The US presidential administration froze $250 million in military aid to Ukraine a day when the presidents of the two countries were on the phone. This is reported by CNN, citing documents received by the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress. The talks between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky took place on July 25, 2019. That same evening, the White House Office of Management and Budget issued a document suspending military aid.

Natacha Pisarenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta Russian athletes at the 2018 Olympics in Korean Pyeongchang On December 9, the Executive Committee of the World Anti -Doping Agency supported the decision of the “Committee for Assembly” WADA, who in November recommended that the Russian athletes from the Olympiads and world championships, as well as deprive Russia of the right to accept such events for four years.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky may hold a separate face-to-face meeting during the Normandy Four summit in Paris. It is reported by Kommersant, citing a source. The probability of a bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelensky was estimated by the source of the publication as close to 100%. The leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France will gather in Paris on December 9 to discuss the settlement of the conflict in the south-east of Ukraine.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been summoned to court for questioning as part of a trial launched over the company's plans to launch its own cryptocurrency, Gram , CoinDesk reports, citing a ruling by the New York District Court. Durov will be questioned on January 7 or 8, 2020, at a location “agreed upon by the parties,” the document says.

On November 26, the Gosuslugi website malfunctioned, RBC reports. A message was posted on the site stating that "a short-term limitation of the portal's availability is possible due to technological work." The operator of the public services portal RT Labs confirmed that "there was limited access to certain resources." What it is connected with, the company did not specify. The site is currently operating normally.

Agree, the members of the Kasta group look pretty solid, especially in business suits. And now compare with how the musicians were depicted on the cover of their fourth studio album “I Understand the Flaw” (yes, that's what it's called). Quite another matter! “It's clear about the flaw” comes out in early December and continues the tradition with puns in the album titles.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. I would like to relax, but children demand to play with them. What to do? (Spoiler: You can play even in a dream!) And finally, it was possible to pick up a smartphone from the child and persuade to play something with you. But what? What to do so that it is fun, and to adults too? And what to do if after work you literally fall off your feet, and your son or daughter demands to play?

Jim Young / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA If new WADA recommendations are accepted, this is a sight you won’t be seeing for four years. The World Anti-Doping Agency’s Compliance Review Committee has recommended suspending Russia from international competitions for four years. The committee developed new recommendations for WADA’s Executive Committee after a WADA report indicated that doping data from a Moscow laboratory may have been manipulated.

Netease A gamer from the Chinese province of Sichuan named Lu MOU spent more than a million dollars on a online game character. His friend, to whom he allowed to develop the character, sold it for only a few hundred. This was reported at the game forum on WeChat. Lou MOU and his friend Lee MOUNE played Justice Online, popular in China MMORPG .

The third largest chain of British cinemas Vue Cinemas shot a film about the youth gangs of London “Sad History” from the show. According to the network, this happened after the picture broke the record in the number of “serious incidents” during the day during the show, and a massive fight with the participation of a hundred people took place before the session in Birmingham.

Anna Vasilyeva, marketing director of the consulting NEO Center, said on Facebook that Oleg answered her question about the non-working fingerprint scanner in the Tinkoff Bank chat bot application, “You should cut off your fingers.” She posted a screenshot of the correspondence on Facebook on November 24. Such an unpleasant dialogue with Tinkoff. I asked the support team how to understand this. They didn't even apologize after an hour...

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article on incitement to suicide after the death of 23-year-old Interior Ministry investigator Maria Klochkova in Sochi. The Investigative Committee said that on November 23, the investigator joined the police department in the Khostinsky district of Sochi. She got a firearm. Some time later, her body was found in the office.

During a meeting in Tallinn, Estonia President Keresti Kaliulaid presented to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky honey pot and a trunk bicycle.

Vereshchagin Archive / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy inspects the ships Russia returned to his government on November 21, 2019, almost exactly a year after the vessels were seized in the Kerch Strait. On November 18, the Russian government returned the Berdyansk, the Nikopol, and the Yany Kapu to Ukraine a year after the three ships were seized as material evidence in a border violation case.

John Lamparski / Getty images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Premiere of "Marriage History" at the Paris cinema. New York, November 10, 2019 The Netflix service reported that he was going to finance the last one-and-the-air cinema of New York-Paris, which almost closed. The PARIS cinema began work in 1948, this is one of the oldest arthaus cinemas of the United States, it is located near the New York Central Park.