The Leninsky District Court of Penza sentenced Vladimir Alushkin, whom the investigators considered the organizer of the extremist organization - the Religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses*. Alushkin was sentenced to six years in prison in a general regime colony, TASS reports. The state prosecution asked for him 7 years of imprisonment.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Murmansk arrested the alleged supporter of the “Right Sector” prohibited in Russia* in the case of the preparation of the attack, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the court. “The suspect was elected a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period of two months,” the court said.

US President Donald Trump said that after the first phase of the trading transaction with the PRC, the parties will immediately start discussing the conditions of the second stage of the agreement. Trump also announced that he would not introduce additional duties on goods from the PRC on December 15, as the parties agreed on the first phase of the trade transaction, TASS reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the appointed acting governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, the rank of colonel general of the internal service. The decree was published on the official website of legal information. On Thursday, communist Sergei Levchenko resigned from his post as governor of the Irkutsk region.

The Commission under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) to counter the falsification of scientific research for the year of its work found violations in the publication of articles of scientists in the 541 scientific journal of Russia, the chairman of the commission Viktor Vasiliev said during the annual meeting of the Society of Scientists (ONR), TASS reports. "In 541 the magazine, requests were sent out to correct things with various publications, rectify the situation.

On December 12, the security forces came with a search not only to the Moscow Office of the developers of the popular Nginx web server, but also to the apartments of Nginx leaders. This was told by Forbes by the general director of the Moscow legal entity Nginx Maxim Konovalov.

Igor Yakovenko "With Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, 12/12/2019 in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, who was recreated during the reign of Luzhkov and acquired his current appearance largely thanks to the will of the omnipotent mayor. The gundyaev personally sung. Putin came, crossed himself several times and left, they said nothing at all. Perhaps because those who are still still still.

UNESCO excluded from her list of intangible cultural heritage of the Carnival in Belgian Alst. The reason for this decision was the carnival held in March, during which, as noted in UNESCO, manifestations of anti -Semitism were made, according to a message published on Friday on the organization’s website, TASS reports.

In the federal land, Saxony - Anhalet in Germany, the explosion thundered. As a result, about 25 residents of the house in the city of Blankenburg were injured, and one person died, Bild writes with reference to the local police. The authorities do not exclude that the number of victims or dead may grow. There may be other people in the house under the rubble. The emergency occurred at 8:55 (10:55 Moscow time) on Bertolt Brecht Street. The cause of the explosion is set.

The British Conservative Party received a mandate from the population for the implementation of Brexit. This was stated by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, speaking on Friday during the counting of votes after the early parliamentary elections held on December 12. According to the results of the final processing of data with almost 70% of the constituencies, conservatives are confidently leading, TASS reports.

Former President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev was charged with the murder of an employee of the Alpha special forces State Committee for National Security (GKNB). This happened during an attempt to detention the former head of state in his house in the village of Koy Tash on August 7. A new prosecution was announced on Friday by Interfax, lawyer Atambaev Zamir Zhoshev.

The South Korean company Samsung sold 1 million Galaxy Fold smartphones with a flexible display. This was announced by Samsung Electronics President Song Yun at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Berlin. Recall that a smartphone worth about 2 thousand dollars was announced at the beginning of this year, and the start of its sales was originally planned for April.

Konstantin Sonin “About“ Brexit ”is difficult to say something good. Economically, it is a whole harmful, protectionist measure, crippling and trade, and domestic markets. Obtaining favorable conditions in trading contracts - at least to the level that is now, will take years, if not decades. However, judging by the preliminary election results, the British voter firmly decided that“ it was better than a terrible end than horror without the end ”and presented it.

The Board of Directors of the Central Bank for the fifth time in a row in June reduced the key rate - by 0.25 percentage points, to 6.25% per annum, the regulator’s website said. Inflation slows down faster than forecasts, admits the Central Bank: on December 9, the annual increase in prices, according to it, slowed down to 3.4% - from 3.5% in November.

KIA registered a new branded logo in the Patent Department of South Korea, which over time can replace the current automaker's emblem. It is reported by Avtostat . Unlike the current KIA logo, in which the name of the company is placed in an oval, the new logo is the word "kia" written in another font, the letters in which are interconnected. This logo is made in black and red.