Participants of the UN conference on climate change adopted the final agreement. It will enter into force in 2020. In accordance with the agreement, the countries will strive to ensure that until 2100 the temperature on Earth does not rise by two degrees (or better to keep the increase within one and a half degrees). To do this, they must reduce the amount of emissions into the atmosphere. 195 countries participated in the conference.

Russia is in Group B at the 2016 European Football Championship in France. The Russians will play with rivals from England, Wales and Slovakia. The composition of all six groups: Group A: France, Switzerland, Romania, Albania. Group B: England, Russia, Slovakia, Wales. Group C: Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Northern Ireland. Group D: Spain, Croatia, Czech Republic, Turkey. Group E: Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Ireland. Group F: Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Iceland.

Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin and his associates, who were detained during a series of single-person pickets in defense of the Constitution, left the police station. As Mitrokhin explained, the police officers could not draw up a protocol for six hours, although three hours were allotted for this. Since the policemen left somewhere and did not return for a long time, Mitrokhin and four of his associates decided to leave the department.

Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin and five other activists who were detained on December 12 in the center of Moscow during a series of solitary pickets were left at the police station pending trial. As expected, the court will consider their cases only on Monday, December 14th. Mitrokhin is accused of disobeying a lawful order of a police officer. What other activists are accused of is not specified. In the center of Moscow, according to OVD-Info, 33 people were detained .

The representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Igor Konashenkov, denied Ukraine's statement about the exchange of a captured Russian general for a Ukrainian military man. According to Konashenkov, journalists misunderstood the words of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin: when he spoke about the exchange, he said in English general major (meaning the general major), while it should have been just major.

Russia has reduced its mission to NATO. How many people will work with the Alliance is not specified. In April 2015, NATO demanded a reduction in the number of people in the Russian mission. At that time, more than 50 Russians worked for the Alliance; their number exceeded the number of people in the missions of individual countries that are members of NATO. The alliance demanded that the number of Russian employees be reduced to 30.

NTV showed the program “New Russian Sensations”, in which the former assistant to the editor -in -chief of “Echo of Moscow” Lesya Ryabtseva told “The whole truth about the opposition”. So that you do not spend those forty minutes of life that we spent, briefly retell what was in the program. Lesya Ryabtseva: I am beautiful and cool. Khodorkovsky is a boa constrictor and a manipulator. Navalny - political impotent. Venediktov is a grandfather. Kasyanov - Zassal. Sobchak - envies.

Boris Grebenshchikov performed in the transition of the Moscow metro. The photographer of the Moscow Komsomolets shot how he sings somewhere at Turgenevskaya. How much the musician performed in total is unknown. In the video, he performs the song "glasses". Wp_20151212_15_15_17_Pro.mp4 Right now, in the transition to Turgenevskaya Posted by Gennady Avramenko On December 12, 2015 Update.

Three books about the house - in the review of Galina Yuzefovich Every week, the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting books published in Russia. In the new issue - “Creation of the House” by Judith Flanders, “People behind the fence” by Maxim Trustlyubov and “The English House: Intimate History” Lucy Warley. Judith Flanders. Creation at home. M: Central Polygraph, 2016. Translation by G.V.

More than 30 people were detained at a Moscow rally in defense of the Constitution, OVD-Info reports. Among the detainees were the head of the human rights movement "For Human Rights" Lev Ponomarev, the leader of "Yabloko" Sergei Mitrokhin, political scientist Georgy Satarov and other activists. On December 12, Pushkinskaya Square hosted a series of single pickets in defense of the Constitution.

The Swedish charity organization Actionaid recorded several Christmas songs that perform goats (goats!). Here is the most famous - Jingle Bells: ActionAidsweden Jingle Bells (Goat Edition) And here is the good: ActionAidsweden We will you a merry Christmas (Goat Edition) There are eight tracks on the album. All of them can be listened to on YouTube .

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that the Russian authorities do not know how oil prices will behave. “Oil prices were budgeted at $50 per barrel, now they are about $36-37 per barrel. It is not clear what will happen next,” the official said. According to him, in 2016 prices in general can fall even lower than now. “In some periods it will be maybe $30 per barrel, maybe less, we don’t know,” Siluanov said.

In the center of Moscow on Pushkinskaya Square, several people were detained who participated in single-person pickets on Constitution Day. It is not known how many people were detained exactly. broadcasting live from the square Photographer Filipp Kireev is . The Yabloko party reported that party leader Sergei Mitrokhin was detained on the square.

Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has announced the creation of a non-profit organization for the study of artificial intelligence. The main task of the company will be to work on the creation of the so-called strong artificial intelligence (Artificial general intelligence), that is, comparable in capabilities to the human brain.

In Lebanon, the son of the former ruler of Libya Muammar Gaddafi Hannibal was released. The police took him from the city of Baalbek, where Hannibal Gaddafi was kidnapped by Shia Islamists, to Beirut. What group kidnapped Gaddafi is unknown. On December 11, the Al-Jadid Arab TV channel aired a video in which Hannibal Gaddafi urged everyone who knows about the fate of Ayatollah Seyyed Musa Sadr to report it.