The topic of information about deceased military personnel and, on the contrary, the state's authority to classify this information is relevant again. Human rights activists demand to find out how fully and objectively cases of deaths of military personnel in peacetime are investigated. Members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC) intend to send a corresponding request to the Investigative Committee (IC) and the Main Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP).

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Ukraine is ready to sue Russia over a $3 billion debt, TASS reports. “If Russia sues Ukraine, then we are ready to sue fully armed,” he said at a government meeting. According to him, Ukraine will not provide Russia with better conditions than international creditors for restructuring the country's debt. Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Finance to sue Ukraine if the bond debt is not repaid. “It’s strange.

December 09, 2015, 15:14 / Business FAS may doubt the legality of transferring Transaero flights to Aeroflot Vedomosti The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) will analyze the air transportation market and may raise the question of the legality of transferring Transaero flights to Aeroflot, said the head of the service, Igor Artemyev. “In any case, we continue to analyze the market, we did not vote for this decision, we do not support this decision.

09 December 2015, 19:28 / Economics Putin instructed to extend the payment of maternity capital until the end of 2018 Vedomosti Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to prepare changes to legislation providing for the extension of maternity capital payments not only for two years, but also beyond this period.

The St. Petersburg budget will not return 322 million rubles for the Orlovsky tunnel / E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti On December 8, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region refused to issue a writ of execution to the Nevskaya Concession Company (NKK) to collect 322 million rubles from the St. Petersburg administration for refusing to build the Orlovsky Tunnel, the court's website says. The reasoning has not yet been published.

08 December 2015, 23:13 / Business Ukraine resumed electricity supply to Crimea Electricity is supplied so far only through one of the damaged power lines Ivan Peschinsky Ukraine fueled Crimea / D. Abramov / Vedomosti Crimea began receiving electricity from Ukraine again on Tuesday. On Monday evening, one of the four damaged power lines leading to the peninsula was prepared for work and launched the next morning, Ukrenergo reported.

January futures for Brent oil fell by 0.7% to $39.94 per barrel by 20.30 Moscow time on Wednesday and continues to remain below $40, according to trading data on the London ICE Futures exchange. Earlier during trading, oil prices rose amid the publication of fresh data on energy inventories in the United States. According to the US Department of Energy, oil inventories in the country decreased last week by 3.57 million barrels.

According to the results of 11 months, equity participation agreements (EPA) in Moscow were concluded for 580 billion rubles, which is 34.8% more than for the same period last year, said Konstantin Timofeev, head of the Moscow City Committee for Investment and Control over Shared Construction, during a dialogue with investors, RIA Novosti reports. He emphasized that today the main investor in housing construction in Moscow is the population.

The Finnish National Insurance Authority has proposed replacing social benefits with a fixed payment for all adult citizens of the country, regardless of income level. In the pilot version, such payments are proposed to be set at 550 euros per month, subsequently - 800 euros. The proposal must be discussed and finalized only by November next year.

The European Union may abolish visa requirements for citizens of Ukraine and Georgia as early as mid-2016, Deutsche Welle reports , citing Die Welt . The newspaper's diplomatic sources in Brussels say that on December 15, the European Commission is to present a report that will positively assess the progress of Kiev and Tbilisi in fulfilling the conditions for abolishing visas.

Chairman of the Federation Council's relevant committee on constitutional legislation and state building Andrei Klishas called the Anti-Corruption Foundation's (FBK) investigation into the activities of his family members a political attack on Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. "This is a purely political story, not a single piece of evidence, no court decision, not even the fact that applications were filed in court has been presented.

09 December 2015, 14:27 / Business FAS harshly criticized Gazprom's tender for Power of Siberia Vedomosti The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is outraged by the terms of the largest tender in the history of Russian procurement by Gazprom for the construction of 822 km of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline for 156 billion rubles. “I sent a letter to Alexey Borisovich Miller [the board of directors of Gazprom] with harsh criticism of this tender.

In the Tver region, the recently laid Yamal-Europe gas export pipeline to Germany and Poland has changed the environmental situation. As Interfax reports , this was told to journalists and participants of the Russian Gas forum by Valery Golubev, deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom, responsible for the Russian market and gasification. He explained that he has a country house near Torzhok in the Tver region. “The pipe went through and crossed all the migration routes of cows!

An explosion occurred in the Roshen store in the Dafi shopping and entertainment center in Kharkiv. As UNIAN was informed by the main department of the National Police of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region, a report of the explosion was received by the duty unit of the Kiev police department on December 9 at 1.37 local time. No one was hurt in the explosion. The store windows and glass entrance doors were broken.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev considers it unacceptable for him in his position to evaluate media reports on topics that should be evaluated by law enforcement agencies. This is how he answered questions from Elizaveta Osetinskaya and Mikhail Fishman about the investigation by Novaya Gazeta and the Anti-Corruption Foundation into the business of the sons of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and his subordinates.