Bratislava sent a Russian diplomat suspected of spy activity against Slovakia and NATO. This was reported by Reuters and the local publication Pravda with reference to the prime minister of the country Peter Pellegrini. “We expelled him on November 22, and he left Slovakia within 48 hours,” Pellegrini said. According to him, the diplomat worked in the apparatus of the military attache of the embassy.

On the website of the project "Great Names of Russia" published the final results of voting on the choice of names of outstanding compatriots for Russian airports. The Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo will receive the name of Alexander Pushkin, and Domodedovo will be Mikhail Lomonosov. The airport of Vladivostok will be called the name of the researcher of the Far East Vladimir Arsenyev. The Voronezh airport was chosen by the name of Peter I.

The Ministry of Finance appreciated the idea of ​​the Central Bank, which proposed a radical measure of the struggle against the growing risks of defaults of citizens in mortgages. As the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Sergei Shvetsov, said in the Federation Council, it is proposed to fix in the mortgage standard the opportunity not to pay on a loan for several months for a borrower who has lost his job. The Ministry of Finance is generally supported, but indicate risks.

On December 4, Qualcomm officially announced its new flagship mobile processor, which will replace the Snapdragon 845 chip and will take place in smartphones from many manufacturers. The model was designated Snapdragon 855, although earlier leaks claimed that the chip would receive the number 8150.

The US State Department official, who attended the meeting of Foreign Ministers of NATO countries, said that until Russia will release Ukrainian sailors detained as a result of the conflict in the Kerch Strait , the United States will increase the price that the Russian Federation will eventually pay. "Russia must free the crew, otherwise the consequences and pain will only increase over time," the department’s website quoted the representative of the State Department (Translation by The Bell ).

The Tver District Court of Moscow arrested 25 days the head of the movement "For Human Rights" and a member of the Moscow Helsinsky group of Lev Ponomarev, reports "OVD-Info" with reference to the United Group of Public Supervision (Ron).

US senators concluded that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad Ben Salman Al Saud was directly related to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This was reported by CNN with reference to the results of the meeting in the US Congress. CIA Director Gina Haspel conducted a closed briefing about the circumstances of the murder of a Saudi journalist in the territory of the Saudi Arabia General Consulate in Istanbul.

The unification cathedral should proclaim the creation of an autocephalous local Orthodox church in Ukraine. It will take place on December 15 in the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv. The cathedral must also approve the charter of the new Ukrainian church and choose its Primate. But the head of the new church will most likely be not a patriarch, but a metropolitan.

"The Putin justice system broke out the next bottom. Another blow to civil society, on human rights. The outrageous, mocking decision of the court is to arrest Lev Ponomarev," writes the entrepreneur and former shareholder of Yukos in his Telegram channel . "The political order is obvious - to grab all opponents and critics of the authorities, plant, intimidate, plug the mouth.

In the north-west of Moscow, in a fire in the shelter, "Happy Friend", about 30 animals were killed. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to a representative of emergency services, a one -story wooden building on Nizhny Mnevniki Street caught fire at about 5:30 Moscow time. All 200 square meters of area were covered by the arrival of firefighters, the roof of the building also collapsed.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation announced the purchase of a batch of handcuffs worth more than 26 million rubles. According to the SPARK -Marketing system, which Interfax refers to, the purchase will be made from the only supplier - NPO SM CJSC. Until December 20, he is obliged to deliver 28.6 thousand sets of handcuffs in the amount of 26.37 million rubles (the cost of one set with a cover is 922 rubles).

The Moscow Residential Development Renovation Fund (Renovation Fund), established in 2017 by the Moscow Government for the implementation of the renovation program, first acted as a buyer of land in Moscow and acquired four sections with a total area of ​​3 hectares located near residential quarters included in renovation. According to RBC , in total, we are talking about four sites. The fund bought three of them from Russian Railways (territories on 47b Ave., Krasnodar St., Vl.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg appointed a hundred hours of compulsory work to the activist of the Time Youth Movement Timur Rasulov for the October campaign "The Altered Constitution" on Senate Square. This was reported in the Telegram channel of the United press service of the city ships.

The Deputy Head of the European Commission Andrus Ansip said that Russia is the main source of misinformation for European countries during elections and referenda. This statement was made against the backdrop of the preparation of the European Union for elections in the European Parliament in May 2019, Interfax notes. "We saw attempts to intervene in our elections and referendums and evidence indicating Russia as the main source of these campaigns," the Ansip agency quotes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin explained the abandonment of telephone negotiations with the President of Ukraine Peter Poroshenko with an unwillingness to participate in his election campaign. “The point is not that I just evade and I don’t want to talk with Peter Alekseevich, that’s the point. The fact is that I do not want to take part in his election campaign,” Interfax quotes.