The International Olympic Committee demanded that Alexei Voevoda, Alexei Nedodailo and Dmitry Trunenkov return the gold medals that they won at the Sochi Olympic Games in Bobsley competitions. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the IOC.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the most ineffective and bad principle to "grab and not let us go in relation to the performances of young musicians. The topic of canceling concerts of the performers popular on the Internet was raised at a meeting of the updated council for culture and art, which took place in St. Petersburg on Saturday.

The Russian team won the men's 4x50 meter medley relay at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, China. Russians Kliment Kolesnikov, Oleg Kostin, Mikhail Vekovishchev and Evgeniy Rylov showed a time of 1 minute 30.54 seconds. The second place was taken by the USA team (1:30.90), the Brazilian team closed the top three (1:31.49). For the Russian team, this gold medal became the fifth at the current world championship.

The Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov advocated a moratorium on checking self -employed citizens with regulatory authorities. In his opinion, this will contribute to the legalization of self -employed, RIA Novosti reports. The head of the Ministry of Finance stated this at the board of the Ministry of Finance of Tatarstan, the Department of the Federal Tax Service and the Federal Treasury in Tatarstan.

Real Madrid midfielder and captain of the Croatian football team Luka Modric criticized forwards Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for not attending the award ceremony at which the Ballon d'Or was awarded at the end of 2018. "I can't explain why someone would choose not to attend the ceremony, but that's their choice. It turns out that the prizes are only valuable to them when they receive them. It's not fair to other players, fans, and the people who voted for them on for ten years.

The forward of the Italian football club Juventus, Cristiano Ronaldo, pleaded guilty to four counts of tax fraud in Spain, Football Italia reports. The 33-year-old athlete did so in the courtroom and agreed to a two-year suspended sentence. According to Spanish law, he must appear again in court to formalize the plea deal. While in Spain and playing for Real Madrid, the athlete committed four separate tax crimes between 2011 and 2014.

2018 claims the title of the most unsuccessful in the history of the social network Facebook. The reputation of Mark Zuckerberg thoroughly spoiled the spring scandal with a data leak of 87 million accounts through an application with psychological tests and a recent attack on social networks, which turned out to be kidnapping 29 million users. Now this list has replenished another episode.

Honored Master of Sports, four -time Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov, after the next doping scandal in the biathlon, expressed the opinion that Russia itself violates the anti -doping rules and no one from outside is trying to slander Russian athletes. "The Broat Solchev wins the World Cup , and I already had an inside. I wrote to Oleg Lagutin SMS:" A few days later there will be problems. "And, indeed, four of our guys are disqualified after four days.

In Moscow, the Russian team in hockey defeated 7: 2 team of the Czech Republic in the match of the home stage of the Eurotour - Channel One Cup. Duplicate in the winners was made by Andrei Kuzmenko (38 ', 43') and Andrei Loktionov (24 ', 57'), Vasily Tokranov (5 '), Nikolai Prokhorkin (8') and Kirill Kaprizov (33 ') were thrown along the puck. “Guys are well done,” said Ilya Vorobyov, head coach of the Russian national team after the match.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, under the chime of bells, announced the creation of the Ukrainian Local Orthodox Autocephalous Church and congratulated those gathered before the Sofia Cathedral in Kiev with this event, Interfax reports. Poroshenko was accompanied by the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Andrei Parubiy and the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Metropolitan Emmanuel.

In Paris, the Russian Handball Women's team beat Romania with a score of 28:22 in the semifinals of the European Championship , which is held in France. Anna Vyakhireva, who abandoned 13 goals, was recognized as the best player in the meeting. "Vyakhirev is good, I want two of these, cites the words of the head coach of the Russian national team Yevgeny Trefilov Handballfast.com . - Anya takes on the game, sometimes, really, unnecessary.

Two-time Olympic champion Tatyana Ovechkina, mother of Washington captain Alexander Ovechkin, after her son’s second consecutive hat-trick in NHL regular season matches, originally explained the increased performance of the 33-year-old forward. “Of course, Sasha’s dad and I watched both matches, in which our son scored a hat-trick . We watch the games every time, we don’t sleep at night. Sasha is experiencing a second youth? But what kind of second youth?! For him, hockey is just beginning!

The Prosecutor General’s Office studied the circumstances of the arrest of the head of the Lev Ponomarev movement of the Lev Ponomarev and came to the conclusion that he "violated the procedure for organizing a public event established by law." This is stated on the website of the supervisory authority.

Washington hockey players won a shooting series of 6: 5 Carolina in a guest match of the NHL regular season. The Russian captain of the metropolitan club Alexander Ovechkin abandoned the second match in a row (4 ', 38', 50 ') three goals against the opponent. Alexander scores points in the 13th match in a row and retains first place in the snipers race, throwing 28 goals in 31 matches of the current season. Hit-trick became the 22nd in the career of a hockey player.

In the morning of St. Sophia in Kiev on the morning of December 15, the unifying cathedral was opened, which is expected to take the Ukrainian Orthodox Church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate, accept its charter and choose the Primate in the rank of Metropolitan of Kiev.