On December 16, the Spanish police, together with Europol, detained 23 people suspected of laundering money from the Russian mafia from criminal proceeds, according to the website of the Spanish police. Eight citizens of Russia, two Ukrainians, one native of Kazakhstan and Algeria, 11 citizens of Spain were detained, RIA Novosti reports, citing the press service of the National Police.

The head coach of the football club "Spartak" Domenico Tedesco announced that he would not renew the contract with the club at the end of the season. He announced this after Spartak lost to Zenit St. Petersburg with a score of 1:3. The last few weeks have been writing about a new contract. Yesterday I informed the owner that I would not renew the contract in May. It was the most difficult decision in my career.

The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, writer MacKenzie Scott, reported in a blog post on Medium that she has donated $4,158,500,000 to charity over the past four months. It has sent money to 384 charities and humanitarian organizations located in all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico . They also include food banks struggling with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as support services for the most vulnerable.

The Chinese automatic station "Chang'e-5" dropped to Earth a capsule with soil samples collected on the moon. Specialists have already discovered a 300-kilogram capsule in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, CGTN reported on Twitter. The Chinese flag was placed at the landing site. In November, China launched the Chang'e-5 automatic station to the moon to collect and deliver lunar soil to Earth.

The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow has overturned the decision of the Moscow City Court, which overturned the sentence handed down to hematologist Elena Misyurina in the case of the death of a patient. The case was sent back to the appellate court for a new trial, TASS reports, citing the court's press service. The appeal against the Moscow City Court's decision was filed by Misyurina's defense.

The Moldovan parliament has canceled the pension reform, returning the old retirement age for men and women, according to the Moldovan agency Infotag. 54 out of 101 deputies voted in two readings for the initiative to repeal the law on the gradual increase in the retirement age from 62 to 63 for men and from 57 to 63 for women, adopted in December 2016. Thus, from January 1, 2021, men in Moldova will be able to retire at 62, and women at 57.

A jury in Paris has sentenced two defendants in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack to 30 years in prison each, according to Le Figaro. Ali Riza Polat and Hayat Boumedienne were found guilty of complicity in the attack. The prosecution demanded a life sentence. As Euronews adds , Polat is called the "main contact" of the direct perpetrators of the attack. His lawyers intend to appeal against the verdict, reports BFM TV.

Facebook takes down rival networks from Russia and France for attempted interference in African countries André Bâ / Xinhua / Zuma / Scanpix / LETA President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadéra (center, wearing the blue and white shirt) at a campaign rally Facebook has removed three networks originating in Russia and France for violating its policy against foreign interference, the company reported on Tuesday, December 15.

In Kursk, after the breakdown of oxygen equipment in one of the medical institutions, 14 people with coronavirus died. This is reported by TASS with reference to the prosecutor's office of the region. The Investigative Committee opened a case under an article on causing death by negligence to two or more persons. There are no defendants in the case yet.

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The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the largest retail chains and producers signed agreements to reduce and stabilize prices for sunflower oil and sugar. This was reported on the websites of the ministries involved in the preparation of the agreements. The maximum retail price for sugar, according to the agreements, will be 46 rubles per kilogram, the maximum price for butter - 110 rubles per liter.

The mayor's office of Naberezhnye Chelny sent a letter to school directors of the city demanding to find out how many students subscribed to "destructive" publics on social networks. This is reported by Mediazona, which has read a copy of the letter. Attached to the letter is a list of 55 groups on VKontakte that are characterized as "destructive". They are divided into four categories: "propaganda of non-traditional Islam", "nationalist", "hooligan" and "political".

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Do you think only the Stalinists do not like the signs of the “last address”? Project creator Sergei Parkhomenko - about the conflict with the Union of Russian billionaires On December 14, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs sued the Echo of Moscow radio station.

Latest mortality statistics reveal that the fall coronavirus wave was worse for Russia Evgeny Sofiychuk / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Last week, the Russian Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) published new data on mortality in all of the country’s regions, revealing that 30 percent more people died in October 2020 than in that same month last year.

State Duma deputy from United Russia, Dmitry Vyatkin, introduced a bill to parliament that provides for up to one year in prison for intentionally blocking streets if it threatened the life, health and safety of citizens or created a threat of destruction or damage to property. The deputy proposed to make appropriate changes to Article 267 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“Destroying vehicles or means of communication”).