The 1979 collectible card with the image of the legendary hockey player Wayne Gretzky at the age of 18 was sold at the Heritage Actions for a record amount-$ 1.29 million, according to the Official NHL website . The O-Pee-Chee-Chee-Chee Card of the 1979/80 season with the image of Gretzka as part of Edmonton became the first hockey card sold for the amount of more than one million dollars. The condition of the card is evaluated ideal.

In the Austrian Hochfilzen, the Norway Women's team took first place in the 4x6 km relay at the Biathlon World Cup. The winners showed the result of 1 hour 8 minutes 4.3 seconds, running one penalty circle at eight firing lines and using six additional cartridges. The second place was taken by the French (+24.5 seconds; 0 circles+16 rounds), the Swedish team finished the third (+32.5; 1+9).

The Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union issued a verdict regarding participants in the match of the 1/32 Cup of Russia of the 2018/2019 season between the Chaika and Armavir teams, according to the official website of the organization. For participation in a contract match, the judge of the meeting Aleksey Matyunin, whom the Zenit coach Sergei Semak called the Kozl , was lifelously removed from any activity connected with football.

In the match of the 18th round of the Russian Football Championship "Sochi" at its stadium with a score of 1-0 defeated the Moscow Spartak. The ball into the gate of the metropolitan club in the second half was sent by midfielder Christian Noboa (57 '). Shortly before the break, guests striker Jordan Larson (42 ') distinguished himself, but taking the gate was canceled after using the video assistant of the referee due to the game with his hand. “We had enough moments.

In Mytishchi, CSKA basketball players won with a score of 96:87 Khimki near Moscow in the Euroleague regular season match. The most productive player in the meeting was the defender of the army club Mike James, who scored 36 points. The owners of the parquet include 26 points in the asset of Alexei Swede. “Mike is an excellent player, but the whole team supported him,” the official website of CSKA Dimitris Itdis quoted him with the official website of the metropolitan team.

The Moscow Prosecutor's Office, on behalf of the Prosecutor General’s Office, protested the decision of the court that fined 200 thousand rubles for the children's hospice “House with a lighthouse”. The metropolitan supervisory authority checked the legality of the judicial act before its entry into force.

Over the past day, 28,137 Coronavirus cases in 85 regions have been identified in Russia, 560 people died, reports the Stopkoronavirus.rf Telegram channel. In total, 2,625,848 sick and 46,453 dead were revealed in the country. In Moscow, 6622 new Covid-19 cases were confirmed, 76 people died. Over the past day, 1684 patients have been hospitalized, 475 people are located on the Ivl. In St. Petersburg, 3776 new cases of infection, 79 people died.

The Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan invited the temporary attorney in the affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Komarov and handed him a note in connection with the statement of the State Duma deputy Vyacheslav Nikonov on the air of the First Channel that "the territory of Kazakhstan is a great gift from Russia and the Soviet Union." The deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Marat Syzdykov expressed bewilderment to the attorney.

The coaching staff of the Russian youth team in hockey, led by Igor Larionov, called the team for the World Cup (players no older than 20 years old), the official website of the Russian Hockey Federation reports.

The Ministry of Defense of Armenia announced the resumption of offensive actions in the south of Karabakh by Azerbaijan. According to the agency, which TASS gives, the offensive began on December 12 in the south of the unrecognized republic in the direction of the villages of Hin Tagar and Hzaberd.

The Olympic champion of boxing Yegor Mehontsev, who did not lose a single battle in the professional ring, was very indignant when he found out that the scandalous commentator of the Match TV Dmitry Guberniev was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. "With surprise and indignation, he learned about the awarding of the commentator Gubernyev by the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

In October, in October, two or three times, compared with the same period last year, the release of antibiotics and antiviral drugs increased into the civil circulation, and in some regions the increase in demand exceeds the real rate of incidence, the New Gazeta reports with reference to the Ministry of Health. The department is considered evidence that prescription drugs are released without a prescription.

Moscow December-2020 exceeded the “Sun Plan” by 300% and was ahead of schedule declared the lightest in the history of regular observations, according to the website of the Fobos Center “Meteove” . Clear weather was celebrated in the capital every day from December 5. Thus, the total time of sunlight was already more than 55 hours, which is three times longer.

Three unprofessional decoders from the USA, Australia and Belgium unraveled one of the encoded messages of the serial killer of the Zodiac, who committed crimes in the late 1960s and remained inconvenient. A message of 340 characters, known as Cipher 340, was sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in November 1969. The web designer from Virginia David Oranchak, the Belgian programmer Yarl Van Eike and Australia Mathematics Sam Blake worked on a solution.

In Danish Hurning, the Russian national team of the Russian national team, in the main round of the European Championship, tied with the France team with a score of 28:28. The most effective in the Russian women became Vladlen Bobrovnikov, Julia Managarova and Antonina Skorobogatchenko, who scored five goals each. In the last minute, the Frenchwoman escaped forward, but 11 seconds before the final whistle Olga Fomina restored her balance.