The European Union imposed sanctions against nine people who are involved in the organization of elections on November 11 in the self -proclaimed pro -Russian armed formations of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). This is stated in the official journal of the EU published on Monday.

The Russian women's handball team beat the Serbian team in the first match of the second group round of the European Championship in France and continues to lead its group. The Group I meeting in Nantes, postponed from Saturday due to mass protests in France, ended with a score of 29:25 in favor of the Russians. The most successful winners were Daria Dmitrieva (7 goals) and Anna Vyakhireva (6). Anna Kochetova suffered a hand injury at the end of the match.

The football players of the Argentinean "River Plainta" for the 4th time in their history became the owners of the Libertadores Cup, the South American analogue of the European League of the Champions. In the second final match of the tournament, which was held at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, they beat fellow countrymen from the Boka Huniors team with a score of 3: 1.

The domestic search engine "Yandex", summing up the results of the outgoing 2018, presented a list of people whose names most often came from users. The first ten of this rating included seven athletes. Heel Akinfeev headed the “People of the Year” list of the “people of the year” of the goalkeeper of the Russian national football team and the Moscow CSKA.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs will most likely refuse to “sew” the chips to the driver’s license and certificates of registration of vehicles (STS), although earlier the agency has developed a draft order that provides for the equipment of driver’s certificates and STS in information in order to increase the protection of documents from fakes.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, in violation of the law "On the Police" visited the Congress of the United Russia party. The community of the Ombudsman of the Police drew attention to this, the administrator of which Vladimir Vorontsov intends to apply to the Prosecutor General and the Presidential Administration, MBH Media reports.

The winners of the 2018 Nobel Prizes on Monday received awards during the ceremonies in Oslo and Stockholm. Traditionally, the Nobel Prize ceremony is held in the capital of Norway, while the winners of other disciplines are awarded in the capital of Sweden. In the Stockholm Concert Hall of Prize in the field of physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine and economics, the king of Sweden Karl XVI Gustav personally presented.

The Constitutional Court of Moldova once again decided to temporarily transfer the president’s rights to sign the laws of the speaker of the parliament or the Prime Minister. The corresponding verdict was issued on December 10 in response to the appeal of parliamentary deputies from the Democratic Party (DPM), the arguments and facts in Moldova report.

The structure of the PIK group of the PIK group, Sergei Gordeev, achieved the arrest of the shares of companies that control the building of the former confectionery factory "Bolshevik" on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow, write "Vedomosti" with reference to a source close to one of the parties to the trial and two consultants who worked with this object.

Leonid Nevzlin "27 years ago, on December 8, 1991, Blovezhsky agreements were signed - the USSR ceased to exist as a subject of international law and geopolitical reality. The USSR - died, the corpse was buried, but in the modern, Putin, Russia they are stubbornly trying to dig out and reanimate," the entrepreneur and former shareholder of the Yukos in their Telegram channel . “To return to life the values ​​and landmarks of the monster state.

The Facebook social network has updated the rules for publishing user materials - a number of prohibitions on the discussion of sex have appeared in the corresponding section of the social network. According to the updated edition, Facebook can be used to discuss the problem of harassment and sexual violence, but it is impossible to “encourage sexual contacts between adults,” TJ notes.

Dmitry Kirichenko has been officially approved as the head coach of the Ufa football club. The team's press service reports this with reference to a statement by General Director Shamil Gazizov. The agreement with the 41-year-old specialist, who has been acting head coach of Ufa since the beginning of November after the dismissal of 36-year-old Sergei Tomarov, is designed for 1.5 years.

The authorities of France, in many cities of which for the fourth week the protests of the "yellow vests" did not subside, have begun the investigation of the possible involvement of Russia in the unrest. “An investigation is being conducted now. I will not comment until the investigation has concluded,” Bloomberg quotes the country's foreign minister Jean -Ivan Le Drian, who gave an interview with the RTL radio station. According to him, the French special services study the situation.

The Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Sergey Morozov at a hardware meeting on December 10 instructed officials to travel by official transport within a week. “So that they go to work on trams, on buses, and could make sure that we organized the work of public transport well. So that they go around the city and find out how we can explain from the snow sidewalks, courtyards and roads.

In Germany, railway workers staged a strike, demanding an increase in salaries. The movement of long -distance trains throughout the country is paralyzed. In Berlin, long -distance trains and suburban trains stopped, railway communication was broken in other federal lands, reports Morgenpost.de . Trains in the direction of Würzburg, Munich or Berlin do not go from Nuremberg. Trains also stand in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. A number of failures are observed in Lower Saxony and Bremen.