At the constant council of the OSCE, a report on grave violations of human rights in the Chechen Republic was presented. The report was the result of the investigation conducted in the framework of the so -called "Moscow mechanism", first initiated against the Russian Federation, writes "New Gazeta" .

The Russian Guard decided to apply to the court in connection with the "inaccurate" data on deliveries to the department, which were published by RBC. This was reported to Interfax in the press service of the department.

On December 20, an unusual road incident occurred in Slovakia, the recording of which, made by a road camera, attracted great attention of users. As reported on the official page of the Slovak police on Facebook, at about 5 a.m. local time, a 44-year-old BMW driver of an unnamed model lost control at the entrance to the tunnel Borik, located in the north of the country.

The Manhattan Federal Court sentenced the 41-year-old thief to the law of the Pore of St. Petersburg to 45 years in prison. The real name of the Russian mafioso is Radenen Shulaya, it is also known by the nicknames of Roma and Brother.

The Department of Research and Forecasting of the Central Bank has prepared an analytical note on the state of the mortgage market market in the Russian Federation, which refers to the risks of bubbles due to the high growth rate of the volume of mortgage issuing. According to Vedomosti , the authors of the document, the opinion of which may differ from the official position of the regulator, analyze booms in corporate lending markets in 2005-2007.

On December 20, users of the corporate messenger Slack complained about social networks of loss of access to their accounts. The notifications they received said that the accounts were blocked due to the sanctions imposed by the United States against a number of countries and territories, writes TJ . We are talking about the sanctions of the American authorities against Cuba, DPRK, Iran, Syria and Crimea.

The scandal erupted in the editorial office of the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel. It turned out that his employee, journalist Klaas Rlotius, who, by the age of 33, received many prizes for professionalism and is considered one of the most successful young authors of Germany, almost completely composed his reports. The publication calls what happened the worst that has happened in the editorial office over the past 70 years.

About 137 billion rubles will be allocated for the development of sports in Russia for the next six years. As the Minister of Sports Pavel Kolobkov said on Friday at an expanded meeting of the board of his department in Novogorsk near Moscow, the industry managed to achieve a serious increase in terms of financing.

The criminal community created by the founder of the British Hermitage capital fund, William Browder, caused damage to the state in the amount of about 10 billion rubles. This follows from the investigation materials read out in the Tverskoy Court of Moscow, where materials for the arrest of the financier in absentia are being considered, TASS reports.

Footballer of the Chinese club Shanghai SIPG Hulk, in an interview with the Brazilian TV channel Esporte Interativo, shared his impressions of his performance for Zenit St. Petersburg. The Brazilian moved to the St. Petersburg team in 2012 along with the Belgian Axel Witzel. Zenit then paid about 100 million euros for these two newcomers and gave them high salaries, but the team refused to accept them.

The metropolitan authorities approved tariffs for electricity, gas, heating, water supply and sanitation in 2019. We will remind, earlier the government adopted a resolution on raising tariffs for housing and communal services in Russia from January 1, 2019 by 1.7% (for all regions) and from July 1, 2019. For the July indexation of tariffs, the limit values ​​for each region were later established .

Alexander Golts “I suspect that it was the presence of American troops that was the main reason for the Russian operation in Syria. For many years, the Kremlin watched with complete indifference the agony of Assad and the atrocities of ISIS*.

“They cannot offer anything good, they steal, they steal and obscure! In Tomsk they came up with the“ Immortal Regiment ” - the Kremlin stolen. In Tomsk, people voluntarily went out and walked with portraits of their relatives, in Moscow they began to withdraw and distribute photos of unfamiliar uncles. After the march, they formed behind the corners of pile of piled portraits on sticks,” writes a former policy in the corners of the former policy. Facebook .

The Facebook social network is developing their own cryptocurrency, with which users will be able to make money transfers through the company HatsApp messenger. This was written by Bloomberg with reference to sources familiar with Facebook plans. It is reported that the future cryptocurrency will be primarily focused on the Indian market, where the number of WhatsApp users exceeds 200 million people.

At the last meeting of the autumn session, the Federation Council approved a package of laws to soften Article 282 of the Criminal Code on extremism, after the introduction of which it will be impossible to initiate appropriate criminal cases against people who have not previously violated the law. RIA Novosti writes about this.