The elected US President Donald Trump is called the most influential person of 2016 according to AFP, the website of the news agency reports. The American billionaire took the first line of the rating compiled by the editorial office of 300 journalists, ahead of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who took second and third places, respectively. In total, 30 people were selected on the voting list.

In the city of Uman of the Cherkasy region of Ukraine on Wednesday night, December 21, the nationalists desecrated the grave complex of the rabbi of the Nakhman from Bratslav, leaving a pork head there with a swastika carved on it and dousing the room and paths with red paint, symbolizing pork blood. This was announced on his Facebook page activist of the Israeli Friends of Ukraine Ilya Sokolov.

One of the spectators of the hockey match between the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv and HC Sochi, which took place on the eve of December 20, in the Yaroslavl Arena-2000, was hospitalized unconscious with serious injuries after one of the fans fell from VIP-lay. The incident on his Facebook page was announced by the deputy of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma Roman Fomichev.

The German police discovered in the cabin of a truck that drove into a crowd of people at the Christmas Fair in the center of Berlin, documents addressed to a 21-year-old citizen of Tunisia, the German press reports. According to Der Spiegel , a temporary certificate of refugee status, found under a driver's seat, was given to a certain Anis A., who was born in 1992 in the Tunisian city of Tatavin (Fum-Tatamvim).

The collection of contributions for overhaul in Russia in 2016 increased by almost 10% compared to last year, Mikhail Men Mikhail Men, Minister of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities of the Russian Federation on Wednesday. "As of December 1, 2016, the collection of contributions for overhaul amounted to 83%, while in 2015 this figure was 74%," said the minister quoted by Interfax .

Singer Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom visited one of the children's hospitals in Los Angeles, dressed up in costumes of Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus, PEOPLE reports. The couple talked with small patients, posed for a photo and definitely impressed the children. In early December, the PEOPLE source said that Bloom and Perry plan a joint romantic vacation for Christmas. According to the source, they love to travel together.

After a terrible terrorist attack in Berlin, where on December 19, the truck crushed 12 people at the Christmas Fair, the authorities of European countries urgently strengthen security measures. Similar actions are taken on the North American continent. The Russian special services are also instructed to strengthen security measures, not only because of events in the capital of Germany, but also due to the murder of Andrei Karlov’s ambassador to the Ankar of the Russian Federation in Turkey.

It was charged to all participants in the robbery of the house of the police chief of the Samara city of Otradny and the murder of his wife.

The Informer of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) Russian athletics Julia Stepanova, who was not known due to sports results, has the right to act both at the 2017 winter championship in Belgrade and other international competitions. Stepanova and her husband Vitaly in December 2014 acted as the main actors of the film by the German television company Ard "Secret Doping".

The Leninsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil sentenced the two 24-year-old residents of the Lower Tour, finding them guilty of extortion, robbery, illegal deprivation of liberty and torture. In September last year, the Urals kept their acquaintance for four days, demanding 100 thousand rubles. "Since the victim could not fulfill the requirements of the attackers, he was systematically beaten by his arms and legs for four days, as well as various objects.

Against the backdrop of the resonance story around the Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin Center Nikita Mikhalkov lost in court a lawsuit against the Izvestia newspaper and other media for a total of two million rubles due to publications about the “tax on blanks”. The Savelovsky court of Moscow decided to reject Mikhalkov’s claim for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation and compensation for moral damage, RIA Novosti reports.

"Often we have to say that the difference in the average life expectancy in civilized with the country and Russia is already about fifteen. Naturally, not in our favor. At the same time, I usually wonder what the share of this intimidating difference is associated with the fact that the science has completely and for a long time," writes the physicist and co -founder of the Dissernet project on his page on Facebook .

Barack Obama a month before the departure of the US President forbade the drilling of new oil and gas wells in federal waters in the Atlantic and Northern Arctic Ocean, Bloomberg reports. In the Atlantic Ocean, drilling will be prohibited along the coast from the state of Maine in the Far North -East to Virginia, in the west - in areas in most of the Chukchi sea off the coast of the Alaska and the Bofors Sea.

More than half of Russians (56%) evaluate the economic situation in the country as an average, more than a quarter (28%) - as bad, 14% - as good. Such data were obtained by the All -Russian Center for the study of public opinion (VTsIOM) during the survey "Social well -being of Russians: Results of the Year." The survey was conducted on December 10-11 in 130 settlements in 46 regions, regions and republics and eight fords of Russia on a sample of 1,600 people.

The General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Post of Russia" Dmitry Strashnov, who recently became interested in law enforcement agencies in connection with multimillion payments, will remain at his post for at least another six months. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich instructed the Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov to extend the employment contract with the Straznov until July 1, 2017, the Kommersant newspaper reports with reference to his own sources.