The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, published a video of his conflict with the governor of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, during which he doused the head of the region with water.

Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina/RBC The Ministry of Finance's forecasts exaggerate, but are understandable. The ministry is trying to protect reserves and wait for prices for export raw materials to rise, but for now it is acting according to the situation. Ministry of Finance without fear and reproach Budget strategies and possible negative scenarios discussed in government are sometimes scarier than a good horror movie.

The threat of a terrorist attack on schools in Los Angeles (California) turned out to be false. Classes will continue on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports . Last Tuesday, one of the city's seven board of education members received a bomb threat. After this, the Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the organization that runs the city's public schools, decided to cancel classes for 650 thousand students.

Ziyavudin Magomedov is passionate about mixed martial arts and tries not to miss training at the Fight Nights club. Photo: Yuri Chichikov for RBC The coach’s commands echo throughout the hall of the Fight Nights club on Kutuzovsky Prospekt: ​​“Push-ups! More! Again!

The human rights organization Human Rights Watch has confirmed the authenticity of photographs indicating the mass death of prisoners in government prisons in Syria According to a report published by HRW on December 16, the organization received 28,000 photographs from a former Syrian military police photographer who went by the pseudonym Caesar. On them, human rights activists counted 6,786 people who died in Damascus prisons in 2011–2013.

Turkey has stepped up negotiations to restore relations with Israel in order to establish gas supplies from this country and reduce dependence on Russia. Ankara also supports the unification of Cyprus in order to purchase gas there too Normalizing relations with Israel will allow Turkey to import gas from that country to reduce its dependence on Russian supplies, told Bloomberg two knowledgeable Turkish government sources .

The reason for the failure of the Israeli AMOS-5 satellite, developed by the Russian company Information Satellite Systems (ISS), was the failure of the power supply system or on-board cable network due to the external influence of a high-speed cosmic particle. This is stated in a message on the company's website. ISS notes that until the failure of the satellite, according to telemetry data, all systems of the device were working normally.

The debris of a cruise missile, which the day before deviated from its course and fell on a residential building in a village near Severodvinsk, damaged two apartments.

Administrators at Indiana University and Purdue University sent out an alert to students. The reason for it was a message about the appearance of an armed man on the territory of Indiana University, reports . Fox channel Indiana University and Purdue University students share a campus. “If you are on campus, trust your instincts and take shelter in the nearest available room. Lock the door if possible.

Cargoes of Turkish tobacco stuck at customs Tobacco enterprises in St. Petersburg found themselves hostage to the Russian-Turkish conflict. According to the Kommersant newspaper , several JTI trucks with oriental tobacco leaves from Turkey for the Petro factory cannot pass through customs posts.

Teachers at school No. 2 in the village of Pervomaisky in the Trans-Baikal Territory decided to suspend work due to non-payment of wages. This was reported by the head of the educational department of school No. 2 Olesya Kuzyakina, reports . the Chita.Ru news agency “Teachers are suspending work until the debt for November is fully repaid, 20 people wrote a statement,” she said, noting that the administration and three teachers remain working and teaching classes.

Law enforcement officials did not find explosives on board the A321 aircraft, which was supposed to fly from St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport to Moscow on flight SU 017. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the Aeroflot airline. Earlier, Fontanka, citing a law enforcement source, reported that the flight was delayed due to a bomb report .

The head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev, does not see anything alarming in the change in exchange rates. According to him, there are no real risks of dollarization of the Russian economy Head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexey Ulyukaev (Photo: Nikolai Asmolovsky for RBC) There are no real risks of dollarization of the Russian economy, despite the change in the ruble exchange rate.

In the center of Moscow, an unknown person in a black SUV shot a man. The shooting took place on Solyanka Street. The driver of the foreign car managed to escape. According to media reports, the shooting occurred during a road conflict Law enforcement officers at the scene of the incident in the center of Moscow on Solyanka Street (Photo: RIA Novosti) An unknown person shot a man from a car on the street. Solyanka in the center of Moscow.

A new record has been set in the global real estate market - an unknown buyer from the Middle East paid €275 million for a mansion with its own park near Versailles. Chateau Louis XIV mansion (Photo: REUTERS 2015) The luxurious Chateau Louis XIV mansion, built in the middle of its own 23-hectare park just a quarter of an hour's drive from the center of Paris, has been sold for €275 million ($301 million), reports Bloomberg , citing sources close to the deal.