Six-year-old Anastasia Radzinskaya from Russia was included in the annual rating of YouTube bloggers with the highest earnings, compiled by Forbes magazine. Radzinskaya took seventh place in the ranking. Forbes estimated her annual earnings at $18.5 million. Last year, Radzinskaya also featured in the Forbes ranking. Then she took third place with an annual earnings of $ 18 million. The first place in the fresh Forbes ranking, like last year, was taken by nine-year-old Ryan Kaji from Texas.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told American radio host Mark Levin that Russia is behind the new cyberattack on the US government. Pompeo's interview on December 18 was published on the State Department website. Suffice it to say that significant efforts have been made to use a piece of third party software to embed code into US government systems and, it now appears, into systems of private companies, companies and governments around the world.

In the east and south-east of England, including in London, from December 20, a new, fourth level of restrictions will begin to operate. This was stated by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, reports BBC. It is forbidden to enter and leave areas where the fourth level of danger has been declared. Residents of these areas should not leave their homes unless absolutely necessary. People who do not live together can only meet on the street.

A new Russian tax policy is about to make it much harder to investigate corruption Russian officials have stopped reporting tax records for many companies where data were previously available to the public. In accordance with the law, information about Russian legal entities (companies, firms, and organizations of any type) should be accessible to anyone who wants it.

Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov, who is undergoing treatment for leukemia, has reported a complete remission after a bone marrow transplant. “Molecular analyzes of the bone marrow have come, they are being done for a very long time, this is the most accurate analysis of the residual content of leukemia cells in the bone marrow, science has not had such an analysis for another 15 years. <...> I am now in complete remission at the molecular level.

US authorities have charged Xinjiang Jin, an employee of the Zoom video conferencing service, with harassment and transfer of personal data to the Chinese government. The indictment was published on the US Department of Justice website. According to U.S. authorities, Jin, who lives in China, disrupted at least four video conferences in 2020 to mark the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests . Most of the conferences were organized by U.S. residents, including Tiananmen protesters.

An 18th-century icon from Lugansk, which was presented to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik, will be returned. This was announced to TASS by the Russian Foreign Ministry. The icon will be returned to the donors for further clarification of its history through Interpol. Dodik presented Lavrov with a gilded 18th-century icon found in Luhansk during the Russian minister's visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina on December 14.

In Russia, vaccination against COVID-19 began on December 5. Almost simultaneously, the first vaccines were registered in the UK and the USA . At the first stage, only certain categories of citizens can formally get vaccinated, but in Moscow, it seems that now virtually any person from 18 to 60 years old who has no medical contraindications and has not participated in a clinical trial can get vaccinated.

Pierre Emmanuel Deletree / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta On December 17, a closed meeting of the leadership of the Polish CD Projekt studio with employees was held, which discussed the situation with Cyberpunk 2077 - the most important game of the year, only a week earlier. The Bloomberg agency learned about this meeting. What is happening in the company, the official slogan of which “we are rebels”, the rebellion most reminded, writes journalist Jason Schreyer. Cyberpunk 2077 announced back in 2012.

On the night of December 19, employees of the Association of Administrative and Technical Inspections (OATI) of Moscow, together with the police, checked the Kvartira bar, which secretly worked after 23:00. According to the city operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus, at about 00:20, OMON officers opened the closed doors of the bar with a crowbar and a sledgehammer. Inside, a "full hall" of visitors was discovered.

Chilean President Sebastian Piñera received a fine of 2.5 million pesos (about $3,500) for violating the mask regime. This was announced by the Ministry of Health of the Valparaiso region. The fine was imposed for the fact that on December 5, while walking along the beach, Piñera was photographed with passers-by without a mask. When one of these pictures appeared on the Internet, the president apologized and himself informed the health authorities about his violation.

In Saratov, at the 59th year of his life, a science fiction writer, a literary critic Roman Arbitman, died. Information about the death of his loved ones confirmed the publication "View-Info". Photoxpress The chairman of the Saratov branch of the Russian Union of Writers Julia Klyuyeva informed RBC that Arbitiman died of coronavirus. Roman Arbitman is the author of more than 30 books, the last of which was published in October 2020.

Hint - pam-pararararam-param-param-pararararam in Times Square in downtown New York Streaming service Spotify has placed a huge billboard with the image of composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky . This is because he became the most popular Russian musician among Spotify listeners outside of Russia in 2020. Here are the top five Tchaikovsky songs that Spotify users have listened to the most: Ballet "Swan Lake" op. 20, act II, scene 10 (London Symphony Orchestra); ballet The Nutcracker op.

On Twitter, they ask the command not to forget about Rocket and Groot Members of the US Space Force will be called "guardians", or "guardians" (guardians). This was announced by Vice President Mike Pence. “I am honored to announce on behalf of the President of the United States that henceforth, the men and women who serve in the US Space Force will be called Guardians,” Pence said at an event marking the first anniversary of the creation of the Space Force.

The Ministry of Finance of Belarus proposed to introduce a fee for leaving the country by car. This was reported by the Belarusian agency "Belta" with reference to the Minister of Finance Yury Seliverstov. It is planned that the collection will be able to introduce the regional authorities. Those who leave the country in vehicles with a maximum mass of not more than five tons will pay. The amount of the fee will not exceed three base units.