The new President of Georgia George Margvelashvili begins his leadership of the country with steps, which will hardly cause approval among ordinary citizens. According to the Georgia Online portal, the administration of the head of state makes personnel changes, the result of which will be reducing state and at the same time an increase in the presidential salary.

The mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, wants to retract the capital of the Sverdlovsk region to the federal center, as it was before 1991, assuring that such a change will help the development of a millionaire city. At the same time, it should be noted that in the event of the recognition of the Ural capital, the city of federal significance - along with Moscow and St.

The regional police divisions are ordered to form “black lists” of amusing fans who are prohibited from visiting stadiums and transferring these data to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The draft relevant instruction is posted on a single portal for disclosing information on the preparation by federal executive bodies of draft regulatory legal acts, Interfax reports.

“From year to year, for thirteen years now, the political and economic life of the country has been developing according to the same scenario. First, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin performs the libretto in front of the people.

The Pope Francis met with a group of eight cardinals-advisers participating in consultations regarding the reform of the Roman curia. During the meeting, it was decided to create a special committee of Vatican experts, which will engage in the fight against violence against children among the clergy of the Catholic Church and assisting the victims. The results of the meeting were told by the archbishop of Boston, Sean Patrick O'Melli, the Russian BBC service reports.

A sharp deterioration in the weather occurred this week in several Russian regions at once. Avalanne danger remains in Kamchatka. A storm warning has been announced in Siberia. In the Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo regions and the Altai Territory, snowstorms, ice, gusty wind are expected on Thursday, reports the Russia 24 television channel .

The main rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar opened the building of the new synagogue in the city of Lyubertsy near Moscow. The solemn ceremony took place the day before, on the last day of the Jewish holiday of Hanuk , the Interfax-religion portal reports on Thursday with reference to the information of the press service of Berla Lazar.

The US authorities accused Russian diplomats of fraud with medical insurance for 500 thousand dollars (according to other sources - $ 1.5 million). To cash in, the Russians pretended to be poor and gave out their own children for American citizens. The scheme that enriched the Russians has been operating for at least nine years - from 2004 to August 2013.

The Court of the Georgian capital ordered two citizens who protested against the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Hanuk in Tbilisi, to pay a fine of 100 Lari (approximately $ 60). Guram Palavandishvili and David Lordkipanidze pleaded guilty and were released in the courtroom, Interfax reports. The history of the incident is as follows.

New Year's tour of the Tbilisi Theater of Puppets of the artist and director Rezo Gabriadze began in the space of the former Drumber cinema in Moscow on December 3 and will last on December 28, RIA Novosti reports. The master brought three performances to Moscow: "Autumn of my spring", "Stalingrad" and "Ramona". "We are in the supercultural space. This is a brilliant architecture. We understand this and are very worried, being in such a beautiful building.

Transnational tobacco corporations Philip Morris International Inc. and Japan Tobacco Inc. We agreed on the purchase of 40% (20% share each) of Megapolis Distribution BV, which is the Russian distributor of tobacco products. The companies said that the acquisition should ensure an increase in profit per share from the first quarter of next year.

The criminal case under the article “negligence” (part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) was instituted against a number of Rosreestr officials, including the former deputy head of the department of Sergei Sapelnikov , who, however, hid in advance from Russia against the background of anti -corruption inspection in the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography.

Musical journalist and music producer Oleg Pshenichniki posted on his Twitter an appeal to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika with a request to release three defendants in the "Swamp case", signed by the initials of B.G. "I am very worried about the persecution of participants in non -violent civil actions in Russia. I ask you to take measures so that the criminal prosecution of peaceful participants in the protest on Bolotnaya Square is discontinued," the letter said.

The Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), together with government agencies and universities, began implementation of the “I want to live” abortion program for the prevention program. As part of the program, in various state institutions, including medical and educational, meetings with doctors, lawyers and ministers of the church will be held, who will inform about legal and moral violations in the commission of abortion.

“The defense attorneys were looking forward to this moment with impatience and some apprehension. While the prosecution had the floor, the judge more than once dismissed our motions with the standard formula: “You can do this at the stage of presentation of materials by the defense, but for now their choice and order is determined by the prosecution.” And so the word passed to us. During the first three days, not a single defense witness was removed by the court.