The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government, Maxim Akimov, said that Russia "will not go along the Chinese path" in the field of Internet regulation. With such an opinion, he made after the second meeting of the Council for the Development of the Digital Economy at the Upper House of Parliament.

The Presidential Affairs Management (UDP) entered into a new contract for the reconstruction project of the State Duma buildings with Mosproekt-2 Mikhail Posokhin. The construction has been postponed from 2018 for 2019 to carry out a "more global" repair. The volume of costs over the 705 million rubles planned a year ago is not officially determined, but, as Kommersant writes, repairs will cost the budget almost two billion rubles.

From January 1, 2019, Russian driving schools will have to submit documents on the graduation by students of driver's courses to the Federal Register of Rosobrnadzor. About this writes "Kommersant" with reference to the press service of the department.

Roskomnadzor leaves no hope of success in blocking the Telegram messenger, which is still available to most Russian users, as well as other prohibited services and sites. According to the Russian BBC service , in 2019 the department plans to introduce a new blocking technology, and the cost of this project can amount to 20 billion rubles. Two sources shared some details about the plans of Roskomnadzor with journalists who wanted to maintain anonymity.

The main New Year's spruce for the ice town in the Bashkir village was cut off at the Sterlitamak cemetery - on the grave of the Honored Architect Yuri Podraveva. A scandal erupted, a Christmas tree was replaced with another. It turned out that the architect’s family herself ordered to remove the spruce from the grave, but not to decorate with New Year's toys.

The Facebook social network and the Twitter microblogs service will be fined 5 thousand rubles each if they do not respond to the letters of Roskomnadzor about the start of verification of compliance with the legislation on the localization of these Russians in the Russian Federation. This was announced by the head of the department, Alexander Zharov, Interfax reports.

Yandex has signed binding agreements to purchase a site for a new office in Moscow. We are talking about a land plot of about 4 hectares on Kosygina Street, 15, where the building of the Korston Hotel is located. The cost of the announced transaction is about $145 million excluding VAT. “We are very pleased that Yandex will have its own home almost in the center of Moscow, next to one of the capital’s largest scientific and educational clusters.

“All Putin’s propaganda came out of the Goebbels Shineli. The Kremlin mediocrity did not come up with anything new, everyone licked the propaganda’s Reich Minister. It is not for nothing that his“ talented person ”was publicly admired by his student - Putin,” the sociologist writes on Facebook .

The goalkeeper of the Belarusian football club “Vitebsk” Andrei Shcherbakov died in a car accident along with his wife and 6-year-old son. The team's press service reports the tragic incident. On the evening of December 17, the Kia car of 27-year-old Shcherbakov skidded into the oncoming lane at the 543rd kilometer of the M1 highway, after which there was a collision with a Mercedes tow truck. As a result of the accident, Shcherbakov, his wife and six-year-old son died on the spot.

A former NASA engineer named Mark Robert, who became famous after creating a machine gun shooting snowballs , an ideal target for Darts and a giant water pistol , again pleased his fans with a spectacular video. This time Robert decided to teach the lesson the thiefs who steal parcels from the threshold of houses in the United States.

The Tver District Court of Moscow sentenced the opposition action to Ivan Belyakov. In September, he went outside with the supporters of Alexei Navalny to express disagreement with the pension reform. As a result, Belyakov was accused of attacking the guard of order. The Russian femid sentenced 35-year-old Ivan Belyakov a punishment in the form of two years in prison, Interfax reports.

The Belarusian Hockey Federation ( FHRB ) reacted very painfully to the protocol incident that occurred during the MECA Hockey Games international hockey tournament in Lerenskog, Norway. A video has appeared on the federation’s official Twitter page in which, instead of the Norwegian national anthem, before a hockey match, the song “Fairytale” by Norwegian musician of Belarusian origin Alexander Rybak, with which he won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009, is played.

“The development of Russia is possible only by building an open market economy. For this Russia, Russia will have to integrate even more into the modern world. The more citizens will have contacts with foreigners, the more difficult and diversified our economy will be,” writes the financier and public figure on Facebook . "Contacts and interaction can go in two ways. Russian citizens will learn foreign languages ​​and, conversely, foreigners will learn Russian.

Russia can benefit from the benefit of Chinese experience in the field of audit and, based on the principles similar to the PRC, fight corruption. About this, as TASS reports, said on Tuesday by the chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin. "Of course, Russia has something to learn from China, so we will continue to cooperate for the accumulation of experience.

British Minister of Defense Gavin Williamson said that if Brexit is implemented according to a “tough” scenario - without an agreement with the EU, the British authorities will bring 3.5 thousand military personnel into a state of combat readiness in case of emergency situations. “Now we are introducing plans in case of emergency situation.