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Foreign Minister Lavrov announced talks with the United States on security guarantees in early January

 Foreign Minister Lavrov announced talks with the United States on security guarantees in early January

Negotiations between Russia and the United States on security guarantees will take place immediately after the New Year holidays, in early January. This was told by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the air of "Solovyov Live".

"It is with the United States that we will hold the main round of negotiations [on security guarantees], which will take place immediately after the end of the New Year holidays," the diplomat said.

Earlier, the minister noted that Washington and Moscow have agreed to use three tracks of negotiations. Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko added that, in addition, the Russian side is working on the timing and format of the meeting of the Russia -NATO Council.

In addition, during the annual press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded an immediate response from the United States and NATO on security guarantees. The Russian leader said that it is not the course of negotiations on this issue that is important to Moscow, but their result. According to him, the further development of the situation in the international arena will depend on this.

Producer Nier and other Square Enix representatives are interested in NFT games

 The producer of the Nier series, Yosuke Saito, said that he was interested in NFT, and in the future he would like to do some kind of project with similar elements.
He told about this in an interview with Famitsu magazine, whose representatives interviewed many Japanese developers about the results of the year and hopes for 2022.
According to Saito, he is very interested in NFT content for games, because he believes that new technologies help the development of gaming, among other things. However, now the author has a lot of unannounced things that distract him from studying NFT so far.
Other Square Enix representatives are also interested in NFT, including Yoshinori Kitase, producer of the Final Fantasy VII remake, and Noriyoshi Fujimoto, producer of the Dragon Quest series. The latter believes that in the future representatives of this direction will still have to find the right way of development, but the author is sure that thanks to such technologies, new ideas will still appear in the industry.
In addition, representatives of other studios like Konami and SEGA.

Tom Holland's fees will rise sharply after the success of "Spider-Man 3"

 Tom Holland, the performer of the role of Peter Parker in the Marvel cinematic universe, will be able to count on an impressive increase in salary after the grand success of the movie "Spider-Man 3: No way home."

According to sources familiar with the course of such negotiations, the requested actor's fee should jump to eight figures. Before the release of Spider-Man, he earned less than one million dollars for roles in feature films. After that, his fees increased from two to five million dollars for independent films and from five to ten million dollars for the main role in a commercial studio project.

As for streaming services, which are currently ready to offer stars more impressive terms of cooperation, Holland's salary may grow to $ 20 million or even more.

In addition, Holland is attracting an audience at a time when Hollywood is desperately trying to find a new generation of leading actors. Filmmaking seeks to find a replacement for a lot of aging the stars of the past years, and Holland is one of the few young artists who are able to move the industry forward even in such difficult times of global change for it.

In Volgograd, the river port was flooded due to an accident

 Today, on December 27, it became known that the river port was flooded.

There was a burst of the main water supply. The river station began to flood as water entered the room. To eliminate the accident, workers arrived at the site.

"Water supply concessions" commented on this situation to the correspondent of "Notepad Volgograd".

Economist Grigorieva said that pensioners in December will receive money for January 2022

 Elena Grigorieva, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics of the RUDN, recalled that pensioners who receive payments on the first day of each month through Russian Post offices will receive money for January 2022 in December of this year. According to her, this is due to the upcoming January holidays.

"At the same time, it should be noted that there is no single schedule for pension payments. In different regions, pensions are transferred to banks and post offices in different ways," the Prime agency quotes Grigorieva as saying.

Information about the timing of payments can be found by calling the contact numbers of regional FIUs.

It is noted that during the current month, the indexation of fixed payments to insurance pensions for people over the age of 80 and for those whose employment ended three months ago took place.

"All these payments will be received in December," the economist added.

Earlier, the Pension Fund of Russia recalled that villagers can receive an increase in the form of an increased fixed pension payment of 25%. The payment has the right of citizens receiving an old-age or disability insurance pension.

Pensioners living in the village without paid work with at least 30 years of work experience in agriculture apply for the allowance.

Minsk court sentenced 21-year-old Russian Dudnikov to 11 years in prison

 Minsk City Court on Monday sentenced Russian Egor Dudnikov, who was accused of inciting social hostility and calls for action against the national security of Belarus, to 11 years in prison with serving his sentence in a high-security colony, RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom.
"According to the totality of crimes, finally appoint (punishment - ed.) in the form of imprisonment for a term of 11 years with serving in a high-security colony," the judge said, announcing the sentence to the Russian.

He stressed that Dudnikov was found guilty of deliberate actions to incite hostility on the basis of social affiliation, committed by a group of persons that entailed grave consequences, as well as public calls to seize power, forcibly change the constitutional order using the Internet.
The judge stressed that the sentence has not entered into force and can be appealed in accordance with the law. Dudnikov's lawyer did not comment to RIA Novosti whether he plans to he and his client appeal the court's decision.