Vyacheslav Volodin. Photo: Alexey Druzhinin / RIA Novosti On the evening of December 13, the speaker of the Seventh Duma Vyacheslav Volodin met with members of the YP faction. And he rather hardly explained that it was not worth waiting for the concessions, no one is going to change the new rules of the charter of the guard service in parliament and the deputies have to work in the current hard mode for at least a year.

Rosneft shares at the beginning of the tender of the Moscow Exchange on December 14 increased by 1.2% and reached 402.4 rubles. Thus, the quotes of the oil state company again updated the historical maximum. For comparison, the RTS index in the first minutes of the session rose by 0.3%, and the MICEX - decreased by 0.02%. Since the beginning of December, the cost of Rosneft's papers has already set a historical record several times. So, on December 12, Rosneft quotes rose to almost 387 rubles.

Exhibition "Crimea. Gold and the secrets of the Black Sea ”at the Allard Pirson Museum in Amsterdam. Photo: Bart Maat / EPA The District Court of Amsterdam decided to transfer to Ukraine the Scythian Gold - the collections of the Crimean museums, which were sent to the exhibition to Holland in early 2014 - shortly before the peninsula passed under the control of the Russian Federation.

The cost of a barrel of oil is growing to $ 138 by 2025. Such a forecast for the analyst Harry Group is given in the presentation of Sberbank. At the same time, in 2017-2019, the bank expects oil prices will amount to $ 50–55 per barrel. By 2020, according to the analyst’s forecast, it will increase to $ 64, in 2022 - to $ 84, and in 2024 will reach $ 109. Sberbank economists did not agree with the forecast of the Central Bank for inflation in 2017.

Alexey Navalny. Photo: Maxim Shemetov / Reuters Yesterday, Alexei Navalny announced his intention to participate in the presidential election in 2018 and immediately published his election program. In it, the future candidate outlined the circle of the most acute problems for Russia - from inequality to corruption, assuring the voter that under his leadership in the country there will be long -awaited changes. Perhaps it is difficult to find less similar people than Navalny and Putin.

The State Duma refused to hear the annual state report of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. It is reported by Interfax . “The Council of the Duma decided not to hear the state report of the Ministry of Culture in the ward this year. It was decided to postpone this report due to the fact that the officials of the ministry prepared their speech, exclusively dedicated to 2015, ”said Elena Drapeko, the first deputy head of the culture committee.

The Russian Export Center (REC) intends to expand its powers as an agent of the government. This was reported in the development strategy of the Center until 2020, which Kommersant got acquainted with. The REC wants to get the functions of the “state policy coordinator” and single -handedly distribute subsidies and state guarantees.

Russian President Vladimir Putin headed the rating of the most influential people in the world according to Forbes magazine. “In his homeland, in Syria, and in the US presidential election in the United States, the Russian leader continues to achieve everything he wants,” the newspaper writes. The second place in the list of the most influential people forbes was taken by the elected US President Donald Trump, the third - German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The online retailer Amazon announced the launch of its Prime Video streaming service in more than 200 countries, including in Russia. This was reported in the company's press release. In Russia, the service is available at a price of € 2.99 per month within six months, after which it will increase to € 5.99 monthly. The company also offers to use the service free of charge within seven days after registration.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich instructed the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Communications to develop a plan for creating the Internet of things in agro-industrialism. This is stated in the protocol of the meeting of Dvorkovich of October 21, which Vedomosti got acquainted with.

Medical cards. Photo: Ruslan Krivobok / RIA Novosti Medicine gradually switches to new formats for working with information: electronic queues and recording via the Internet, databases instead of dilapidated medical cards, telemedicine as an alternative to going to a doctor. The problem is that at the same time, institutions do not care too much about protecting the personal data of their patients. And not only in Russia.

Moscow handed over to Washington the accused in the case of the largest hacker hacker in the history of the US banking sector Joshua Aaron. This was reported to "Interfax" by the representative of the Moscow department of the FSSP Timur Korobitsyn. Aaron left Russia on December 14. Earlier it was reported that the US citizen is in custody in Moscow. He was detained in May after checking the documents, after it turned out that he violated Russian visa laws.

Sheremetyevo airport. Photo: sergei karpukhin / reuters Russians who expect to receive political asylum abroad are becoming more and more again. According to the fresh data of the US Department of Internal Security, in the 2016 citizens of the Russian Federation, 1912 applications were received - a record number over the past 22 years: the previous peak occurred in 1994, when the inhabitants of the country were submitted 2127 appeals.

The US Council on the United States submitted the report “The main threats that you need to monitor in 2017”, where the conflict of the Russian Federation and NATO put in the first place. The report is published on the Council website. The conflict of Russia and NATO is in the first place in the list of threats with “high influence” and “moderate probability”. As a reason, the authors call the aggressive behavior of Russia in Eastern Europe.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation criticized the court decision in the Netherlands, which decided to return the so -called Scythian gold to Ukraine. This was reported on the website of the department. “This decision is an example of violation of the rights of cultural institutions and the destruction of the unity of museum collections.