The Syrian pro-government news agency SANA reported the interception of air targets near the Syrian capital Damascus. “Syrian air defense intercepts enemy targets in the airspace west of Damascus,” the report said . According to RIA Novosti, Syrian air defenses repelled a missile attack over the western outskirts of Damascus. Several explosions occurred in Damascus itself, their source has not yet been established, a Russian agency correspondent reported.

The crash of Indonesian carrier Lion Air's newest Boeing 737 Max aircraft may have been caused by an incorrectly adjusted speed sensor, The Wall Street Journal reported , citing sources. The plane crashed in October. The newspaper's sources specified that two days before the crash, mechanics installed a new airspeed sensor on the airliner. However, its adjustment may have been incorrect.

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December 25, 2018, 09:19 / Auto Manturov announced the date and place of the launch of mass production of Aurus cars undefined Vedomosti Serial production of Aurus cars will start in mid-2020 at the Sollers site in Alabuga, Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said in an interview with TASS. According to him, 2019 will be a preparatory year. At the Sollers plant , he noted, capacity will be created to produce 5,000 cars per year.

Russia guarantees gas supplies to Europe in contracted volumes even in the absence of transit agreements with Ukraine, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with Kommersant. “Under any circumstances, we guarantee the supply of Russian gas under long-term contracts signed by Gazprom. In this sense, European consumers will be provided with the necessary volumes,” the minister said.

December 25, 2018, 17:31 / Business Security measures have been tightened at Uralkali facilities after the emergency in Solikamsk Vedomosti Security measures have been tightened at Uralkali facilities after the death of nine employees of a construction contracting organization in a mine in Solikamsk, TASS reports citing a statement by the press secretary of the regional Ministry of Territorial Security Elena Dubinina.

Both developers and VKontakte take on the payment of taxes on the amounts received, as explained in the documents of the social network / Evgeny Egorov / Vedomosti VKontakte transferred 2 billion rubles to game developers in 2018, a representative of the social network told Vedomosti. The creators of the applications receive money for each vote that users buy on the social network and use in the game. Previously, VKontakte never disclosed the amount of royalties to game developers.

Despite the recent agreement by OPEC and its allies to cut oil production, investors are concerned about the prospects for a market that could become oversupplied. Since peaking in early October, oil prices have fallen more than 40% to their lowest level in a year and a half, with Brent and WTI down 6.2% and 6.7% respectively on Monday.

December 25, 2018, 10:58 pm / Business The main contracts of the Ministry of Defense for combat aircraft are coming to an end The future of the Russian aviation industry depends on their renegotiation Alexey Nikolsky Contracts for the Su-30SM, Su-34 and Su-35S are among the most successfully completed within the framework of the state weapons programs in force since 2011 / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The Russian Ministry of Defense and representatives of the aviation industry are negotiating new

December 25, 2018, 13:17 / Business FAS refused to drop the case against retailers over TV set-top boxes undefined Vedomosti The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) will not withdraw the order to initiate proceedings against M.video and Eldorado, DNS and Yulmart because of prices for TV set-top boxes, as requested by the Association of Retail Trade Companies (AKORT). This follows from the FAS message.

In recent years, Channel One has regularly delayed payments to partners, primarily content producers / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The Ostankino Television Technical Center is demanding that Channel One repay a debt of 164 million rubles, according to the Moscow Arbitration Court's card index. The federal state unitary enterprise filed two lawsuits against the channel - for 74 million and 89.5 million rubles. A representative of Ostankino confirmed the filing of the lawsuits.

Putin doesn't look very impressive when he talks about wage growth, but incomes fall. And Surinov is to blame One of Vladimir Putin's statements at a major press conference left me stumped: how can real disposable incomes of the population grow by half a percent in 2018 if they fell by 0.1% in January-November, heralding the fifth year in a row of falling incomes?

The Tokyo Stock Exchange Nikkei 225 index fell to a 15-month low at the opening of trading, breaking the psychologically important mark of 20,000 for the first time since September 2017, notes Bloomberg . At the opening of trading on Tuesday, the index reached 19,310.90, having lost 4.2% compared to Friday trading; on Monday, exchanges were closed due to a holiday. Compared to the maximum on October 2, the drop exceeded 20%.

December 25, 2018, 10:13 pm / Finance Peskov spoke about the decision of Putin and Lukashenko to meet again before the New Year undefined Vedomosti Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov confirmed the report that the Presidents of Russia and Belarus Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko agreed to hold a meeting before the end of the year. TASS reports this. Earlier, Belarusian media reported about such an agreement.

December 25, 2018, 19:00 / Finance Sberbank named the main trends of 2018 in the banking system The population is taking out more loans and looking for alternatives to bank deposits Angelina Krechetova Anna Tretyak Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Sberbank has compiled a list of the most notable trends of 2018 in the banking system. The bank called the main feature of the outgoing year the acceleration of growth in lending to the population at low growth rates in lending to enterprises.