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The Serbian President inspected the construction of the Danube Corridor highway, which is being carried out by a Chinese company.

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Golubac, Serbia, December 30, Xinhua — Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić inspected the construction of the Danube Corridor high-speed highway in the east of the country on Monday. He said the project is progressing well and is scheduled for completion in 2026.

The road being built by a Chinese company will significantly improve transport links along the Danube and support the economic development of eastern Serbia, the president noted, expressing satisfaction with the quality of construction and confidence in Chinese workers.

Calling the project a "great boost" for the region, A. Vučić said the new highway will help attract investment, promote tourism, and increase the attractiveness of this less-developed region. "This is a strong incentive for people to return. Quite a few people are already returning," he noted.

“I want to thank our Chinese friends for their sincere friendship, because with their enormous support, we are building and improving Serbia,” the head of state said.

Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Li Ming said the project has a far-reaching impact on Serbia's development. According to the diplomat, it has become "a crystallization of the wisdom of the peoples and companies of both countries."

The 68-kilometer "Danube Corridor" connects the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia with Belgrade and the E75 international highway. A 31.85-kilometer section of the route opened to traffic in February 2025, with work on the remaining sections ongoing.

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China's newest giant panda conservation base has opened to the public.

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CHENGDU, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — A new giant panda conservation base designed to promote breeding, research and international communication opened to the public on a trial basis in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday.

The Mianyang base, covering approximately 120 hectares, is the fifth project of the China Giant Panda Conservation and Research Center. On its first day of opening, nearly 6,300 tourists visited, according to the base's administration.

The base opened in early November of this year and is now home to 20 giant pandas, ranging in age from juveniles to elderly individuals. These 20 giant pandas have already successfully completed the adaptation period, and their health is considered good, according to the base's administration.

The base, with its lush landscape of valleys surrounded by mountains, mimics a wild habitat, and artificial structures for housing giant pandas have been built within its grounds. A total of 54 enclosures are designed for various uses, including breeding, raising cubs, exhibiting adult specimens, and disease control.

The base also uses smart technologies such as intelligent safety warning systems, temperature and humidity control, and a light disinfection system to boost immunity.

Known as the birthplace of the giant panda, Sichuan Province boasts the world's largest panda population. More than 70 percent of China's wild giant pandas live in the province, and Mianyang has the highest number of wild pandas among all Chinese prefectural-level cities.

The conservation of giant pandas exemplifies China's efforts to promote ecological civilization. Thanks to their ongoing protection efforts, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) upgraded the species' status from "endangered" to "vulnerable" in 2016. Currently, approximately 1,900 giant pandas live in the wild in China. -0-

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China successfully launched the Tianhui-4 satellite.

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JIUQUAN, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — China successfully launched a new satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday.

The Tianhui-7 satellite was launched at 12:12 PM Beijing Time aboard a Long March-4B launch vehicle. The satellite successfully entered its designated orbit.

The Tianhui-7 satellite is mainly designed for mapping geological information, land resource census, and conducting scientific experiments and research.

The current flight mission was the 622nd for the Long March series launch vehicles. -0-

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Since the beginning of 2025, more than 700 thousand passengers have passed through the Hunchun checkpoint on the Chinese-Russian border.

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Changchun, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — As of Dec. 29, the passenger flow in both directions through the Hunchun checkpoint on the China-Russia border in Northeast China's Jilin Province exceeded 700,000 people, hitting a new all-time high, according to the local border control agency.

Over the same period, the volume of goods imported and exported through the Hunchun checkpoint increased by 38.1 percent year-on-year, while the number of vehicles crossing the border increased by 28.4 percent.

As the only land border crossing on the Chinese-Russian border in Jilin Province, the Hunchun checkpoint is connected to Vladivostok, Zarubino, Posyet, and other Russian towns by direct transport. Since the introduction of a mutual visa-free regime between China and Russia, there has been a significant increase in passenger traffic through this checkpoint.

