Military personnel who are serving in Chechnya under a contract were sent to Syria to participate in the anti-terrorist operation, reports , citing a source close to the leadership of the republic. Dozhd Earlier, a video appeared on the network in which the clergy bless the Chechen-speaking soldiers to participate in the Syrian operation. The interlocutor of the TV channel confirmed the authenticity of the video.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the participants in the privatization of the state-owned company, reports , citing the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov. Dozhd TV channel 19.5% of the state shares of Rosneft will be bought by Glencore and the Qatar Sovereign Fund. The transaction amount is 10.5 billion euros. The participants in the consortium for the privatization of Rosneft have equal shares of 50% each, said .

The Syrian army has liberated 15 quarters of the eastern part of Aleppo, according to the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria. Under the control of the Syrian army is 70% of the territory of eastern Aleppo. According to the center, 1,224 civilians crossed over to safe areas of the city during the day. “During the day, 66 militants laid down their arms and went to the western districts of the city.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has extended sanctions against Russia after an investigation into doping in Russian sports, the official website of the organization reports . In Russia, any sporting events under the auspices of the IOC are prohibited. The sanctions have been extended "until further notice". The sanctions were introduced in July this year.

In a scandalous documentary about Magnitsky, all roles were played by Ukrainian artists Photo: "New Gazeta" By the almost seventh anniversary of the death of Sergei Magnitsky, Russian television is planning the premiere of the film Andrei Nekrasov, which relatives and friends of the deceased lawyer consider to be a mockery of his memory. And the journalists of the Ukrainian "Gromadsky TV" prepared a report on those who starred in a scandalous movie.

42 bodies found at Pakistan International Airlines plane crash site in Pakistan, reported . Daily Pakistan According to the publication, the cause of the crash was a malfunction of one of the engines. Before the plane disappeared from radar, the pilot transmitted an SOS. An ATR 42 aircraft was on a domestic flight from Chitral to Islamabad. The liner crashed near the city of Haveliana, on board were 47 people: 42 passengers and five crew members.

Rating of top players suspected of tax evasion Last week, the Internet portal Football , which investigates the financial component of football, announced the publication of documents that relate to the best football players in the world and their foreign offshore companies.

The Moscow City Court found no violations of the rights of the former Minister of Economic Development of Russia Alexei Ulyukaev during his detention, reports . TASS “The arguments of the lawyers that Ulyukaev’s right to defense was violated during the investigation are untenable,” the court’s decision says. At the end of November, the Moscow City Court left the former minister under house arrest.

The State Duma in the second reading adopted a bill that suspends the indexation of maternity capital until January 1, 2020, reports . TASS In addition, the bill provides for indexation once a year - on February 1, based on actual inflation. Now payments are made according to the forecast level of inflation and at different times. This will affect veterans, the disabled, citizens exposed to radiation. The bill was previously approved by the government.

The author of the "Russian" novel, which has become a bestseller in the USA, is about Kadyrov, Trump and rebellious California His “constellation of life phenomena” is almost the only artistic work about Chechnya, written in English. And it has a grand success.

In Ingushetia, the head of the center for combating extremism of the republican department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Timur Khamkhoev, was detained. This information was confirmed to Novaya Gazeta by the press service of the FSB department for the Republic of Ingushetia, but they refused to provide more similar information. Earlier, a RIA Novosti source in the power structures of the region reported that several of his subordinates were detained along with Khamkhoev.

The State Duma approved the draft federal budget for 2017-2019 and amendments to it in the second reading, reports TASS . 325 deputies voted for the adoption of the budget, 57 voted against, one abstained. According to the amendments, credit support to the regions will increase to 200 billion rubles. 10.5 billion rubles will be allocated for a one-time payment to military pensioners. The draft budget was submitted to the State Duma at the end of October.

The screens are released “under the cover of night”, exciting a thriller from the famous couturier Tom Ford, awarded a special prize of the jury of the Venetian film festival Frame from the movie "Under the cover of the Night" A rare case is attentive and at the same time not slave film adaptation. Ford's mystical and magnetic intellectual drama is the screen embodiment of the bestseller “Tony and Susan” - the most famous novel by Austin Wright about dangerous ties with literature.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow fined the human rights organization International Memorial 300,000 rubles for violating the law on non-profit organizations that act as "foreign agents." The court's decision is due to the fact that Memorial did not file an application for inclusion in the register of NCOs-foreign agents.

Judge Yuri Zhitnikov, presiding over the trial in the Moscow District Court in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, told the participants in the process today that he had sent telegrams to former deputy commander of the Sever battalion Ruslan Geremeev and his nephew Artur Geremeev. The court is waiting for them for interrogation as witnesses on December 13.