The US Department of Justice has released a report on the FBI's investigation into potential Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. It, among other things, contains allegations about the country’s purchase of the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, according to the British TV channel Sky Sports .

"The horse of Russian sport by the middle of the zero looked unpretentious, but a strong global middle peasant, confidently entered the troika -five and could gradually, with proper care, raise the hoof and more," writes the analyst and publicist on Facebook in connection with the decision of WADA on the detachment of Russian athletes from international competitions. "But the guideline was received urgently, to the eve of the great Sochi, to turn it into a prize stallion-champion.

The Institute of Territorial Planning "Urbanika" using the data of Rosstat, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and real estate consultants compiled ratings of the 100 largest Russian cities in terms of the quality of the urban environment and the cost of life, as well as a total comfort rating that takes into account both indicators. A review of the study of urbanists is given by RBC .

The Russian TV channel TNT removed the Ukrainian comedy series "Servant of the People" from the television, the main role in which was played by the current president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. The first three episodes were shown on the air of the Gazprom Media channel on Wednesday, December 11. However, the cessation of the show was spoke on the same day after the air slipped on the air, and then a scene with a joke about Vladimir Putin and his luxurious watch was cut out.

Washington on Wednesday expanded the list of sanctions imposed on Iran. Two vessels walking under the Iranian flag, several companies and an individual fell under the restrictions. This was reported on the website of the US Treasury. As noted in a press release, a “network that is engaged in smuggling” weapons from Iran to Yemen “on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Revolution (Xirir) corps” came under restriction.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev instructed to work out the proposals of the first deputy prime minister and the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov faster to reduce the threshold of duty-free import of Internet sending. As the press secretary of Medvedev Oleg Osipov specified, there is no final decision on this score yet, the issue will be discussed in the government and with the EAEU countries. This is written by "Vedomosti" .

The 235th garrison military court sentenced to 3.5 years a colony of general regime of the former first deputy head of Rosgeology Ruslan Gorring, who pleaded guilty to complicity in the theft of 24.6 million rubles, TASS reports. The case was considered in a special order. The verdict was announced by the judge Ilya Romanenkov. The court took Gorring on the time of serving the sentence of the time spent in the pre -trial detention center since the detention is from March 8, 2019.

At the traditional December meeting of the Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC), who changed the head, with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the most pressing issues were removed from the agenda or mentioned only casually, like the topic of summer protests. According to experts, instead of the opposition body under the president of the HRC, he became "more comfortable" for Putin, the Vedomosti write.

The main investigative department of the UK completed the investigation of the criminal case of a robbery attack on the house of the head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Ella Pamfilova in early September. According to the conclusion of a stationary comprehensive psychological and psychiatric forensic examination, the accused Ahad Karabalaev suffers from a chronic mental disorder, according to the SK website .

The head coach of the Moscow CSKA Viktor Goncharenko is disqualified by the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (Code of Civil Procedure of the RFU) for re-use of obscene vocabulary in communicating with the judges of the Premier League. The specialist received a disqualification for three matches, one of which is conditional. In addition, Goncharenko was fined 100 thousand rubles. For him, a trial period has been set before the end of the 2019/20 season.

The media edited the resonant commentary of the children's ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova, who spoke out in defense of the parents of a five -year -old girl, almost from the birth of an imprisoned in a paid clinic . Attention to the editing was drawn by the telegram channel "Merciless PR man" .

According to the results of two meetings of the Supervisory Board of the Protection of the Rights of the Rights Rights to solve the problems of deceived equity holders, 13.9 billion rubles were allocated. Of these, 6.7 billion for the completion of problem objects, and 7.2 billion rubles for compensation to injured citizens.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a speech in Ankara, announced the presence of mercenaries of the Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner in Libya and his readiness to send Turkish troops to this country at the request of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA). The live broadcast was carried out by the Habertürk TV channel, and the Turkish BBC service published a transcript of the fragment. "You know that Russia has the Wagner company.

More than a third (35%) of Russians believe that the size of a fair minimum of income for a working person should be above 50 thousand rubles. This conclusion was reached by experts of the Public Chamber following the study "Social inequality in modern Russian society and ways to overcome it", which is quoted by RIA "Novosti" . A little less (31%) was called a fair income the amount of 40-50 thousand rubles, 20%-30-40 thousand rubles, 10%-21-30 thousand rubles.

Titled football specialist Carlo Ancelotti left the post of head coach of the Italian club Napoli after his players reached the playoffs of the Champions League. “Napoli has decided to terminate cooperation with Ancelotti,” the press service said in a statement .