Arsenal’s new head coach of the English football club Arsenal was appointed Spaniard Mikel Arthet. According to the club’s press service, an agreement with a 37-year-old specialist is designed for 3.5 years. The former Arsenal footballer became the 20th head coach in the history of the London Club, replacing Unai Emery as a compatriot. “We are glad to return Michel to Arsenal.

The World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) on Friday published a report for 2017 , indicating an increase in the number of violations of anti -doping rules by 13.1%. Over the year, 1804 violations were identified. The country with the largest number of violations was Italy - 171, followed by France (128) and the USA (103). Russia, which recently received a four -year ban on participating in international competitions from WADA, has become the fifth with 82 violations.

Journalist of the Finnish daily newspaper Iltalehti Sasha Huttunen called the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), in which the son of the oligarch Roman Rotenberg rules without limit, rotten. “Rotenberg works in the SKA system, the KHL and the Russian national team. He is everywhere in Russian hockey, his power is limitless, Rotenberg does not hesitate to use it. However, no one dares to call a spade a spade, the Russian press does not write about it,” Huttunen emphasizes.

The police detained Krasnodar Vitaly Molodanov at the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, when he stood in a single picket with a banner "Chekist worse than a fascist", Molodanov himself reported this "free media" . The activist was put in the car and drove over the quarter from the monument, to the intersection of Krasnoye and Gavrilov streets. It is kept in an official car without drawing up a protocol.

Sukhoi Superjet 100 “Aeroflot” could not fly out of Chelyabinsk to Moscow on the morning of December 20, because he did not start an engine twice, they told Interfax in the press service of the Chelyabinsk airport. This is a flight with a flight at 8:00 (6:00 Moscow time). 79 flight passengers were planted, according to the representative of the airport, some of them will be sent to Moscow with a flight at 21:20, the rest will be sent by other flights to several people during the day.

Porto striker Ze Luis injured Santa Clara defender Nene in the 1/8 finals of the Portuguese Cup. The former Spartak Moscow player tried to hit the ball with scissors in a high jump, but accidentally kicked his opponent in the head. The Santa Clara player lost consciousness and fell hard on the lawn, and Zé Luis was the first to try to revive him. The chief referee immediately showed a yellow card to the 28-year-old forward, and his victim was carried off the field on a stretcher.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan expressed concern about the fact that, in his opinion, on the side of the forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Field Marshal, the Haftar Caliphs can fight mercenaries. Vagner from Russia, Interfax reports. “That's how it is, and it would be wrong for us to remain silent about this. Before that, we tried our best, and we will continue to do so in the future,” the Turkish newspaper Yeni şafak quotes the president.

“Of course, no press conference . And not even shooting at the Lubyanka. They do not give anything new to understand the Russian state. But the mos bleser refusal to free the Israeli citizen Naam Issahar is yes,” the politician writes on his Facebook page. "Who does not remember - the girl flew transit to Israel through Moscow, 9.6 grams of hash was found in her luggage and condemned for 7.5 years.

The second Western District Military Court sentenced Emom Burkhonov to the 22 years, who was accused of preparing the explosion of Sapsan in 2017, the TASS correspondent from the courtroom reports.

On December 19, at least 1000 institutions were checked in Moscow in Moscow due to reports about the bombs. Almost 170 thousand people were evacuated from them. According to the informed source of Interfax , this is a record indicator for the last wave of false mining. 90% of the checks were for schools and kindergartens. Also, threats entered two dozen medical institutions, 12 ships, several airports and more than 250 metro stations. The previous peak indicator in Moscow fell on December 10.

The Government Commission for Road Safety supported the proposal to reduce the unexplored threshold for speeding from the current 20 kilometers per hour to 10 kilometers per hour. This was announced by the head of the commission, Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov.

The social network Facebook is developing its own operating system, which is designed to reduce the company's dependence on the Android platform belonging to the Google. About this writes The Information . According to the publication, the developer team is headed by Mark Lukovsky, a former Microsoft employee and one of the creators of OC Windows NT.

"Yesterday, it was still fully confirmed that Putin is located within the imaginary borders of the pre-Soviet empire," writes on Facebook a publicist and political scientist, sharing impressions from the president’s press conference on the eve of the day before. “Inside these borders -“ all of ours ”, since Ukrainians, Belarusians and Russians are“ one people. ”Moreover, the first two, live in the“ Western source -Russian territories.

The journalist of Kommersant Roman Dorofeev was detained in Lubyanka and took to the FSB commandant’s office. As reported on the website of the publication, a man in black clothes approached him and began to demand to remove the camera, threatening to "put it in the ass." "***** [removed] from here ***** [away] so that I have not seen you anymore. Or do you need official documents?" he added.

Rosfinmonitoring excluded the nationalist Dmitry Demushkin from the list of organizations and individuals in respect of which there is information about their involvement in extremist activity or terrorism, the department’s website reported. "This list is a blatant sample of lawlessness, when without any court decisions, a person is limited in any transfer of funds.