UPDATE After processing & 100% of the ballots & Kozhemyako gains 61.88% of the vote and wins the re-election of the head of Primorye, according to & on the CEC website.& Oleg Kozhemyako, interim head of Primorsky Krai, is gaining 60.97% of the vote after processing almost 92% of the ballots in the re-election of the head of the region, according to the data of the Central Election Commission (CEC).

One of the detainees during the promotion near the FSB building in Moscow Dmitry Ivanov said that the police in a car zaka threatened him with beating with the use of an electric shocker, reports ATS-Info. According to him, the police slightly beat him on the head of the phone. They cursed and threatened with beating, said Ivanov. A police officer with a stamp, he said, came later the rest and turned it on next to him.

The participants of the UN conference, held in Poland, adopted a set of rules for the implementation of the measures of the Paris climate agreement, reports the BBC. The publication notes that, according to delegates, the new rules will ensure that countries fulfill their promises to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere. The agreement was approved by representatives of 196 countries.

UPDATE 14.42 The correspondent of Novaya Gazeta said that two more participants in the action were detained for posters. & According to the participants in the action, approximately eight to nine people were detained. Later, the & “OTD-Info” project said that during the promotion, 12 people were detained by the FSB building.

In the Primorsky Territory at 20:00 local time (13:00 Moscow time), voting in the repeated gubernatorial elections ended, the counting of votes began, Interfax reports , citing the regional election commission. According to information as of 18:00 local time (11:00 Moscow time), the voter turnout was 39.57%. The Central Election Commission (CEC) told the agency that the elections were organized.

In the Tomsk region, a Mi-8 helicopter crashed after a hard landing, