Alexei Navalny paid the fine imposed on him at the suit of the Diversified Processing Company. The politician announced this in a broadcast on Periscope , organized by the Dozhd TV channel. “I paid the fines, the enforcement proceedings against me are over,” Navalny said. Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg had to pay 4.5 million rubles under the claim of the Multi-profile Processing Company.

An explosion occurred on Pokrovka Street in Moscow. As a result, three people were injured, TASS reports, citing a law enforcement source. According to the interlocutor of the agency, an improvised explosive device went off at a public transport stop in front of house number 19. Rescuers, doctors and operatives are working at the scene. According to Moscow 24, two women were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds to their legs. Another victim refused hospitalization.

The Turkish military, sent in early December in the vicinity of Mosul, will remain in Iraq. It is reported by AFP with reference to a representative of the Turkish government. He explained that the presence of the Turkish military in the region is due, among other things, to agreements with the government of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Photo: Danny Moloshok / Reuters / Scanpix Actor Benedict Cumberbatch wrote a letter to the British Santa Claus, in which he asked for “stretching the moment of magic and pranks” for all children. Here's what is written in the letter (the transcript in English can be read here ): Dear Santa Claus, My friend asked to write to you ... I must admit, it was difficult to figure out what to say.

The Chicago Attorney's Office has refused to file charges against police officer George Hernandez who shot and killed African-American Ronald Johnson in 2014. According to prosecutor Anita Alvarez, the policeman acted within the law because Johnson was armed. The prosecutor's office also released a recording from the video recorder of the police car. The release of the video was demanded by the relatives of the deceased, who claimed that the gun had been planted at the crime scene.

Ildar Dadin became the first in Russia convicted of detention at rallies Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev / Kommersant On December 7, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced to three years the general regime of the opposition activist Ildar Dadin - for "repeated violation of the rules of public event." In 2014, Dadina was detained four times and sentenced to a fine for participating in shares inconsistent with the authorities.

The United States is confident that the attack on the camp of the Syrian army, in which Syria accused the international coalition, was carried out by Russia, sources of Reuters and Associated Press agencies among American officials said. On December 6, an air raid was carried out on a Syrian camp near the city of Deir ez-Zor. As a result of airstrikes, in which four aircraft took part, three Syrian soldiers were killed and 13 were injured.

Nobel laureate in literature gives a lecture in Sweden Photo: Claudio Bresciani / TT News Agency / Reuters / Scanpix Nobel Laureate in the literature of 2015 Svetlana Aleksievich lectures in Sweden. It can be viewed live on Medusa. Or read completely in Russian on the website of the Nobel Committee. Nobel Prize 2015 Nobel Lecture in Literature

Crimea's state authorities say they will refuse to accept electricity from Ukraine, in the event that Kiev is able to repair and reconnect the power grid that used to supply the peninsula. According to the news agency Kryminform , Crimean Prime Minister Sergey Aksyonov vowed not to receive more energy from Ukraine, accusing Ukrainian officials in the Kherson oblast of conspiring with the organizers of a "blockade" that has cut off deliveries of food and electricity into Crimea.

What does the success of the "National Front" mean Photo: Julien Warnand / EPA / Leta The Ultra Party of the National Front Marine Le Pen leads after the first round of regional elections in France. After processing, 85% of the ballots found out that almost 30% of the vote was given to nationalists, they win in six regions out of 13. Medusa briefly explains what this means. Residents of France choose local bodies in 13 regions of the country.

The head of the administration of Simferopol, Gennady Bakharev, supported the idea of ​​renaming Turetskaya Street to the street named after Oleg Peshkov, a Su-24 pilot who died in Syria. According to Bakharev, the city deputies must approve the decision. “I have already considered the proposal and supported it. The next stage is the deputies. They will be considered at the commission, then at the session, and then we will already change the signs, ”Bakharev said.

How Russian officials manage and manipulate the country's new social movements Photo: Dmitry Feoktistov / TASS / Vida Press In cooperation with the Carnegie Moscow Center, Meduza presents a text by Kommersant 's Andrey Pertsev analyzing the ongoing, large-scale protests by truck drivers against a recently instituted highway toll service called "Platon." The strikes by Russian truckers are a new challenge for the Kremlin and represent a breach of the government’s social contract with its

Why in Israel the attacks on Jews continue. Reporting Daniil Turovsky Photo: Shadi Hatem / Apa Images / Sipa / Scanpix In Israel, street attacks have been continuing for more than two months. The Israelis call them terrorist acts, the Palestinians - "intiphadas of knives." Unlike previous intifada (intifada - a movement aimed at “the liberation of the occupied territories of Palestine”), the current one, according to the Palestinian leadership, is not coordinated by anyone.

Volunteers save the Nevelsk coast from oil products. Photo report by Oleg Klimov Photo: Oleg Klimov On November 28, in the port of the port of Nevelsk on Sakhalin, the Nadezhda tanker sat in a melon, in the tanks of which there were 786 tons of oil products (426 tons of diesel fuel and 360 tons of fuel oil). The ship standing on the raid was thrown out in the wind during the storm. The tanker received a hole, a machine department was flooded, a fuel leak began.

Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was summoned to the country's Foreign Ministry due to a "provocation" during the passage of a Russian warship through the Bosphorus, CNN Turk reported. The Russian diplomatic department has not yet commented on Karlov's call to the Turkish Foreign Ministry. Earlier, Turkish media disseminated a photo allegedly taken on December 5 during the passage of the Russian landing ship Caesar Kunikov through the Bosphorus.