The captain of Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin was seen with a soldering lamp on a bench on the bench during the National Hockey League (NHL) regular championship match against Los Angeles Kings (3: 1). The forward later explained why he needed her. In the company of his partners on the team, the Russian in the break between shifts busily produced strange manipulations with his helmet.

The company "Prodfutservice", which is associated with businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, received a contract worth more than 682 million rubles for the organization of food in several hospitals in the Moscow region. The MBH Media found the relevant information on the public procurement portal .

On December 5, the American aerospace company SpaceX has carried out the next successful launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with Dragon cargo ship, which should deliver supplies and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS). Broadcast of the CRS-19 mission was carried out on the SpaceX website .

On December 5, in Egypt, when performing a training flight, one of the MiG-29 fighters was crashed, delivered by Russia for the Egyptian Air Force as part of the contract of one of the largest aviation contracts over the past few years. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to two managers of defense industry enterprises. According to preliminary information, the Egyptian pilot managed to eject.

The decision of the executive committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on possible sanctions against Russian sports, which will be taken on December 9 at a meeting in Paris, will be binding on the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The president of the organization, Thomas Bach, announced this at a press conference following a meeting of the IOC Executive Committee. “It (the decision) will be binding.

The United States imposed sanctions against 11 citizens of Russia and seven Russian companies related to the Russian cybercrower organization Evil Corp, responsible for the development and distribution of malicious software Bugat (other names of Dridex and Cridex). The US Ministry of Justice reports that Evil Corp has led to damage to more than $ 100 million, and financial organizations of 40 countries of the world suffered from its actions.

US President Donald Trump pointed out the possibility of taking measures in the field of trade in relation to those NATO members who do not fulfill their obligations on contributions to the alliance budget. He made this statement on Thursday in an interview with reporters in the White House. “I say to some that they are evading payment, and not everyone likes it. But you can’t say this too softly, because then they will not pay further, as they have been doing for the past 15 years.

Director, member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Alexander Sokurov, published an angry post on a meeting with the plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-Western Federal District Alexander Gutsan on Facebook .

The head of the Association of Telecommunications Operators (Asto), uniting ten regional telecom operators, Alexey Leontyev sent a complaint to the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to the improper execution by employees of the Office of Communications and Information Technologies of the Department of his duties. According to RBC , in Asto it is believed that the FAS has negligently reacted to the consideration of cases against Rostelecom.

The Petrograd District Court of St. Petersburg fined the fan of the Moscow Spartak Valeria Bevza (Valera Amigo) for 5 thousand rubles with an administrative ban on visiting the places of official sports competitions for an hour and a half for offensive statements to the football player Artem Dzyuba. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the United press service of the vessels of St. Petersburg.

The Russian handball team defeated the Japanese team in the fourth round match of the preliminary group stage of the Women's World Championship . The meeting in the Japanese city of Kumamoto ended with a score of 33:23 in favor of the Russian team. The most productive player of the meeting was Russian Anna Sen, who scored eight goals. The Russian team, which previously secured a place in the main round of the tournament, won four wins in four matches and is leading in Group D.

Alexander Shmelev “Yegor Zhukov is a very bright, intelligent and charismatic guy with pronounced leadership qualities. One of the most outstanding Russians of the new generation. That is why, I’m afraid, he will be imprisoned for a real prison term,” the publicist writes on his Facebook page. “The logic of the Putin regime of 2019 is very simple.

On December 4, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a government bill, which establishes the priority of electronic registration of the design of the results of work or services in the design of the results of approval of standard samples, such as measuring instruments and verification of meters. According to TASS, the draft law provides that measuring instruments must have factory, serial numbers or other digital -and -power designations that clearly identify each copy of the meter.

In Saratov, two major accidents occurred in two days with the participation of passenger flight buses. On Thursday, December 5, the bus that was along the city route shot down two pedestrians in the city center. The accident occurred at 17:50 (16:50 Moscow time) near the house N11/15 on Silkovichnaya Street. The victims were taken to the hospital, RIA Novosti reports.

From December 5, parking at the sites for fire special equipment and on lawns in several Moscow yards will be punished with a fine of 3 thousand rubles. This was announced by the head of the press service of the metropolitan center of traffic organization (Central Department Store) Anastasia Pisary. According to her, the Assistant Moscow Assistant’s software and hardware will work in eight yards of the Central Administrative District of Moscow.