President Chili Sebastian Piner received a fine of 2.5 million pesos (about $ 3,500) for posed for a selfie on the beach with a passerby without a mask, reports Reuters. The country has strict rules for wearing masks in all public places, their violation threatens with punishment up to imprisonment. The selfie resonance caused in social networks in early December. Pignera explained that he was walking one on the beach near his house. A woman recognized him and asked to take a picture together.

Forward of the Dortmund Borussia Yussuf Mukoko, who distinguished himself in the guest match of the 13th round of the Bundesliga against Union, became the youngest author of the goal scored in the history of German football championships. The talented striker during the historical moment was 16 years and 28 days. The previous achievement in June 2020 was established by Bayer midfielder Florian Virts (17 years 34 days).

Over the past day, 28 209 COVID-19 cases in 85 regions have been identified in Russia, 585 people died, reports the Stopkoronavirus.rf Telegram channel. In total, 2,819,429 sick and 50,347 dead were identified in the country. In Moscow, 6459 cases of coronavirus were confirmed, 74 people died. "Over the past week, compared to the previous one in the capital, there is a negative increase in new sick people," the city operative reports. In St. Petersburg, 3754 new infection, 75 people died.

Lawkoster "Victory" took up "flights to nowhere" and planned two special flights on the Moscow -Moscow route. “There are air travelers who are ready to fly for the sake of flight: it gives them pleasure, like us,” the company representative told RIA Novosti , explaining that in this way “Victory” decided to support the “global trend”. Tickets for the first flight on December 19 were completely purchased in eight minutes, for the second (December 20) - for six.

CSKA basketball players on the Moscow Parquet 83:65 defeated Petersburg Zenit in the match of the 15th round of the Euroleague regular championship. The most productive player of the meeting was the defender of the army, Mike James, who scored 20 points. “We attentive to what we were doing,” said after the match the head coach of CSKA Dimitris Itdis, whose words are quoted by the official website of the metropolitan club.

On December 19, the American space company SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which should bring to the orbit a classified satellite by order of the US National Department of Military Space (NRO). The broadcast of the mission was carried out on the SpaceX YouTube channel. It was possible to launch on the second attempt: on December 17, the start was canceled about 2 minutes before the appointed time due to increased pressure in the oxygen tank of the second stage.

A literary critic, publicist, author of science fiction and detective books, Roman Arbitman, died in Saratov from Koronavirus, reports Radio Liberty with reference to his loved ones. The arbitman was 58 years old. Roman Emilievich Arbitiman was born in Saratov on April 7, 1962. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Saratov University. He worked as a teacher in a rural school, then at the publishing house of his native university. Arbitman is the author of more than 30 books.

In the Austrian Hokhfilzen, the Norwegian biathlete Sturlah, Lelogray, won the persecution race at the fourth stage of the World Cup, overcoming a distance of 12.5 km in 31 minutes 14.9 seconds and allowing one miss on four firing lines. The second was finished by the Frenchman Emillen Jacqueline (+8.5; 0 mistakes), the third - the Norwegian Johannes Boe (+8.9; 3). Sturla won the third race of the competition stage this season.

In London, in the east and south-east of England, from December 20 to the fourth level, the restrictions on coronavirus are intensified, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced. Residents of these regions should not leave at home without emergency, shops (except for grocery and pharmacies) and gyms are closed, the Air Force reports. Enter the areas where the fourth level of restrictions is announced, and it is forbidden to leave them.

OMON with a crowbar and sledgehammer opened the door of the Bar "Apartment" in the Presnensky district of Moscow during the night joint raid of the police and the associations of administrative and technical inspections (OATI). “During the audit, a full hall of guests was discovered, their maintenance continued. All facts of violations were recorded,” the coronavirus’s Telegram channel reported in the Telegram channel .

Russian handball players beat the Netherlands team with a score of 33:27 in the match for the fifth place of the European Championship, which ends in Denmark. Earlier, our handball players scored 7 points in the main round of the tournament and took third place in the group, which did not allow the team to break into the semifinals. In the decisive match, the Russians lost to the hostesses of the tournament (23:30).

The US State Department decided to forever close the country's Consulate General in Vladivostok and suspend the work of the Consulate General in Yekaterinburg, TASS reports with reference to the representative of the American Foreign Association.

The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) failed to solve the problem of air leakage in the working compartment of the Zvezda service module, and it has to be spent on reserve reserves to replenish air loss. This was reported by TASS with reference to negotiations between Russian cosmonauts with the flight control center (Tsup).

On Moscow Ice, the Russian team with a score of 4: 1 won the Czech team in the second round of the second round of the European Chockery - Channel One Cup. Anton Burdasov (7 '), Andrey Kuzmenko (10') and Maxim Mamin (41 ', 58'), were noted by the abandoned goals as part of the Valery Bragin team, Lukash Sedlak (16 ') applied an accurate throw from guests.

The Russian Foreign Ministry will return the donors to the giving icon, presented to the head of the department, Sergei Lavrov in Bosnia and Herzegovina, "to clarify its history on the line of Interpol," the press service of the department told TASS. On December 14, the chairman of the Presidium of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik gave the icon Lavrov during his visit to Sarajevo.