The Twitter administration has temporarily banned likes for some of the tweets of US President Donald Trump on the results of the last election. On the morning of December 12, users noticed that when they tried to like or retweet the president's tweets, the message "We're trying to prevent tweets that violate Twitter's rules from being shared, so we've blocked most ways to interact with this tweet" appeared. Alternatively, the user was prompted to retweet the post with the comment.

The Armenian Defense Ministry stated that the armed forces of Azerbaijan launched an offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the ministry, the offensive began in the direction of the settlements of Stary Taglar and Khtsaberd in the south of the region. The Ministry of Defense stressed that the Armenian troops "are taking proportionate actions" to repel the attack.

CD Projekt Red On December 10, the most anticipated game of 2020 was released - Cyberpunk 2077 from the creators of the Witcher, the Polish studio CD Projekt Red. It seemed that this was the last chance to at least a little to save the reputation of the 2020, but everything went wrong again. The game came out "raw". It seems that the developers will correct it for a long time using patches and updates (it was already with the “witcher”).

The Kazakh Foreign Ministry summoned Alexander Komarov, Charge d'Affaires of the Russian Federation, because of the words of Vyacheslav Nikonov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, that most of the country's territory was actually donated to the Kazakhs by Russia. It is reported by TASS. The department handed over to the Russian diplomat a note expressing bewilderment at such public statements by the official.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Follow the money: What monetary policy and banking say about Russian politics Even if you follow news in Russia regularly, you might be unaware or only vaguely aware that Russia’s Central Bank printed an enormous sum of money over the past decade in a sweeping campaign to restructure the country’s major banks and liquidate smaller failing financial institutions.

So far there is only 300 thousand doses throughout the country Victor Korotaev / Kommersant Mass vaccination from Covid began in Russia this Monday, December 7, in the suburbs and Moscow - two days earlier, on December 5. Her first results look modest: Sergei Sobyanin reported that six thousand people were vaccinated in the capital, and the regions have been reporting at best about the vaccine received to them.

Iran has executed opposition journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of collaborating with foreign intelligence services. Zam was hanged on the morning of December 12. Four days earlier, the Supreme Court had denied him a request to reduce his sentence and review the case. Zam was one of Iran's most prominent opposition activists and the creator of the Amad News Telegram channel, which published incriminating information on senior officials in the country.

In the international lottery EuroMillions on December 11, a record jackpot was drawn - the winner won 200 million euros. The organizers of the lottery said that the winner of the winning ticket lives in France. He has not yet applied for his money; he has 60 days to do so. The winner correctly guessed all five of the 50 numbers - 6, 9, 13, 24 and 41 - as well as two "lucky star numbers" - 3 and 12.

Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS Today, December 12, Valentin Gaft died . The actor was 85 years old, in the summer of 2019 he suffered a stroke. During his career, Gaft performed dozens of roles in the theater and played in more than a hundred films - including in “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, “Garage”, “Hello, I am your aunt!” and other famous paintings. Anton Dolin talks about the creative path of one of the main Russian actors. The face and voice that cannot be forgotten.

In October, "Medusa" asked questions of Kim Ki Duku about his last film "Solve". This is an interview Gareth Cattermole / Getty images On the night of December 11, the South Korean director Kim Ki Duk died in Riga . The film “Dissolve” , shot in Kazakhstan, was his last work - in early October he was shown at the Moscow International Film Festival. On October 7, journalist Maria Lashcheva asked Kim Ki Duku her questions - about this picture and dreams of the director.

Actor Valentin Gaft died. This was announced by his wife Olga Ostroumova. Gaft was 85 years old. In the summer of 2019, he suffered a stroke. Sergey Mikheev / Kommersant Gaft will be buried in the Troekurovsky cemetery on December 15. Before that, the Contemporary Theater will host a farewell ceremony. During his career, Gaft played roles in more than 100 films.

Eric Risberg / AP / Scanpix / Leta The Zodiac is a serial killer who committed crimes in California in the San Francisco area in the 1960s (perhaps he also killed in the early 70s). The exact number of his victims is unknown: the Zodiac himself in one of the letters to local newspapers said that 37 people killed, the police have evidence of attacks on seven people, five of whom died. The personality of the serial killer is still unknown, they could not find him.

Russia has registered 28,137 new cases of coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours, the task force to combat the virus reports. This is 448 cases less than the day before. The largest number of cases are in Moscow (+6,622 cases per day), St. Petersburg (+3,776) and the Moscow region (+1,393). The total number of infected people in the country has reached 2,625,848.

The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Texas state attorney seeking to invalidate the results of presidential elections in four swing states - Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. In the lawsuit, the Texas prosecutor insisted that said states violated ballot processing rules, which made massive fraud possible. In all these states, Joe Biden won by a narrow margin.

The second wave is precisely heavier than the first, and by the end of 2020, a quarter of Russians will illuminate by Covid Evgeny Sofichuk / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On December 10, Rosstat published new mortality data in all regions of Russia - the number of deaths in October in Russia was 30% exceeded last year. These data improved the understanding of the autumn wave of the epidemic.