George papadopoulos. Photo from personal twitter The investigation of the case of Russian interference in the US election began after the adviser to the pre -election campaign of Donald Trump on foreign policy, George Papadopoulos, “drinking strongly,” told the Australian diplomat that Moscow has a political compromising on the candidate from the democratic party Hillary Clinton. It is reported by The New York Times with reference to sources.

One hundred years ago, on December 31, 1917, Lenin signed the decree of the Council of People's Commissars recognizing the independence of Finland. It proposed: "Enter the Central Executive Committee with a proposal: a) to recognize the state independence of the Republic of Finland and b) to organize, by agreement with the Finnish government, a special commission of representatives of both sides to develop those practical measures that follow from the separation of Finland from Russia ".

Andrey Blinushov. Photo with personal FB page The portal "Human Rights in Russia" from December 31, 2017 stops working, all its employees are quitting. This decision was made by the editor-in-chief of the portal, the chairman of the Ryazan historical, educational and human rights company Memorial Andrei Blinushov, reports Radio Liberty. As the portal employee said, the journalist and writer Vera Vasilieva, the editorial office had to close the Hro.org project due to a lack of funds.

Protests in Iran. Photo from social networks In Iran, anti -government street protests intensified, after two demonstrators were shot in the city of Dorud on Saturday evening, Reuters reports . The authorities accused the "enemies of the revolution" and "foreign agents" of their death. The protests began with dissatisfaction with increasing food prices and have been going on for three days. Numerous demonstrations are held in many cities of Iran.

Evacuation in the metro of Yekaterinburg. Photo: 66.ru In Yekaterinburg, police officers and the FSB detained two suspects in false messages about the "mining" of the metro station and a residential building. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the official representative of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Valeria Gorelykh. According to the burners, the metro was “mined” by an unemployed resident of Yekaterinburg born in 1965.

Dmitry Lukyanenko. Frame of the video Dmitry Lukyanenko, who was detained in the case of the explosion in the Perekrestok supermarket in St. Petersburg, said that he wanted to draw attention to the “psychics sect”. The video of the first testimony Lukyanenko published Fontanka. Lukyanenko left flash drives with threats to the nearby training center "DEIR" (further energy -information development). “This is a sect of psychics,” he said.

The Ministry of Finance of Russia. Photo: minfin.ru Data on the salaries of Russian ministers in 2016 published in December were deleted from the website of the Ministry of Finance. According to RBC, the information disappeared from access the day after publishing an article on this topic. In the Ministry of Finance, they did not comment on data removal. According to RBC, the publication of the salaries of ministers caused discontent in departments.

Pavel Durov. Photo with personal VK page The founder of the Telegram Methaler Pavel Durov blocked the Iranian protest channel Amadnews with more than 1.4 million subscribers due to calls for violence. Durov wrote about this on Twitter. "The Amadnews Telegram channel began instructing its subscribers to use Molotov cocktail against the police and was suspended because of our rule" no calls for violence. "Be careful - there are lines that cannot be crossed," Durov wrote.