After the attack in Berlin, 12/19/2016. Harden video from Twitter @jpney 12 people died in the center of Berlin as a result of a truck hit a crowd at the Christmas fair near the Church of Gedekhtniskirkh. It is reported by Deutsche Welle. Another 48 people received injuries of varying severity. Several shopping tents are also destroyed. The truck drove around the fair 50-80 meters. There were Polish registration numbers on the car.

Andrei Karlov at the time of the shooting by a terrorist. Hard video from the YouTube channel Medyascope.tv In Ankara, Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov was killed. It is reported by Daily Sabah. On the evening of Monday, the Turkish citizen Mert Altyntash shot Karlov at least eight times in the back when he performed at an art exhibition in a gallery of contemporary art. Having shot the ambassador, Altyntash began to shout something in Turkish.

Il-18. Photo from the site www.airlines.afriqonline.com In Yakutia, the IL-18 plane crashed with military personnel on board. According to the interfax source in emergency services, he performed a flight from Kansk to Tiksi and crashed, not reaching a few kilometers to the destination. According to the source, there were 32 people on board. According to preliminary data, 27 people died.

UFSB in the Perm Territory. Photo: Wikipedia The FSB in the Perm Territory was opened by a case against a 16-year-old schoolchild from the village of Ural Urals of the Nugenia district of Mark R. The case under part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism via the Internet). It is reported by "Periscopalist." A teenager faces up to five years in a colony. The reason for initiating the case was the record made by R. last spring on a personal VK page.

The building of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. Photo: europahouse-tm.eu The Council of the European Union extended sector sanctions against Russia for another six months - until July 31, 2017. This was reported on the website of the European structure. As noted in the message, the condition for lifting sanctions is Russia to fulfill all the Minsk agreements. It was assumed that the process will be completed by December 31, 2015.

IBSF emblem The 2017 Bobslei and Skeleton Championship was postponed from Sochi to Germany, it will accept the city of Koenigzee. According to TASS, this was reported in the press service of the International Federation of Bobsleya and Skeleton. The transfer of competitions became known on December 13th. “In this difficult time, it would be prudent not to arrange such competitions in Russia,” IBSF said. The federation in the federation was justified in two arguments.

Andrey Bubeev. Photo by Dmitry Borko The Tver Blogger Andrei Bubeev, who was serving a term of 2 years 3 months in the case of extremism in the LIU-3 of his region, is tightened by the verdict: the political prisoner is transferred from a colony-settlement to a general regime colony. This was announced on her FB page Blogger's wife Anastasia Bubeeva. The decision comes into force on December 23.

Sanal Sanchirov. Photo: Ren-TV In Syria, the commander of the Russian airborne assault battalion, Major Sanchirov, died. According to Medusa, information about the death of the military was confirmed in the administration of the village of Yashkul in Kalmykia. The funeral passed on December 13th. According to the publication, Sanchirov served in the military unit 74507. This is a 56th separate landing and gear brigade deployed in the city of Kamyshin in the Volgograd region.

Concentrate "hawthorn". Photo: Rospotrebnadzor in the Irkutsk region 49 people died in Irkutsk from poisoning with an alcohol -containing concentrate "Hawthorn". This was reported by Interfax with reference to the senior assistant to the regional prosecutor Alexander Semenov. Eight more victims undergo treatment. Earlier, the press secretary of the regional Ministry of Health Tatyana Lebedeva said that most of the poisoned are in serious condition.

Christine Lagard. Photo from the site www.tehrantimes.com The court in Paris recognized the director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence in the case of payment of compensation in the amount of 400 million euros to businessman Bernard Tapi. It is reported by Reuters. At the same time, no punishment of the defendant was appointed.

70 years ago, on December 19, 1946, France started the war in Indochina. On this day, the command of the French troops demanded the disarmament of the forces of the Vietnamese Communists (Viet Minh) in Haiphong. At the same time, French troops attacked parts of the Viet Minh in Hanoi. The communists switched to guerrilla warfare. By the end of March 1947, the French controlled only the main cities, the roads that linked them together, and the coastal territory.

110 years ago, on December 19, 1906, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born, who headed the CPSU and the Soviet state for 18 years - from 1964 to 1982. His name is associated with the era of stagnation, which replaced the Khrushchev "thaw".

Sergey Melikov. Photo: Arms-expo.ru The reconnaissance of the Russian Guard will identify threats to the state system in Russia. According to Interfax, the First Deputy Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Guard Sergey Melikov announced this.

Aleppo. Photo: veteranstuday.com The UN Security Council agreed on a draft resolution on the evacuation of civilians from Aleppo under the control of international humanitarian organizations. According to TASS, this was announced by the Permanent Representative of Russia at the UN Vitaly Churkin following the results of the closed meeting of the Security Council. According to him, the vote will be held at 17:00 Moscow time.

Dmitry Demushkin and lawyer Mikhail Tikhonov in the Presnensky district court, 10/21/2016. Photo: zona.media The Presnensky District Court of Moscow extended Nationalist Politics Dmitry Demushkin, accused of extremism, the term of home arrest for another two months - until February 21, 2017. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Oleg Kolesnikov, a politician lawyer. Demushkin has been under the recognizance not to leave for almost a year.