The British writer, the author of a series of espionage novels about Major Smiley John Le Carre, died at the age of 89 after a short illness, not related to coronavirus, said the head of the Curtis Brown Literary Agency Johnny Geller. Le Carre died on December 12 in Cornwall. According to the writer's family, pneumonia was the cause of death.

The company "South Project" has acquired for 5.327 billion rubles the largest Crimean Winzavod Massandra in Russia. As reported on the official website with information about the bidding, the St. Petersburg company "South Project" and Moscow Esteite Group claimed to be the Vinzavod. The company "South Project" is registered in St. Petersburg and is 99.9% owned by the Russian joint-stock bank "Russia". Its largest shareholder is one of the founders of the Lake Cooperative Yuri Kovalchuk .

An anonymous denunciation was the reason for organizing a large -scale audit of the Violence.net Center by the Ministry of Justice. This public organization helps victims of domestic violence. On December 2, the center received a notice of an unscheduled inspection of the Ministry of Justice, writes Kommersant with reference to the co -founder of the center Anna Rivina. Before that, the department received a statement from a certain Trubetskoy, who refused to disclose his personal data.

On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the full Lokdown for the New Year holidays, RIA Novosti reports. A round -the -clock commandant hour is introduced in the country from nine o’clock in the evening on December 31 and until five in the morning of January 4. Locals will be forbidden to go out. Earlier, the head of state announced new restrictions due to an increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the country. So, the work was suspended by baths, saunas, pools, gyms.

The UK revealed a new variety of coronavirus and associated with it the rapid spread of the disease in the southeast of England, Interfax reports. “We have identified a new variety of coronavirus. This can explain the rapid distribution in the southeast of England ... We have currently identified more than a thousand cases with this variety, mainly in the south of England,” Hankock said The Guardian newspaper, adding that London notified the detection of a new variety of coronavirus.

"The new investigation of Bellingcat -FBK on the poisoning of Navalny Epico in all respects, but the part of the conclusions at the end sags. Where Navalny included his favorite topic about corruption - they say, they ruined all around, including the special services, who are now running for political critics, protecting the Putin billions.

On the morning of December 14, the Goskosmos state corporation successfully carried out the test launch of the Angara-A5 heavy-class launch vehicle, which became the second account for this rocket-the first flight of "Angara-A5" made at the end of 2014. Initially, the launch was scheduled for November 28, but it was postponed for technical reasons: sources reported that during the tests at the starting complex, low insulation resistance between the second and third blocks was revealed.

Working factories for the production of iPhone smartphones, located in the Indian Bangalore (Karnataka), staged a strike and partially defeated the enterprise due to a reduction in salaries. As specifies The Verge , we are talking about the factory of the Taiwanese company Wistron (Apple contractor), which was opened this year. The iPhone se smartphones gather on it. The strike flashed on Saturday, December 12, during the arrival of a new shift in workers.

Coronavirus Coronavirus Covid-19 started on Monday in the United States, CNN reports. Doctors use the PFIZER and BIONTECH vaccine, approved by the Office for Sanitary Supervision of the quality of food and medicines (FDA). The first person who received a vaccine in the United States outside of clinical trials was the African-American Sandra Lindsay, working in the intensive care unit of the New York Hospital.

The Moscow Region authorities allowed the audience to attend sports competitions on December 14, subject to the necessary requirements. The stands were completely closed due to coronavirus since October 21. “Since today, all competitions are open to the spectators from today. The only rule: each event needs to be agreed with Rospotrebnadzor. Of course, the event itself must comply with the requirements of Rospotrebnadzor - social distance, mask regime, thermometry.

The orbital module of the Chinese spacecraft "Chan-5" launched on November 24 went on the return path to the ground from the lunar orbit. On board there is a capsule with soil samples collected on the moon. This was reported by CGTN with reference to the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). Recall, Chan-5 includes four modules: an orbital, planting and returned module, as well as a capsule for soil samples.

The reason for the large -scale failure that occurred in the work of the YouTube video hosting and almost all the popular Google services on December 14 were problems with the user authentication system. This was announced by RBC by the representative of Google. “Today, due to problems with the internal storage quota, the authentication system fails - services that require users of entering the system issued a large error coefficient,” he said.

The jury in the city of ex-en-provence in the south of France sentenced the Russians Mikhail Ivkin and Pavel Kosov to 3 and 10 years of prison, respectively, in the case of serious bodily harm to the British fan of Andrew Biech during a mass fight during the 2016 European football championship in Marseille. “We regard the court’s decision as a satisfactory, it facilitates the situation.

Leonid Volkov “A stressful, oppressive silence hung in Moscow living rooms. (At such a moment, do not get dilapidated, but better - don’t breathe). But in fact, how was it,” writes Alexei Navalny’s ally on Facebook , offering Russian propaganda a new version of the opposition’s poisoning, taking into account the details of the fresh investigation of the media and activists. "On December 13, 2016, Alexei Navalny announces that he was advanced to the presidency.

The Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU Code) will consider the incident with the participation of the head coach of the Moscow Spartak Domenico Tedesko after the Saturday match of the 18th round of the Russian Premier League (RPL) against Sochi (0: 1), reports TASS with reference to the Communications Service of the RFS.