The Russian authorities responded to the decision of the Ukrainian government to introduce a moratorium on paying Russia's debt in the amount of $ 3 billion. The Kremlin called such a step of Kyiv by the actual recognition of the country's default. Earlier, Moscow threatened to sue Ukraine if Kiev does not pay the debt until December 20.

In connection with the cries of the fans of the Moscow Lokomotiv in the match of the group stage of the Europa League with the Albanian football club Sknderbeu ( 2: 0 ), a criminal case was opened under an article on extremism, Interfax reports with reference to law enforcement agencies.

The Chinese tour of the North Korean female pop group Moranbong Band, which have already been considered as evidence of the improvement relations between China and its isolated neighbor, but were eventually canceled by the personal instructions of the DPRK leader Kim Jong-Yun, were disrupted by “anti-American” songs. According to Reuters, the girls were supposed to perform on December 12 in Beijing, but Chinese censors did not approve of some of the pre -presented songs.

The European Commission on Friday, December 18, finally adopted the sixth report on the implementation of the requirements of the Visa Liberalization Plan of Action. The European Commission on the implementation of Kiev PDV in the afternoon in Brussels will be presented by the European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopulos, UNIAN notes. At the disposal of "European Pravda" were fragments of the report, which is now being prepared for publication.

The Moscow City Court refused to make an appeal against the decision on the “eternal blocking” of the Rutracker torrent tracker, filed by one of the site users with the legal support of the Roskomsvobod project. The fact that the court refused to accept the appeal, "Roskomsvoboda" reported on Friday on its website. The court ruling dated December 15 states that the citizen who filed it is not the person involved in the case, and in the decision on the "eternal lock", his status was not allowed.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov sued the head of the Odessa regional state administration Mikhail Saakashvili, correspondent.net reports. Avakov said about the initiation of the trial on the air of the TOK show "The right to power." "I sued Mr. Saakashvili, because if you say that a person is a thief, - answer," said Avakov. He also added that, according to his information, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk is going to sue.

US presidential candidate, favorite of the presidential race from the Republican Party, Donald Trump commented on a flattering statement made to him by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The billionaire admitted that for him Putin’s words is “great honor”. “This is always a great honor - to receive compliments from a person who is so highly respected in his country and abroad,” Trump said, whose words are given by Politico .

Over 10 months of 2015, the amount of write -offs from the maps of Russians as a result of erroneous and malicious actions of bank employees with client accounts reached 1 billion rubles. This is 87.5% more than January - October 2014, the Izvestia newspaper writes with reference to the calculations of the Jet Infosystems, whose clients are more than a hundred large banks.

A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl from the Moscow region and her 18-year boyfriend surrendered to the police and confessed to the arranged massacre. As it turned out, the girl wanted to kill her whole family, but could not do it. On Wednesday, December 16, a high school student quarreled with her father. After a quarrel, she locked herself in the bathroom and called her boyfriend to complain. Together they came up with a plan - to kill her whole family, that is, father, mother and older sister.

The Japanese company Mitsuoka decided to release a special series of Viewt model, which will receive the name Rouge and will include only 15 cars. They will differ in the special color of the body - red Butte Rouge with brilliant mother -of -pearl particles that imitates the texture of red lipstick, reports Jcnews.ru . The length of the Viewt Rouge will be 4515 mm, the width is 1680 mm, the height is 1550 mm. The wheelbase will be 2450 mm.

The head of government Dmitry Medvedev instructed Syria to provide humanitarian assistance in the amount of $ 2 million "in order to ensure the participation of the Russian Federation in international efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the SAR." The corresponding order is published on the official portal of legal information.

On December 26, a folk gathering of residents of the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region is planned against the project of the Ilyinskoye-Usovo Mortongrad residential complex, which is implemented by Morton Group of Companies. The action will be held in the format of a meeting with municipal deputies, according to a press release from the initiative group "Mortongrad.net", which received the editorial office.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation announced the expenses for the Russia Today channel: Goskanal, broadcasting to the foreign audience last year, cost 11.7 billion rubles. The expense report for 2014 was published on the website of the ministry, reports Slon . In 2015, due to the growth of the dollar exchange rate, expenses increased significantly.

The scandalous case, which reminded many of the recent resonant story with the sister of the model Natalia Vodyanova, occurred in Tyumen: there the taxi driver refused to carry a five-year-old autistic child and dropped him out of the car with the nanny. At the same time, the driver’s actions were justified in the taxi service. The mother Gulnara Praedov in social networks was the first to write about the incident on December 17. “The Danka with the nanny was simply kicked out of the taxi.

In Argentina, the most significant devaluation of the national vehicles in 14 years has been noted. Peso on Thursday collapsed to the US dollar by almost 30%. At the time of closing the trading, the rate amounted to 13.4 pesos per dollar, dropping by 27% compared to the previous day. During the session, he sank to 13.95 pesos per dollar. To this, according to Interfax , led to the abolition of restrictions on the exchange of the Argentine national currency introduced in 2011.