"With a strong focus on policy implementation and service improvement, we are dynamically monitoring changes in passenger traffic, continuously optimizing the inspection process, and making every effort to ensure smooth customs clearance for passengers, so as to provide reliable support for cross-border tourism and trade and economic cooperation between China and Russia," the Hunchun Border Control Service stated. -0-

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Financial news: 12/29/2025, 11:45 (Moscow time) the values of the upper limit of the price corridor and the range for assessing market risks for the RU000A106TV7 (VimpelK3R4) security were changed.

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December 29, 2025, 11:45 AM

In accordance with the Methodology for determining the risk parameters of the stock market and the deposit market of PJSC Moscow Exchange by the NCC (JSC), on December 29, 2025, 11:45 (Moscow time), the values of the upper limit of the price corridor (up to 90.69) and the range of market risk assessment (up to 986.65 rubles, equivalent to a rate of 18.75%) for security RU000A106TV7 (VimpelK3R4) were changed.

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Financial news: On December 29, 2025, JSC KAVKAZ.RF will hold a deposit auction.

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29.12.2025 Mosfilm conquers Brazil: the film concern's large-scale program was a huge success in 2025. In the outgoing year of 2025, the Mosfilm film concern and the Brazilian distributor CPC-UMES Filmes carried out a cultural project of unprecedented scope.

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In 2025, the Mosfilm film company and the Brazilian distributor CPC-UMES Filmes launched a cultural project of unprecedented scope. From Salvador to São Paulo, from historic cinemas to online platforms, millions of Brazilian viewers were introduced to the treasures of Russian and Soviet cinema. Retrospectives, festivals, and special screenings dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory Day and masterpieces of auteur cinema confirmed the enduring interest in Russian cinema in Latin America.

As part of this fruitful collaboration, more than 15 major film programs were organized in a dozen Brazilian cities. The year culminated in a large-scale project—the 11th International Festival "Mostra Mosfilm 2025," dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory and the 50th anniversary of the creative work of Mosfilm General Director, film director, and People's Artist of the Russian Federation Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov. It included classic films from the studio (The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, Michurin, The Secret of Eternal Night, and others) and the most famous films from the filmography of the head of Mosfilm, as well as contemporary hits, including the director's recent work, the adventure detective "Khitrovka. The Sign of Four" (2023).

Particular attention was paid to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. In May, the CPC-UMES YouTube channel hosted a free "Film Week" featuring nine legendary Mosfilm war films, including "The Fate of a Man," "Come and See," and "Hot Snow," among many other celebrated films. Separate retrospectives in cinemas in Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte also drew full houses.

The films of Andrei Tarkovsky were a true revelation for Brazilian audiences. His retrospective at the Belas Artes cinema chain in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro ran for 63 screenings, and Solaris became the centerpiece of the Rio Science Fiction Festival. The celebrated films The Mirror and Dersu Uzala played to sold-out houses at the Cinematheque de Brasilia.

In parallel with the festivals, the "Russian Cinema at Home" project successfully ran—a monthly online selection of Mosfilm films, allowing viewers from across the United States to watch and rewatch their favorite films throughout the year: from "White Sun of the Desert" and "Ivan Vasilievich…" to Yuri Ozerov's five-part epic "Liberation."

The collaboration between Mosfilm and CPC-UMES Filmes clearly demonstrates that classic and contemporary Russian cinema remains a sought-after cultural phenomenon worldwide, resonating with a diverse and discerning audience. The success of the 2025 programs lays a solid foundation for new joint projects.

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Financial news: 12/29/2025, 13-18 (Moscow time) the values of the upper limit of the price corridor and the range for assessing market risks for the RU000A10B0T2 security (RZhD 1P-39R) were changed.

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December 29, 2025, 1:18 PM

In accordance with the Methodology for determining the risk parameters of the stock market and the deposit market of PJSC Moscow Exchange by the NCC (JSC) on December 29, 2025, 13-18 (Moscow time), the values of the upper limit of the price corridor (up to 123.08) and the range of market risk assessment (up to 1339.24 rubles, equivalent to a rate of 21.25%) for security RU000A10B0T2 (RZhD 1P-39R) were changed.

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Mikhail Mishustin appointed Pavel Stepanov as acting plenipotentiary representative of the Government to the Constitutional and Supreme Courts of the Russian Federation.

