The RBC publication, from which Rosneft is demanding more than three billion rubles in compensation because of the article, intends to subpoena government representatives to confirm the information from the publication. This is stated in an editorial statement published on the evening of December 8.

American astronaut John Glenn, the first US citizen to make an orbital space flight, has died at the age of 95. John Glenn flew into space on February 20, 1962, the fifth manned space flight in history. His apparatus made three revolutions around the Earth. Before him, Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and German Titov were in orbit; the first American astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom made suborbital flights.

Two employees of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, who were detained on December 8, are suspected of falsifying evidence in the case of the sale of positions in the leadership of United Russia. In this case, in 2014, the former director of the Zemlyane group Sergey Cherenkov and businessman Sergey Pokhilyuk were convicted.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (CAS) annulled the results of the performance of Russian boxer Misha Aloyan at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where he won a silver medal. CAS found that Aloyan, who tested positive for the banned stimulant tuaminoheptane, violated anti-doping rules. His medal because of a positive doping test was also deprived of the bronze medalist of the Games in Rio, the Romanian weightlifter Gabriel Syncreyan.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that on December 8, the Syrian army suspended "active hostilities" in the eastern quarters of Aleppo, which are held by the rebels, to withdraw civilians. “A convoy of eight thousand people will be withdrawn, and its route is five kilometers,” Lavrov said. According to him, this is “another and the largest operation of all time” in the city. Information about the progress of the evacuation is not yet available.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has interrogated more than 60 athletes in the framework of the case of violation of anti-doping rules in Russian sports, the agency said. Interrogated were, in particular, Tatyana Chernova, Olga Kaniskina, Anna Chicherova, Tatyana Beloborodova (all of them won prizes at the Olympic Games and were convicted of doping. - Meduza).

Prosecutors are asking for her five years in prison Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Varvara Karaulova during a meeting of the Moscow District Military Court On December 8, in the Moscow District Military Court, the debt was held in the case of a former student of Moscow State University Barbara Karaulova (now she calls herself Alexandra Ivanova).

In Canada, in 2018, a ten-dollar bill will be issued with a portrait of the heroine of the fight against racial segregation, Viola Desmond. This was announced on December 8 by the Governor of the Bank of Canada, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Women's Affairs. Desmond will be the first Canadian woman to be featured on a Canadian banknote. Previously, images of women from the British royal family appeared on banknotes.

Pantone has developed the same standardized color selection system, which allows when printing to achieve the transfer of certain colors. Every year this company chooses the color of the year. In 2017, they became “Greenery, #88b04b). Judging by the search for Yandex, it is located between asparagus and asparagus of Kryol.

The State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption recommended amending the bill regulating the use of force and special means (batons and stun guns) against prisoners. The main change is that the clause that allows beating prisoners for violating the regime will be excluded from the document. Ernest Valeev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Committee, spoke about the amendments.

"Pizzage" went offline Photo: Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Scanpix / Leta In social networks, they continue to actively spread the inaccurate conspiracy notes that Hillary Clinton’s entourage allegedly is related to a certain underground community of pedophiles with headquarters in the popular Washington pizzeria. In early December, a 28-year-old resident of North Carolina drove about 500 kilometers to personally figure out what was wrong with this restaurant-and began to shoot.

"Masha and the Bear", Ivangai and Rap-Battle Khovansky with Larin YouTube chose the most popular videos of this year. "Medusa" has already talked about the main foreign videos. Now we have collected the best videos of Russian Utuub, which in total scored more than 550 million views. Two children's animated series, two rap battles, video bloggers, a girl performing the song Tsoi on the TV show “Voice.Deti”, as well as Ivan Urgant and Semen Slepakov, got into the top 10. 1.

A citizen of Ukraine, Yevgeny Panov, who is accused in the case of organizing terrorist attacks in Crimea, wrote a statement to the RF Investigative Committee complaining of torture, which, according to him, was applied to him for six days after his arrest on the night of August 7, 2016. This is reported by Mediazona with reference to Panov's lawyer Dmitry Dinze.

Tom Ford Method: What are the designer films from? Photo: Universal Pictures On December 8, the psychological thriller “under cover of night” with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaol is released on December 8 - the second film by American designer Tom Ford in seven years. The picture has already received the Grand Prix of the jury of the Venice Film Festival, and in winter it will certainly compete for the main American film awards.

The director of the film "28 Panfilov's Men" Andrey Shalyopa received the award "For fidelity to historical truth", which is presented by the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO). The chairman of the society is the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky. The RVIO website states that the award is given for the creation of films that fully convey the spirit of the times, reflect the continuity of the people's values ​​and affirm the accuracy of historical fact.