FIFA headquarters in Zurich. Photo: fifa.com A preliminary audit conducted by the FIFA in relation to the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, the former head of the Ministry of Sports Vitaly Mutko, may turn into a recall of the decision on the 2018 mundial in Russia. It is reported by the Daily Mail. The official himself, if his involvement in the implementation of the Russian doping program in football is confirmed, will be excluded from FIFA and removed from work in this sport.

Terrible: The executed car of the alleged Mujahideen, 12/17/2016. Source: kavkazr.com In the mountain forest, a few kilometers from Grozny were neutralized by five citizens involved in the attacks committed on the eve of the attacks on the police. Initially, Interfax reported with reference to the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov that all five were killed. It was noted that Kadyrov directly led the actions of the security forces at the scene.

Five years ago, on December 18, 2011, the last US military units left Iraq. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, US troops have lost 4,423 dead and 31,941 wounded, reaching a peak of 250,000. After that date, only American military advisers remained in Iraq, who now number more than 5,200.

White House. Photo from Whitehouse.gov Over the past four months, US special services and assistants to US President Barack Obama have proposed several options for response to Russian cyber attacks, but all proposals were rejected. It is reported by The New York Times. Some of these options considered ineffective, others - too risky. One of the options - his publication calls the "trivial" - suggested the exposure of Vladimir Putin's connections with the oligarchs.

After the terrorist attack in Aden, 12/18/2016. Frame Reuters 49 military were killed as a result of the explosion of a suicide bombing terrorist in the city of Aden in the south of Yemen. It is reported by Reuters with reference to local authorities. Not less than 60 security forces were injured. The attack occurred at the Es Saulaban military base in the Khor-Maksar area. The terrorist in a vest stuffed with explosives was clung to the crowd of security forces who came to receive a salary.

Ilmi Umarov. Photo: 15minut.org The UFSB in the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol fabricates a new case against the deputy chairman of the Medzhlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umarov, who is already under investigation on charges of separatism. This was announced on Friday at her FB page Aisha Umarova, the daughter of politics.

Mujahideen who were killed under the formidable. Frame video from Instagram Ramzan Kadyrov 11 Mujahideen participated in the attacks on the police in Grozny. This follows from the recording on Instagram of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. According to him, the seven attackers were killed, and four were detained, and three are in a hospital with firearms. Previously, Kadyrov himself called a larger number of those killed.

During a shootout in Grozny, 12/17/2016. Hard video from the YouTube channel "Wolf 95" In Grozny late in the evening on Saturday, four people were killed in a shootout with police officers, two more were injured. As reported on the website of the Chechnya administration, this was stated by the head of the region Ramzan Kadyrov. According to Kadyrov, in the Oktyabrsky district of the Chechen capital, some armed faces attacked a policeman and seized his car.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov opens a new building of the Nazran District Department of Internal Affairs. Photo: evkurov.livejournal.com The 36-year-old resident of Grozny Rustam Alev, who was detained on December 13 by the residents of the Ingush village of Ali-Jurt on suspicion of preparing an assassination attempt on the imam of the local Salafi mosque of ISU Tsecheov, the security forces were tortured, achieving confessions.

140 years ago, on December 18, 1876, the first workers' demonstration in Russia was held on Kazanskaya Square in St. Petersburg, bringing together about 400 people. She passed under a red banner on which the words "Land and Freedom" were embroidered. The young revolutionary Georgy Plekhanov, who was then a member of the populist organization Land and Freedom, addressed the demonstrators. He called for the overthrow of the autocracy.