White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that the United States may impose financial sanctions on Russia due to cyber attacks. According to him, Washington is looking for a "proportional" response to cyber attacks. “The range of retaliatory measures available to the president is not limited to cyber, there are other retaliatory measures, including financial sanctions,” Ernest said.

The former head of the internal security department of the capital's department of the Investigative Committee, Mikhail Maksimenko, was transferred from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center to the Butyrka pre-trial detention center psychiatric hospital, Dozhd reports with reference to Eva Merkacheva, deputy head of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow. Maksimenko will be examined and diagnosed.

The worn-out Omsk fleet will be replenished with five decommissioned trams from Moscow, the protracted process of transport transfer is nearing completion, the reports . Omsk Here portal Omsk turned to Moscow with a request to transfer decommissioned trams in the summer of 2016 (according to the Omsk Region agency, correspondence between officials has been going on since February).

Rosneft bought an asset with a rich and difficult past Photo: TASS Bashneft changed the controlling shareholder for the fourth time. In 2003, the shares of key enterprises of the FEC of Bashkortostan bought out seven limited liability companies created by the Urals Rakhimov, the son of the then head of the region. In 2009, Rakhimov Jr. lost these shares of AFK System, controlled by Vladimir Evtushenkov. The transaction was estimated at $ 2.5 billion.

How were the parliamentary elections in Montenegro In small Montenegro (just over 620 thousand people), which Lord Byron once called a handful of pearls for its natural beauty, serious political passions have been seething in recent months. The reason for this is the parliamentary elections held on 16 October. After the collapse of Yugoslavia, Montenegro was part of a confederal union with Serbia.

The British bank National Westminster (NatWest) denied the information about the closure of the accounts of the Russia Today TV channel, reports RNS. “Decisions like this are not taken lightly. We analyze the situation and contact the client to discuss this issue. Bank accounts remain open and are still working,” the bank said in a statement. Earlier on Monday, Russia Today Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan announced the blocking of the channel's accounts in the UK.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has expanded sanctions against Russia. The corresponding document was published on the website of the head of state. The new restrictions affect 250 individuals and 46 legal entities.

In the UK, all accounts of Russia Today have been blocked, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the TV channel, said on Twitter. “We have closed accounts in Britain. All accounts. "The decision is not subject to revision." Long live freedom of speech!” Simonyan wrote. According to Simonyan's source at the British Treasury, this has nothing to do with the sanctions. The bank refused to discuss the situation in writing, the journalist writes .

To the portrait of the new UN Secretary General Photo: EPA/Salvatore di Nolfi On December 31, the current Secretary General of the United Nations, Pan Hi Moon, will transfer his powers to a citizen of Portugal and the former Supreme Commissioner of the UN for refugees Antoniu Gutherresh. The famous diplomat (contrary to all forecasts) is not a native of Eastern Europe and will not become the first woman secretary.

In Omsk, the play "Jesus Christ Superstar" of the St. Petersburg Rock Opera Theater was canceled after a complaint from activists of the social movement "Family, Love, Fatherland", advocating "protection of the family, childhood, and spiritual and moral values." It is reported by "Radio Baltika" with reference to the administration of the city musical theater. “The production will not take place by order of the director. The decision was made even before the gathering of the troupe.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov congratulated the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov on his 49th birthday. Kadyrov, congratulating Peskov, noted that he is "one of the most authoritative and respected press secretaries of the heads of state of the world" and praised for the specificity of his statements. “He differs from his colleagues in the concreteness, content, objectivity of statements and comments on the most important events in the world.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that an increase in the classified part of budget expenditures is necessary to repay loans to defense enterprises. “Now we see that there are opportunities to repay the so-called corporate loans in order to free these enterprises from the debt burden,” RIA Novosti quotes the minister. He explains this by the fact that enterprises of the military-industrial complex need to be able to get loans again, including for the purchase of civilian products.

The man who detonated a bomb at the entrance to the building of the state television and radio company in Sukhum was not a suicide bomber, reports . Interfax Secretary of the Abkhazian Security Council Mukhamed Kilba told Interfax that the explosion occurred "accidentally" when a man put "a home-made explosive device into a combat state." However, he was not going to commit suicide.

Ukrainian airports must stop duplicating information in Russian and “communist names” by December 1 this year. This was stated by the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan during the operational meeting on October 17, according to the website of the Ministry of Infrastructure of the country.

The death of the field commander Pavlov in the elevator is the symbolic end of the era of the "people's war" and "folk leaders" in the Donbass Photo: Reuters A famous field commander, one of the most media characters of the war in the Donbass, was killed in Donetsk-33-year-old Motorola (real name Arseniy Pavlov). In the elevator of the house where the militant lived, an explosive device worked. Pavlov received mortal injuries.