All suspects in the attack on the National Guard in New Moscow have been detained, the seized weapons have been seized. This was stated by the press service of the Russian Guard. According to Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk, eight suspects have been detained, Interfax reports. Earlier , an Interfax source said that five people had been detained.

Law enforcement officers were attacked in the Rogovskoye settlement in New Moscow, one of the victims died as a result. This was reported by an Interfax source in law enforcement agencies. According to RIA Novosti, the object of the attack was a patrol in which there were employees of the National Guard. "Five to seven people" were involved in the attack. "The criminals took possession of two machine guns and a pistol with full ammunition," Interfax's source said.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the new sanctions imposed by the United States against Russia in connection with cyber attacks are "unreasonable and illegal from the point of view of international law." According to Peskov, the purpose of imposing sanctions was to “finally spoil the already lying at the bottom of Russian-American relations” and “to strike a blow at the foreign policy plans of the future administration and the new US president,”

On December 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected the law amending the laws “On General Principles of the Organization of Local Self-Government” and “On Education,” which was adopted by the State Duma last week and approved by the Federation Council. This is the first time since December 2012 that the President of the Russian Federation rejected a law adopted by parliament. The law talks about the creation in Russia of an information system “Study Contingent”.

The US Department of Homeland Security and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation have released a joint report on cyberattacks that the agencies believe were staged by Russian intelligence and directed against US government and private institutions. The text of the report is available on the website of the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a division of the National Cyber ​​Security Administration of the Department of Homeland Security.

The US Treasury announced new sanctions against Russia in connection with cyber attacks, the purpose of which was to influence the election of the American president. Sanctions were imposed on the FSB and the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU), as well as three companies - COR Security (Esage Lab), the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization "Professional Association of Informatics System Designers" (ANO PO KSI) and "Special Technology Center".

On December 29, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine announced the imposition of additional sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities "due to the ongoing hybrid aggression of the Russian Federation." was opened against them Sanctions were imposed against State Duma deputies who were elected on the territory of Crimea (previously a criminal case ) and members of election commissions, as well as Crimean enterprises “that were illegally re-registered under Russian

Photo: Committee on Freedom of Conscience, interaction with religious organizations of the Republic of Dagestan, participants in the meeting, which discussed the opening of a boarding school for children of killed militants and law enforcement officials, June 27, 2016 In 2017, in Dagestan, they plan to open the first specialized boarding school in Russia - the children of killed militants and dead law enforcement officials will live and study in it.

The Perovsky Court of Moscow fined Vasily Polonsky, a correspondent for the Dozhd TV channel, 600 rubles, who was detained on the night of December 29 while filming a story about cutting down Moscow's Kuskovo park. The judge found Polonsky guilty of disobeying the lawful order of a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). According to Mediazona, the journalist intends to appeal the decision.

A mine was thrown on the territory of the Russian Embassy in Damascus. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the building suffered minor damage, there were no victims or injured. The department also said that the attack on the diplomatic mission deserves strong condemnation. This is the third such incident in the past two days - the embassy was shelled twice on the afternoon of December 28. At 00:00 on December 30, a truce should begin to operate in Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the procedure for the use of physical force and special equipment against convicts in places of detention. The law obliges the employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service to immediately call a doctor to convicts after the use of force, and during the use of force, if possible, use wearable video recorders. The law was adopted by the State Duma on December 21, 2016 and approved by the Federation Council on December 23, 2016.

Vanity Fair's website published an article, "Is Putin's Master Plan Just Getting Started?", which, among other things, talks about the similarities between Putin and Lenin. According to the author, the fact that they are both Vladimirs is not accidental.

Photo: "Central Partnership" The main Russian release of the New Year holidays is the Old Russian epic “Viking” from the producers of Konstantin Ernst and Anatoly Maksimov and director Andrei Kravchuk. The picture talks about the coming to the power of Prince Vladimir and the baptism of Rus'. The largest and expensive domestic production of the decade, the work on which was seven years, was more than once compared with the “Game of Thrones”.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, and the heads of the largest creditor companies of Peresvet Bank wrote a letter to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with a proposal to appoint the All-Russian Bank for Regional Development (RRDB), controlled by Rosneft, as a sanatorium of the institution. This was reported by Interfax, citing a source in the government.

A crow stole a passport from an Estonian citizen while crossing the Russian border in Ivangorod, Leningrad Region. According to representatives of the North-Western Customs Administration, the bird snatched the document from the hands of the Estonian and flew away. Customs officers tried to catch the crow with the help of dogs, but could not find the bird. The passport was found a few days later. The crow tore one page out of it and threw it not far from the customs point.