The Board of Directors of Facebook defended the head of the company Mark Zuckerberg in connection with the publication of The New York Times, which claimed that he covered up revealed cases of attempts to influence the US elections. It is reported by CNBC .

Kirill Serebrennikov came to court wearing a Truth T-shirt. It's more important now than ever Today, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow continues the trial of fraud in the implementation of the theatrical project "Platform". Kirill Serebrennikov, Yuri Itin, Alexei Malobrodsky and Sophia Apfelbaum are accused of stealing more than 133 million rubles. budget money. All defendants deny their guilt. Serebrennikov has already given his testimony.

Many scanned copies of passports and other documents were found on public access computers in the MFC, which can be accessed by anyone. According to experts, based on these data, you can get microloans or even get access to funds in people's accounts, Kommersant writes .

Local police say the list of missing persons will change as new names are added and others are removed, either because they were rescued or because deaths were confirmed, CNBC reports . The California wildfires, which began in November, are the deadliest in the state's history.

The Insider and Bellingcat Reveal How Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin Obtained UK Visas Without Checks The Insider and Bellingcat have published a new investigation into the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal in Salisbury. It tells how the Russian secret services were able to obtain visas for Anatoly Chepiga (Boshirov) and Alexander Mishkin (Petrov), who are said to be the perpetrators of the assassination .

The Constitutional Court of Russia allowed the World Congress of the Ingush people to participate in the case of the border dispute with Chechnya. He also allowed a group of deputies of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia. This was announced by the head of the human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov.

They were politician Alexei Navalny, director Oleg Sentsov, journalist and human rights activist Zoya Svetova, lawyers from Guatemala Jose Rolando Alvarado and Victoria Sandoval, investigative journalist from the UK Eliot Higgins and, posthumously, US Senator John McCain. The names of the laureates of the Sergei Magnitsky Prize were announced in London at a solemn ceremony. More than 200 politicians, journalists and NGO representatives took part in it, MBKh Media reports.

Facebook ordered publications about the shortcomings of competitors to divert attention from its own scandals about cooperation with Cambridge Analytica and the use of the platform by Russian trolls.

The Stroytransgaz company of Gennady Timchenko received a contract for the reconstruction of the airport on Solovki for 2.6 billion rubles. The company became the only participant in the competition. The reconstruction will be financed from the regional budget, according to the BBC Russian Service . The reconstruction of the Solovetsky archipelago is carried out by federal and regional authorities. The question is controlled from Moscow.

The Central Bank nominates representatives of insurers for the position of ombudsman for compulsory motor liability insurance The Central Bank offers representatives of the insurance business in the position of financial ombudsmen for compulsory motor liability insurance, who will have to sort out disputes between car owners and insurers.

Speech by the Sergey Magnitsky Prize laureate at the award ceremony I have never seen Sergei Magnitsky. On November 16, 2009, exactly 9 years ago, I read in the Vedomosti newspaper about his death. I was then a member of the PMC of Moscow, a visitor to Moscow prisons, and for several months I had been visiting the Moscow pre-trial detention center. Together with a colleague, we ran to the Butyrka prison to find out the details of the death of Sergei Magnitsky.

Our main cause: "the people of Russia against Putin" and we will definitely win it I had to endure 1.5 years of investigation, half a year of trial by the federal judge Korobchenko, a couple of refusals of the highest judicial instances of the Russian Federation, countless courts with IK-5 and 3 with 1/2 of a not very fun stay in Naryshkino - after all this it is easy to lose faith in justice . And yet it exists.

Vice-Rector for Science of the Pushkin State Institute of the Russian Language Mikhail Osadchiy called the “spire” the word of 2018, he put the word “pension” in second place. “The main factors influencing the choice of a word are a tangible and understandable increase in the frequency of use in the current year and the presence of a symbolic meaning that is significant for society.

US authorities have filed charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. At the same time, information about this was unintentionally disclosed, by mistake of a prosecutor who sent documents not related to Assange to the court, American media write. The Wall Street Journal reports that the allegations may involve espionage. Assange has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012. Earlier it was reported that the Ecuadorian authorities may force him to leave the embassy.

Opponents of British Prime Minister Theresa May were able to garner enough support to consider the issue of no confidence in the politician in connection with her Brexit plan. It is reported by Sky News , citing a source associated with the ruling Conservative Party. All party organizers in Parliament were ordered to cancel their scheduled meetings and return to London.