The Central Bank intends to introduce a temporary administration in Promsvyazbank, the Vedomosti newspaper reports, citing sources close to the bank and its shareholders. According to one of the sources, "Central Bank representatives will be at the bank on Friday," the newspaper writes. Earlier, the publication reported that the Central Bank demanded to increase reserves by about 100 billion rubles.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has abolished the principle of "net neutrality", which obligated ISPs to treat all traffic equally. The commission called its decision an action aimed at "restoring freedom on the Internet." Three people voted for the abolition of the principle, two against. The FCC formalized the principle of "net neutrality" in February 2015. This innovation was advocated, in particular, by the then US President Barack Obama.

Update December 16th. Republic reports that Akhral Azimov left Russia on December 15. According to him, after the arrest, he was offered to leave voluntarily and paid half the cost of the ticket; the alternative was placement in a special detention center and deportation.

In the south of France near the city of Perpignan, a train and a school bus collided. As a result, four children died. 20 people were injured, seven of them are in serious condition. The bus, according to the Associated Press, took schoolchildren home after classes. The collision took place at a railroad crossing. What could have caused the incident has not yet been reported.

A video appeared on the TNT channel in which participants in popular programs apologize to viewers from Ingushetia. “We want to apologize to our Ingush viewers for the joke that hurt their feelings. We apologize for the words and actions that offended the great Ingush people,” the video says. This, obviously, is about a recent sketch in the comedy program Comedy Woman, where one of the characters was a girl from Ingushetia working in an escort agency.

Cash for an operational experiment in transferring a bribe to ex-Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev was provided by a man named Valery Aleksandrovich Mikhailov, writes RBC. The publication refers to the testimony of FSB General Oleg Feoktistov, given by him during the preliminary investigation on June 5, 2017. In them, the general called Mikhailov his "acquaintance". The authenticity of Feoktistov's testimony was confirmed to RBC by two sources familiar with the case file.

Russia’s federal media regulator, Roskomnadzor, is warning mass media outlets that they can be blocked for spreading content created by outlawed “undesirable organizations.” In a clarification on December 14, the agency explained that it regards even hyperlinks to such organizations' online resources as the dissemination of illegal content. Roskomnadzor has also reportedly sent warnings to Twitter and YouTube, demanding that they block the opposition movement Open Russia’s accounts in Russia.

The Interior Ministry (MVD) has refused to buy Russian computers running on Baikal-T1 processors, says the newspaper Vedomosti . The MVD signed a contract worth 357 million rubles ($6.1 million) for 9,348 new computers to administer the written portion of driver’s license exams. The MVD awarded the procurement contract to T-Platforms, a company tied to Baikal Electronics, but it only supplied 1,837 computers for 71 million rubles ($1.2 million). The MVD rejected the rest of the computers.

Lawyers for from the “Agora” human rights group representing the instant messenger Telegram have appealed to the United Nations for support in their dispute with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which demands that Telegram surrender encryption keys for all user correspondence.

A Moscow arbitration court rejected a lawsuit by the German conglomerate Siemens demanding that its Russian partner, Technopromexport, return four turbines that were transferred to Crimea (instead of Krasnodar, as agreed), in violation of European Union sanctions barring EU firms from supplying the occupied peninsula with energy technology.

Moscow's Sokolniki Park announced a December 22 meeting between opposition leader Alexei Navalny and citizens. It is listed in the list of activities of the local "Hyde Park" as agreed. Navalny's headquarters did not announce the event in Sokolniki on December 22.

The UK invented new constellations to interest children The British British Festival of Science The Big Bang Fair, together with the University of Birmingham, has developed eight new constellations that should encourage children to study stars (almost three quarters of them have never been looking for constellations in the sky). Among the heroes whom schoolchildren are offered to find among the stars in the night sky are Harry Potter, Bear Paddington and tennis player Serena Williams.

December 14th. Putin said who is Navalny Putin's press conference The President of Russia once again talked with reporters (those who were allowed to ask questions; the Medusa correspondent failed).

Hackers who turned the routers and webcams into the largest chain of bots tried to make money on servers for video games: Wired Fredrik Sandberg / Scanpix / Leta In October 2016, a huge number of sites failed for several hours. The reason for one of the largest failures in the history of the Internet was the DDOS attack on DNS Dyn DNS service, which was due to the connection between IP addresses and their domain names.

The regional prosecutor's office demanded that the head of Kaliningrad "consider the issue of the suitability of the position" of the director of Lyceum No. 49 because of the violations that employees of the department found during the celebration of initiation into lyceum students.