Representative of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in Ukraine Ramzan Tsitsulaev became a defendant in a criminal case of large fraud in Moscow, Kommersant reports. The initiation of the case was preceded by a power operation in the Golden Ring Hotel, where his protection prevented the detention of a plenipotentiary. Tsitsulaev said that people in civilian clothes tried to detain him, whom the guards "put on the floor".

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates was detained on suspicion of illegal financial transactions related to corruption and laundering of money, Reuters reports. Together with him, three more people were detained, the prosecutor's office in Lisbon said. On Saturday, Socrates should face the court for the first interrogation, as well as determining the preventive measure. The investigation is carried out on suspicion of tax evasion, money laundering and corruption.

The United States transferred three light radars to Ukraine on November 20, used to identify and suppress mortar calculations. As the official representative of the Pentagon, Colonel Steve Warren, told reporters today, this is the first batch of such equipment. In total, the United States plan to put 20 such systems on Ukraine. In mid -December, American instructors should begin training Ukrainian military operations of the operation of this technique, TASS reports.

The head of the Civil Initiatives Committee (KGI), ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin gave his medium-term forecast of the ruble course: he believes that in the next two years the national currency will gradually get cheaper, while sharp fluctuations in the course cannot be excluded. RBC reports that Kudrin did not rule out the resignation of the government in the near future. When asked about whether he was ready in this case, Kudrin replied that no one was offering him.

The German police detained a 59-year-old electrician who built a bunker, capable of, according to his calculations, to withstand a nuclear explosion in the event of a war with Russia. The bunker himself did not cause any objections to the police, but, in addition to food supplies, a citizen concerned with security gathered a whole arsenal of weapons in it.

The building of the Kursk station in Moscow was evacuated on Saturday after a call for an explosive device, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti . The bombs in the building were not found, they later reported to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow. According to the agency, an anonymous call was received to the police about the threat of an explosion. About 500 people were taken out of the station building.

The UN General Assembly Committee adopted a resolution calling for countries to take more effective measures to combat the heroization of Nazism and other forms of racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance. The resolution was proposed by Russia, it was supported by 115 out of 193 members of the UN, while the USA, Canada and Ukraine opposed it. Another 55 delegations, including the countries of the European Union, abstained.

In most of the UK territory, a national failure in the work of the telephone numbers of calling the police and ambulance has occurred today, TASS reports. For several hours, residents of many regions of England, including London, as well as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, could not get through by calling the police (101) and ambulances (111). These numbers are designed to call law enforcement officers and doctors in non -perceptions.

The defender of Real Madrid and the Spanish national team Sergio Ramos at the age of 28 received a certificate of secondary education. He passed the last exams, ten years after leaving school. The future world and European champion left the school in 2004 after signing the contract with Seville due to a lack of time to study, reports Eurosport with reference to the Spanish media.

In the north of Kenya, a bus was attacked: extremists shot at least 28 people, reports Reuters with reference to a local police message. The attack was allegedly made by the Somali group "Ash Shabab". The attackers attacked a bus early in the morning, traveling from the County of Mander in Nairobi - the capital of the country. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 28 out of 60 people who were traveling on the bus were killed.

Ecuador extended the shelter of the asylum to the founder of Wikileaks to Julian Assange, TASS reports with reference to the El Universo newspaper. The Australian shelter was provided in 2012. “Remaining true to the long tradition of protecting human rights, especially victims of political persecution, Ecuador ratified the validity of his obligation to protect the freedom and life of citizen Julian Assange,” the official statement of the government of the republic quotes the publication.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov and musician Andrei Makarevich talked at a social event - a party in honor of the birthday of a journalist and politician Konstantin Remchukov. The meeting on Twitter was announced by the editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, who complained that he "did not have time to take a picture." Peskov confirmed the fact of the meeting, but categorically refused to comment.

The third physical education lesson in Russian schools will be a struggle. This was announced by the deputy of the State Duma, three -time Olympic champion Alexander Karelin. "The program that the struggle will be one of the sports for the third physical education lesson in schools has been tested in the Ministry of Education, the public Council of the Ministry of Sports was approved on the eve of it.

The State Duma asks the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to check the prices of the main food products: flour, pasta, cereals. FAS, against the background of "buckwheat psychosis" has already decided to engage in the largest manufacturers of buckwheat cereal. Deputies believe that checks should be much larger, and only by manufacturers cannot be limited.

Minnesota basketball player Kevin Martin scored 37 points in the NBA regular season match against New York (115: 99), despite the injury received in the first quarter of the meeting. In the seventh minute of the game, the Timbervulves defender received a fracture of the wrist after the foul of Shane Larkin, but continued the duel, becoming his most effective participant.