Russian cyclist Ilnur Zakarin is thinking about changing his citizenship if sanctions from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against Russian sports come into force. The athlete himself admitted this to the Cycling News portal. Let us recall that WADA deprived Russian athletes of the right to compete at the Olympic Games and World Championships under the country’s flag for four years.

Two Russian films and one cartoon fell into the short list of the prestigious American film award "Oscar". Kantemir Balagov’s film “Dylda” claims to get into the nomination “Best International Feature”, the painting “Watercolor” by Victor Kosakovsky - for the nomination “Best Documentary Film”, and the cartoon “He cannot live without a cosmos“ Konstantin Bronzita is presented in the top ten best animated short films.

Some owners of the Moscow Troika Moscow cards found that after paying for the travel in Moscow central diameters (MCD), the passage balance increased by 20 thousand rubles immediately. One of these lucky ones was the photographer Anton Belitsky. After he spoke about this on Facebook, an employee of the metro contacted him and offered to exchange a “faulty” card for a new one with a bonus. “I will immediately explain why I agreed, and did not leave the card to myself.

"The stupid authorities in the world are Russian. Or at least one of the stupid. Moscow garbage will not take Moscow garbage. At least as they write, this follows from the draft garbage dill published on the Moscow City Hall. But Moscow, Kaluga, Vladimir regions will receive Moscow garbage next year," writes a publicist in a living magazine . "That is, the one who opposed the authorities for many months and, unless he did not go to the partisans.

The growth rate of the Russian economy can reach 2% even without structural reforms, said at a meeting with members of the Federation Council, TASS reports. "Despite the fact that the growth was somewhat restored at the end of the year, in general, it really is very low - 1.3%. Inflation has seriously slowed down, by the end of the year it will be 3%, it will go below 2.5%in the first quarter. This shows us that there is a certain space for the dispersal of demand in the economy.

The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Sterlitamak (Bashkiria) opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 158 of the Criminal Code (theft on a particularly large amount) on theft of inventory in the federal state-owned enterprise (FKP) Avangard. This is stated in the resolution of the investigator dated November 25, which is quoted by Vedomosti .

On the night of December 17, the American space company SpaceX carried out another successful launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and brought the JCSAT-18/Kacific1 telecommunication satellite into orbit. The direct broadcast of the mission was carried out on the SpaceX website . The carrier rocket with the satellite was launched from the starting complex of the SLC-40 of the US Air Force, located at Cape Kanveral, at 3 hours 10 minutes Moscow time.

Republican Majority Leader in the US Senate Mitch McConnell on Tuesday opposed the Democrats' proposal to call witnesses to impeachment hearings in the upper house of the US legislature, Politico writes. "The Senate is called upon to act as a court [...] and not to reopen the entire investigation because angry supporters were rushed and careless," he said on the Senate floor.

Chinese authorities have removed the name of German midfielder Mesut Ozil from local search engines for the London football club Arsenal because of his statement on discrimination against Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The Celestial Empire is threatening to anathematize his entire team if the “gunners” do not apologize. According to The Telegraph , representatives of Chinese state media warned Arsenal that mentioning the club would be banned until the managers apologize for Ozil.

The American entrepreneur of Ukrainian descent Lev Parnassus , who performed instructions in Rudolf Juliani in Ukraine, lawyer of US President Donald Trump, received $ 1 million on credit from Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash. This was reported on Tuesday by Bloomberg business news agency with reference to the assistant prosecutor Rebecca Donaleski, who spoke at the hearing in the Parnas case. The money was transferred to five tranches in September to the Parnassus family account.

Businessman Boris Rotenberg and his wife Karina, who are under American sanctions, still own real estate in the United States, but their houses are desolate. This is stated in a joint investigation of Novaya Gazeta and the organization "Transpenser Internet - Russia". "Throwing his real estate in the United States due to sanctions, Boris Rotenberg and his wife cannot pay taxes and pay off utility bills, because bank accounts were also arrested.

The collegium of a special court in Islamabad sentenced the former President of Pakistan Musharraf Perevo to the death penalty on charges of treason. Of the three judges, two were voted for the highest measure of punishment, BBC reports. This is the first case of a death sentence in the history of Pakistan to the former leader of the country.

The Soviet District Court of Kazan has imposed a policeman accused of exceeding official powers using violence and the use of slave labor on the farm of his father. The operative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Nurlatsky district of Tatarstan Dinar Gafiyatov was arrested until February 9, lawyer Andrei Suchkov, cooperating with the human rights organization "Zone Law", told Newsru.com .

The American Boeing Corporation decided to suspend the production of 737 Max liners since January 2020, without specifying when the production of aircraft is resumed. This is stated in the statement on the company's website . Certification of aircraft is transferred to 2020. In connection with this decision, employees involved in the assembly of the Lainers of the Max family will not be reduced, the company said.

Seventeen representatives of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine were injured as a result of the police clashes between the Verkhovna Rada building with participants in the protest against the country's land reform in the country. 26 people were detained. Such data are given by TASS with reference to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Zoryan Shkiryak. “The right to a peaceful protest is an integral constitutional right of any citizen of Ukraine,” he said.