The cause of the fire on the cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov" was the ingress of welding scale, formed during hot work during repairs, on oiled rags thrown in the hold. Kommersant writes about this, citing sources close to the participants in the repair. According to sources, during welding, which was carried out on the lower deck, scale fell through the cable channel into the hold.

The Conservative Party, led by Boris Johnson, wins a landslide victory in the UK parliamentary elections and gains a majority. This is evidenced by exit polls published by Sky News and BBC News. According to polls, the Conservatives could win 368 seats in the 650-seat parliament. Their main rivals, the Labor Party, win only 191 seats. Boris Johnson and his party are in favor of Britain's early exit from the European Union.

"Krasnodar" with a score of 0:3 lost to "Getafe" in the final match of the group stage of the Europa League and could not reach the 1/8 finals. CSKA Moscow will play their last match in the Europa League later than December 12, but regardless of its outcome, they will not be able to qualify for promotion from the group. Thus, not a single Russian club got into the spring part of European competition. According to Sports.ru, this happened for the first time in 18 years.

The guardianship authorities of Moscow filed a lawsuit with the Presnensky District Court demanding that the parental rights of the mother and father of a five-year-old girl who has been living in the perinatal medical center "Mother and Child" have been restricted in parental rights. Elena Alshanskaya, president of the Volunteers to Help Orphans Foundation, told Kommersant about this. The guardianship authorities announced their intention to file a lawsuit “in the near future” on December 10.

Studio Kvartal-95 / Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (УНИАН) The show didn’t last long on Russian airwaves, but the first two episodes of Volydymr Zelensky’s political satire, “ Servant of the People, ” outperformed other shows on the TNT network (not to be confused with Turner Network Television) when they were broadcast on December 11, earning higher ratings than the Russian sitcoms “Interns” and “SashaTanya.” That’s according to Mediascope's preliminary data in Moscow.

Updated . Vladimir Zelensky said he did not give an interview to Rossiya 1. “I did not give an interview to the Rossiya TV channel. In Paris, after the “Normandy meeting” at night, a journalist asked me something in the corridor, I answered her something. There were many journalists from different countries there,” the president said . Rossiya 1 announced an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

How Evil Corp, the world’s most powerful hacking collective, takes advantage of its deep family ties in the Russian intelligence community Samuel Corum / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / LETA On December 5, the U.S. government formally indicted members of the Russian hacker group “Evil Corp.” Washington says these men are behind “the world’s most egregious cyberattacks,” causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to banks.

The US Senate approved the candidacy of John Sullivan for the post of ambassador to Russia. Sullivan was supported by 70 people, 22 were against. A simple majority of votes was required to approve a candidate. From 2017 until recently, John Sullivan has been the US Deputy Secretary of State. The previous US Ambassador to Russia, John Huntsman, who has held this position since 2017, resigned on October 3.

The Investigative Committee launched a pre-investigation check into the death of Mikhail Vinogradov, deputy editor of the department of special correspondents and observers of the Vechernyaya Moskva newspaper. The journalist died on the night of Thursday, December 12. Three days earlier, he had been discharged from the hospital after surgery.

The main thing from the text of Time about Greta Tunberg is a girl, because of which the whole world quarreled CARLOS COSTA / AFP / Scanpix / Leta According to Time, Greta Tunberg, a 16-year-old activist from Sweden, became the man of the year, according to the American magazine, who became famous for her “climate strikes”. Since the summer of 2018, she has been walking classes at school in protest against the inaction of politicians in the face of a global climatic crisis.

A group of men with ties to violent Russian nationalists attack four ‘suspected lesbians’ in St. Petersburg A group of young men attacked four women in St. Petersburg on December 9, brutally beating one of them. After they were arrested, the attackers told police that they assaulted the women because they saw them holding hands and believed they were lesbians.

"Quarter 95" / UNIAN The first series of “Servants of the people” shown on the air of TNT on December 11 was more popular than other projects of this channel - “Interns” and “Sashitani”. This follows from the preliminary data of Mediascope in Moscow, which was provided by Medusa by employees of two etheric channels. For the “servant of the people”, the share amounted to 4.6% in the first, double series and 5% in the second.

As an Israeli, Naam Issahar is trying to save from the 7.5 years of the Russian colony - but so far they cannot even find her a translator Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Jaffa Issahar and lawyer Vadim Klugant. Moscow Regional Court, December 12, 2019. On December 12, the Judicial Collegium of the Moscow Regional Court began consideration of the appeal of Naama Issahar.

The governor of the Irkutsk region, Sergei Levchenko, resigned of his own free will. The resignation has already been accepted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Igor Kobzev, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, has been appointed interim governor. Also on December 12, the governor of the Jewish Autonomous Region was replaced. Alexander Levintal, who held this post, resigned of his own free will, Interfax reports .

Valentin Ogirenko / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Investigators at the site of the murder of Pavel Sheremet, July 20, 2016 The Ukrainian police detained the suspects of the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet. This was announced on Facebook by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov. On the evening of December 12, the ministry held a briefing for journalists. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Prosecutor General Ruslan Ryaboshapa came to him.