Residents of Crimea have already lost access to Apple and Google services. Now they cannot order goods from American online stores. As RBC learned, the US Post Office refuses to send parcels addressed to Crimeans.

The winner of the annual Miss Universe contest was 22-year-old representative of Colombia Paulina Vega, USA Today reports . The second place went to a contestant from the USA, the top three was closed by a representative from Ukraine. In 2013, Venezuelan citizen Gabriela Isler won the competition . This year the competition was held in Miami, and representatives from more than 80 countries took part in it, Fox News noted . The Miss Universe competition emerged as a result of a scandal.

The crew of the Yak-42 aircraft, which crashed with the Lokomotiv crew on board in 2011 in Yaroslavl, did not calculate the payload and alignment of the aircraft. Experts stated this in court, Interfax reports . “The decision to take off was made at nominal engine operating mode.

The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) opened with a challenge to the powers of the Russian delegation. The corresponding initiative was made by British representative Robert Walter, Interfax reports . He said that Russian representatives "seriously violate the basic principles of the Council of Europe and do not fulfill their obligations." According to Walter, the sanctions imposed in April should be extended.

Photo: RIA Novosti The seizure of real estate for government purposes became the central plot of Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated “Leviathan.” Officials believe the problem has been exaggerated. And at the same time, they speed up the existing procedure to three months.

The head of the Greek radical party SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, took the oath of office as the country's Prime Minister. He will have to form a government and announce measures to end austerity policies Head of the Greek radical party SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras (Photo: AP) During the oath-taking ceremony, Tsipras vowed to uphold the constitution and serve the people of Greece, reports the BBC .

Due to the fall in the ruble exchange rate, Fashion Galaxy, a distributor of the UGG Australia shoe brand, is closing three stores in Moscow. The stores are currently having a closing sale. Photo: Getty Images The Fashion Galaxy company, which is also a distributor of the UGG Australia brand, is closing three stores in Moscow. A representative of the company's marketing department told an RBC correspondent about this.

A sharp deterioration in the situation in eastern Ukraine—full-scale hostilities have actually resumed there—could become a reason for the introduction of new sanctions against Russia.

Billionaire Viktor Vekselberg completely transferred his company Airports of Regions, which manages Russian airports with passenger traffic of more than 10 million people, to Russian jurisdiction. in year.

The renewed Circus on Fontanka is due to open on December 1, 2015, but officials responsible for construction no longer rule out the possibility that this date may be moved. Photo: RBC SPB Now the North-Western Construction Directorate of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (the technical customer of the project) is trying to obtain the necessary documents from the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Monuments of St.

Italian prosecutors have demanded a sentence of 26 years and three months in prison for the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, through whose fault the ship sank. 32 people died as a result of the shipwreck Captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino (Photo: REUTERS 2015) Schettino's trial is taking place in the Italian city of Grosseto, in the Tuscany region.

Describing the medium-term outlook for oil prices, OPEC Secretary General Abdallah al-Badri said that in the absence of investment in production, the world could face an oil shortage in three to four years, which would lead to an increase in prices to $200 per barrel.

Story Falling economy First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov will report to the State Duma on the government's anti-crisis plan, although initially the deputies wanted to talk with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. The replacement of the speaker is connected with the conflict between the United Russia faction and Dvorkovich, whom deputies emotionally criticized at the meeting of ministers and the faction.

Gazprom stopped participating in gas exchange trading at the St. Petersburg International Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange (SPIMEX). As an Interfax source explained , the decision is associated with tax risks. Even before the start of trading, Gazprom warned the exchange about its possible losses, since the gas concern cannot return VAT for the provision of gas transportation services to itself.

A Turkish court has ordered the social network Facebook to block pages that may be considered offensive to the Prophet Muhammad, Reuters reports citing local media. If Facebook does not comply with the court's demand, access to the social network in Turkey may be blocked. The court made its decision on Sunday at the request of the prosecutor, state television channel TRT reported. Facebook has not yet responded to the court's request.