The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced Dmitry Krepkin to 1.5 years in a penal colony. He was accused of using violence against a police officer during a mass protest on March 26. "Krepkin was found guilty of 'use of violence not dangerous to health... against a government official...

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko does not consider himself responsible for the fact that the IOC Executive Committee deprived Russian athletes of the opportunity to compete under the national flag at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. “Well, listen, you never know who will now declare. Well, we will not respond to every statement now, ”Mutko answered the question of an RBC correspondent . - Well, what are you talking about. Well, you deploy...

Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska, whose business connections are being investigated by investigators investigating Russia's influence on the US presidential election, has dropped a libel suit against The Associated Press. According to Politico , Deripaska's lawyers withdrew their appeal against the court's decision, which dismissed the lawsuit in October. “The Associated Press is satisfied that the appeal has been withdrawn.

Why Putin used a purely Soviet ritual Frankly Soviet style: a large ritual (no, excuse me, industrial) complex, smiles blooming in the crowd of working people. “What, comrades, do you live well?” Support the course of the party and government? asks Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev fervently. - We live well, we live well! — workers laugh off. The main thing is that it should not be in Moscow. People don't like Moscow. That is, he loves to live in it, but not like that.

reports on Thursday, December 7, TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak is going to attend the annual press conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 14, RBC citing two sources in Sobchak's campaign headquarters. The TV presenter applied for accreditation from the Dozhd TV channel. According to RBC, the TV presenter was supported by the general director of the channel Natalya Sindeeva.

More than half of the member countries of the organization asked to hold an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council. The meeting will focus on the decision of US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Updated: Rosneft announced its readiness to drop the second lawsuit against AFK Sistema for 131 billion rubles. if the company fully recognizes the decision of the court of first instance and expresses its readiness to help enforce this decision, told RBC .

writes on Thursday, December 7 Andrey Illarionov, a former adviser to President Vladimir Putin, could receive money from former Yukos shareholders for the evidence they need in the European Court, RBC . This follows from the memorandum that the Russian Federation sent to the Hague Court of Appeal.

The head of the Moscow State Security Directorate (AFB, FSK, FSB) in 1991-1994 Evgeny Savostyanov published the book “Special Services at the Born” in the Publishing House about what was happening in the KGB after an unsuccessful coup and the end of the USSR. NT publishes an excerpt from the book On the second day after my appointment, the head of the external surveillance, L. K-Tin put on the table, put a folder on the table, opening which I began to read the report of messages like: “D.

Western press - about the nomination of Vladimir Putin for the fourth term Photo: Flickr.com ## Why did he evade from the answer European and American publications are united in the opinion: the Russian president is not a removal of anyone to surprise anyone for the fourth term. “Within a few months, Putin evaded from the answer to the question of his plans for 2018, thereby provoking the speculation around his candidacy: it will not advance,” Associated Press News notes.

Military exercises conducted by the United States and South Korea are forcing talk of a war on the Korean Peninsula as inevitable, the North Korean Foreign Ministry said. A department spokesman accused the Americans of instigation, Reuters reports . “The statements of the US representatives can only be taken as a warning that we must prepare for a war on the Korean Peninsula. The question remains: when will the war start?

Ex-Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev, accused of taking a bribe from the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, made the last word in court. The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow will announce the verdict on December 15. “I have always said that I am innocent and I want to confirm this again. Not a single document of the state prosecution contains evidence of my receiving a bribe.

writes on Thursday, December 7 Andrey Illarionov, a former adviser to President Vladimir Putin, could receive money from former Yukos shareholders for the evidence they need in the European Court, RBC . This follows from the memorandum that the Russian Federation sent to the Hague Court of Appeal.

In the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, the ex-Minister of Economics of the Russian Federation said that he was a victim of a “monstrous and brutal provocation” Photo: FaktyNews.ru “Dear court, I have already said that I am innocent in the crimes imputed to me and categorically reject the charges against me. I confirm this in my last word.

On Thursday, December 7, hundreds of Palestinian demonstrations took place in the West Bank. Demonstrators in Gaza burn banners of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Israeli and US flags, AP reported . The leader of the Hamas group called for a new armed uprising. This is the reaction to the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move its embassy there.