Akhla Azimov, the father of the accused of preparing a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro, was announced in Moscow on the eve of the lawyer, expelled from Russia. The police and the FSB insisted that the man leave the country, and warned that they would not let him into the territory of the Russian Federation now. Azimov’s story about his detention and expulsion, lawyer Dmitry Dinze submitted to the editorial office of Republic .

The American company SpaceX, founded by Ilon Mask, on Friday, December 15, launched a Falcon 9 missile with a Dragon space cargo ship, which will deliver a cargo for the crew of the International Space Station (ISS), including primary necessity, provisions and materials for scientific experiments. The peculiarity of this launch is that SpaceX firstly uses the first stage of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle that has already flyed into space and the Dragon ship .

"About the lack of an emphasis with the Ukrainian journalist Tsimbalyuk. In general, in world practice, talking in someone else's language without an emphasis is a sign of respect. Not in Russia.

Stanislav Kucher “The most striking event of this press conference is not the questions of Felgenhauer , Sobchak or Tsimbalyuk . The main, or rather, the only real sabotage is the performance of the director of the fishing plant from Murmansk,” writes journalist Stanislav Kucher in Facebook .

Most Russians do not know about the existence of the Tax Free system, which returns the value of value added tax when purchasing abroad. The results of a study conducted by the analytical center of Nafi (National Agency for Financial Research) show that 82% of respondents first heard about it during a survey.

Employees of the Irkutsk Zoalist spoke about an unsuccessful attempt to escape two spat -bearing turtles nicknamed Shrek and Fiona, which was stopped by another inhabitant of the institution - Cat Baton. The emergency occurred the day before, December 14th. Two turtles knocked out glass and ran away from the aviary, according to the zoo page on the VKontakte social network. The reptiles were caught and put in the aviary again. Plywood was inserted into the place of broken glass.

Hugh Jackman confirmed the assumptions of the fans that The Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox will open his character to Wolverine to the Avengers team. Both the Avengers and Wolverine exist in the Marvel universe, however, different studios were still engaged in the adaptations of their adventures, which was annoying with Hugh Jackman.

In Moscow, during the Jewish holiday, Hanuk was remembered of the salvation of Jews during the Holocaust on the Greek Island of Zakinf. This is the only case in the history of World War II, when not a single representative of the Jewish community died in the territory occupied by the Nazis. In honor of the memorable event in Moscow, a solemn evening took place the day before.

The Federation Council found a way to bring out rental housing markets in the private sector in Russian resorts from the shadows. To do this, senators will offer the government to enable small landlords to receive tax patents without registration as individual entrepreneurs. We are talking about owners who rent rooms, houses and apartments. According to experts, now there are about 100-150 thousand in the Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory.

The International Criminal Court (MUS, ICC) ordered the former field commander of the Democratic Republic of Congo Thomas Lubangu to pay $ 10 million as compensation to children who were forcibly made by soldiers. At the same time, Lubang himself did not admit his guilt, reports Africa Review .

The Spanish national football team may be excluded from the number of participants in the 2018 World Cup in Russia due to political intervention in the affairs of the National Federation, says El Pais . According to the source, the International Football Federation (FIFA) sent a letter to the Royal Football Federation of Spain (RFEF), which reminded of the inadmissibility of government intervention in the election of the new president of RFEF.

The Washington Post has published a large analytical material in which she is trying to understand the reasons for the extremely confusing policy of President Donald Trump in relation to Russia and personally to its leader Vladimir Putin.

The Bank of Russia approved a plan for participation in the implementation of measures to prevent bankruptcy "Promsvyazbank" (PSB), RIA "Novosti" reports. The regulator appointed a temporary administration in a bank, which in terms of assets takes tenth in the banking system of Russia. As of December 1, 2017, its assets amounted to 1.3 trillion rubles. PSB, thus, becomes the third crisis bank among the four, which were mentioned in a scandalous letter to the clients of Alfa-Capital.

“Eight years of strict regime Ulyukaev mean that he can only go out about about four years (3/4 of the term, countdown from 11/14/16),” writes a publicist and human rights activist on his Facebook page. “This sentence is Sechin’s hardware victory over the status liberals, similar to the case of the Prompartia on June 1928, which, as we recall, became the Stalinist victory over his recent allies of the Bukharin residents.

The Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov sent a plan for "mobilization" to the head of the Moscow Region to the presidential elections. The corresponding document was published in his blog by oppositionist Alexei Navalny. In his opinion, the main goal of the project is to ensure a good turnout of voters, including through falsifications with absenteeism.