Employees of the Russian Guard will provide public order on a Christmas night in Russia. According to the press service of the Russian Guard, more than five thousand employees of the department will be released for law enforcement. It is noted that in Moscow and the Moscow Region, about a thousand of the Russian Guard will take part in the protection of public order on the coming night.

The Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov and Ekaterina Shikhova won the gold medal of the European Championship in speed skating at a distance of 1000 meters. Competitions are held in Kolomna near Moscow. Culifier showed the result of 1 minute 08.84 seconds. His compatriot Denis Yuskov became the second (1.08.92). The third place was taken by the German Nico Ile (1.08.95), reports TASS. Ekaterina Shikhova showed the result of 1 minute 15.34 seconds.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed a decision to simplify the procedure for submitting applications and documents necessary for adoption, guardianship and trusteeship of orphans. The corresponding document was published on Saturday on the government website. To facilitate the procedure, citizens will now not need to collect a number of documents themselves.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order to distribute subventions worth more than 1.5 billion rubles for six constituent entities of the Federation for the provision of vouchers in the sanatorium to certain categories of citizens. The corresponding document was published on Saturday on the government website.

German parliamentarians from the conservative bloc of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSS), whose leader is the Chancellor of Angela Merkel, intend to seek the expulsion of migrants from the country of anti-Semitic views. This is stated in the draft document, which deputies from the CDU/CSS faction in the Bundestag intend to submit to the discussion of the parliament on January 27 - on the International In memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

The Governor of the Brazilian state of the Riu-Grandi-Norti Robinson Faria signed a decree on the introduction of a security regime in connection with the strike of local police officers, which led to a surge of crime in the region. According to TASS, the corresponding document was published on Saturday in the official publication of the government of Diario OFICIAL.

A criminal case has been opened in Yekaterinburg on the fact of a deliberately false message about the terrorist attack, the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region Valery Gorelykh told the Interfax agency on Saturday.

As a result of a collision of a trolleybus and a minibus, nine people were injured in Ryazan, including three children. The press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported that on the fact of the accident, an audit was organized and a criminal case can be instituted. "According to preliminary data, as a result of an accident that occurred due to the fault of the minibus driver, nine minibus passengers were injured, including three minors.

The ceremony dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Tu-154 aircraft in Sochi on December 25, 2016 took place on Saturday, on the eve of the Orthodox Christmas, the Monument of the Sorrow's Sorrow in the American city of Beersi in the state of New Jersey). According to TASS, the event, which has been held for the second year, was attended by representatives of the International Schiller Institute, Police and the Fire Service of the city of New York and the state of New Jersey.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg began a pre-investigation of the death of a woman of 80 years in one of the city hospitals, according to the SK website. According to the site "Doctor Peter" , an elderly woman died in the N15 hospital after five hours of waiting for help from doctors. The grandson of the deceased said that his grandmother became ill at two o’clock in the afternoon on Friday - she had a previous condition, and he called an ambulance.

In the Cathedral Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, late on January 6, a night solemn service dedicated to the holiday of the Nativity of Christ began. By tradition, he was headed by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill. Several thousand believers came to the Patriarchal Service, including by tradition members of the Federation Council and deputies of the State Duma, other high -ranking representatives of the authorities.

The Twitter microblogging service on Friday, January 5, made a statement due to the criticism of criticism after the scandalous tweet of US President Donald Trump on his readiness to deliver a nuclear blow to North Korea. Trump is not directly mentioned in the document, however, as noted by The Hill , the company's reaction was obviously provoked by opponents of the American leader, who recently accused Twitter head Jack Dorsie of conspiracy with the White House.

The leader of the SERB nationalist movement, Igor Beketov, said that he and two more activists were detained on Saturday at the exhibition of the American photographer Jok Rodzhe in the photo of the brothers Lumier in Moscow. It is reported by "Interfax" with reference to Beketov. “Three people were detained: I, Igor Nikolaevich Brumel (activist SERB), was still an operator. We decided, as promised, to visit the exhibition again.

The Canadian team won the 3: 1 team of Sweden in the final of the World Youth Championship (players under 20 years old), held in the American Buffalo, and three years later regained the title of the strongest team of the planet. In the decisive match, the Canadians were able to persuade the scales in their favor only at the end of the meeting, when in the 59th minute they struck the opponent’s gates twice.

On Saturday, the Russian Supreme Court refused the opposition to Alexei Navalny, who filed a complaint with a request to cancel the decision of the court of first instance and to oblige the Central Election Commission to register the initiative group nominating him with a presidential candidate.