The epidemic atmosphere in the coronavirus meets all the necessary criteria established by Rospotrebnadzor, only in three of the 16 countries with which Russia resumed air traffic.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin signed documents ensuring the procedure and financing of presidential payments of 5 thousand rubles for children under eight years. It is reported by TASS. The Prime Minister recalled that at the annual press conference held on the eve of the annual press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to pay each family with children up to 7 years old for 5 thousand rubles to each.

The state prosecution requested three years of a general regime colony for the municipal deputy of the Timiryazevsky district of Moscow Yulia Galyamina. She was one of the organizers of the campaign against the ground of the presidential terms of Vladimir Putin. The opposition policy was brought to justice for the "Dadin" article - a multiple violation of the rules of rallies. Julia Galyamin announced the request of the prosecutor's office on her Twitter page .

The ex-first racket of the world, Maria Sharapova, announced the engagement with the English businessman Alexander Gilx, whom has been dating since 2018 . The 33-year-old ex-sportsman published on social networks several joint photos with her future husband. Rumors about the engagement of one of the brightest representatives of female tennis appeared in January of this year , but to this day remained only rumors. "I said" yes "from the first day of our meeting ...

Moderna was forced to destroy 400 thousand doses of the coronavirus vaccine due to the problem arising during production. This was stated by Vloomberg Advisor to the US Presidential Administration by Montseph Slaii vaccines. It is noted that the problem with the “filtration” arose at the final stages of production: 400 thousand “defective” doses were part of a wider batch of a vaccine with a volume of 1.4 million.

The Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia expectedly retained a key rate at the level of 4.25% per annum, noting a decrease in disinflation and increased dual risks. This was reported in the application on the regulator website . According to the Central Bank, according to the results of 2020, inflation will allegedly amount to 4.6-4.9% against previously previously 3.9-4.2%. The regulator retained the inflation forecast for 2021 at the level of 3.5-4.0%.

Unknown people tried to hack the accounts of six out of eight authors of the investigation of “important stories” about businessman Kirill Shamalov, whom the media called the son -in -law of Vladimir Putin. Attempts of hacking were made immediately after the press conference of the head of state, on which Putin, in particular, had to answer an unpleasant question about his relatives.

"Trump and his associates are now leading a hopeless campaign, accusing the democrats of falsifying the election results," writes the American historian on his Facebook page.

Dmitry Milin “Putin really wants to be the leader of the nation, but he is just the leader of several small classes of oligarchs, officials and“ security forces ”. Hence yesterday’s inappropriate Putin’s“ at the heart of the Russian identity - unity of the people. ”There is no single people in Russia. There is an class with different rights (formal and not formal) and duties,” writes an analyst and a publicist on his page in his page in his page Facebook .

The daily increase in new coronavirus infection in the Russian Federation amounted to 28,552 cases in 85 regions, the Stopkoronavirus.rf Telegram channel reports. The second day after a relative reduction in the incidence rate, the number of new cases of coronavirus in the Russian Federation exceeds 28 thousand per day. The number of confirmed fatal outcomes has also increased - 611 against 587 died from coronavirus the day before.

British entrepreneur of Russian descent Evgeny Lebedev was officially introduced into the House of Lords. According to DW , on Thursday, December 17, the 40-year-old co-owner of the Evening Standard and The Independent publications took his place in the upper house of the British parliament as "Baron Hampton in the London district of Richmond-Apon-Med and Siberia in the Russian Federation." Lebedev did not join any of the fractions and is an independent member of the parliament.

In the return of the near-earth asteroid Ryugu, which was delivered to the ground in early December, the Hayabus-2 probe turned out to be about 5.4 grams of samples. This was reported in the mission microblog on Twitter. The message notes that the mass of samples significantly exceeded the necessary minimum - when developing the probe, it was planned that for basic analysis it would be enough to collect only 0.1 grams of soil from the surface of the asteroid.

The holder of the title of Absolute Fighting Championship (UFC) in lightweight Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov became a laureate of the prize to the best athlete of the year in the world according to the broadcasting corporation of the Air Force.

The Moscow CSKA defeated Rostov in the guest match of the 19th round of the Russian Premier League (RPL) and before the winter break rose to second place in the standings, squeezing the metropolitan Spartak. The meeting in Rostov-on-Don ended with a score of 3: 1 in favor of the army, in which the striker Fedor Chalov scored all three goals (2 ', 57', 82 '). The only goal of Rostovites in the added time was spent by Alexei Kozlov (90+1 ').

The Twitter microblog service submitted an updated policy of verification of user accounts. According to the company's blog , the new rules will enter into force on January 20, 2021 and will begin to apply in practice shortly after this date. According to The Verge , the new rules were prepared taking into account many offers of service users.