A bill has been submitted to the State Duma to regulate the activities of the media - foreign agents. The authors of the document are deputies Pyotr Tolstoy and Leonid Levin, as well as senators Andrei Klishas and Lyudmila Bokova. According to the bill, foreign media will be required to establish a Russian legal entity within a month from the date of recognition as foreign agents in order to be able to distribute their materials.

Gennady Gulyaev / Kommersant Denis Sugrobov on the day the verdict was announced in the Moscow City Court, April 27, 2017 On December 19, the Supreme Court of Russia almost doubled the sentence to the former head of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Countering Corruption (Guib and PC) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Svugrobov and several of his former subordinates.

Vladimir Putin was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of Russia at a meeting of the initiative group on December 26. Alexei Anisimov, head of the executive committee of the All-Russian Popular Front, told Interfax about this. According to TASS, a meeting of the initiative group, which will include representatives of the ONF, the United Russia party and the Volunteers of Victory movement, will be held at VDNKh.

The social network Facebook will begin to send users notifications that someone has uploaded a photo with them-even if they were not noted in the picture. To do this, the service will use the person recognition system. The user, whom Facebook will find in the picture, will be able to mark himself, abandon the offer or indicate that it is not him.

Three of the seven arrested in the case of preparing a terrorist attack in the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg pleaded not guilty, and also complained of torture during detention, Novaya Gazeta reports, citing their lawyers. We are talking about Aliskhan Esmurziev, Shamil Omargadzhiev and Firuza Kalavurov. They were charged with arms trafficking and illegal possession of explosives. They are considered accomplices of 18-year-old Yevgeny Yefimov (he is called the leader of the St.

Disney studio published the first trailer for the Nutcracker and Four Kingdoms, director Lasse Hallstrem. The main role in the picture was played by Mackenzie Foy; Kira Knightley, Morgan Freeman and Sergey Polunin also starred in the film. Disney Movie Trailers Disneyʼs The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - Teaser Trailer Duplicated trailer: Disney Russia Nutcracker and Four Kingdoms-Tizer-Trailer The Nutcracker and Four Kingdoms will be released in October 2018.

For the first time in Russia, hackers have successfully cyber-attacked a bank using the SWIFT international banking network, security specialists and sources at Russia’s Central Bank told the newspaper Kommersant . The cyber-attack occurred on December 15, but both the name of the bank and the amount of money stolen remain unknown. According to the cyber-security company Group-IB, hackers from the so-called “Cobalt” group are the suspected culprits.

Russia’s Federal Security Service and Interior Ministry will get access to citizens’ biometric data stored on remote identification systems operated by credit organizations, according to the second reading of new legislation adopted by the State Duma on December 15. The law would require remote-identification system operators to provide access to citizens’ biometric data “to authorized government agencies.” Individual consent would not be needed.

Former oil tycoon, now a political oppositionist in exile, Mikhail Khodorkovsky has sent an open letter to the head of Russia’s Central Election Commission, asking the agency to assert its independence from the Kremlin by refusing to register Vladimir Putin’s candidacy “for a fifth term.” In the letter, Khodorkovsky argues that Putin has spent 17 years in power, saying that Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency between 2008 and 2012 was actually Putin’s third term.

Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky is promoting his latest idea to shake up the country’s cinemas: ban movie theaters from devoting more than 35 percent of their screenings to one film. Medinsky says he believes the “current model” has lead to “monopoly” and “decay” that limits audiences’ options. Medinsky blames Western distributors for contractually forcing Russian cinemas to devote 50-60 percent of screenings to certain movies.

December 19. Watch "Titanic" and cry Main In Moscow , a 62-year-old Norwegian suspected of espionage was detained . He allegedly received secret information about the Russian Navy from the former district police officer. Dmitry Gudkov applied for a rally in Moscow - and immediately received approval .

Dmitry Lebedev / Kommersant Founder of BlablaCar Frederick Mazella and the head of the service in Russia Alexei Lazorenko On December 19, the Krasnodar Regional Court abolished the decision of the Timashevsky district, which ruled in September 2017 to block the BlaBlaCar service website in Russia - it allows you to look for fellow travelers for joint trips.

The Krasnodar Regional Court overturned the decision of the lower court, because of which the BlaBlaCar car sharing service was threatened with blocking. “The decision of the Timashevsky District Court was canceled, the prosecutor’s claim was denied,” the regional court judge announced. At the meeting, it was also announced that the regional prosecutor's office does not support the requirement to block the service, previously put forward by the district prosecutor's office.

Bazooka / YouTube On December 1, the broadcast of the Rossiya television channel was released “Live Air” with Andrei Malakhov, dedicated to Kirill Tereshin , a 21-year-old resident of Pyatigorsk, who “pumped up” his huge hands with a artisanal mixture (an analogue of the so-called synthol) to increase muscle volume.

Update . Dmitry Gudkov said that he had not yet received official papers from the mayor's office, but he had no reason not to trust the statements of the mayor's office. At the same time, he once again emphasized that the rally against Sakharov was “not a spoiler event designed to distract from the holiday organized by Ilya Yashin in the Krasnoselsky district.