Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin commented on his Facebook reports that Ukrainian geologists have discovered a large gas deposit in the Black Sea.

The State Budgetary Institution "Center for Expertise, Research and Testing in Construction" suggested testing roads from plastic in Moscow. The director of the organization Viktor Egorov spoke about this publication M24.ru. "We will check the evenness of such a road, slopes, thickness, strength, durability. We will check the main characteristics. We will check everything. The question of how to behave in the heat and cold. We can heat the plastic as part of the test," Yegorov said.

Sergei Romanchuk "Alexey Navalny nominated himself for president and posted a sketch of the program on the Internet. The progressive philosopher said that a party that controls the leader, not a leader, is needed. The leading economist pointed out the mistakes and dangerous misconceptions of the program. The liberal intelligentsia exposed the cult of personality and pointed out the danger of fascism.

In the city of Kemerovo, a criminal case was sent to the court, instituted against spouses-commers. According to investigators, the owner of the trading pavilion and his wife traded extorting, beating debtors from among buyers, as well as his employee. For reprisals, attackers used bats and stampers.

Polish striker Robert Lewandovsky signed a new contract with Bavaria. The striker’s agreement with the Munich club will be valid until June 30, 2021. The football player of the Polish national team became the player of Bavaria in the summer of 2014. Earlier, he played for another German team - Dortmund Borussia. “I am very glad that negotiations led to a positive result, and I remain in Bavaria for a few more years.

The first spin-off of the legendary cosmic saga of George Lucas "Star Wars"-"Outcast-one. Star Wars: Stories" enters the Russian and world rental. In Russia, a film with familiar fans of the saga in the final, but not yet famous heroes will be released on December 15, in the USA - December 16. The director of the new tape was British Garrett Edwards. Tony Gilra worked on the script.

The average rates on ruble deposits in November continued to move down, writes RBC . The average profitability of deposits for a year decreased from the beginning of the eleventh month by 0.1 percentage points (clauses), to 7.78%. The average return on three -year deposits decreased slightly stronger - by 0.13 percentage points, to 6.71% per annum.

Hearing in the Crown Cambridge Court in the case of child pornography discovered from the former Soviet dissident and writer Vladimir Bukovsky are postponed due to his hospitalization. The night before, Bukovsky was taken to a hospital with bronchial pneumonia, reports Cambridge News .

The American Council on International Relations considers a possible military conflict between Russia and NATO countries the main threat to the world community next year. Analysts also noted a causing escalation of the escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula in connection with the actions of the DPRK. This is stated in the report "The main threats that you need to monitor in 2017", published on the website of the analytical center.

After the New Gazeta published its own investigation about large -scale falsifications in the elections in Mytishchi, the editorial office began to enter into other points of Russia. It turned out that falsifiers also acted in Noginsk and Dagestan near Moscow.

The Fontanka online publication published a video of the events that occurred with a freelance photo correspondent for Kommersant’s newspaper David Frenkel in the police station in St. Petersburg, where he was delivered after the attack of an activist of the national liberation movement (NOD).

The Islamic State terrorist group (prohibited in the Russian Federation) took responsibility for the attack on the Christian Church in Cairo, as a result of which 25 people were killed, Interfax reports with reference to the Ar. The ISA has named the name of the suicide bomber, which, according to the group, blew up the bomb, mixing with the crowd in the temple. This is Abu Abdalla al-Masri, reports RTE .

The Pope Francis answered with a joke to the congratulations of believers about his upcoming birthday, reports Reuters. The next weekend, the pontiff will turn 80 years old. On Wednesday, December 14, thousands of people gathered in the Vatican Square and sang the song Happy Birthday in chorus. Answering this mass congratulation, dad thanked the audience. “Thank you very much,” he said.

The Russian division of Google published a small video called "Year in the search" on its YouTube channel, which contains the most popular search requests of Russian Google Russian users in the past year. "In 2016, Russian users were interested in various topics in searching for Google: from elections and the Olympics to chess, rap battles and memes," the description of the video says.

The exhibits of the Scythian gold collection from the Crimean museums, which were taken to the exhibition in the Netherlands even before the peninsula joined Russia, and then, by court decision, were stored in the Allard Pirson Museum in Amsterdam, will be located at the National Museum of History in Kyiv. According to Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine Tamara Mazur, such a decision on Wednesday, December 14, was adopted by the Amsterdam district.