The Sweden Civil Defense Agency (MSB) sent letters to the municipalities, in which it instructed to prepare for the war. According to the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, which is quoted by The Local , the MSB said that the regions should be ready to resist the military threat and other crisis situations.

The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov promised to check the media information that at a recent reception in the Kremlin was the commander of the private military company "PMC Wagner" Dmitry Utkin, whose fighters, according to some reports, participate in hostilities in Syria. “I will need to check the list of invited. I can’t say so offhand.

The Khudozhestvenny cinema on Arbat Square has been transferred to the management of businessman Alexander Mamut until 2036. Under an agreement with the mayor's office, the businessman will ensure the reconstruction of the capital's oldest cinema, the Kommersant newspaper writes. “I was driven by the desire to make a good place for my beloved city,” the publication quotes the businessman’s comment.

If the agreements reached by the OPEC countries and the 11th states on December 10 will indeed be carried out, then unclaimed oil reserves, which are now stored in oil storages, will be almost half consulted in six months, Bloomberg writes with reference to the data of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Record reserves of 300 million barrels accumulated in oil storages since 2014 will, according to experts, contract by 760 thousand barrels per day.

The Moscow authorities approved the fourth list of self -building objects that will be demolished. It included 54 objects. "Moscow actualized a list of a particularly dangerous self -building to be dismantled. The fourth list includes 54 objects of a particularly dangerous self -construction," RIA Novosti quoted the metropolitan inspection for real estate. The list was considered on Tuesday, December 13, at a meeting of the Moscow government.

The Constitutional Court received a complaint of the former governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin, arrested on charges of receiving a major bribe, as well as his former wife Irina and the adult son of Ilya, Kommersant recognized.

Khabarovsk police detained a scammer who met women on the Internet, and then persuaded them to play a wedding and robbed them. At his last “bride”, the attacker abducted hundreds of thousands of rubles, which she put off for a wedding. Currently, a 29-year-old suspect is under arrest, the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reports.

Forward of Madrid Real Madrid and Portuguese national team Cristiano Ronaldo again became the owner of the Golden Ball Award of the French edition of France Football . For a Portuguese football player, this is a fourth similar prize in a career. He previously won this nomination in 2008, 2013 and 2014. This year, France Football decided to interrupt five -year cooperation with the International Football Federation (FIFA) in determining the best player of the year.

The deceased goalkeeper of "Shapeecoens" Danila is posthumously recognized as the best football player in Brazil according to the version of the fans. The award was handed over to the sister and mother of the football player. 48 percent of the survey voted for Danila, TASS said. A plane with players, coaches, doctors of the Brazilian football team "Shapeecoens" crashed on November 28 when approaching the Colombian city of Medelin.

Since 2014, the Armed Forces of Ukraine received financial assistance from Japan in the amount of $ 1.85 billion, which became the greatest financial assistance for Kyiv received from foreign partners for military needs. This was announced to reporters by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak at negotiations with the Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine Sumi Shigeki, DEPO reports.

Igor Nikolaev “The government has approved the Strategy of Action in the interests of older citizens in the Russian Federation until 2025. A useful document “in general.” And I don’t remember that we have adopted such documents before,” the economist writes in a blog on the radio station’s website. ” Echo of Moscow" . “It is not without interest how “older generation citizens” are defined.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny announced his intention to run for president of the Russian Federation. This is stated in the published video message . “A year later, the presidential elections will be held in our country. I thought for a long time if I should take part in them ... Will it be useful for the country, for society, for the state. <...> I can make Russia better in participating in the elections?

Russia's involvement in hacker attacks on the United States did not become a “big surprise” for the country's leadership, said US President Barack Obama. “When the democratic party (DNC) was hacked, we immediately instructed our intelligence, our law enforcement agencies to find out what happened and they found out,” the president said in an interview with The Daily Show , writes The Telegraph .

The Aerospace company SpaceX, founded by the entrepreneur Elon Mask, officially postponed the first manned flight of the Dragon ship, in which it was planned to deliver NASA astronauts to the ISS at the end of 2017, writes The Verge . According to the revised plans in November 2017, the company will conduct the first launch of the Dragon ship without a crew, and a flight to the ISS can take place in May 2018.

As a result of the air strike, the coalition under the direction of US Aviation on December 4 in the Syrian city of Racca, three leaders of the Islamic State terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation (IGIL, ISIS, Daesh ) were killed, two of which were involved in the terrorist attack in Paris on November 13, 2015, the US Department of Defense said, published on the website of the military department.