The artistic director of the Lenkom Theater Mark Zakharov asked the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin to organize the funeral of the People's Artist of the USSR Leonid Bronevoy at the Novodevichy cemetery. This was stated by the TASS source in the metropolitan government. Bronevo died on Saturday morning at the 89th year of life in a Moscow hospital after a serious illness.

In Kemerovo, Russian Mikhail Aloyan defeated Nicaraguan Ermheenes Castillo with a separate decision in a duel for the title of the international champion of WBA in the weight category up to 52.16 kg. The duel began at a fast pace, Castillo preferred to act from afar and hoped to take control. Aloyan, who is not famous for a powerful blow, demonstrated good physical readiness and knocked down the pace with the help of competent operation of the legs, not forgetting about counterattacks.

Ex-leader of the American television channel Fox News Juliet Haddy said that US President Donald Trump tried to kiss her on the lips about 10 years ago when they were left alone in the elevator. It is reported by The Hill . Huddy said: “He invited me to dine in Trump Tower, we were two there. Then he said goodbye to me in the elevator while his guard was standing next to me, and instead of kissing my cheek, he leaned over to kiss my lips. I was not offended, I thought:“ My God!

The former President of Georgia, the ex-head of the Odessa Regional State Administration, Mikhail Saakashvili, was detained in Kyiv on Friday evening and placed in a temporary detention center, announced the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko. “In accordance with the decision on the search, the National Police discovered the location of Saakashvili on the street of Otradnoye City of Kyiv and detained it. The detainee was placed in a temporary detention center,” TASS quoted Lutsenko.

The US Presidential Administration Donald Trump intends to impose new sanctions against Russia for "violation of an agreement on the liquidation of medium -range missiles and a lower range (RSMD)," reports the American publication Politico with reference to a high -ranking source in Washington. According to journalists, the head of state has already approved the corresponding bill.

The Commission of the International Olympic Committee led by the former president of Switzerland Samuel Schmid did not believe that Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the Russian doping scandal. “If we proceeded from the fact that he was involved, we would try to do this.

For the first time since 2010, North Korea was visited by a senior representative of the UN in the rank of Deputy Secretary General of the organization - Jeffrey Feltman. After completing the visit of the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Pyongyang announced his readiness for a regular dialogue with the organization, reports DW . During the visit to North Korea, a senior representative of the UN met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country Lee EN HO and other politicians.

Changes to the language article of the Law on the Education of Ukraine will not be made, said the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andrei Parubiy. The decision has already been agreed with representatives of the Venice Commission, he pointed out. In Europe, the requirement of education exclusively in Ukrainian was called discriminatory for others, including Russian. Parubiy on Saturday said that the article will remain in the current edition.

In St. Petersburg, a citizen of Tajikistan was arrested, suspected of a desire to try his forces in the ranks of the Islamic State*. He was detained at Pulkovo Airport, reports Fontanka . According to the United press service of the vessels of St. Petersburg, on December 8, the Moscow District Court issued a decree on the detention of a citizen of Tajikistan Umar Makhmadiev.

Russian skater Alina Zagitova took first place in the final of the Grand Prix held in Japan. The athlete scored 223.30 points according to the results of short and arbitrary programs. “I feel good, I'm glad that the competition has ended well for me, and I also feel relief,” Zagitova said at a press conference. 15-year-old Zagitova is the world champion-2017 among juniors and winner of the final of the Grand Prix of the Junior series of the 2016/17 season.

The chairman of the Tajik labor migrants Karomat Sharipov is preparing to send from Russia. He connects this with social activities, in particular, after a large -scale conflict at the Moscow shopping center . Sharipov reports “Rain” about the upcoming expulsion with reference to his colleague for organizing Gulbakhat Kadyrov. According to Kadyrova, in early October, Sharipov was asked to approach the residence migration department, a Russian passport was seized from an activist.

In Yakutia, after a major accident, as a result of which nine people died, two criminal cases were instituted. In the Tattinsky district where the dead lived, mourning was announced, RIA Novosti reports. On the evening of December 8, 2017, at the FAD "Kolyma" 16 kilometers from the village of Nizhny Bestyakh, a collision of the UAZ minibus with a KAMAZ truck, which followed towards. After the collision, the cars lit up.

In Novokuznetsk on Saturday, a rally of politician Alexei Nvalny and the dumplings eating championship took place. The first one came up to a thousand people, on the second - dozens, and a couple of winners repeated last year's record, the administration reported.

Iraq "completely liberated" from the terrorists of the Islamic state*, announced the country's army on Saturday, reports Reuters . It was also confirmed by the country's Prime Minister Hider al-Abadi. Hyder al-Abadi, during a speech at a conference in Baghdad, stated that the country's armed forces took control of the desert areas in the West, as well as a section of the Syrian-Iraqi border: "We defeated the IG* thanks to unity and readiness for self-sacrifice.

In Stavropol, an operation to neutralize the group of armed terrorists underwent early on Saturday morning: they were blocked in the house and liquidated while trying to break through. The National Anti -Terrorism Committee and the FSB reported on the results of the operation. The regime who was introduced in the central part of Stavropol at 00:30 Saturday. It is reported that a group of three militants captured a private house, and there they were surrounded by security forces.