The leaders of the European Union agreed on the extension of economic sanctions against Russia, not seeing Moscow’s steps in the direction of the implementation of the Minsk agreements that relate to the settlement of the political crisis in eastern Ukraine. "The EU unanimously extends economic sanctions against Russia, taking into account zero progress in the implementation of the Minsk agreements," wrote the chairman of the European Council Donald Tusk on his Twitter page .

Leonid Volkov “After all, the federal districts were generally the very first Putin’s brainchild. As soon as he became the president, he introduced them so. Almost 19 years ago! And how then no one understood why they did not understand so now,” writes Alexei Navalny’s ally on his Facebook page.

The Investigative Committee published an operational video of the collision of a 15-year-old schoolgirl driving a Mercedes car on an inspector of a traffic police in Chelyabinsk, Znak.com reports. Judging by the video, the car behind which was the girl, first knocks the inspector (the man throws away from a strong blow), and then touches Lifan parked nearby, and then leaves. Employees of the traffic police begin the chase, and as a result, several crews block Mercedes.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution in which the deputies opposed the construction of the Northern Stream 2 gas pipeline. "Deputies of the European Parliament condemn the construction of the North Stream -2 pipeline bypassing Ukraine, since this is a political project, which poses a threat to European energy security," the website of the European Parliament said. They note that Ukraine plays a key role in the European supply network with gas.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky "The Russian Constitution is 25 years old. On this occasion, Dmitry Medvedev shook the legal antiquity and wrote a big article. The prime minister is traditionally good: the working Russian constitutionalism goes into an even brighter future hand in hand with the social state, an independent court and revered principles of" peaceful resolution of international disputes, "writes Mikhail Khodorkovsky in his Telegram -channel .

“No, it was not for nothing that Putin opened the monument to Solzhenitsyn. The current regime is hidden by the patterns of the deceased writer. To make sure this is enough to re -read the famous“ Letter to the Leads, ”the sociologist writes on his Facebook page. "In Soviet power, Solzhenitsyn did not like the atheistic communist ideology first of all.

The British Prime Minister Teresa May managed to enlist the support of parliamentarians of her conservative party and preserve the post after votum votum, TASS reports. In support of May, 200 deputies from the Conservative Party at 117 against 117 were performed. Now, during the year, no one will be able to initiate a vote about the distrust of May as a party leader.

Russia announced Persona Non Grata of a military diplomat from Slovakia, he will be sent from the country, Interfax reports. His name is not called. Such a decision in the Russian Foreign Ministry was made in response to the expulsion of the Russian diplomat from Slovakia at the end of November on suspicion of espionage.

The traffic police has introduced a moratorium on changes to traffic rules (traffic rules). This was reported to TASS by the head of the Scientific Center for Road Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Mitroshin. “We agreed and introduced a certain moratorium in the department’s system on making changes to the traffic rules. We will not initiate any amendments, because we have tortured and confused everyone.

The US President’s adviser John Bolton said that the meeting of the leaders of Russia and the USA Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will not happen until Russia is freeing Ukrainian ships and their crews detained in the Black Sea. “I do not see circumstances in the foreseeable future so that such a meeting could take place,” said Bolton, quoted by Reuters.

The Russia 24 TV channel was explained about the report of the Vesti Yaroslavl, which presented a person in the Android costume at the All -Russian Forum of the Propertia Career Guidance in Yaroslavl on December 11. The TV channel claims that a flash mob was shown in the plot, and they were surprised that some took a person for a car.

The main military prosecutor’s office, counterintelligence and the Rosguard Safety Service conduct an inspection and internal investigation on the facts of supplies for the Russian Guard in 2017-2018 products that do not meet the requirements of GOST. This is stated in the response of the Russian Guard of RBC for an article on the FSB on the initiative of the unified supplier of the Russian Guard.

Employees of law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia continue operational-search measures in the wake of the special operation conducted on Wednesday evening, on December 12 in Nazran, TASS reports. The special operation was carried out at about 18:00 in the evening in a shopping center on Karduev Street. The security forces pursued the suspects of involvement in terrorism. According to official figures, moving away from the persecution, one of the criminals threw a grenade into the operatives .

One of the oldest providers in the capital, RiNet, announced an increase in Internet prices by 5% starting in the new year. Kommersant writes about this with reference to the company’s letter to subscribers. As follows from the letter, the announced price increase was a consequence of the increase in VAT from 18% to 20% (the tax will be increased from January 1, 2019), as well as the entry into force of the so-called “Yarovaya law”, obliging providers to store user traffic.

British Prime Minister Teresa May said she did not intend to lead the conservative party in the next universal elections scheduled for 2022. About this, as TASS reports, she said upon arrival on Thursday at the EU summit in Brussels. "The next elections will be held in 2022.