The EU Council made a decision on the extension of six months of economic sanctions against Russia on Thursday, the Council Communist Party says. "The council today has decided to extend the restrictive measures that are currently aimed at individual sectors of the Russian economy until July 31, 2021," the document says. On December 10, the EU summit adopted a political decision on extension until July 31, 2021 of the European Union against Russia, TASS reports.

The State Corporation Roscosmos applied for registration as a trademark of the phrase "First in space". This is written by Open Media with reference to the data of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS). From the documents it follows that the application of Roscosmos was submitted on December 5. The state corporation wants to register a new brand for nine classes of international classification of goods and services (MKTU).

In the Austrian Hochfilzen, a male sprint race took place as part of the fourth stage of the Biathlon World Cup. The Norwegian biathletes who occupied the entire podium of honor celebrated a convincing victory in the competitions. The winner of the sprint of 10 km with two firing lines was Sturl Holm Sleepreid, who spent on overcoming a distance of 23 minutes 4.9 seconds during clean shooting.

A man with weapons seized the office of one of the companies in the north of Paris and holds hostages, Interfax reports with reference to the BFM TV channel. The capture happened on Thursday evening in the municipality of the domon of the Val-D'UAZ department. At that moment, several people were in the room. Two wound The channel claims that a man who captured people hostage is the head of a private company, and one of the hostages is his wife.

In Sevastopol in the Crimea, the building of the local administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be surrounded by prickly wire so that "people are afraid of the police", the "Raise" reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies of the city.

A table was sent to the Naberezhnye Chelnov schools, which should be filled with class teachers. Employees of the city hall forced teachers to monitor the social networks of students, checking whether they are signed for "destructive" groups. At the same time, the FBK and the Navalny team were among the "destructive", the Insider said at the Teachers Alliance union.

Russian hockey players defeated the Sweden team in their starting match of the home stage of Eurotour - Channel One Cup. The meeting on the metropolitan "CSKA Arena" in Moscow ended in a series of shootouts with a score of 4: 3 (0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 2, 0: 0, 1: 0) in favor of the owners of the ice.

The SVR published a collection of archival materials "Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. 100 years. Documents and certificates" that relate to key events of World War II. According to RIA Novosti , the Director of the SVR Sergey Naryshkin presented the collection at the exhibition "Foreign Intelligence. From the past to the future", which was opened in the metropolitan state Central Museum of modern history of Russia.

An allergic reaction appeared in two health workers in the Alaska hospital after vaccination with coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and Biontech, The New York Times said with reference to representatives of the hospital. According to the publication, 10 minutes after the vaccination of a middle -aged hospital employee who had not previously suffered from allergies, a rash appeared on his face and body, shortness of breath and an increase in the pulse.

The Moscow City Court did not satisfy the petition of the former head of the department for the illegal trafficking of drugs of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow CJSC Igor Lyakhovtsu, who was accused of tossing drugs to journalist Ivan Golunov. Ex-police said that he has two legal entities and legal experience for 9 years. “I do not consider it necessary to protect me.

In the December payments of Muscovites, a line with the amount of voluntary housing insurance, which the townspeople could pay at will, disappeared for the services of the housing and communal services. The city hall reported that since 2021 residents are invited to conclude housing insurance contracts directly with insurance companies. "The Moscow government decided not to select insurance companies to further participate in the city housing insurance program.

Former worldwater worldwide champion in versions of the World Boxing Association (WBA), the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and the International Boxing Federation (IBF) Russian Sergey Kovalev on January 30 at the Moscow Arena Luzhniki will hold a duel against Uzbek Bektemir Melikuzieva. Kovalev himself reported this on his Instagram page.

National quarantine is introduced in Poland from December 28 to January 17 in connection with the Covid-19, the Wyborcza newspaper reports. As the Minister of Health of Poland Adam Nedzelski stated at a press conference, in addition to the existing restrictions that remain in force, hotels will be closed, including for business trips. Ski -luminous routes and shopping centers (except for grocery stores) will also close.

In March 2020, the Ministry of Finance allowed government agencies to buy goods and services to combat the coronavirus epidemic from a single supplier without a competition so that medical facilities could quickly receive the necessary medicines and equipment.

The Sports Arbitration Court (CAS) in Lausanne on Thursday announced its decision to dispute the Russian anti -doping agency (Russia) and the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA), which determined the sports fate of Russia in the coming years. This was reported by the press service of CAS . WADA required for Russia a 4-year detachment for manipulations with the database of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory. CAS took the side of WADA, but doubled the sanctions.