Russia should expand the list of assets of deputies, senators, federal and regional officials, heads of state -owned companies and judges who can be confiscated as illegal wealth. Such a recommendation was given in their report by an international group of developing financial measures to combat money laundering (FATF) following a comprehensive assessment of the Russian system for combating money laundering and financing terrorism (for/FT).

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that a preferential mortgage program recently launched in the Far East for 2% for young families can be extended to other regions. He stated this during a large press conference on December 19. "As for the Trans -Urals ... Of course, we understand, we see the situation there, and part of the support measures in the field of demography will now be distributed to the Trans -Urals.

“In the Kamchatka regional hospital, a patient died who did not have enough consumables - coronary microconductors. Five were needed for the operation, but there was only one for the entire regional hospital. The price of this consumable is several thousand rubles,” the publicist writes in LiveJournal .

About 60 kindergartens were checked in the Khabarovsk Territory after messages about the inherent explosive devices. However, according to the police, information about mining was not confirmed, Interfax reports. "All preschool institutions in the Khabarovsk Territory were examined, no explosives were found," the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region said.

The IL-76 aircraft with one engine refused to land at Zhukovsky airport near Moscow, TASS was told in emergency services. The board belongs to the scientific flight research institute, one of the four engines refused the aircraft. There were 13 people on board. After the production of fuel, the IL-76 landed in normal mode. "The board sat down. This experimental aircraft. The airport did not affect the airport," RIAMO was told by Zhukovsky’s press service.

“If we say that Putin was not asked pressing questions, we must understand that there is no longer any need to moderate anything or do any staging. Journalism in Russia has degraded to the level of a “Field of Miracles” with gifts. For now there will be books, but there will also be cucumbers and moonshine , then they will open a press conference at VDNH Museum.

“Since ancient times, it is not known that it is not the one who is smarter or better armed, but whose spirit is stronger. Everyone is familiar with the phrases“ fighting spirit ”,“ command spirit ”,“ victorious spirit ”, that is, the spirit is power. Our ancestors distinguished their own people from strangers:“ There the king of Koshchta over the gold is wretched, there the Russian spirit smells of Russia, ”that is, the great poet wrote. The smell, ”writes the publicist on his Facebook page.

"Kommersant" became aware of the testimonies given by participants in the regional public organization "Unified People's Community Partnerships" (known as a private military company (PMC) "E.N.O.T. Corp."), Accused of thefts, robberies, extortion and banditry. According to them, the organizations and tasks were clearly distributed in the organization, and the most responsible instructions were carried out by the current special forces of the GRU.

After the appointment of a 60-year-old technocrat Hassan Diab, the prime minister of Lebanon, caused a new wave of demonstrations in Beirut. Activists of the protest movement carry out a rally in front of the house of the Sunni politician in the fashionable quarter of Telelet-Hayut in the Muslim part of the city. They require the dissolution of parliament and the holding of early elections, TASS reports.

The law on the autonomous work of Runet ( the Law on the Sovereign Runet) is aimed at preventing the opportunity to cut Russia from it and is not designed to limit the freedom of the Internet. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a large press conference on December 19, TASS reports. "Free Internet and sovereign Internet - these concepts do not contradict each other.

The British government rejected the requirement of the first Minister of Scotland Nikolai Rodzhen to grant the right to hold a referendum on the independence of the region. This is stated in the explanations that are common on Thursday to the throne speech of Queen Elizabeth II. "The second referendum on independence [Scotland] next year would harm the confusion," the document says.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs advocates a change in the Family Code in order to endow its employees with the right to remove the child from the family in case of a direct threat to his life and health. Only representatives of the guardianship authorities now enjoy this right, Interfax reports.

Vitaly Portnikov "Negotiations of the trilateral contact group in Minsk, which were supposed to end with the coordination of the list of released and the conclusion of a new agreement on a ceasefire in the Donbass, ended with complete Fiasco . There will be no release of prisoners before the New Year, the new truce, too. Instead, the" truce "is extended, which allows the Russian side to carry out constant shelling of the territory that Ukraine controls.

Participants in the Mother of Mother against Political Repressions came out with single pickets to the Center for International Trade in Moscow, where the annual press conference of President Vladimir Putin will be held today. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta Chairman of the Public Committee of Freedom Shestun, Vlad Rusin. The posters with whom they went to pickets are addressed to journalists.

Deputies of the State Duma, headed by the chairman of the Committee on Security and Combating Corruption by Vasily Piskarev, submitted a bill to the employees of the Federal Security Service (FSO) to the State Duma to use military equipment. The document is posted in the electronic database of the State Duma. Changes are made to the Federal Law "On State Protection" and clarify the procedure for applying the state protection bodies of physical force, special means and weapons.