Cryptocurrencies do not have the properties of money, says Alexei Zabotkin, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank. His words are quoted by Prime. “[Cryptocurrencies are] private tokens, digital, that can be transferred from one owner to another. But these private tokens do not have the most important properties of money, namely the ability to be used as a means of payment,” Zabotkin said on the air of Rossiya 24.

Russia’s healthcare watchdog cracks down on private clinics for providing surrogacy services to single men from abroad Philippe Lopez / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Russia’s federal healthcare watchdog (Roszdravnadzor) has accused three private clinics in Moscow of providing assisted reproductive technology (ART) services to single men from other countries. Though this isn’t prohibited by law in Russia, it isn’t explicitly allowed either.

A jury in the Kaliningrad Regional Court delivered a verdict of not guilty in the case of resuscitator Elina Sushkevich, who is accused of intentionally killing a premature baby. It is reported by Mediazona. The board also acquitted the second defendant in the case, Elena Belaya, acting chief physician of the Kaliningrad maternity hospital No. 4. Of the eight jurors, three found Belaya and Sushkevich guilty, Mediazona specifies.

The "Map of Resistance" project with St. Petersburg bars and restaurants planning to operate on New Year's Eve ceases to exist. This is reported by the authors of the project. From today, 12/10/2020, we are closing access to the map, as it seems to us that we managed to “get through” and the authorities finally heard us. And our colleagues in the workshop were finally able to convey their proposals for the introduction of truly effective and logical measures to combat coronavirus in St.

In total, Russia saw 138,325 excess deaths between the start of the pandemic in March and the month of October, reports the Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat). Russia’s leading regions in terms of excess deaths are Moscow (3,254 people), the Samara region (2,269 people), the Rostov region (2,240 people), the Chelyabinsk region (2,145 people), and the Altai Krai (1,780 people).

The United States has imposed Magnitsky Act sanctions on a number of individuals and legal entities linked to Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the U.S. Treasury Department announced on Thursday, December 10.

Now it requires the division of the company. Facebook does not agree: the authorities themselves approved these transactions Leah Millis / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC, independent government agency) accused Facebook of violating antimonopoly legislation and appealed to the court demanding that the company sell Instagram and WhatsApp.

In Russia, 47,777 people or 30.3% more died in October than in the same month a year earlier, Rosstat reports. The leaders in excess mortality were Moscow (3,254 people), Samara Region (2,269 people), Rostov Region (2,240 people), Chelyabinsk Region (2,145 people) and Altai Krai (1,780 people). At the same time, according to the same agency, only 15,607 thousand people died from coronavirus or its consequences in October.

Universal Pictures released the fighter “Nobody” - paintings by Russian director Ilya Nayshuller (“Hardcore”). The main role was played by Bob Odenka from the series “All Great” and “Better Call the Solu”. The film was shot according to the script of John Wick's co -author Derek Kolstad. Trailer in Russian Universal Pictures Russia In English IGN Odenkerka played the former hired killer of Hatch Mansell.

Fact-checking Putin’s comments on the Safronov treason case Andrey Vasilyev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA During a meeting with members of Russia’s Human Rights Council on Thursday, December 10, President Vladimir Putin spoke about the case of former journalist and advisor to the head of Roscosmos Ivan Safronov, who was jailed on treason charges in July. As Putin’s comments revealed, he doesn’t quite have the facts straight when it comes to the details of the criminal case against Safronov.

We tell everything about alcohol and vaccination. The mortality in Spain in the first wave seems to be underestimated by 70%. Pfizer and Biontech published data on the vaccine in a scientific journal Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here .

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the mass vaccination against covid in Moscow is going well. “During this period of time [since the start of vaccination on December 5], about 20,000 people have signed up and more than 6,000 have been vaccinated. The whole system works well, ”Interfax quotes Sobyanin’s statement in an interview with Russia-24 TV channel.

Olga Maltseva / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Fontanka found out that the two participants of the animated competition of the Kinopobe festival, whose deaths recently reported , did not actually exist. They were invented by another participant-a 29-year-old social teacher from Lipetsk Dmitry Zarkanitsky, who has long dreamed of opening his own animation studio.

Moscow’s Olympic Stadium is getting the ax, but officials are calling it a remodeling job Sergey Bobylev / TASS In the late 1970s, Moscow broke ground on a massive indoor sporting arena to host competitions during the 1980 Summer Olympics. Appropriately named the “Olimpiyskiy” (Olympic Stadium), it was a venue for athletic contests and music concerts for nearly 40 years. In 2019, however, the facility closed for remodeling.

The United States has included the Akhmat football club and the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation in the sanctions list under the Magnitsky Act, according to the US Treasury Department. Individual sanctions were imposed against several citizens of the Russian Federation, who, according to the agency, are associated with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.