The Verkhovna Rada adopted a presidential bill on the termination of the agreement on friendship, cooperation and partnership between Ukraine and Russia. 277 people's deputies voted for it, 112 Ukraine TV channel reports . The agreement will terminate on April 1, 2019. The proposal of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on non-renewal of the agreement with Russia for the next 10 years was supported by the National Security and Defense Council in September.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, believes that the regions of the North Caucasus need to get rid of checkpoints on the administrative borders. “Posts were erected between all the republics. There is practically no benefit. Against bandits? But they will pass on any other roads. However, being in the same state and in the same district, people and transport are forced to spend time passing through posts, ” Kadyrov writes on Telegram.

The media, posting a hyperlink to a third-party resource, should not be responsible for the information on it, the ECtHR believes This opinion was reached by the judges of the ECtHR, considering the complaint of the Hungarian company Magyar Eti, which owns the news site. This was written by the Development of Legal Systems publishing house head of the Agora international human rights group, drew attention to the publication , Pavel Chikov, .

The bitcoin rate is declining, breaking through the threshold of $4,000, and is preparing to drop to $3,000, but analysts do not despair The exchange rate of the most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, was fixed at $3,809 as of December 6. A year ago, it cost more than $14,000, and at its peak in December last year, the rate was approaching $20,000. But over the past month, the price of bitcoin has been constantly falling.

From midnight on Friday, December 7, the UK will suspend the issuance of Tier 1 investment visas. This is reported by Bloomberg , which notes that these visas were often used by Russian businessmen and oligarchs. The UK Home Office explained the suspension of issuing visas as a reform aimed at combating money laundering and organized crime. New applications may resume in 2019.

The Constitutional Court of Russia recognized the agreement between Ingushetia and Chechnya on the establishment of a new border as legal and not contrary to the Constitution According to the judges of the Constitutional Court of Russia, the Constitutional Court of Ingushetia was not entitled to give its assessment of this document, Mediazona writes . The request to the Constitutional Court of Russia was sent by the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.

The presidential administration is unhappy with the cancellation of rap concerts and promises to eradicate this practice of the security forces. About this writes "Rain" with reference to its own sources. The cancellation of the performances of youth groups was initiated by middle-level leaders in one of the law enforcement agencies, a source close to the Kremlin told the TV channel.

The police are checking information about possible theft in the "Intonation Example" fund directed by Alexander Sokurov. This is reported by with Mediazona reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Leningrad Region. RTVI reports that the department for economic security accepted a statement about possible theft in the fund on March 5. In September, the deadline for verification expired, and no criminal case was initiated.

28 members of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia expressed their support to human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, who was arrested for 25 days.

The Russian Constitutional Court refused to consider the complaint of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny regarding the classification of names in the extracts from Rosreestr about the sons of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika. This is stated on the website of the CS. The court declared the complaint inadmissible, since the issue was not formally considered by a lower court due to the fact that the case was dismissed.

OPEC countries have signed a preliminary agreement to cut oil production as part of the OPEC+ deal. writes about it Reuters . So far, OPEC has not yet reached the final figure for a new level of oil production. The monitoring committee of the OPEC+ deal in Vienna recommended that the parties to the agreement extend it until July 2019.

The Prime Minister of Russia, in an interview with TV channels, said that the real disposable income of Russians this year will grow by 1.6%. “Real disposable incomes of the population will grow by 1.6% this year. And if we talk about the growth of real, I emphasize, not nominal, real wages, then this is 7.6%. The trend towards falling incomes has been reversed, this was the most dangerous for the Russian Federation, ” said the prime minister.

British counterintelligence Mi-5 called on intelligence officers and military personnel to track and report information on all movements of Russian diplomatic vehicles. writes about it The Mirror . Mi-5 believes that the Russian diplomats who remained in the UK could have been mobilized by Russian intelligence. They also indicated that Russian intelligence officers use diplomatic cars to move around the kingdom.

Bloomberg experts have prepared a list of the main political risks for the global economy in 2019, including trade wars between the US and China, the UK's exit from the European Union, the state of oil prices and more. According to Bloomberg , the recently concluded trade truce between the US and China could be the start of a protracted economic Cold War.

Director Alexander Sokurov commented on the check that the police are conducting in his foundation "An Example of Intonation". The director posted a comment on the Sokurov Island Facebook page. It says that the audit of the fund's financial activities has been going on for several months. “At first it was a regular scheduled inspection that all organizations like us go through, and then the police received a denunciation from a former employee of the fund,” Sokurov wrote.