Acting Governor of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako won the election of the head of the region in the first round. According to the results of counting 96.94% of the ballots, Kozhemyako receives 61.64% of the votes. His main opponent, LDPR candidate Andrei Andreichenko, is gaining 25.33%. has already congratulated Kozhemyako on his victory. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev The voter turnout was 39.57% of voters.

The Federal Penitentiary Service has made the final decision to close the Butyrka and Presnya pre-trial detention centers, Deputy Head of the Department Valery Maksimenko said. Instead of these two insulators, a new one will be built, with five thousand places, which will meet "all European standards." The vacated buildings will be transferred to the balance of the Moscow City Hall. SIZO "Butyrka" is the largest institution for prisoners in Moscow.

In Moscow, a picket was held near the building of the Ministry of Health, the participants of which protested against the absurd bans. About 250 people took part in the action, according to the organizers. It was not agreed upon - the organizers, according to them, applied for it, but the mayor's office refused, citing the busyness of all sites with New Year's events. The vape man, the sausage man, the coffee man, the cucumber man, and the girl in lacy lingerie became the center of the action.

Former football player Andrey Arshavin will move to an administrative job at Zenit, where he spent most of his career. At the new place of work, Arshavin will lead the children's training camp. He will begin his duties on January 1. Arshavin, who in recent years played for the Kazakh "Kairat", announced his retirement in November. Arshavin played at Zenit from 2000 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2015. In total, he played 376 official games for the St. Petersburg club.

A rally against the arbitrariness of law enforcement officers took place near the FSB building on Lubyanka. The event was attended by about 50 activists, Novaya Gazeta writes. It was positioned not as a rally, but as "a meeting of citizens outraged by the actions of the authorities." Some of those gathered had protest posters. The police detained 12 people. One of the detainees said that he was threatened with beatings and a stun gun.

Updated . After processing 57% of the protocols, Kozhemyako gains 60.35%, Andreichenko - 26%. Oleg Kozhemyako, Acting Governor of Primorsky Krai, is gaining 65.98% of the votes in the elections for the head of the region, based on the results of processing one sixth of the ballots. Second place is occupied by LDPR candidate Andrey Andreichenko (20.56%). Repeat elections in Primorye were scheduled after the CEC canceled the results of a vote that took place in September due to irregularities.

On December 15, the Egyptian authorities announced that in the Sakkar complex of pyramids in Giza, an “exceptionally preserved” grave of the ancient Egyptian High Priest of the Fifth Pharaohs Dynasty, who ruled in the mid -III millennium BC, was discovered in Giza. Archaeologists found a tomb in November, but in order to enter there, it took them time. Excavations will be continued - but you can see how the tomb looks from the inside now.

The participants of the UN World Conference on Climate Change have adopted a set of rules for the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The document refers to the funding that developed countries will allocate to poor countries to help combat climate change, as well as measures to monitor the implementation of the terms of the agreement. Following the conference, the US State Department officially confirmed that the United States renounces any obligations under the treaty.

Aquaman was released in Russian rental this week - a film on DC comics about a superhero, which is destined to become the king of Atlantis. The main role in the picture was played by Jason Momoa, a Hawaiian who played Khal Drogo in the “Game of Thrones” and Konan in Konan-Warvar, one of the most prominent actors of our time (literally). Usually, in the “Around noise” section, we talk about films or games, but for the sake of Momoa we will make an exception.

The Fanzon publishing house was a comic book by the screenwriter Grant Morrison (“All Stars. Superman”) and artist Dan Mora “Klaus”. This is a rethinking of the myth about the American Santa Claus: the main character is not a complete good -natured old man, but a real superhero who alone challenges the dictatorship. In many ways, Klaus looks like Batman - he hides in the dark, intimidates the guards, eliminates the opponents one at a time (and sometimes - with the help of his manual wolf!).

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held a closed meeting with senior officials a few days ago on the issue of independence in the face of pressure from Russia. This was reported by the sources of the publication "Nasha Niva". “There was a big meeting with the president. [It said] stand for independence to the end. Everyone supported it,” said one of the interlocutors of the agency.

On December 15, at a meeting of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art, Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Russian hip-hop with Igor Matvienko, composer and producer of the Lyube and Ivanushki International groups.

Archaeologists have discovered an intact tomb in the historic Saqqara region of Egypt that is about 4,400 years old. The tomb belongs to a high-ranking priest who lived during the fifth dynasty of the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. The burial, as archaeologists believe, has never been plundered and has survived to this day approximately as the architects intended. The tomb is 3 meters high and about ten meters long. Its walls are decorated with frescoes depicting the priest and his family.

A Mi-8 helicopter crashed near Tomsk, Interfax reports, citing a source in emergency services. According to the source, the helicopter carrying shift workers-oil workers made a hard landing, fell on its side and collapsed. There were 22 people on board the Mi-8; two of them were injured.

The first small missile ship of Project 22800 "Mytishchi" has completed state tests and will be transferred to the Navy on December 17, the Ministry of Defense reported. The 22800 small missile ship project was developed after sanctions were imposed on Russia. According to sources in the Ministry of Defense, this was done to fill the gap in the delivery of large ships - engines for them became impossible to purchase due to sanctions.