Fans of the prestigious World Auto Racing Championship in the Formula 1 car class recognized Red Bull team driver Max Verstappen as the best driver of the season, the press service of the tournament reports. The top three were completed by Lewis Hamilton in Mercedes and Carlos Sainz Jr. in McLaren. Max Verstappen is a hereditary Dutch racing driver, the son of the famous former Formula 1 pilot Jos Verstappen.

On December 12, Skoda announced the start of mass production in Nizhny Novgorod of the compact crossover Karoq in a version intended for the Russian market. The presentation of the model took place the day before - at the same event the company showed the updated Rapid liftback.

The updated historical building of the Polytechnic Museum on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow is planned to be opened after many years of reconstruction on December 12, 2020. This was reported on the website of the capital's city hall. Modernization of the building of the Polytechnic began in 2013. The work is carried out according to the concept proposed by the Japanese architect Dzyuny Isigami.

The main arbiter of the match of the regular championship of the National Hockey League (NHL) between Washington and Boston (3: 2), John Makaise, was in the hospital after the forceful reception of the Russian captain "Capitals" Alexander Ovechkin. At the beginning of the third period, Ovechkin pushed John Makaisek into the back of the chief referee.

The Russian Foreign Ministry declared Persons of Non-Grades of two employees of the German Embassy in Russia in response to similar measures of Germany. As reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the service of Germany Geez von Gair was expressed a decisive protest in connection with the decision of the Arabian of the Federal Republic of Germany on the announcement of two employees of the Russian embassy in Berlin by Non-Ghrat persons .

The ESET antivirus company has published the results of a study of Russian users' habits that are connected to public Wi-Fi networks. This was reported on the company's website . According to the results of a fresh survey, in which 4 thousand users of Runet took part, it turned out that 74% of users are connected to the public points of Wi-Fi. Most often this happens in cafes, hotels, airports and shopping centers.

Ivan Kurill “This was what was thinking about in connection with foreign policy (and not only with it). And with the Day of the Constitution (and not only with it). Europe and America grew out of it have developed the same Rule of Law, which is difficult to translate into Russian, they are translated as“ the rule of law ”, then as a“ legal state. ”This is not just law -abiding. “The Danish and Daniel Webster” a brilliant lawyer wins the Devil himself, and he can be appreciated . “Not in Russia.

The criminal case was instituted in the Moscow region on the fact of threats to the life of the 6-year-old son of skater Evgeny Plushenko and producer Yana Rudkovskaya. This was announced by TASS by lawyer Alexander Karabanov, representing the interests of the spouses.

The American teenager, whose car flew out of the road and fell into the river, was able to call for help thanks to the voice assistant Siri, installed on his iPhone, Interfax reports citing the publication The Sun. The incident occurred in the area of ​​the city of Mason City in Iowa. 18-year-old Gael Salsedo went to college in his jeep when his car slipped on the icy highway and flew out of the road, falling into the river.

40% of Russian families want to improve their living conditions. This was reported in the press service of the Dom.RF company with reference to the results of a recent sociological survey. “According to a VTsIOM survey commissioned by Dom.RF in 2019, the share of Russian families wishing to improve their living conditions decreased by 5 percentage points over two years and amounted to 40%. One of the main sources of financing the purchase of housing is a mortgage.

The Moscow authorities published on the city hall the projects of 13 decrees of the Moscow Government with the layouts of microdistricts, which are planned to be created according to the renovation program on the site of demolished houses. Previously, public hearings were held planning these territories. According to the Kommersant newspaper, at least two projects of the building increased in height or other sizes in comparison with the projects that were discussed at the hearing.

On the night of December 12, the period allotted to the deputies of the Israeli Knesset to the formation of the government expired, after the leader of the ruling Likud party, the country's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of the opposition bloc, Kahol Lavan, Beni Ganzu, was not able to. The Knesset of the 22nd convocation was actually dissolved by setting the anti -record for the duration of the term of office - it lasted less than three months.

Two -time Olympic swimming champion Denis Pankratov, now a sports journalist, television commentator and TV presenter, shared a special opinion on the introduction of global sports sanctions against Russia. In a very provocative interview with "Soviet sport", he put forward the thesis that the current problems of domestic sports are deep and historical. "We are guilty of very much in many ways. Almost all accusations in the direction of Russia are not heir.

The State Duma at the meeting on December 11 adopted in the first reading a bill on the ban on the ban on fine car owners for speeding, if it was recorded by cameras that measure the average speed of the machine on a certain area of ​​the road.

Federal communications operators (MTS, Vimpelcom, Megafon and Rostelecom) signed an agreement on intentions to jointly develop and optimally use the fifth -generation communication networks (5G). For this, the company can create a joint venture in equal shares, write Vedomosti . The plan approved by operators provides for work aimed at releasing radio frequencies in the ranges of 700 MHz, 3.4–3.8 GHz, 4.4–4.99 GHz and 24.25–29.5 GHz in all regions of Russia.