The second test launch of the Angara-A5 heavy-class launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome was appointed on December 14. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to two sources in the missile and space industry. Initially, the launch was scheduled for November 28, but it was postponed for technical reasons. Later it was reported about plans to launch the rocket in early December.

About 100 clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) died of coronavirus during the pandemic, in an interview with TASS, the chairman of the Synodal Department for the relationship of the Church with the company and the media of the Moscow Patriarchate Vladimir Lehoda.

In Taganrog, on the site of the Taganrog-Yuzhny airfield, the unknown person robbed the secret military aircraft IL-80, designed to accommodate the highest military leadership in the case of military operations and operation as an air command post, Ren-TV reports. At the airfield, the plane was put for planned repairs - replace the lubricant on the stems of the shock -absorption racks of the chassis.

The State Corporation Roscosmos published on social networks an announcement of the collection of ideas for the construction of a promising Russian orbital station. To receive proposals, the page "Roscosmos. Ideas for the new orbital station" on the social network Facebook. "Roscosmos began working out the project of a new orbital station, which will be replaced by the ISS. According to our plans, the station will be multifunctional, with a refueling, repair and assembly complex.

The Moscow City Court sentenced 12 years in a maximum security colony of former Ukrainian football player Vasily Vasilenko in the case of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the court. The hearings were held closed, the plot of business is not disclosed due to secrecy. The prosecutor asked to appoint 16 years in a maximum security colony.

Rosstat until 2023 will finish the development of the Central Analytical Platform (CAP) "Population", which should become "window data" for citizens and business. This is stated in terms of the digital transformation of the department aimed at the government. A review of the document is given by the Kommersant newspaper. After the implementation of the plan, the cost of which is estimated at 719 million rubles, the companies will be able to get free access to the DAC and request various data.

The Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs Boris Titov is ready to act with the initiative to mitigate the criteria for the creditworthiness of developers in the receipt of project financing through reducing the requirements for the profitability of the project and the minimum share of the developer in investments with his own capital. This was written by the newspaper "Kommersant" with reference to a message from the apparatus of the business ombudsman.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday intends to sign an executive decree according to which the Americans will receive the vaccine from the Covid-19 coronavirus, and only then they will begin to supply it to other countries, the Fox News television channel with reference to sources. “The main thing is to make sure that we will distribute vaccines among the Americans before we start their delivery around the world,” the official from the presidential administration told the channel.

The Constitutional Court of Moldova (KSM) suspended the law on the information and security service, which limits the powers of the elected President Maya Sandu, Interfax reports with reference to the KSM press service. The KSM accepted for consideration a request on this subject, made on Friday by the deputy from the party "Action and Solidarity" (PAS) (it is headed by the elected President of Maya Sandu) Sergey Litvinenko.

The historian Oleg Sokolov, even before the murder of a graduate student Anastasia Yoshchenko, studied the locations of the Moika and buckle rivers on the Google maps, where the remains of the murdered were subsequently found, the lawyer of the victims Alexander Baksheev said in the St. Petersburg City Court. She stated the court for a repeated consideration of screenshots with the history of Sokolov’s Internet situations.

Alexander Lukashenko instructed the government to register and employ the unemployed so that they would "not stagger" along the streets. “Immediately engage in the employment of the unemployed. With the police - connect who you consider it necessary - immediately register all the parasites of the hanging -out and force them to work,” he instructed during a meeting on Monday in Minsk.

Employees of the NTV "Central Television" journalist Alexei Petrushko and operator Ivan Malyshkin, detained in Turkey, must be deported from the country in the near future, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the television channel. The press service noted that there is no official information yet, the details are being clarified.

“Still, some cursed desire periodically, again and again, takes Russia on the shores of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, then into an imperial desire to turn Ethiopia into a colony, then not a carcass, so a scarecrow in the region,” writes a publicist and analyst on his page on Facebook . “And the story, the hidden desire to beat the rake, does not teach us anything, stepping either right or left, and then jumping on them from the run, remains unchanged.

The Investigative Committee on November 23 for the second time refused to initiate a criminal case of bringing to the suicide of the Nizhny Novgorod journalist Irina Slavina, calling her self -immolation "rational". About this "Mediazone" was told by lawyer Alexander Karavaev, representing the interests of the family Slavina. "Suicide, committed by I.

Russian peacekeepers accompanied the next buses with refugees returning from Armenia to Nagornoi Karabakh, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said. "Bus from Yerevan to Stepanakert, 778 people were delivered today. The movement of buses was accompanied by patrols of the Russian peacekeeping contingent and the military police," the department quoted by Interfax said.