The largest Chinese company Dalian Wanda Group bought a control package of the American film company Legendary Entertainment, which releases films, for $ 3.5 billion, Reuters reports. The owner of Dalian Wanda Group Van Jianlin noted that he acquired a film company both for owning the rights to the studio and for owning her films. Legendary Pictures was founded in 2000.

How is the most popular British politician of all time at the same time fought with Nazism and his own financial problems? About this in the article for The Atlantic writes Deborah Cohen, author of the book Family Secrets: Shame and Private Life in Modern Britain. © 2015 The Atlantic Media Co., As first Published in the Atlantic Magazine. All Rights Reserved.

Sports commentator Vasily Utkin was removed from the lighting of football matches on the TV channel "Match TV". He stated this, answering questions from subscribers of the official page of the television channel on Facebook. Answering the question why he was so rarely commenting on matches, he said that the leadership of the TV channel removed him from work. Utkin did not report the reasons for the decision. “I am not commenting on at all now.

The victory on the television show “Voice” Hieromonkh Photius made a sudden a lot of noise at the very end of last year. Discussions in social networks quickly grew in battles, and the audience seriously poisoned in their attitude to the winner: people who like Photius were directly accused of loyalism, and those who spoke negatively about him were called, as we have, liberals. And this is not surprising: pop music is an extremely ideological thing.

The co -owner of the “Gorbushkin Court” Alexei Khotin became one of the owners of the Ugra bank, Kommersant reports . According to the newspaper, the credit institution completed the additional ministry for 6.8 billion rubles, which was bought by Radamant, one of the beneficiaries of which is Khotin. The authorized capital of the bank, as a result of the additional ministry, doubled to 13 billion rubles, Radamant became a controlling shareholder (52.45% of the shares).

Russia refused to renew the contract for the supply of electricity to Ukraine after Ukraine refused to supply electricity to the Crimea. This was reported with reference to the representative of the Ministry of Energy by the newspaper Kommersant. “The Russian Federation does not negotiate for the supply of electricity from Russia to Ukraine. We will not renew it, since initially it was linked to the contract for the supply of electricity from Ukraine to Crimea, ”the Ministry of Energy said.

Ten people became victims of the explosion that occurred in the tourist area of ​​Istanbul Sultananmet. This was reported by the press service of Governor Istanbul. Another 15 people were injured. The nationality of the dead and victims is not specified. According to the local Haberturk TV channel, an explosion was made by a suicide bomber. Officially, this has not yet been confirmed, the press service of the governor said that the police were finding out the causes of the explosion.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation presented to the doctor of the Belgorod Hospital Ilya Zelendinov an accusation of intentionally causing serious harm to health, which caused the death of the victim by negligence (part 4 of article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This was announced by the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of negligence during the liquidation of the jam on the Orenburg -Orsk highway in early January. This was reported on the regional website of the SK. The case was opened in part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“negligence that entailed the death of a person”). There are no defendants in the case yet.

A bill was introduced to the State Duma, which implies a ban on business and adult children of officials. As stated in the explanatory note to the document, the proposed restrictions will ensure the “real action” of anti -corruption legislation. The authors of the bill are the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the deputy from this party Alexei Didenko.

“Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine” changed its name due to the law on decommunization. This was reported on the website of the newspaper. From January 12, the newspaper will be released under the new name “KP in Ukraine”.

Judging by the main results of the last year, after the oil feast of the beginning of the 21st century, the cartel, created to protect the countries of oil resources, was on the verge of actual decay. As a rule, cartel agreements combine large and low -efficient manufacturers who want to maintain their profitability through volume limiting. Small and effective exporters outside the cartel are growing due to an increase in volumes. OPEC initially united countries with low production costs.

Gazprom Corporation canceled several tenders to carry out construction and installation works on a 400-kilometer section of the Ukhta-Torzhok gas pipeline, which was supposed to be a supply to Northern Stream-2. This was reported on the public procurement website. The total cost of tenders was estimated at 13 billion rubles.

Tatyana Stanovaya analyzes whether Yakunin will manage to become an intermediary between the West and the Kremlin Vladimir Yakunin Valery Levitin / RIA Novosti The former head of JSC Russian Railways, dismissed in August last year for reasons, which can be listed for a very long time, creates the center. In fact, it does not matter what, for what and for what money.

A commemorative bill dedicated to the Crimea is sold in the republic with a face value of 100 rubles for 500 rubles, according to Flashcrimea with reference to their correspondents. In Sevastopol, a banknote costs from 400 to 450 rubles, in Simferopol - 500. On the Internet, resellers sell a bill at a price of 350 to 600 rubles, Flashcrimea notes. As our newspaper Crimea writes , in Moscow a bill is sold for 400 rubles.