In Moscow, unknown persons beat the general director of the CSKA basketball club Andrei Vatutin. A source in the capital's law enforcement agencies reported this to Interfax. He said that the incident occurred on the evening of December 21 in the north-west of the capital. According to the source, Vatutin was attacked when he was leaving a grocery store on Halabyan Street and heading to his car. He added that the man was punched, kicked and beaten with rubber hammers.

Photo: TASS As RBC found out, the clothing holding H&M rented 5.8 thousand square meters. m in the Moscow "Actor Gallery" on Tverskaya. After reconstruction, H&M will open a department store there, which will also sell brands that have not yet been represented in Russia. To replace luxury The State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ), which owns the Actor Gallery complex on Pushkin Square, leased about 5.8 thousand square meters to H&M for 32 years.

At the base weather station at VDNKh at midnight on Tuesday, a temperature of plus 7.7 degrees was recorded, told Interfax . the Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region The previous temperature maximum for December 22 was exceeded at night. The previous record on this day was set in 1936, when the air warmed up to plus 4.4 degrees A representative of the Hydrometeorological Bureau noted that a temperature record in Moscow was recorded for the third day in a row.

Photo: Javakhadze Zurab/TASS The fourth largest Russian grocery retailer in terms of turnover, Dixie, has changed its leader. The new head, instead of Ilya Yakubson, who held this post for six years, will be a representative of the largest shareholder, Sergei Belyakov.

An armed robber carried out a shooting at a large shopping center in the suburbs of New York. One of the sellers was injured, CNN reports . The incident occurred at approximately 13:00 Tuesday local time. According to police, an armed man attempted to rob a watch store located in a shopping center. The store clerk entered into a fight with the robber. During the fight, the robber shot and the seller was wounded in the shoulder. The 67-year-old mall worker is in serious but stable condition.

Gallup International has released the results of a survey of world leaders' approval. Barack Obama has the lead. Vladimir Putin took eighth place. At the same time, Obama and Putin became the most recognizable world leaders Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit. November 16, 2015 (Photo: REUTERS 2015) According to a poll conducted by WIN/Gallup International in 65 countries, Barack Obama was the most approved of the top ten world leaders.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed gays to be blood donors, BBC reports . At the same time, the administration introduced restrictions. According to the new rules, homosexuals can become donors if they have not had sexual contact with men for 12 months. Prior to this, for 33 years in the United States, homosexuals were banned for life from donating blood. This was motivated by the risk of HIV transmission. The ban does not apply to lesbians.

The authorities of the Krasnodar region convincingly asked local residents to refuse to visit the ski resorts of Krasnaya Polyana during the New Year holidays. This is stated in the message of the regional Ministry of Resorts and Tourism, published on the website of the regional government.

Billionaire Elon Musk successfully tested the reusable Falcon 9 launch vehicle. According to NASA estimates, it cost SpaceX three times less than the government. SpaceX considers it a success of public-private partnership Launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral, USA (Photo: REUTERS 2015) "Welcome Back Baby" A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from a launch site in Florida on Tuesday. This is the first flight of a Falcon rocket since a launch failure in June 2015, Reuters reports .

Users of the Moscow Parking service reported that their personal accounts had been reset. Earlier today it was reported that there was a problem with the parking payment system. Photo: Sergey Fadeichev/TASS Two RBC employees experienced account reset in the Moscow Parking mobile application. Users on social networks also reported a similar problem. “#Moscowparking has reset the history, amounts, cars. Failure,” wrote a user under the nickname @KsushaStep .

A New York court, at the request of William Browder's company, dismissed the defenders of Prevezon Holdings in the first trial under the Magnitsky Act. Browder's colleagues consider the company involved in laundering Russian money abroad New York court (Photo: REUTERS 2015) Southern District of New York Judge Thomas Griesa disqualified lawyer John Moscow and the law firm BakerHostetler, who are representing Prevezon Holdings and its affiliates in the first Magnitsky Act trial.

Investigators conducted searches of Open Russia employees Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as well as his press secretary Külle Pispanen.

SpaceX published a recording of the first-ever successful landing of the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket. The video was published on the company’s official YouTube page. The video was filmed from a helicopter. Successful landing of the Falcon 9 first stage (Video: YouTube/SpaceX) Falcon 9 took off from Cape Canaveral at 4:29 Moscow time. Such a launch was carried out for the first time since the accident that occurred in June 2015.

The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region rejected the Alla Pugacheva Song Theater LLC's claim against the city authorities regarding the canceled theater construction project, TASS reports from the courtroom. The company demanded that it be given an urban planning plan for the land plot in order to be able to enter the construction site and establish the current boundaries of the land plot on Morskaya Embankment, near the mouth of the Smolenka River.

The authorities act as both the customer, the executor, and the evaluator of reforms in the country. Therefore, reformers do not encroach on the basic informal principles that determine the nature of governing the country In 2015, Russia found itself in a perfect storm: geopolitical problems were layered on top of economic ones.