The Tagansky Court of Moscow decided to block the website of Alexei Navalny's Smart Voting project for violating the rules for storing personal data. By a court decision, not only the 2019.vote page is blocked , but also its mirrors, Interfax reports . Earlier, Roskomnadzor added the site to the register of violators of the rights of personal data subjects.

23% of employers plan to reduce staff next year, less than 18% plan to expand it. These are the results of a survey by the Rabota.ru portal, which are cited by Rossiyskaya Gazeta . The likelihood of cuts is most pronounced in the areas of "media and marketing", as well as "food". Most of all, companies that provide services for business and IT companies are set to recruit staff.

The Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund approved a program to support the economic policy of Ukraine in the amount of $3.9 billion and the first loan tranche for $1.4 billion. “Such decisions by the world's leading financial institutions ensure the constancy of our confident movement and strengthen Ukraine's stability against the backdrop of complex internal and external challenges.

Estonia has made the first arrests in a money laundering case involving Danske Bank, arresting 10 former employees of the bank's Estonian branch. It is reported by Reuters . Danish, Estonian, UK and US authorities are investigating transfers totaling €200bn through a tiny Danish bank branch in Estonia between 2007 and 2015. “On Tuesday, the criminal police detained six people, and on Wednesday four more.

The US Treasury announced the inclusion of Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepiga, also known as "Petrov" and "Boshirov", on the sanctions list of those suspected of attempting to assassinate Sergei and Yulia Skripal. In addition, .

It was decided to block the website of the Smart Voting project due to Google and Yandex counters, says Alexei Navalny On December 19, the Tagansky Court of Moscow decided to block the website of Alexei Navalny's Smart Voting project for violating the rules for storing personal data. By a court decision, not only the 2019.vote page is blocked , but also its mirrors. Earlier, Roskomnadzor added the site to the register of violators of the rights of personal data subjects.

Vitaly Mutko has left the post of President of the Russian Football Union, and Sergei Pryadkin will act as President of the Russian Football Union until the Conference of the RFU, the organization said on Twitter. The conference is to be held on February 22. Earlier, Mutko suspended his activities as president of the Russian Football Union for six months after he fell under the sanctions of the International Olympic Committee. He was replaced by RFU General Director Alexander Alaev.

Blocking threatens to connect to the services "Google.Analytics" and "Yandex.Metrics" Take a look here my young internet lovers and prepare your sites to be blocked. Because from today, in general, any site in the country violates the law and stores personal information of Russian citizens "on American servers in California." As I wrote today , there was a court session in the morning, and the Smart Voting website was blocked.

Ukraine plans to make a new passage through the Kerch Strait with the involvement of international partners. This was stated in an interview with BBC News Ukraine by Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov.

The withdrawal of US troops from Syria creates the prospect of a political settlement in the country, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. “A very important story that can stem from this decision is a real, real prospect for a political settlement,” she said on Channel One (quoted by TASS ).

US President Donald Trump announced the victory over the terrorists in Syria, the troops are preparing to leave the country. Trump wrote on Twitter about the victory over the "Islamic State" * (the organization is banned in the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization), noting that this was the only task of the US military in Syria.

An unscheduled inspection by the Ministry of Justice of the movement "For Human Rights" was organized at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, the ministry's press service reported. The demand was received by the department on December 7, Interfax reports . The sudden check became known on December 18, the movement "For Human Rights" must provide documents for the last three years. They relate to accounting, staffing, grant projects.

The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading the law on the abolition of national roaming for cellular communications in Russia. “According to expert estimates, roaming within the Russian regions arose due to the presence of special regulation, in which each of the telecom operators made connections through a single all-Russian telecom operator, which caused additional costs for such operators.

66% of Russians regret the collapse of the Soviet Union, which is the highest figure in the last decade, according to a Levada Center survey. In 2017, 58% were nostalgic for the USSR, while before that, for 10 years, the figure had not risen above 61%. The absolute record was set in 2000 — 75%, Vedomosti reports. 60% of respondents believe that the collapse could have been avoided, which is also the highest in 13 years.

A gun was put to the head of the deputy editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Sergei Buntman, on the street near the Shinok restaurant, where on December 18 the birthday of the editor-in-chief of the radio station, Alexei Venediktov, was celebrated. Buntman's wife Lydia Skryabina announced this on Facebook. According to her, she and Buntman, having left the restaurant, were waiting for a taxi.