The newspaper Vedomosti has learned how many soldiers in the Russian army died in recent years. In 2015, the army lost 626 soldiers, after losing 790 a year earlier. Russia lost another 596 and 630 soldiers in 2013 and 2012, respectively. These deaths were reported in a state procurement order for 2018-2019 insurance on Russian soldiers, according to Vedomosti . The military doesn’t say how these thousands of servicemen died.

The Vedomosti newspaper found out how many people die every year in the Russian army. In 2015, the Russian army lost 626 servicemen, a year earlier - 790 people. In 2013 - 596 people, in 2012 - 630 people. Such data is contained in the documents of the tender for insurance of military personnel in 2018-2019. Causes of death are not listed. Vedomosti draws attention to the high number of deaths in 2014, when the Russian army participated in the fighting in Ukraine.

Marina Lyztseva / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Problems with the departure of Aeroflot aircraft from Sheremetyevo began on December 1. The aircraft were ready for the flight, the passengers went on landing and sat in their places; Baggage and on -board power were also already inside. Liners did not start engines and idle from two to seven hours.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR, Igor Kornet, turned out to be a defendant in the investigation that the Investigative Committee launched into the death of Russian citizen Artem Bulgakov. According to RBC, Kornet is suspected of concealing a crime. He has not been formally charged. Bulgakov served in the security of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR. He died on November 9, 2016 in Lugansk.

The head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov, addressed the President of Russia with a proposal to return the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanka Square in Moscow.

The prosecution asked for Alexei Ulyukaev 10 years of strict regime. Report from Zamoskvoretsky Court Valery Sharifulolin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Alexey Ulyukaev in court On December 4, the debate of the parties in the case of Alexei Ulyukaev was held in the Zamokkvoretsky District Court of Moscow.

Russian mercenaries from private military companies who took part in the hostilities in Ukraine and Syria went to Sudan, where a civil war has been ongoing since 2013. This is reported by BBC Russian Service with reference to Oleg Krinitsyn, a participant in the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, as well as the head of the private military company RSB-Group. “I heard that people went there and even returned with a severe form of malaria,” Krinitsyn said.

A tenth of all transactions in Ethereum-because of Cryptokitties Cryptokitties At the end of November, the game Cryptokitties started, in which you can buy, sell and grow virtual cats-and all this on the Ethereum blockchain platform. Cats are purchased for cryptocurrency, and users spent a total of three million dollars on them in a week. "Medusa" tells what it is. The Canadian company Axiom Zen launched the game Cryptokitties on November 28.

The defendants in the case of the Seventh Studio remained under arrest. Reporting Sasha Sulim Artem Geodakyan / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Kirill Serebrennikov in the Moscow City Court, December 4, 2017 On December 4, the judge of the Moscow City Court Oleg Gaidar left the decision of the Basmanny Court on the extension of the preventive measure to the defendants of the Seventh Studio .

The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) is asking the federal government to exempt some telephone and wireless networks from counter-terrorism laws set to take effect in July next year, arguing that certain networks are used only at enterprises and often rely on analogue systems.

Sberbank of Russia announced a new failure in transactions with cards of its customers. On Monday, December 4, a number of clients had their card account balances erroneously reduced due to failed transactions. The answering machine in the call center of the organization informs that the balance will be restored within five working days.

Federal Security Service General Oleg Feoktistov reportedly told the court in the Ulyukayev case that a “private investor” supplied the cash handed over to former Economic Development Minister Alexey Ulyukayev in a leather bag, which police confiscated when they arrested him in mid-November 2016. According to the Russian-language service of the BBC, Feoktistov personally asked this “investor” to help in the sting operation.

Beginning on December 11, the U.S. government will resume visa processing at its three Russian consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Vladivostok, albeit in a limited capacity , due to reduced staff. Moscow issued its diplomatic-cutback demands to the United States on July 28, 2017, describing the measure as a response to Washington’s decision to expel 35 diplomats from the U.S. in December 2016.

December 4. Two buckets of wine, Hippo Fiona and "Our Father" Main The prosecutors asked to be sentenced to former minister Alexei Ulyukaev to 10 years in prison . They also want an official for extorting a bribe to pay a fine of half a billion rubles. Ulyukaev himself asked for excuses : according to his version, he did not know that there was money in the bag that Sechin gave him, and not the promised wine.

In early December, a flash mob #invisiblebox (“Invisible box”) began on Twitter. Its participants pretend that they put an imaginary box on the ground, step on it and step over it. The trick was known among the dancers a few years ago, but became viral only after it was repeated by Ariel Olivar - Chirler from Houston. The Olivar assures that the trick with an invisible box is very easy to repeat, but it seems to be a little cunning.