Enrique Marquez, 24, a former neighbor of Siad Farouk, a participant in the San Bernardino massacre, has been arrested in the United States. He is charged with terrorism, illegal acquisition of weapons and misleading immigration authorities, according to the US Department of Justice. In 2011-2012, Marquez, at the request of Farouk, acquired weapons, with which Farouk and his wife Tashfin Malik killed 14 people on December 2, 2015.

Maria Snegovaya on how the ‘rule of the rulers’ supplants the ‘rule of law’ Photo: Mikhail Dzhaparidze / TASS / Scanpix As Vladimir Putin's presidency and entourage of friends and officials grow older and more entrenched, there's been a notable surge of interest in the corrupt schemes that keep Russia's powerful wealthy and where they are.

The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg recognized the bankruptcy claim of Sberbank by Vladimir Kekhman, the former head of JFC and general director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, as justified. The court rejected the arguments of Kekhman’s representatives that he had no obligations to Sberbank, since since the last meeting Kekhman had repaid part of the debt, thereby actually recognizing himself as a debtor, Interfax reports.

STS Media shareholders approved the deal to sell 75 percent of assets to the YuTV holding, owned by Alisher Usmanov and Ivan Tavrin. The deal was approved by 62.66 percent of the vote. The Cyprus company Telcrest Investments Limited, which owns 25 percent of the shares of STS Media, did not participate in the voting because it is under sanctions from the US Treasury. One of the company's beneficiaries is businessman Yuri Kovalchuk.

The NTV channel announced a new release of the program “State of emergency. Investigation" called "Browder and Co.". As follows from the announcement, the program will focus on the relationship between the head of Hermitage Capital, William Browder, and the head of the Anti-Corruption Fund, Alexei Navalny. In the voice-over text of the announcement, Browder is called "an employee of foreign intelligence services", "an international swindler" and "puppeteer of the Russian opposition".

"Medusa" found actual mistakes in Putin's press conference Photo: press service of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin answered the questions of journalists for three hours as part of the annual press conference and made a lot of actual mistakes. "Medusa" chose the most egregious.

Why is the head of the Odessa region cursing with the Ukrainian government Photo: Julia Babich / UNIAN The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov threw a glass of water at the head of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili. This happened at a meeting of the National Council of Reforms in the presence of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, was subpoenaed. She will testify in the case of businessman and politician Bernard Tapie. The judges want to find out Lagarde's role in Tapi's government compensation. The head of the IMF said that she would voluntarily go and testify. Her lawyer recommended that she appeal the court's decision. In 1993, Bernard Tapie sold a stake in Adidas to Credit Lyonnais, which was partially owned by the state.

The most noteworthy things Russia's president spent 3 hours telling journalists today Photo: Kremlin press service Vladimir Putin held his annual end-of-the-year press conference today in Moscow, where journalists assembled to ask Russia's commander in chief dozens of softball questions, as well as a few tough ones. Whether the questions were obsequious or probing, Putin almost invariably avoided a straight answer.

In Ulyanovsk, a court sentenced a local resident to a fine of a thousand rubles for drawing swastikas in the entrance. As follows from the case file, the man drew swastikas with a felt-tip pen in his stairwell. According to him, he believed that in this way he would scare away drug addicts. He explained his decision by saying that "skinheads beat drug addicts." “And Zudilin thought that when they saw the swastika, they would prefer to go somewhere else.

Photo: Green Union page VKontakte The Christmas trees growing in the Botanical Garden of the Southern Federal University (UFU) in Rostov-on-Don were surrounded with barbed wire like a garland. Such a "decoration" will be used until the end of the New Year holidays. Photo: Green Union page VKontakte The head of the press service of the UFU Andrei Svechnikov said that barbed wire is a measure to protect against vandals.

Interview of the producer Alexander Rodnyansky "Medusa" Oleg Nikishin / Kommersant In December, Alexander Rodnyansky’s book “The Producer will be released” - a supplemented edition, to which the author added new chapters about Stalingrad, and most importantly - “Leviathan” will enter the bookstores. The film by Andrei Zvyagintsev, who received the Golden Globe and nominated for Oscar, became the most successful picture in his career both producer and director.

The General Staff of the Estonian Armed Forces accused Russia of violating the air border. According to him, the Russian An-72 military transport aircraft invaded Estonian airspace near the island of Vaindloo in the Gulf of Finland. In connection with the incident, the Russian ambassador was summoned to the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was handed a note of protest. The aircraft stayed in Estonian airspace for less than a minute. His transponder was on.

The Moscow district attorney's office has released a summary of its inspection of Dozhd TV , one of Russia's only independent television channels. Police say they discovered minor violations of labor laws, occupational safety, and fire safety. This report likely comes as a relief to the station, considering the initial reports that Dozhd was being investigated for the far more serious crime of extremism.

Chelsea head coach Jose Mourinho has been sacked. The club released an official announcement stating that the contract was terminated by mutual agreement. Chelsea, the reigning champions of England, have had a very poor 2015/2016 season. After 16 rounds of the championship, the London club is 16th in the standings with four wins, three draws and nine defeats. In the 16th round, Chelsea lost to Leicester with a score of 1:2.