Georgia began the legalization of marijuana: on Saturday, the Constitutional Court legalized the use of the drug in small volumes that exclude its sales. The sale of a drug is still a criminal offense. However, further the court intends to deal with the issue of the unconstitutionality of the criminal punishment for re -use, acquisition, storage and production of drugs for personal purposes, Georgia online reports.

The four-time owner of the Stanley Cup 55-year-old Canadian Larry Murphy believes that the main problems of Detroit this season are directly related to the transition of Russian striker Pavel Datsyuk to SKA from St. Petersburg. “The main reason for the problems that Detroit now has, I consider the loss of Pavel Datsyuk,” Murphy quotes NHL.com/ru . “He was the main player in this team, and his departure left the Red Wings that has not yet been able to catch up.

About 130 people were blocked on a funicular at an altitude of more than 2 thousand meters in a popular resort in Italy, RIA Novosti reports with reference to La Stampa . The incident occurred in the autonomous Italian region of Walle D'Aost. The lift in the popular Chervini resort stopped due to a strong wind. The funicular connects the zones for skiing at an altitude of 2550 and 2800 meters. In each of the cabs, 12 seats.

In the Amur Region in the city of Blagoveshchensk on Saturday, the construction of the bridge to China began, the agreement on which was signed back in 1995, Interfax reports. According to the plan, the construction, which is financed jointly by China and Russia, will take three years. The Blagoveshchensk with the Chinese city of Heihe should connect a bath bridge with a length of almost 1300 m. The total length of access roads and the bridge will be about 20 km.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkey Suleiman Soyu said that the killer of the Russian ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov was not a loner, and the attack committed by him was not the result of his own initiative, TASS reports. "We are working to identify the ties of the terrorist within Turkey and beyond.

The Ministry of Defense of Poland requested a transcript from the Russian Federation from the cabin of the Tu-154M crashed under the Smolensk aircraft.

The Governor of the Oryol Region Vadim Parakogo called the regional journalists "nonsense", which from their publications interfere with the attraction of investments. He stated this during a meeting on the development of the industry of the region, the Oryol News website reports. Pisassky said that the journalists themselves do not create jobs, but strive to peck: “Everyone is nonsense, which has a pen and leaflet, pokes, how badly in the Oryol region.

The former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, who was urgently hospitalized on the eve of one of the Moscow hospitals, is prepared for transfer from resuscitation to a regular chamber, Interfax reports with reference to a medical source. According to him, in the state of the ex-mayor of Moscow "there is a positive dynamics." “He already feels good. Today we plan to transfer it from resuscitation to a regular ward,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

On the eve of the municipal elections in the Moscow branch of United Russia (EP), the secretary will be replaced by: the age deputy Nikolai Gonchar, according to Gazeta.ru , will be replaced by 49-year-old Andrei Metelsky, the head of the party faction in the Moscow City Duma. The potter confirmed his departure, but refused to talk about possible successors: "I need to give a way to the young. I have turned 70 years old. The most important thing is to leave with dignity.

Several dozen representatives of the Russian Pen-Center, which unites Russian writers, poets and journalists, signed an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to have mercy on Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. The document notes that the 20 -year sentence Sentsov is "the deepest injustice." "The accusation of criminal intent was built on the testimony of one of the defendants completely refuted by himself during the trial - as data under torture.

The Ukrainian deputy fled from the country accused the president of the country Petro Poroshenko of large -scale corruption. Alexander Onishchenko wrote about this in the American magazine Time : he claims that Poroshenko received rollbacks from all state contracts, and on those who were against, set law enforcement officers. Onishchenko Ukrainian authorities consider the organizer of the gas scheme , which caused multibillion -dollar damage to the budget.

In Bashkiria on the territory of the former military unit in Urman, where the arsenal was located, the explosion thundered. RIA "News" with reference to local residents reports the victims. The Ministry of Emergencies reported the victims. Later, the senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee in the Republic, Svetlana Abramova, confirmed to Interfax the data on the two victims of the explosion: these are men 24 and 22 years old.

The current world and European champion Yevgeny Medvedeva won the Russian figure skating championship in Chelyabinsk, having received a general estimate above the world record. In addition to the declared elements, including a cascade of triple flip and triple sheepskin coat, triple lutz, a cascade of double axel and two double sheepskin coats and a double axel, the athlete decided to put a victorious point of a new, unplanned, from triple Salkhov and two triple tulules.

The Schiludo volcano in Kamchatka on Saturday in the morning threw the ashes to a height of up to 7 thousand meters. The Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region reported that the ash loop spread to 15 km to the southwest, in its way there is the village of Key - to it another 35 km. "According to the Satellite data of the Kamchatka response group to volcanic eruptions (Kvert), on the morning of December 24, ash emission was recorded on the Sheveludu volcano.

Marilyn Husson, General Director of the American Aircraft Building Company Lockheed Martin, promised to reduce the cost of F-35 fighters to the elected President Donald Trump. Trump called the Fifth -Generation Fighter Fighter Program too expensive. Within an hour after this statement made on Twitter, the company's capitalization fell by more than $ 3 billion.