hope that this visit will become a prerequisite for the visit to Iraq of the Pope of the Roman Francis. In the early 1990s, about one and a half million Christians lived in Iraq. Last year, there were a little more than 200 thousand. The majority of the population of Iraq professes Islam.

According to the Federal State Statistics Service, from January to November 2018, products in Russia valued 3.3 times faster than in the European Union. The increase in food prices for the reporting period amounted to 3.3%, while on average in the EU products went up by 1%. Rosstat recorded the greatest increase in prices in November - this month the food in stores immediately rose by 1.2%, while in the EU prices even decreased by 0.1%.

The Duma of Yekaterinburg canceled its decision to increase the salary of the head of the city Alexander Vysokinsky, as well as local officials and deputies after criticism from the leadership of United Russia. For the abolition of decisions taken two weeks ago, most deputies of the City Duma voted on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court of the Crimea annexed by Russia continues to consider the appeals for the arrest of Ukrainian sailors captured in the Kerch Strait *** more than 100 thousand people signed a petition against the closure of the psychotherapy department for the Bakhrushin Brothers in Moscow *** The problems of the Spanish business of Russian billionaire Mikhail Friedman

The Rosselkhoznadzor could not track 60% of the studied samples of black caviar. This was reported by TASS with reference to an interview with the head of Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert by Russia-24. Of the ten samples of black caviar, which were selected for the study, the manufacturer was installed only in four cases when the product received imports from Chinese and Italian manufacturers.

Banner in Vladikavkaz In Vladikavkaz, a banner with a destroyed Syrian city Palmyra and conductor Valery Gergiev was installed. With the help of such advertising, young people are called upon to join the army for contract service. This was reported by "Caucasus. Realities." At the draft paragraph, the publication did not answer whether the inhabitants of Ossetia in Syria were serving.

The Legislative Assembly of the Ulyanovsk Region postponed for five years the introduction of a ban on the sale of alcohol on the first floors of residential buildings and in the house territories, it was supposed to enter into force on January 1, 2019. Earlier, in October, the ZSO with the filing of the regional government and the Public Chamber canceled the ban on trading strong alcohol on weekends, which has operated in the region since 2011.

The State Duma has introduced a bill, which some experts have already called the "Law on the Sovereign Russian Internet." The fight against “extremism” on the network and telegram, the requirements of the law of Yarova and Cyberjela - will it come to the fact that the Russian authorities will decide to use the Chinese model, actually turning the Runet into a emasculated internal network?

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