He never doubted the correctness of his choice and was a convinced communist AP / Scanpix / Leta George Blake in Russia. Moscow, November 15, 2006 Anti -fascist adolescence and youth in the British Fleet On December 26, 2020, in Moscow, at the age of 98, George Blake died of heart stop, the famous British and then Soviet intelligence officer. He was born in 1922 in Rotterdam under the name George Behar in the family of an Egyptian Jew, who became a British citizen and Dutch.

Russian figure skater Anna Shcherbakova won the gold medal at the Russian Figure Skating Championships held in Chelyabinsk. Shcherbakova was leading the championship after the short program. On December 26, she received 183.79 points for her free skate, scoring 264.10 points in total for the two programs.

Photo in the announcement: Sergey Karpukhin / TASS as of 20:30 Moscow time December 27, according to information from open sources, 83 of the region of Russia announced on December 31 a day off (residents of more than half of them had to work on Saturday, December 26). One of the last regions that officially announced the day off on the last day of the year was Chechnya.

Update. At 23:30 Moscow time, the police released the last 15th person detained at the protest, OVD-Info reports . They were issued administrative reports for violating the high alert regime in St. Petersburg. 15 people were detained near the Belarusian consulate in St. Petersburg, MBKh Media reports. The police explained the detention by the fact that the people were participating in an uncoordinated protest. Among those detained were correspondents from the publications "Severo-Zapad.

The Russian government, by its decree , banned state purchases of foreign medical masks until December 31, 2021. Medical masks have been included in the list of foreign-made industrial products that are prohibited from being purchased. The list also includes self-contained breathing apparatus, fire-resistant protective clothing and textile headgear. The ban came into force on the day the government decree was published, December 25.

The Japanese government has announced that it will ban the entry of foreigners from any country due to the fact that a new - "British" - strain of coronavirus has been discovered in the country, which is 70% more contagious than other variants of the virus. Entry will be closed from December 28, 2020 until the end of January 2021, according to the Nikkei. Japanese citizens and foreigners with a residence permit will be allowed to return to the country.

Singer Monetochka (Liza Gyrdymova) announced on Instagram that she got married on December 26. She posted a photo with wedding rings Today I got married Monetochka did not name her husband. At the same time, a representative of the singer told the Yekaterinburg edition of E1.ru that Monetochka had married music producer Viktor Isaev, whom she had met for a long time.

Investigators confronted Lyubov Sobol, an employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), and Galina Subbotina, the mother-in-law of FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev, the alleged accomplice in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. The confrontation was held on the evening of December 25, Marina Litvinovich, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission, said on Facebook. Yesterday, the whole day for almost 16 hours, investigative actions were carried out with her (Sobol).

Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS combat landing machine BMD-4 On the morning of December 24, 2020, the military in Pskov accidentally shot from a gun at the FJord Plaza shopping and entertainment center, located on the western exit from Pskov. The first about this evening of December 25 was reported by BAZA and the Pskov Province . According to Baza, the 19-year-old corporal named Komarov served the BMD-4 combat landing vehicle when two shots from an automatic gun occurred.

Former National Security Agency (NSA) employee Edward Snowden has become a father. His wife Lindsey Mills posted on Twitter a joint photo of the couple with a child (his face was covered with emoji). Merry Christmas baby "The greatest gift is the love we shared," Snowden tweeted , reposting his wife's message. Edward Snowden and Lindsey Mills have a son, Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told Interfax. “The health of the mother and baby is excellent,” he said, without going into details.

As of 11:00 Moscow time, on December 26, coronavirus in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic has been found in 3,021,964 people, the Federal Operational Headquarters for the Combation of the Distribution of the virus said. Over the last day in Russia, Kovid was revealed in 29,258 people (a day earlier - 29 018). The most new cases of the disease was identified in Moscow (+7480 people), St. Petersburg (+3755) and the Moscow Region (+1615).

CARL COURT / GETTY IMAGES In April 2018, an article by American writer Elif Batuman about the rental of relatives in Japan was published in The New Yorker. She said that there are agencies in the country whose employees play the role of someone else's relatives for money. You can hire a son or daughter to spend time with them; the bride to present her parents; the boss, so that the disgruntled client shouts at him; A lover, so that he apologizes to the deceived husband.

Nashville Fire Department / AFP / Scanpix / Leta consequences of the explosion in Nashville, December 25, 2020 At least three people were hospitalized after the explosion of the car in the American city of Nashville, Tennessi, reports CNN. The victims received easy injuries and are in a stable state. Christmas on the morning of December 25, at 6:30 local time (15:30 Moscow time), in the center of Nashville exploded a house on wheels - a van in which you can live.

Update. The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which oversees the creation of Sputnik V, reported that this vaccine showed over 90% effectiveness in people over 60 years old, Interfax writes . The head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, said that his department allowed the use of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine for people over 60 years of age during mass vaccination. He stated this on the air of the Russia-24 TV channel.

The second wave of pandemia, new restrictions, the number of cases is growing. Perhaps you are sitting at home and do not see anyone. And soon the New Year! This means that you are probably waiting for a meeting with friends and parties in Zum. Most likely, you have already participated in such parties and you didn’t really like it (yes, it’s hard to spend them efficiently, especially in a large composition), but it’s worth trying again.