Lucas Debargue and music understand each other / Press service of the House of Music This concert had an interesting backstory. When the Moscow Association of Music Critics decided to establish its own prize at the summer Tchaikovsky Competition, a reasonable question arose: what should the award consist of? The critics came up with an idea: the laureate would receive a solo concert in Moscow. The House of Music bravely accepted the idea – no matter who the laureate was.

Rusnano Named the Cost of the New Year's Corporate Party / E. Razumny / Vedomosti The total cost of the Rusnano Group's pre-New Year corporate party was 2,238,000 rubles, the company reported. The event was attended by 415 people. "Members of the boards of the Rusnano Infrastructure and Educational Programs Fund and the Rusnano Management Company decided to pay for the pre-New Year event for the Rusnano Group employees from their personal funds," the media release said.

The material well-being of Russians is deteriorating, and hopes for an improvement in the economic situation in the near future are becoming less and less, according to a survey by VTsIOM. As sociologists note, in December all indices of social well-being, which are calculated as the difference between positive/average and negative ratings, decreased noticeably.

A chandelier fell on visitors at the Aura shopping center in Surgut. As Alexander Filimonov, director of the health department of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra, told TASS, three people were injured. These are children born in 1999 and 2013, they received bruises. Another woman received an open craniocerebral injury and is in a moderate condition. All three were hospitalized.

December 23, 2015, 16:30 / Finance Rosgosstrakh received 100 million rubles in fines from the Central Bank in less than a month The Central Bank does not indicate what exactly the insurer was fined for. Maria Kaverina In total, during this time, the companies were issued 195 fines to pay, the size of each of them was 500,000 rubles. / A.

Housing prices in Moscow avoided a collapse in 2015 / E. Razumny / Vedomosti According to the results of 2015, apartments in Moscow fell in price by 10-15%. This happened largely due to a significant increase in the volume of supply and the size of discounts on the primary market, as well as bargaining on the secondary market. The end of the year did not justify hopes for a quick recovery of buyer activity.

Moscow's road authorities do not rule out that paid parking space in the city will be expanded in 2016. As reported by TASS, Deputy Mayor Maxim Liksutov told the radio station "Moscow Speaks" on December 23 that "there will be no total introduction of paid parking spaces, we do not have such a task." "Some kind of pinpoint expansion is possible, but it will be local in nature," he promised.

Taxpayers are often accused of creating tax schemes - artificial civil law structures that formally comply with the law, but in essence allow them not to pay taxes on the economic benefits received. However, not only taxpayers, but also officials are able to create appearances and wishful thinking.

The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region accepted and registered the appeal of Transaero Airlines against the ruling to introduce a bankruptcy-supervision procedure. this reports Prime with reference to court materials. The complaint was received by arbitration on December 22. It will be transferred for consideration to the Thirteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal. The Arbitration Court of St.

Russian aviation destroyed two oil storage bases and a large terrorist training camp in Syria, Interfax reports. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov. According to him, a militant camp was liquidated in the Syrian province of Idlib. It contained a large number of foreign instructors. "Russian aviation continues to strike illegal militant oil facilities in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.

Toshiba in crisis / Shizuo Kambayashi / AP On the eve, Toshiba announced a reform of its business and warned of record losses in the current financial year. Toshiba's planned reorganization involves simplifying its corporate structure and cutting 10,600 jobs. By the end of the financial year, March 31, about 5 percent of the company's workforce will either be laid off or transferred to other divisions.

The state corporation " Rosnano " explained that, when speaking about big money, its director Anatoly Chubais was referring to the company's success in attracting investment. "We are referring primarily to the financial results of the management company Rusnano this year. In such a difficult situation, we managed to attract more than 20 billion rubles of private investment in the Russian nanoindustry," Rusnano Corporate Communications Director Alexander Barkhatov told Interfax on Wednesday.

December 23, 2015, 00:13 / Economics Government customers declare an emergency to circumvent the law For example, due to collapsed plaster, major repairs are ordered from a single supplier Ekaterina Mereminskaya Government customers have mastered a new way to circumvent the law on public procurement and give the order to a single supplier - declare an emergency / M.

China is trying to reorient its economic model towards the consumer sector, reducing the role of debt and investment / Ng Han Guan / AP Chinese authorities have approved a 2016 economic development plan, which they discussed at the annual Central Economic Work Conference in Beijing. It is aimed at tackling long-standing problems in the Chinese economy - mounting debt, excess capacity and oversupply in the real estate market, according to a communique published by the Xinhua news agency.

December 23, 2015, 19:00 / Economics Falling oil prices hit Gulf economies Budget surplus turned to deficit, negative consequences felt across all sectors Simeon Kerr This year has been extremely unfortunate for the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council / Hasan Jamali / AP The economies of the Gulf countries have suffered due to the collapse in oil prices; over the past year, their income from oil exports has decreased by $360 billion.