Zuma / Scanpix / Leta The wife of US President Melania Trump showed how the White House was decorated with Christmas and the New Year. The festive decor of the US President’s residence is withstanding in white and green. Meduza Melania Trump showed how the White House was decorated with Christmas Last year, the White House New Year's decor was brighter. In particular, about 40 red fir trees were placed in one of the halls of the presidential residence.

Barcelona and Argentina striker Lionel Messi has received the Ballon d'Or, the best player of the year award from France Football weekly. According to Sports.ru, Messi won the Ballon d'Or for a record sixth time. Five times this award went to Cristiano Ronaldo. Michel Platini, Marco van Basten and Johan Cruyff received it three times each. In 2018, the Ballon d'Or was awarded to Real Madrid midfielder and Croatian national team Luka Modric.

Donald Trump's campaign headquarters has stripped Bloomberg journalists of their accreditation. It is reported by Axios with reference to the statement of the head of the headquarters Brad Parscal. He attributed the headquarters' actions to the entry into the election race of Michael Bloomberg, the owner of Bloomberg, and the agency's decision not to conduct investigative journalism against Bloomberg himself and other contenders for the presidency from the Democratic Party.

to 17 years in prison A court in Belarus sentenced a 46-year-old Russian citizen for trying to import 290 kilograms of hashish into the country. This was reported by the press service of the Supreme Court of Belarus. The Russian was detained in May 2019. The drug was found in a cache under the floor of his car. The hashish was packaged in tiles, there were more than three thousand of them. The man planned to smuggle the drug from Lithuania to Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on natural persons - "foreign agents". The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. The law allows to assign the status of "foreign agents" to individuals who participate in the creation of "media-foreign agents" or distribute their messages and at the same time receive money from abroad. The law applies to both Russians and foreigners.

An automobile bridge collapsed on the outskirts of Orenburg, Interfax reports with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The bridge was under reconstruction. The collapse injured two people who were doing repairs there. According to the regional Ministry of Health, they received minor injuries. The collapse area was about 200 meters. The Ministry of Emergency Situations noted that the bridge collapsed when a truck passed.

For every 44 reports Russian prisoners submit about torture in the facilities where they are held, investigators open one official overreach case. That average figure is drawn from Investigative Committee statistics for the years 2015 – 2018, when 6,468 complaints were submitted and 148 cases were brought forward in response, according to RBC . The response rate for 2018 was slightly higher, with one case raised for about every 31 complaints.

State news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS have removed materials about the Kremlin's reaction to the FBK investigation into the property of Naila Asker-zade, host of the Rossiya 1 TV channel. FBK employee Georgy Alburov drew attention to this. The RIA Novosti material can still be found in the Google search results, the TASS material is also in the Google search results; in addition, its text is reprinted on Rambler.

Petersburg courts ruled against 22 fans who were detained before the match "Zenith" - "Spartak" on charges of foul language in a public place. According to the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg, 19 fans pleaded guilty and received fines of 500 rubles. Three fans who pleaded not guilty were sentenced by the court to 15 days of administrative arrest. Updated . A court in St.

Sergey Savostyanov / TASS / Vida Press Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law obliging electronics manufacturers to pre -establish Russian software for their gadgets intended for sale in Russia. He will enter into force on July 1, 2020. The law only contains general formulations: what kind of applications and what devices will need to be installed on is unknown; This will determine the government in the coming months.

Elizaveta Peskova, daughter of the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, released her own mask for Instagram. Now, anyone who wants to be Storis in their father's mustache. Peskova tested the mask on herself, Peskov himself (yes, the virtual mustache was overlated over real mustache!) And his wife Tatyana Navka. “My nose is already daddy. But now I can try on a mustache thanks to my first mask, ”Peskova wrote in one of her Storis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law prohibiting the sale of "certain types of technically complex goods" without Russian software. The document is published on the official portal of legal information. The law will come into force on July 1, 2020, the list of goods subject to the ban will be determined by the government in a separate by-law.

Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that steeply raises the fines on Internet companies that repeatedly refuse to surrender decryption keys to the Federal Security Service. According to the new law, the Russian state can now fine tech firms between 2 and 6 million rubles ($31,100 and $93,340) for declining to share information that would allow the FSB to read users’ private correspondence.

The Soviet District Court in Bryansk A court in the Russian city of Bryansk has sentenced a local doctor named Michelle to three years in prison, a term experts say is likely to result in her death. Michelle, a 53-year-old transgender woman, was convicted of “distributing pornography depicting minors,” which can carry a term of up to six years in Russia.

A bank employee found a banknote on which someone said goodbye to her father - and with the help of social networks returned it to the owner Malaysian bank employee Hiza Ezani discovered an unusual 10 ringgit banknote. Her attention was drawn to the touching inscription on the banknote: “This is the last bill that my father handed me. May 21, 2010, Friday, 7:10 am. I ❤️you, dad. Ezani decided to return the memorabilia to its true owner at all costs.