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Russia welcomed the exchange of detainees between Kiev and Donbass. In the statement, which was circulated by the foreign Ministry, that Moscow hopes that next year the parties will not only continue this practice, but will work on the implementation of the other provisions of the Minsk agreements.

Russian chess grandmaster, 14th world champion Vladimir Kramnik commented on his performance at the world blitz championship in Moscow, for which he won the bronze medals.

To the home of a group of ships of border guard of FSB of Russia in the Western Arctic area came to the patrol ship "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky". It is intended to patrol the distant sea and ocean areas, counter terrorist threats.

In St. Petersburg arrested a second suspect in preparation of acts of terrorism on new year's holidays. Dzerzhinsky district court decided to send him Semenova under guards for 2 months.

Every year in late December, the TV channel "Science" and the Institute of modern media (MOMRI) conduct a survey of Russian scientists and ordinary Russians about the key scientific events of the year and present its results.

In Vienna negotiations between "Gazprom" and "Naftogaz", which has become a transit agreement. It is reported that the parties signed a settlement agreement to settle arbitration claims. According to experts, this is an important step on the way to a deal on transit.

In the match of the youth world championship on hockey team Canada on the ice "Ostravar-Arena" in the Czech Republic defeated the national team of Germany with the score 4:1 and left in leaders of group B.

Kazan today started to spread in social networks photos of the giant thermometer that is the trumpet of the district boiler near Gorkinskaya-Matievskiy forest. The height of the temperature meter reaches 100 meters.

The President of Russia Vladimir Putin called "a bastard and an anti-Semitic pig" Polish Ambassador to Germany, who promised a monument to Hitler for the expulsion of the Jews in Africa. This opinion he expressed on the expanded Board of the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation.

At the initiative of the Belarusian side had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.