US Congress. Photo: House.gov The US Senate, after long debate, approved his version of tax reform, which can become the largest in the country since the 80s of the last century, Reuters reports . 51 senator voted for the bill, against - 49 All, without exception, representatives of the Democratic Party voted against reform. One member of the Senate from Republicans also did not support the document.

Kiren Martin. Photo: cbi.org.uk The National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) at the Great Britain government center sent a warning about risks associated with the use of Kaspersky antivirus to all government institutions. It is reported by the BBC. NCSC head Kiren Martin in his circular forbade departments to use Russian software in any systems containing confidential data.

75 years ago, on December 2, 1942, a group of physicists led by Enrico Fermi, working as part of the Manhattan Project at a nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago, carried out the first controlled chain reaction of fission of uranium atoms. This was a major step in the development of atomic energy and, in particular, in the creation of nuclear weapons.

Vladimir Kekhman. Photo: novat.nsk.ru The General Director of the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater Vladimir Kekhman resigned, taking the post of artistic director Novat. This was reported by TASS with reference to the deputy general director of the marketing theater Artem Pukhalsky.

160 years ago, on December 2, 1857, the Russian Emperor Alexander II sent a rescript (personal letter) to the Vilna Governor-General Vladimir Nazimov, which marked the beginning of the peasant reform.

Flags of Russia and South Ossetia. Photo: Osinform.org President Vladimir Putin introduced an agreement between Russia and Southern Ossetia on ratification to the State Duma on the procedure for entering the "individual units of the Armed Forces" of the Unrecognized Republic into the Russian army. The document is published in the basis of the legislative initiatives of the lower house.

Emblem forum Free Russia Participants in the Free Russia forum began the "Putin list" of the "Putin list". This was reported on the website of the forum. "This list includes persons related to the political, military, judicial, economic, information, business top of the current Russian regime, bearing the most severe responsibility for violations of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Criminal Code, international law," the report said.