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Order No. 4135-r of December 29, 2025

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Order No. 4135-r of December 29, 2025

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has appointed Pavel Stepanov as acting Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government to the Constitutional and Supreme Courts of the Russian Federation. He will hold this position concurrently with his current position as Director of the Government's Department for Legislative Support and Regulatory Affairs.

Pavel Stepanov was born in Moscow. He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University and holds a PhD in law.

He began his career in consulting firms. In 1999, he headed the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Press, Television, Radio Broadcasting, and Mass Communications. In 2004, he joined the State Legal Department of the President of the Russian Federation as an assistant.

In 2010, Pavel Stepanov was appointed First Deputy General Director for Corporate Management of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise RTRS, and in 2014, he headed the Central Partnership company.

In 2018, he became an advisor and later Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation. Two years later, he was appointed Director of the Government's Department for Legislative Support, which was later transformed into the Government's Department for Legislative Support and Regulatory Affairs.

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Financial News: Clarifications: Reporting Form 0409264 "Information on Electronic Payment Instruments and Transactions Using Them"

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Updated: December 21, 2023

The clarification regarding a unique (non-repeating) record concerns the data aggregation (grouping) rule. Subsection 1.1 does not require the presentation of information about each individual electronic payment instrument, unless it is the only electronic payment instrument with a set of codes in columns 2B8 that differs from all other sets of codes entered for other electronic payment instruments.

Data aggregation is performed based on the sets of codes specified in columns 2-8 for each individual EPI. This requirement means that electronic payment instruments with identical characteristics, i.e., for which the code values in columns 2-8 are identical, are "collapsed" into a single report row, while the quantitative values entered for columns 9, 10, or 11 are summed.

The form of technical implementation of the specified procedures in the software is at the discretion of the reporting credit institution.

EXAMPLE:

The reporting company issued a total of 8 electronic payment instruments:

Two Mir credit cards were issued to individuals located in the Ryazan region. The payment cards were issued to clients. Both cards were valid as of the reporting date and opened during the reporting quarter. The first card was used for transactions during the reporting quarter, while the second card was not used for any transactions (Clients 1 and 2). One Mir debit card was issued to a trading company located in the Belgorod region. The card was issued to a company representative. During the reporting quarter, the company representative made purchases using this card. As of the reporting date, the company closed the card. (Client 3) Five Internet Wallets. Three of the wallets are non-personalized ESPs, without identification, and two are personalized ESPs, with full identification. The holders of the personalized ESPs are located in the Pskov region. All wallets are active as of the reporting date, with two clients opening them during the reporting quarter. All ESPs were used for payments at retail and service establishments during the reporting quarter (clients 4-8).

For the specified ESPs, the following codes are filled in columns 2-8 and values in columns 9-11 during the report preparation process:

  Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Column 7 Column 8 Column 9 Column 10 Column 11
Client 1 3 61000 2   1 8002 MIR (NSPK) 1 1 1
Client 2 3 61000 2   1 8002 MIR (NSPK) 1   1
Client 3 1 14000 1   1 8002 MIR (NSPK)   1  
Client 4 3   4 3 8418 Internet wallet 1 1  
Client 5 3   4 3 8418 Internet wallet 1 1  
Client 6 3   4 3 8418 Internet wallet 1 1  
Client 7 3 58000 4 1 8418 Internet wallet 1 1  
Client 8 3 58000 4 1 8418 Internet wallet 1 1  

Based on the data presented, the set of codes in columns 2-8 is the same for the following groups of ESP clients:

for ESP clients 1 and 2 for ESP clients 4, 5, 6 for ESP clients 7 and 8

Based on the results of data aggregation (grouping), the following information should be presented in the report:

Line number Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Column 7 Column 8 Column 9 Column 10 Column 11
1 3 61000 2   1 8002 MIR (NSPK) 2 1 2
2 1 14000 1   1 8002 MIR (NSPK)   1  
3 3   4 3 8418 Internet wallet 3 3  
4 3 58000 4 1 8418 Internet wallet 2 2  

A similar aggregation principle applies to Subsection 1.2, Section 2, Subsection 3.1 and Section 4 of the report.

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