In the second round of the presidential elections in Liberia, 51-year-old George Weah, a former football player, won the only African to win the Ballon d'Or. As the National Electoral Commission announced on December 28, after counting 98 percent of the vote, Weah leads with 61.5 percent. Incumbent Vice President of Liberia Joseph Bokai scored 38.5 percent. The final results of the voting will be announced on 29 December.

Tehran's police chief has announced a decision to no longer arrest women for violating the Islamic dress code, the Associated Press reported, citing Iranian media. "According to the decision of the police command, those who do not properly observe the Islamic dress code will no longer be arrested," General Hossein Rahimi was quoted as saying by the English-language Tehran Times. According to the general, violators will be sent to special classes organized by the police.

In Turkey, one of the organizers of the exhibition "Russia from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka through the eyes of a traveler" was arrested, at which Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov was killed. This is reported by the English-language edition of the Daily Sabah. The arrested person's name is Mustafa Timur Ozkan. The investigation considers him an accomplice in the crime, follows from the message.

In Tatarstan, a ten-year-old boy who fell into an open sewer well was saved thanks to the fall of a participant in the search. This is reported by the Republican Ministry of Emergency Situations. This happened on the evening of December 24 in the village of Cheremshan. More than 120 people took part in the search for the missing child, including the head of the district civil protection department, Gulia Yarullina.

The CEO of the former Moscow metro advertising operator Trade Company, Rima Sogomonyan, has been detained on suspicion of attempted fraud. This was reported by RBC, citing a letter sent by the prosecutor's office to the metro management. The criminal case was opened by Moscow police after an investigation by the prosecutor's office, the letter said. The metro's press service confirmed this information to RBC.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow fined the head of the council of deputies of the Krasnoselsky district, Ilya Yashin, 30,000 rubles for holding a rally on Lermontovskaya Square on December 24. It is reported by Mediazona. The court found him guilty of organizing a public event without filing a notification (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Yashin was detained on the afternoon of December 28.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow arrested the general director of the Menshevik confectionery factory, Ilya Averyanov, who was detained on the morning of December 28, the day after the shooting at the enterprise. Averyanov was charged with murder. At the court session, he stated that he “did not want to kill anyone” and that he first fired a warning shot.

December 28th. An explosion in St. Petersburg is a terrorist act Main Yesterday, almost immediately after we shipped Evening Meduza, an explosion occurred in the Perekrestok supermarket in St. Petersburg on Kondratievsky Prospekt . In one of the boxes in the storage room of the store, a homemade bomb with a capacity of about 200 grams of TNT went off, injuring 13 people.

Sberbank and Transneft, between which there was a trial in the amount of 67 billion rubles, announced that they had reached an agreement to resolve the dispute. "The terms of the settlement allow the parties to opt out of continuing litigation," the companies said in a statement. Sberbank and Transneft have not yet disclosed the details of the agreement.

The community "We will save Timiryazevka! (Official group) "on VKontakte" On the evening of December 27, police officers directly interrogated three students of the Timiryazev Academy (Russian State Agrarian University - MSHA named after K. A. Timiryazev). On December 25, students held several single pickets in support of the dean of the faculty of agronomy and biotechnology Alexander Solovyov - he previously said that they want to dismiss him.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny filed a lawsuit against the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation in the Supreme Court because of the refusal to allow him to register as a presidential candidate. According to Ivan Zhdanov, a lawyer with the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the hearing of the lawsuit is scheduled for 11:00 on December 30. The Central Election Commission refused to allow Alexei Navalny to the elections due to a criminal record.

The confusion on the Oscars and the riots in Catalonia, the inauguration of Donald Trump and the case of Kirill Serebrennikov, the massacre in Las Vegas and the rallies in Russia, the Spartak championship and missile trials in North Korea-Medusa sums up the results of 2017 in the photographs. Juan Barreto / AFP / Scanpix / Leta the demonstrator caught fire during the explosion of a police motorcycle during riots in Venezuela.

Energia Corporation specialists managed to establish contact with the Angosat-1 satellite, from which, shortly after the launch on December 26, telemetry information ceased to arrive. This is reported by the Interfax and TASS agencies with reference to sources . “Specialists from RSC Energia have established contact with the satellite, telemetry has been received from it,” the Interfax source said. This information has not yet been officially confirmed.

Basketball players Ivan Nelyubov, Dmitry Kulagin, Pavel Antipov and Trevor Lacey from the Lokomotiv-Kuban club shot a parody of the song “New Year” of the Glasswate group, which became a meme in the middle of the zero. The athletes called their team “The Glass Group of the Studio of Sasha Obodovich ”. The basketball players almost completely repeated costumes and movements from the original clip, but they didn’t sing - the original version of the song sounds in the video.

The Moscow Metro announced on December 28 that a skating rink had opened in the passage from the MCC station Ploshchad Gagarina to the metro station Leninsky Prospekt. Passengers will be able to borrow skates for free and skate on artificial ice. But the main thing here is not the skating rink itself. In one of the photos attached to the announcement, you can see the life-size Masha and the Bear dolls that are supposed to entertain passengers. Friends, real winter has come to #mosmetro!