Russian members of the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov were left without gifts from relatives to the New Year due to the transfer of the Progress MS-16 cargo ship for February. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" in the School of Psychological Support of the Crew. "Everything that we prepared with the transporter, who was supposed to leave in December, it will come in February.

In China, studies about the origin of coronavirus were attributed to state secrets, the special commission under the government checks them before the publication, the investigation of the Associated Press says. According to the agency, the Chinese authorities allocate grants for hundreds of thousands of dollars to scientists studying the origin of the Covid-19.

In 2020, Rosstandart employees checked 1015 gas stations. 130 of them revealed violations in the physicochemical indicators of technical regulations. In addition, in 92 cases, documentary violations were identified, and in 213 cases - violations of mandatory requirements in the field of ensuring uniformity of measurements. “In total, 1,942 sample of automobile gasoline and diesel fuel was selected and tested, of which 152 sample (7.8%) did not meet the established standards.

On Thursday, the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg appointed 15 days of arrest to the follower of the ex -Schegumen Sergius - Vsevolod Molchev - for disobedience to the police officer, Interfax reports. The decision is 15 days of administrative arrest under Part 1. Article 19.3 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. The lawyer of the arrested Mikhail Tolmachev said that he did not agree with such a verdict.

The Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation extended for six months, until June 30, 2021, an experiment to provide free access to domestic socially significant Internet resources. As TASS reported in the press service of the department, the corresponding order was signed by the head of the Ministry of Civil Academy of Sciences Maksut Shadaev. "The possibility of users of free access to socially significant Internet services is especially relevant during the pandemic period.

The basketball players of the Moscow CSKA won the 12th Victory in a row in the regular championship of the Basketball Euroleague, having overcome the Italian Milan in overtime. The meeting of the 17th round, held in Italy, ended with a score of 91:87 (17:17, 22:16, 20:25, 21:22, 11: 7). The most productive player in the match was the forward of Milan, Zak Lidai, who scored 21 points.

The US Department of Justice is seeking a confiscation of an office building in Cleveland (Ohio), which, according to the agency, was acquired at the funds illegally withdrawn from the Ukrainian Privatbank by its former major shareholders Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov. This is stated on the website of the department. The corresponding lawsuit was filed in the Federal Court of the Southern District of Florida. In this state, companies are based through which the building was bought.

Flash Player multimedia platform, which has been engaged in Adobe for the past 15 years, ceased to exist on December 31, 2020. Over the long history, this program deserved the glory of one of the most vulnerable. Recall that in the summer of 2017, Adobe announced that she would stop updating and maintaining the Flash Player platform by the end of 2020.

Representatives of the Russian team in ski racing, which were following the Swiss Val-Mustair at the first stage of the many days of the "Tour de Ski", fell into an accident on the border of Switzerland and Italy. The incident occurred on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, there were no skiers in the car.

At least one person died, six more were injured as a result of an explosion that occurred on Thursday night in a residential building in Riga in the Agencysalns area. This was announced on her page on Twitter by the State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia. "According to preliminary information, an explosion occurred in a residential building. At the scene - a partially destroyed three -story building, the second and third floors burn, as well as the roof.

The Russian team in hockey, composed of players under 20 years old, outplayed peers from Sweden in the final match of the group stage of the youth world championship in Canadian Edmonton. The group’s meeting ended in overtime with a score of 4: 3 in favor of Russians. Egor Afanasyev (07:28), Rodion Amirov (19:14), Kirill Kirsanov (49:46) and Marat Khusnutdinov (64:54) were noted as part of the winners with abandoned goals.

SpaceX intends to try out a new way to plant the first stage of the future Starship missile. This was announced in his microblog Twitter, the head of SpaceX, Ilon Musk. Recall that the StarsHip missile is developed by SpaceX for the delivery of people and goods to Mars.

34-year-old Russian woman Elena Vesnina announced the resumption of a professional tennis career after a pause in connection with the birth of a child. Next year, she plans to perform at the tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). “I am returning to the tour. As many probably guessed, but now I want to officially share this news with you.

Dmitry Rogozin General Director of the State Corporation Dmitry Rogozin headed the freshly postponed directorate, which will prepare the missions to the moon. This was announced by Rogozin himself during the congratulations of astronauts on the upcoming New Year. “A special directorate was created in Roscosmos, I myself headed it to control all the nuances, all elements of lunar training. These are new tasks and prospects for manned cosmonautics,” Rogozin said (quote for TASS).

The journalist of Kommersant Alexander Chernykh in the final column of the year spoke about the unexpected consequences of his one article, written "simply because it was necessary to plug the hole in the strip." We are talking about the special opinion of the judge of the Constitutional Court of Konstantin Aranovsky that the USSR was "illegally created" by the state, and the Russian Federation should not be considered a successor "of the" repressive-terrorist acts "of the Soviet regime.