The state company Lithuanian Railways has closed the Vilnius-Moscow-Vilnius passenger route. The last part of the Lithuanian formation arrived in the Russian capital on Saturday, TASS reports . The company explained the closure of the route due to a significant decrease in passenger traffic. In 2014, 72 thousand 900 people were transported on the Vilnius-Moscow-Vilnius route, while in 2013 this figure was 100 thousand 700 people.

The police eliminated all those involved in the explosion, which occurred near the Spanish Embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul the day before. this on his Twitter . announced The press secretary of the Afghan Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sadiq Sediqqi, A car bomb exploded near the Spanish Embassy in Kabul on the evening of December 11. The Taliban terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. According to police, at least three militants were involved in the attack.

Ukraine will announce a call-up for the State Border Guard Service for the first time in eight years. This was announced by the assistant to the head of the State Border Service of Ukraine Oleg Slobodyan, RBC-Ukraine reports. “Yes, indeed, starting in the spring of 2016, we plan to temporarily restore conscription for military service. We are talking about spring; as a rule, mobilization begins and conscription begins in March,” he said.

OSCE observers did not find some of the Ukrainian weapons in the place where they were located after the withdrawal from the contact line, Interfax learned. It is not specified what kind of weapons disappeared from the location. Withdrawal of heavy military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the suburbs of Mariupol, March 2015 (Photo: DPA/TASS) Some of the weapons withdrawn by Ukraine are missing from storage areas.

The leader of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, and four other activists were released from the police station. He himself reported this to Interfax. Along with the Yabloko leader, party members Anton Antonov-Ovseenko and Igor Bakirov, human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, activists Mikhail Kriger and Mark Galperin were detained. Mitrokhin said that they were not charged for six hours, although by law they should have done so within three hours.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the European Union’s proposal to write off 20% of Ukraine’s debt “funny.” The EU Ambassador to Russia proposed writing off part of the debt, but at the same time urged not to wait for the lifting of sanctions against Russia Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova commented on the statement of the EU Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas, who on Friday called on Moscow to write

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and a number of heads of other large companies announced the creation of a non-profit organization that will research artificial intelligence. The project is estimated at $1 billion. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (Photo: AP) A post on the website of the organization, called OpenAI , states that its goal is to research artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI was co-chaired by Y Combinator President Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

An Aeroflot airline flight from Bangkok to Moscow was returned from the runway for additional inspection of luggage and passengers, a KommersantFM radio station correspondent reported from the scene. The airliner was supposed to take off at 6:15 Moscow time. The plane was already preparing to take off when the crew commander announced the requirement of local authorities to return for inspection. The plane was towed to a special parking lot. Police and rescue vehicles approached the liner.

The Chisinau District Court rejected the claim of ex-member of the Moldovan Parliament Grigory Petrenko against the Coordinating Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting (CCTR), which suspended the broadcast of the Rossiya 24 TV channel in the republic. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to lawyer Roman Aronov.

After almost two weeks of intense negotiations, representatives of 190 countries participating in the climate conference in Paris managed to agree on the text of the final document on greenhouse gas emissions. This was announced by the organizers of the conference, reports the BBC . The final session ended on Saturday night, 16 hours later than the scheduled end time of the conference. Before this, US President Barack Obama called Chinese President Xi Jinping to speed up the agreement.

The Islamic State (banned in Russia) claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in the Syrian city of Homs, the group said in a statement, Reuters reports . A message on the organization’s website clarifies that the explosion was committed by a suicide bomber, the agency notes. The terrorist attack occurred on Saturday afternoon in the center of Homs . A car filled with explosives was blown up by terrorists near a civilian hospital in the al-Zahra area.

The leader of the Aquarium group, Boris Grebenshchikov, performed on December 12 in the passage at the Turgenevskaya station of the Moscow metro. A video of Grebenshchikov's performance appeared on Youtube Musician Boris Grebenshchikov performs at a concert in the Chocolate Loft at the Red October factory, July 2015 (Photo: RIA Novosti) The leader of the group “Aquarium” Boris Grebenshchikov performed the song “Glass” in the passage of the Moscow metro.

The company Northern Capital Gateway LLC (VVSS, operator of Pulkovo Airport) denies information about the sale of a stake in VVSS to VTB Capital in favor of the Renova group of companies. “This information is not true,” the company’s press service told RBC St. Petersburg. VTB Capital, we recall, owns 57.5% of the shares of VVSS. Another 35.5% belongs to Fraport AG and 7% to Copelouzos Group.

Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov called the opinion of the head of the Human Rights Council on the “Platon” toll system for heavy trucks opportunistic and said that this issue has nothing to do with human rights and freedoms All-Russian protest of truckers in Belgorod (Photo: Anton Vergun/TASS) According to the head of the Ministry of Transport, the issue of the “Platon” system of charging heavy trucks, the introduction of which was criticized the day before by the Presidential Council for Human

Cuba and the United States have agreed to resume postal communication between the countries, which was interrupted 52 years ago. this . reports The BBC The pilot project of the postal service will be launched in the near future, but it is not yet known when the full range of postal services will begin to operate. In March of this year, telephone communication between the countries was restored. Before this, telephone calls between countries passed through a third state.