Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a double amount of social payments to doctors working with patients Covid-19 during the New Year holidays, RIA Novosti reports. At a meeting of the State Council and the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects, the president recalled that by law, each doctor working on holidays should receive a double salary: this, according to the head of state, applies to specialists who help patients with coronavirus.

The defender of the Madrid "Atletico" and the England national football team Kiran Trippier was removed from football activities for 10 weeks for violating the rules of the game on the totalizer. He will miss 13 matches of his club. The sanctions to the player were applied by the football association of England (FA), but after the ratification of FIFA they acquired an international character.

Hyundai confirmed the closure of the transaction to purchase a mothballed General Motors plant in St. Petersburg. This was announced by the head of PR "Hend Motor CIS" (Russian representative office of Hyundai) Julia Tikhonravova at the final press conference of the company. “Yes, [the GM transaction] was closed on November 6, and the registration of property was carried out on November 2.

The developers of the Telegram messenger announced the release of the new version of the application, the main change in which was the appearance of the function of group voice chats. This was reported in the company's blog . "Today, in the 12th renewal of Telegram for 2020, we present voice chats - an audio conferences of a new type, to which the group members can connect at any time," the message said.

The Zoom video conferences service, which rapidly increased revenue, capitalization and audience due to coronavirus pandemia, develops its own postal application and calendar. This was reported by The Information , citing sources familiar with the company's plans. The publication says that Zoom may begin testing the postal service in 2021, while work on the calendar has not yet begun.

On the road, basketball players of the Moscow CSKA beat the French Asvel and extended the victorious series in the Euroleague regular championship up to 11 matches. The meeting in Viyerban ended with a score of 87:78 (21:15, 25:26, 20:19, 21:18) in favor of visits. The most effective for CSKA, according to tradition, was defender Mike James, who scored 31 points. The owners have 16 points on the account of the striker Hershon Yabusele.

Dozens of people suffered as a result of an explosion that occurred on Wednesday in a multi -storey building in Baltimore (Maryland, USA). This is stated in the message posted on the page of the city fire department on Twitter. "At least 10 people are hospitalized, nine are in extremely serious condition, one in serious," the report said. Later, the fire service specified that 23 people were evacuated from the damaged building.

Petersburg SKA beat the Moscow CSKA in the home match of the regular championship of the Continental Hockey League (KHL). The meeting of the favorite of the League in the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg ended with the victory of the St. Petersburg Army in a series of post-match shootouts with a score of 4: 3.

The Berlin Clinic Charité published in the Lancet scientific journal a detailed description of the clinical picture of Alexei Navalny after his poisoning, once again confirming that he was poisoned by the cholinsterase inhibitor.

The pension savings system can be legislatively “dismantled” for three years, said the first deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia Sergey Shvetsov during the annual final meeting with the financial market participants. His words are given by TASS. According to Shevtsov, the government has no discussion regarding defrosting the funded part of the pension. Recently, the president extended the frost for another three years, and during this time this institution will be finally eliminated.

Employees of the Investigative Committee, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained six comrades-in-arms of the nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak) on charges of murders of immigrants from Central Asia in the early 2000s. One of the detainees exerted armed resistance, according to the website of the department. "Among the defendants are Andrei Kayl, Alexander Lysenkov, Maxim Khotulev, Pavel Khrilev (Myshkin), Alexei Gudilin, Semyon Tokmakov," the message said.

The 21-year-old son of Russian billionaire Nikita Mazepin will retain the place of the combat pilot in the American team "Formula 1" "Haas", despite the loud scandal in social networks with his participation. "The Haas team would like to confirm that Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher will be its pilots in 2021.

The elected US President Joe Biden on Tuesday promised not to leave the recent series of cyber attacks against American federal departments. “Let us evaluate what the scale of the damage was. I promise you - the answer will be,” he said during a press conference in Wilmington (Delaware). Biden also noted that the answer can be "similar", and for him there are many opportunities.

On Tuesday, a game in New York, the season-2020/21 National Basketball Association (NBA) started. In the opening match of the Brooklyn season, I defeated Golden State on its site with a score of 125: 99 (40:25, 23:20, 36:26, 26:28). The most productive winners were Kairi Irving, who scored 26 points, another 22 points were earned by Kevin Durant, who missed the last season due to the rupture of the Achilles tendon.

Most Russians have positively accepted the protests in Khabarovsk and the resignation of Dmitry Medvedev, and Putin’s storage is mainly approved by pensioners and housewives. This is stated in a study published on the Levada Center website . Sociologists proposed evaluating events on a five -point scale in which 1 point corresponds to an extremely negative attitude, and 5 points - entirely positive.