The international human rights organization Amnesty International has demanded the release of 77-year-old human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, who was arrested for 25 days on December 5. "Lev Ponomarev is one of the pillars of the human rights movement in Russia. By arresting a man who has dedicated his entire life to protecting human rights, the Russian authorities have demonstrated their contempt for these rights," said Natalia Zvyagina, head of the organization's Russian office.

The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket after the launch on December 5 failed to land at the Cape Canaveral spaceport. Due to problems with the hydraulic pump of the lattice rudder, the stage sat in the ocean, said the head of SpaceX Elon Musk. According to him, she looked undamaged and will be taken to land. As noted by The Verge, SpaceX for the first time failed to land the first stage of the rocket at the spaceport. The previous 12 attempts were successful.

The fight against competitors and the possibility of selling access to user data were discussed there Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Mark Zuckerberg in 2011 at the Facebook headquarters On December 5, a member of the UK Parliament Damien Collins published more than 200 Facebook internal pages, to which he gained access in late November.

The French government has removed fuel price increases from the draft budget for 2019, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said. The government confirmed that plans to increase prices in 2019 have been cancelled, AFP reports . The day before, the government announced a temporary moratorium on increasing fuel prices. In France, large-scale protests against rising fuel prices have taken place in recent weeks, with hundreds of thousands of people taking part.

FSB officers staged searches in the administration of the Volokolamsky district of the Moscow region, RBC reports. According to a source close to the district leadership, the searches are related to landscaping contracts that the former acting head of the district, Andrey Vikharev, allegedly concluded with companies affiliated with him.

In St. Petersburg on December 5, masked men seized Andrey Manukovsky, the owner of the M-Group construction company, searched his apartment and then released him with the words “Prepare money.” Fontanka writes about this with reference to Elina Manukovskaya, the financial director of the company. According to her, the businessman was grabbed shouting “To the ground, police!” when he approached the car near the house.

In the American city of Severance, Colorado, there was a ban on playing snowballs for almost a hundred years. Now it's been canceled - all thanks to a nine-year-old boy named Dane Best. In October 2018, Best, along with his other classmates, went on an excursion to the city hall. The head of the city began to tell schoolchildren about strange laws.

On December 5, the court extended the arrest of football players Aleksandr Kokorin and Pavel Mamayev for two months. This event was discussed on Andrey Malakhov's "Live" program. Below is a summary of the points made there. Is it right to keep people behind bars for four months for a fight so that we pay taxes for it? When people who killed eight people grill crab kebabs , it’s illegal. But here, no one was hurt. A normal domestic conflict.

The Organizational Committee of the Awards of the American Film Academy (Oscar) announced that in 2019, Kevin Hart, one of the most influential stand-up comics in the world, would be the leading ceremony. In the United States, he collects entire stadiums, and films with his participation invariably achieve success in the film distribution. "Medusa" tells what the Americans love Hart. Jordan Strauss / Invision / Ap / Scanpix / Leta Update. Kevin Hart refused to conduct an Oscar.

The head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fedotov, expressed his indignation at the decision of the Tverskoy Court to place 77-year-old human rights activist Lev Ponomarev under administrative arrest for 25 days. "In this case, I am convinced that the court could have limited itself to a fine. I hope that the city court will correct the decision of the Tverskoy court in the very near future," Fedotov emphasized.

The Committee for Urban Development and Architecture of St. Petersburg called the installation of “Last Address” signs on the facades of buildings “inappropriate” and also suggested that district administrations consider this an administrative violation . This follows from the committee's response to an appeal about the "legal status" of the signs by Alexander Mokhnatkin, who worked as an assistant to deputy Vitaly Milonov. Mokhnatkin published the document on his Twitter.

Vyacheslav Kulikov, head of the public monitoring commission (POC) for the Vladimir region, said that a prisoner in the Vladimir central (prison No. 2) named Mdivanishvili bit off his own tongue and confirmed this. Members of the PMC visited Mdivanishvili in the hospital, where one of them, Sergei Yazhan, asked the prisoner questions in Georgian.

Update 19:25. Yuri Petrov died in the hospital, Interfax reports with reference to the Investigative Committee. Private security officer Yuri Petrov, who fled with a weapon from his post in Murom, was found wounded in a forest near Moscow, said Evgenia Kiryushina, a representative of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. According to Kiryushina, now 61-year-old Petrov is hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the chest.

Russia will comply with the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on paying compensation to members of the punk group Pussy Riot. This was reported by Interfax, citing the Russian Ministry of Justice. "There are no procedural possibilities for appealing the ECHR ruling... The Russian authorities are conscientious about the issue of implementing all ECHR decisions, regardless of who sends them," the Justice Ministry said.

Ninety people suspected of working for the Italian crime organization 'Ndrangheta were arrested on December 5 in Europe and South America, Italian police said. More than 40 people were arrested in Italy, and dozens more in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Europol said . Almost four tons of cocaine were seized in the Netherlands.