The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Tuesday that would tighten entry into the United States, Reuters reports . If adopted, it will strengthen control over the entry into the country of citizens of 38 countries who have the right to visit the United States of America without obtaining a visa. Now the draft law must be approved by the Senate, after which it will be sent to US President Barack Obama for signature.

Photo: Bloomberg Issuing cards from the national payment system "Mir" will cost banks more than Visa and MasterCard. Banks are afraid that they will not recoup these costs and may pass them on to clients - cardholders of other payment systems. Expensive chip Currently, 31 banks are registered in the Mir payment system, including Alfa Bank, Promsvyazbank, MDM Bank, SMP Bank, Svyaz-Bank and others, which have accepted the rules and tariffs of the system.

The dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange dropped below 69 rubles. At 18:30 Moscow time, the American currency fell to 68.84 rubles, as follows from stock market data. At 18:34 Moscow time, the ruble continued to strengthen against the dollar: the American currency fell to 68.627 rubles/dollar. (–63.8 kopecks). The euro at the same time costs 75,301 rubles. (–42.9 kopecks) The ruble is strengthening against the backdrop of rising oil prices.

The European Union called on Russia to write off 20% of the Ukrainian debt as a gesture of goodwill. The head of the EU Delegation in Moscow, Vygaudas Ušackas, made a corresponding statement The head of the EU Delegation in Moscow, Vygaudas Ušackas, expressed hope that Russia will write off 20% of Ukraine’s debt, as the EU and the United States have already done. “We hope that Russia will demonstrate goodwill and support our common neighbor,” Ušackas said on the Vesti-FM radio station.

For the violation of Turkish airspace, which the Russian Su-30 committed in early October, Moscow apologized to Ankara. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced this in an interview with Italian media. “Indeed, once, on October 3, when our aviation began operating on Syrian territory, there was a case when our plane ended up in Turkish airspace for a few seconds. The Turks protested to us, we apologized. Putin personally spoke with Erdogan.

The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic has resumed coal supplies to Ukraine. This was announced by the Minister of Transport of the DPR Semyon Kuzmenko, Interfax reports . This information was confirmed by the head of the external communications department of DTEK Energy Irina Milyutina on her Facebook . “Anthracite from our coal enterprises in the Donbass has been accepted for transportation. Until he crossed the demarcation line. But its loading has already begun,” she wrote.

The Ministry of Finance was unable to place the entire planned volume of inflation-linked OFZs. Due to falling oil prices, demand was lower than supply Photo: "RIA Novosti" On Wednesday, December 9, the Ministry of Finance held an auction for the placement of inflationary OFZs. The amount planned for placement was 20.4 billion rubles. Demand was less than supply (19.5 billion rubles), and the department managed to place securities only worth 13.6 billion rubles.

The former leader of the banned organization "Russians" Dmitry Demushkin has been charged with extremism. He himself reported this to TASS . “My lawyer arrived, I was charged under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” he said, answering that he considered it politically motivated. At the time of publication, the Investigative Committee did not comment on the information about the filing of charges against Demushkin.

Law enforcement officers are investigating a case of illegal cash withdrawal of 2 billion rubles St. Petersburg police are conducting searches at Nevsky Bank. According to Fontanka , at about 10:30 Moscow time, employees of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central District and the “banking” department of the Economic Security Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St.

Aeroflot airline has introduced new flat fares (valid throughout the year, without seasonal fluctuations) for flights to Simferopol, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Khabarovsk and Kaliningrad, RIA Novosti reports . Information on new prices for relevant destinations is available in the airline's reservation system. Compared to the flat tariffs in force in 2015, the 2016 tariffs were slightly higher. Their validity begins on January 1, 2016.

More than 70% of Moscow residents support the action of truckers, according to a survey by the Levada Center. Last week, truck drivers set up protest camps in the Moscow region and occupied several lanes on the Moscow Ring Road Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC According to the results of a study by the Levada Center, which are published on the center’s website , the protest of truckers who oppose the collection of tolls on federal highways is supported in one way or another by 71% of Muscovites.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev congratulated Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, quoting an expression from his famous speech in English in Zurich Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (Photo: Alexander Shalgin/press service of the State Duma of the Russian Federation/TASS) “Happy birthday, Vitaly Leontyevich!

The man who carried out the shooting in San Bernardino, California, Syed Rizwan Farooq, may have been planning another terrorist attack in California. The investigation reached these conclusions, two unnamed officials told CNN. One of the channel’s interlocutors said that, presumably, the shooter and his partner were planning a terrorist attack in 2012. At the same time, sources found it difficult to say what scale the terrorist attack was planned.

The ex-owner of the Cherkizovsky market, founder of the AST group Telman Ismailov filed a bankruptcy petition in court. In October, a claim to declare Ismailov bankrupt was already filed by the Bank of Moscow Former owner of the Cherkizovsky market, founder of the AST group Telman Ismailov (Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev/TASS) Bankrupt myself Ismailov filed an application for bankruptcy with the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region.

St. Petersburg authorities achieved a one and a half times increase in payments from the Northern Capital Gateway International commercial arbitration at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has resolved a two-year dispute between Smolny, Pulkovo Airport OJSC, owned by St. Petersburg, and Northern Capital Gateway LLC (VVSS, the airport operator). writes about this The newspaper “Business Petersburg” .