The State Duma on Wednesday, December 19, adopted in third and final reading the law on the abolition of roaming for mobile communications in the Russian Federation, made back in 2017 by deputies from Fair Russia, headed by party leader Sergei Mironov, Interfax reports.

The European diplomatic departments of the EU countries are again shaking the spy scandal. Former employees of the American National Security Agency (ANB) organized the following sensational information in the media: unknown hackers had access to the correspondence of European diplomats for several years.

"Since October, I have not been transferred to the Moscow alms - a" social "allowance to a pension in connection with the high cost in the capital," writes Orientalist and expert on the oil and gas market on his Facebook page. "The reason is that I receive irregular fees for articles and performances, and information about fees (along with deductions to the Pension Fund) is received to this very fund. From there they knock on the district ownership, and he stops the translations of alms.

The United States proceed to the complete withdrawal of troops from Syria. The corresponding order was given by the President of the country Donald Trump, Bloomberg reports citing an official representative in Washington. According to him, the decision to withdraw troops was made on Tuesday.

Police officers from the Moscow district of Lianozovo detained more than 30 natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia in one of the capital's hostels on the morning of December 19, one of the detainees, Malika Dzhakhaeva, told the Caucasian Knot website. According to her, armed people appeared at five o’clock in the morning at the hostel on Altufevskaya Street, 37.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko left the post of president of the Russian Football Union. The press service of the organization officially informed about this on Wednesday. The duties of the head of the organization until February 22, when the report and election conference will be held, will be executed by the President of the Russian Premier League Sergey Prygkin.

Chinese authorities have detained a third Canadian citizen in the last two weeks. This information was confirmed on December 19 by the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “The Canadian Foreign Ministry is aware of the detention of a [third] Canadian citizen in China,” TASS quotes foreign ministry spokesman Richard Walker. “Consular services are providing the necessary assistance to his family.” Walker refused to provide any details about the detained compatriot and the merits of the case.

In Estonia, on suspicion of involvement in a large -scale laundering of foreign money, 10 former Danske bank employees were detained. Law enforcement agencies suspect “that the detainees deliberately allowed the bank’s customers to make transactions related to money laundering,” the press service of the State Prosecutor's Office of Estonia reports. According to the supervisory authority, the detention of former Danske bank employees took place within two days - on Tuesday and on Wednesday.

In June of this year, The New York Times announced many years of Facebook cooperation with smartphone manufacturers, in which the social network transmitted to companies a large set of users and their friends, which allowed the owners of the devices to use various functions of social networks on their smartphones. Now the publication has published a new investigation , which describes the close cooperation of Facebook with more than 150 large IT companies, including Yandex.

The sale of a car through the dealership is chosen by those who save time and nerves. This costs about 10-15% of the cost of the car. Is it worth it? Firstly, there are objective advantages of car sales through DC: minimum paperwork with design; storage of a car during the execution of the contract - the liability of the dealer; Bargaining and sale are conducted by a DC, an employee of which will meet with a potential buyer and describe the advantages of your car.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev instructed the interested departments to prepare and submit to the government a comprehensive plan for the implementation of investment projects in the Arctic, taking into account the creation of transport infrastructure, including the provision of icebreaking and organizing icebreaking support. This is stated in the list of instructions published on the government website .

US President Donald Trump in 2015 signed a letter that spoke of intentions to build a Trump Tower skyscraper in Moscow, CNN reports with reference to this document dated October 28, 2015. According to Kommersant , under a letter, a copy of which was at the disposal of journalists, are the signatures of Donald Trump and the owner of the Russian Icexpert Investment (expert Group of Companies) Andrei Rozov.

Activists of the headquarters of the opposition policy Alexei Navalny in Yekaterinburg filed a lawsuit against the city Duma due to the abolition of direct elections of the mayor of the capital of the Sverdlovsk region. This was announced by the "MBH Media" coordinator of the headquarters Yuri Kuzminykh. “The lawsuit was accepted for consideration,” he said. “He was left without movement, that is, nothing is known about the date of the meeting.

A quarter of Russian employers are ready to start 2019 with mass layoffs of their employees. Reducing the staff of employees for most companies is a compelled measure provoked by crisis conditions in the Russian economy. Reductions are most likely in the field of media and marketing, notes the Russian Newspaper with reference to the results of the survey conducted by the portal Rabota.ru "23% of employers suggest reducing the staff.

The State Department approved a deal with Turkey for the sale of Patriot systems with equipment totaling $ 3.5 billion, planning to provide his NATO partner with alternative air defense systems instead of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems of the S-400 Triumph.