Petersburg police detained Gripnis expert Rashid Alimov after he, along with other activists of the organization, held a rally under the slogan "Russia is not a nuclear dump." The Greenpeace website reports that eight police officers detained Alimov at his home. He was suspected of unauthorized occupation of a land plot and taken to the 28th police department. Greenpeace admitted that Alimov was detained because of the action that took place near the Gostiny Dvor on Nevsky Prospekt.

Paul Zinken / DPA / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Police at the site of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin, August 23, 2019 The German authorities were sent from the country of the GRU officer Yevgeny Sutsk in connection with the murder of the former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin. This is stated in the investigation of the German tabloid Bild, conducted together with Bellingcat.

Russian hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk has become an unrestricted free agent, . The Athletic journalist Pierre Lebrun tweeted to him According , the hockey player received a contract termination letter from the Los Angeles Kings NHL club. Ilya Kovalchuk joined the Los Angeles Kings in June 2018. His contract was for three years. According to unofficial information, the hockey player's salary amounted to 6.25 million dollars a year.

Russian media holdings sent letters to telecom operators and cable operators demanding that they stop broadcasting on-air versions of their TV channels on the Internet at the end of December. This is reported by Vedomosti, which studied copies of the letters. The letters were sent by on-air channels that are part of Gazprom-Media and the National Media Group, representatives of these holdings said.

The US Senate has overwhelmingly passed the $738 billion US defense budget for 2020, Reuters reports. The document now needs to be submitted to US President Donald Trump for signature. The draft defense budget includes sanctions against the Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream . According to American lawmakers, this measure will help ensure Europe's energy security. The draft budget also included several other measures to "deter aggression" from Russia.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. "What if the child is scared?" Fathers teach children to do good deeds (and study themselves!) Everyone knows that helping others is important and correct. But time, strength and money for charity are far from always. At the same time, I also want to do good deeds with the child - to help him become kinder and spend time with the benefit. But how to do it? Who to help? And how can a child help here - he does not have his own money?

The Safmar group of Mikhail Gutseriev and the Russian version of Forbes magazine entered into a pre-trial agreement on a dispute that arose due to the publication of a publication about the debts of companies owned by the Gutseriev family. “Forbes and Safmar have no claims against each other,” Dmitry Ozman, director of marketing and public relations for Forbes Russia, told RBC.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation's investigation into the host of the Russia 1 TV channel, Naila Asker-zade, was shown at one of the "smart" public transport stops in Nizhny Novgorod. The investigation was shown on December 16, local resident Timur Sharafutdinov reported in his Instagram story. His recording was published by Alexei Navalny's Nizhny Novgorod headquarters. The video shows that the investigation was shown with sound.

The Central Bank suggested that banks create more reserves when issuing mortgages to overly indebted borrowers, Vedomosti writes with reference to the report of the regulator. The Bank of Russia is considering introducing surcharges on mortgage risk ratios from July 1, 2020. The surcharge will be linked to the borrower's debt load indicator (LDL) and its down payment.

On December 16, a small arsenal of weapons was confiscated from the home of a large family in the northwestern Russian village of Khimozi. 47News reported that the weapons in the home were two Kalashnikov machine guns, one handheld Kalashnikov machine gun, two Kedr automatic weapons, and Makarov and TT pistols stored alongside bullets and bulletproof vests printed with the letters “FSB,” the acronym for Russia’s Federal Security Service.

Update: Crocus Group, which includes Crocus International, believes that the lawsuit was filed in error. The company admitted that the lawsuit will be withdrawn. The state-owned company Russian Highways (Avtodor) has filed a lawsuit against Araz Agalarov's Crocus International for 5.4 billion rubles. This is stated in the arbitration case file. The essence of the claims is not disclosed in the case file.

Spectators demand to cancel the show, the authors call their reaction homophobic On December 3, the comedy “The First Temptation of Christ” was published on Netflix, in which Jesus introduces the family to the alleged boyfriend. The creators of the show are from Brazil. The country's Christian community outraged this plot, it was considered blasphemous - now the audience collect signatures and demand from Netflix to close the project.

In Kyiv, near the building of the Verkhovna Rada, several thousand people took to the action against the adoption of a new law on the sale of land. The protesters tried to set up tents, but they were not allowed to do so by law enforcement officers. As a result of the clashes, according to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Zoryan Shkiryak, 17 police officers were injured, whom the protesters threw stones and bottles at. reported .

The streaming service Twitch has deleted copies of English Premiere League matches that had previously drawn a copyright challenge from Rambler. TASS reported on the deletion. Vadim Ampelonsky, the press secretary for the censorship and media regulation agency Roskomnadzor, told the wire service that the move removes the risk that Twitch will be blocked on Russian territory. A similar batch of content has also been removed from the Match TV television channel’s website.

We have chosen 10 noticeable organizations working in the Russian regions Charity Fund "Sunny City" Even if you never sacrificed and did not engage in volunteering in favor of charitable foundations, you probably heard about large organizations from Moscow - thanks to frequent references to the media, supporting celebrities or outdoor advertising. With charitable organizations from the regions, everything is different: most of them are known only at the local level. And this is unfair!