Fontanka published a video from the surveillance camera from the 78th police department of St. Petersburg, on which ambulance officers apply force to the Kommersant photo correspondent David Frenkel, who was detained on December 11 after a conflict with an activist of the NOD movement.

In the United States, a court sentenced 20-year-old Briton Michael Sandford to a year and one day in prison, who in June 2016 tried to snatch a gun from a police officer during a rally in support of Donald Trump in Las Vegas. According to the Associated Press, Sanford is likely to be released in four months. He had already spent half a year in prison; he is expected to receive an additional two months' reduction for good behavior. After serving his term, he will be deported to the UK.

The Investigative Committee opened a case under the article “murder” (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in connection with the death of two teenagers in the village of Strugi Krasnye in the Pskov Region in November 2016.

The Moscow Arbitration Court returned to the Pyatnitsa TV channel a lawsuit against 20 Facebook users who allegedly damaged the channel's business reputation with their comments about the Revizorro program. This was reported to Meduza by one of the defendants, Ilya Vytyazhnov, citing lawyer Natalya Grigorieva.

Photo: Drew Angeerer / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta rapper Kanye West almost immediately after discharge from the hospital , where he hit the tour, met with US President Donald Trump. After the meeting, they were laconic: Trump only said that they were discussing life with West, and the rapper added: “Now I just want to take a picture.” Why Kanye West met with Trump is unknown. But recently, he has been constantly doing strange things .

The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) has announced the postponement of the 2017 World Championship from Sochi to another city. The venue for the tournament will be announced later. "The IBSF Executive Committee has decided that at this difficult time it is prudent not to host such a tournament in Russia," the statement reads.

The author of the only hit James Blunt leads the perfect twitter James Blunt is a British singer who is known for only one song “Youffer Beautiful”. The composition was released in 2004, and over the next 10 years, the Blanch failed to surpass itself. James Blunt James Blunt - Youffer Beautiful (Video) But the blat is in perfect order with self -irony. He knows that he is the author of one hit and that few people love his music. And masterfully answers his haters on Twitter.

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of 60-year-old Romell Brum, who was unsuccessfully tried to be executed in 2009. During the execution, its performers were unable to get a needle into the vein of the condemned to inject a lethal injection. Now they are trying to carry out the sentence again. Broome was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in 1984.

CIA suspected the Kremlin in an attempt to influence the outcome of the election in the United States Photo: Michala Rehle / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In the US Congress and the White House, investigation has begun in connection with Russia's intervention in the Presidential election. The version that the goal of Russian hacker attacks was the coming to the power of Donald Trump was nominated in the CIA - but not all American intelligence departments share it.

In Udmurtia, the police handed a passport to a native of the village of Malaya Purga to Vladimir Vakhrushev, who was recognized as deceased ten years ago after the disappearance in 1992. This was reported by the press service of the Republican Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the press release, in 1992 the man returned home from Latvia after serving in the army and was beaten on the train, as a result of which he lost his memory.

The BeauTuts Twitter account, which talks about makeup and beauty trends, posted a photo of grey-green fluffy nails. "Those fluffy nails are really cute" Readers of BeauTuts compared the manicure in the photo with the fingers of the Grinch - the protagonist of the movie The Grinch Stole Christmas.

The Syrian army managed to take control of the city Photo: George Ourfalian / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The battle for the Aleppo between the Syrian army (in the last year - with the support of the Russian troops) and the armed opposition, which lasted more than four years, ended. Now, destroyed by bombing and shelling, the city is almost completely controlled by Damascus. Medusa tells why Aleppo fought for so many years, and what is happening there now.

The Serpukhov Court of the Moscow Region arrested a former police officer who on December 11 knocked down two pedestrians to death while driving while intoxicated. This is reported by the regional department of the RF IC. The incident became known on December 12. According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, a married couple became victims of the accident, the dead were 46 years old.

The Moscow government announced an increase in public transport fares for a number of tariffs from January 1, 2017. A price comparison table can be found here . As part of the "Single" tariff, the cost of one trip will increase from 50 to 55 rubles, tickets for 20 trips will rise in price from 650 to 720 rubles, for 40 - from 1300 to 1440 rubles, for 60 - from 1570 to 1700 rubles. The price of unlimited "Single", which the government called the most popular type of tickets, will not change.

The United Nations (UN) has stripped DC Comics character Wonder Woman of her status as an honorary ambassador for women's rights. This was announced on December 12 by a representative of the organization. The reasons for this decision are not reported. UN spokesman Geoffrey Brez noted that the powers of fictional characters often last only a couple of months.