“We must make Russia a young one,” said a 65-year-old tired man, who is going on for the fifth presidential term. Then it was even more radical: "We need to discard everything that interferes with the renewal of Russia." For some reason, the speaker did not run away from the rostrum after that, ”the politician writes on his Facebook page. “Or here is a great thesis: it is necessary that Russia enter the five largest economies in the world!

Oksana Slyvenko will receive the gold medal of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in heavy athletics competitions in the weight category up to 69 kg on December 26, the press service of the Russian heavy athletics Federation (Far) reports. At the 2008 Games, the Chinese woman Liu Chunhun was excited, but later her result was canceled for violation of anti-doping rules. The presentation of the award will take place at a meeting of the FTA Executive Committee.

The UN General Assembly on Sunday, December 24, adopted a resolution on a repeated investigation of the circumstances of death in a plane crash in 1961, the Secretary General of the organization Dag Hammarscheld , taking into account the new information indicating that his aircraft could be shot down.

The State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin considers it necessary to accept the UN concept of self -restraint of the media from actions that can provoke an extremist threat. He spoke at the conference on the fight against terrorism in Islamabad, sharing the Russian experience of pre -trial blocks. Volodin said that in Russia the practice of active blocking was effective, and before the trial was limited to access to many resources that promote extremism.

The Central Election Commission of Russia was faced with foreign interference in the elections in Russia Constantly, in an interview with NTV , the head of the CEC Ella Pampilova. The head of the CEC was invited to the program "Results". She in the affirmative answered the question of foreign interference with the work of the body. "Of course ... From the first day, when the new composition of the CEC has earned, from April 2016 this process has been constantly going on.

US President Donald Trump at one of the state immigration policies, was furious due to statistics on the number of people who come to the states from Afghanistan, Haiti and Nigeria, the New York Times reported with reference to unnamed meeting participants. According to the publication, Trump spoke extremely insulting about the citizens of each of these countries.

The two -time world -skiing champion Yevgeny Medvedev became part of the Russian national team for the European Championship in Moscow, which will be held in the Russian capital from January 15 to 21, the official website of the Russian Figure Skares Federation reports. Medvedev, who recovered from the injury of the leg,, on the recommendation of doctors , missed the championship of the country in St. Petersburg.

Determined on suspicion of rape and murder of an employee of the British Embassy in Beirut, taxi driver Tarek Hauchi said he committed a crime due to her short skirt. About this writes The Daily Mail . Uber driver, 29-year-old Tarek Hauchi, is suspected of raping and killing a 30-year-old employee of the British embassy Rebecca Dike.

The Moscow Arbitration Court explained the refusal to satisfy the Siemens concern for Rostec structures (OJSC and LLC Technopromesport) by the fact that the German company could not provide evidence of fraud from the Russian state corporation when concluding a contract for gas turbines that ultimately ended up in Crimea. "The plaintiffs in the initial lawsuit did not prove that" Siemens of the Gas Turbine Technologies "( subsidiary Siemens, approx. Ed.

Alina Zagitova won the Russian figure skating championship on the ice of St. Petersburg, receiving 233.59 points from judges in the amount of two programs. “My arbitrary program was a success. This is our common victory with the coach, I want to say thank her more,” Alina said after the speech. “The title of the Russian champion is a lot for me, I am very happy for me.

The former coach of the Russian national team and Juventus Fabio Capello noted that the striker Manchester United Zlatan Ibragimovich in his youth did not have a good blow. The 71-year-old specialist also emphasized that the Swede with whom he worked in the Turin team was always a conflict. “When Ibragimovich only moved to Juventus, he had a bad blow,” Sky Italia quotes Capello. “Mino Raoyla told me:“ Zlatan is really strong, he breaks his hands to the goalkeepers!

The Central Election Commission extended the working day on Sunday in connection with a large influx of presidential candidates who want to apply for a nomination. The disposal of the head of the CEC Ella Pamfilova reports RIA Novosti . In the Central Election Commission, documents from Alexei Navalny are waiting for: during the nomination in the tent on the beach, printers refused to work, which led to a delay.

The former first racket of the world, American tennis player Serena Williams will play with the Latvian Elena Ostapenko at the Abu Dhabi exhibition tournament in the first match after the birth of the daughter, according to the official website of the competition. The meeting of Williams and Ostapenko, who takes the seventh place in the world ranking, will be held on December 30. “I am very glad to return to the court at the Abu Dhabi tournament in the first match after the birth of my daughter.

The military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Armed Forces) appeared at the borderpost in the Bryansk region and asked him to provide him with refugee status in the Russian Federation, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Border Administration of the FSB of Russia for the region. The Ukrainian military reject this information. "The military personnel of Ukraine applied for a refugee status in the Russian Federation.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said that the region’s authorities have information about terrorists sent to attack the republic. In an interview with NTV , he said that they had already "reached Georgia." “We heard the slogans of these shaitans that they say:“ We will come to Russia, we will show you, we will explode, we will destroy.