In Khabarovsk, a man decided to rob the office of a building materials store located in the Zheleznodorozhny district of the city. When he arrived there on the evening of December 27, the employee resisted, and the robber used force against her. Two store employees came running to the noise and tried to intercede for their colleague.

The Government of the Russian Federation approved the Concept for the development of volunteering in Russia until 2025, and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the preparation of instructions related to its implementation. “I ask the administration (of the president) and the government of the Russian Federation to look at these instructions from the point of view so as not to bureaucracy this volunteer movement. It must remain essentially a volunteer movement.

The Russian World Foundation transferred 1 million rubles to pay lawyer Maria Butina, arrested in the United States. This was reported on Thursday by the girl's father Valery Butin. The fund in support of Butina was created on the initiative of her lawyer Robert Driscoll, who works without payment, as the family does not have the necessary funds. "The World Foundation sacrificed a million rubles to the Maria Butina Fund, all other donations amounted to 600 rubles.

Global sanctions against the North Korean regime are damaged by supplying medicines to the DPRK, which negatively affects the situation with healthcare in the country. This was announced by the general secretary of the local Society of the Red Cross RIM on the official website of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society (IFCK).

The French Ministry of the Interior has announced a tender for the purchase of a new batch of “flashballs”. We are talking about large-caliber traumatic pistols that fire rubber bullets. According to local media reports, the Ministry of Internal Affairs intends to order more than 1.7 thousand units of these traumatic weapons, which are used mainly to disperse demonstrators, Interfax reports.

A day after the publication of information that almost 100 thousand Muscovites turned out before the New Year, the Federal Bailiff Service expanded the data to Russia as a whole. It turned out that in total, about three million citizens would not be able to go abroad for the New Year. "As of December 1, about three million decisions on the temporary restriction on departure of debtors from the Russian Federation acted," TASS told the FSSP.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) promised to arrange a New Year's table for Russian prisoners with salads, vegetable caviar and dumplings. Perhaps there will even be sautéed chicken, and definitely movie screenings. “On New Year’s Eve and during the holidays, various cultural and sports events will be held in all correctional colonies. The New Year’s menu will also become more diverse,” the press service of the FSIN told Interfax .

The Bank of Russia annulled the licenses of five Forex dealers: Alpari Forex LLC, Taletreid Group LLC, Forex Club LLC, Fix Trade LLC and Trustform LLC, TASS reports. These are the largest players in the market. Now in the country there are only four licensed dealers. The basis for the recall of licenses was "repeated violations of the requirements of securities legislation during one year," the Russian Central Bank said.

The Knesset (Parliament) of Israel a day before the self -development approved a bill allowing the export of medical marijuana, Interfax reports. Now, the newspaper The Times of Israel, the final word behind the government, notes, and in the event of a positive decision of the cabinet, the export of Cannabis from Israel may begin no earlier than six months later. Knesset decided on a sampling on December 26.

On Thursday, a number of regional organizations nominated the candidacy of the chairman of the board of directors of the St. Petersburg Zenit Alexander Dyukov to the post of president of the Russian Football Union (RFU). His candidacy, in particular, was supported by the Football Federation of St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Kaluga, Tatarstan, Mordovia, the Republic of Bashkortostan, Stavropol Territory, Perm Territory, Rostov and Tyumen regions.

In the fall of 2016, eight local residents disappeared in Dagestan for one week, some of them were abducted in front of the witnesses. Soon, eight people were shot during a special operation in a neighboring Chechnya, and their bodies were burned. Genetic examinations showed their kinship with the families of the missing, but relatives do not believe in the official version of their death, claiming that Dagestan security forces may be involved in the abductions.

The World Cup and the growth of the popularity of domestic tourism became a powerful driver for the hostels market in 2018, Kommersant writes with reference to the data of the booking book ontwotrip. According to Onetwotrip, in total in Russia, 83% more hostels opened in Russia than a year earlier - 530 new objects in the 50 largest Russian cities were registered in the reservation systems.

The Investigative Committee calculated the damage caused by the head of the Donbass Industrial Union, Oleg Mkrtchan VEBU, and brought the businessman an accusation of a theft of 85 billion rubles. Earlier, the Ukrainian entrepreneur was charged with the theft of one billion rubles allocated by Vnesheconombank. The Basmanny Court extended the term of the MKRTCHAN's arrest of up to 12 months, Kommersant writes.

The restoration of territorial integrity remains the main task facing Azerbaijan in 2019, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in the statement of the outgoing year. "The most important task of our diplomacy remains to put an end to Armenia aggression against Azerbaijan, to free our territories from the occupation and return the forced immigrants to their homes," the document quoted by Interfax says.

Roskomnadzor sent a number of owners of sites and hosting providers a notification that the law on the extra-court blocking of sites that enters into force on December 29, 2018, dangerous for the life and health of minors, including the so-called "Columbine Communities", also introduces an accelerated blocking regime for all resources included in the register of prohibited sites.