The accused of the execution of colleagues in the Trans -Baikal military unit, Private Ramil Shamsutdinov made the last word in court. On December 22, in the second Eastern District Military Court, the debt of the parties in the criminal case was held. "Ramil Shamsutdinov in the last word said that he was brought to this step (murders of colleagues. - Note Newsru.com ), he did not want this, he repented in his deed," the lawyer Ruslan Nagiev wrote on his VKontakte page .

The new coronavirus strain found in the UK can be more contagious to children, said the professor of London Imperial College Nil Ferguson, quoted by Sky News . The expert explained that so far scientists do not understand the mechanism of such a phenomenon, but this is evidenced by statistics. “There is a hint that the strain has a higher tendency to infect children. We have not established any causal relationship, but we can see this in statistics,” Ferguson said at the conference.

European champion Alena Kostornaya will miss the Russian figure skating championship, which starts on December 24 in Chelyabinsk. This was stated by the General Director of the Figure Skating Federation on Russian skates (FFKKR) Alexander Kogan. “Alena Kostornaya has left the Russian championship. The reason is that she does not have time to recover to the tournament after the coronavirus,” RIA Novosti quoted Kogan.

In Novovoronezh, three days after the installation, a monument was dismantled by the founder of the settlement Alenka, who terrified the locals. Now, for the right to possess a sculpture, which has already become a meme in social networks, businessmen and producer of the Affectionate May group Andrei Razin are fighting.

The Presidium of the Government Commission for the Development of the production and distribution of domestic audiovisual content approved a list of services for mandatory pre-installations in Russia for smart television and television-TVs from April 1, 2021. This was reported by TASS in the press service of the Ministry of Cyphra of the Russian Federation.

According to the results of the audit, the European Commission approved the merger of the ITAL-American Auto Concert Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the French group PSA (unites the brands of Peugeot, Citroen and Opel). As a result of this transaction, which is planned to be closed at the beginning of 2021, a large concern called Stellantis will be created. The European Commission said that PSA promises to make cars for the Japanese Toyota Motor Corp. at their factories in France and Spain.

Vladimir Putin signed the law on the expansion of guarantees to the ex-president and his family. The corresponding document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information. The authors of the initiative prepared in connection with the amendments to the Constitution were the head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Law and State Construction Andrei Klishas and the head of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov.

All entertainment New Year's programs in Turkey hotels are prohibited due to limiting measures due to coronavirus pandemia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is sent to all provinces of the country. "Since mass events are contrary to restrictive measures, on New Year's Eve in hotels it is forbidden to conduct New Year's entertainment programs, dancing.

Clubs of the Russian Premier League (RPL) at the general meeting supported the candidacy of Alexander Dyukov as a candidate for the post of president of the Russian Football Union (RFU), whose elections are scheduled for February 4. The former president of Zenit has been holding this post since February 2019. The candidacy of the 53-year-old Dyukov, for re-election to the post of head of the RFU, previously nominated the Interregional Association of Football Federation of the North-West.

On December 22, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on the integrated development of territories (a bill on all -Russian renovation). It is planned to consider it in the third reading on December 23. Recall that the essence of the bill, which was submitted to the State Duma in mid -Senitators, is to create a single mechanism for the integrated development of territories and demolition of emergency and dilapidated housing by analogy with the renovation program in Moscow.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a deputy bill on the possibility of a ban on issuing information (including property ) on judges, prosecutors, employees of the UK, the FSB and certain categories of the military, including without the immediate threat of their security. Earlier on the same day, the bill was supported in the second reading, writes TASS.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) will closely study the feast of the brigade of arbitrators led by Sergey Ivanov before the match of the 19th round of the RPL Tambov - Ural (1: 1). The servants of the football Themis were shot on camera in one of the restaurants of Saransk, where they drank vodka.

Apple can release its own passenger electric car by 2024. According to Reuters with reference to sources, the machine will receive an autopilot system and a “breakthrough battery technology”. Rumors that Apple is developing its own electric car appeared a few years ago, and then it was reported that the company abandoned this project and focused on the development of automobile software, which automakers could use.

The All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) traditionally summed up the results of the outgoing year , composing, among other things, the rating of the most popular athletes of the country for the reporting period. 10% of respondents called the athlete of 2020 the winner of the title of the Absolute Fighting Championship (UFC) Khabib Nurmagomedov. The second place was taken by the Zenit footballer and the Russian national team Artem Dziuba (8%).

The guards of the Sredneuralsky Convent refused to put into the territory of the monastery of bailiffs and representatives of the diocese who arrived there for construction and technical expertise, Interfax on Tuesday in the press service of the Yekaterinburg diocese. “According to my data, only the expert was launched,” the agency’s interlocutor said.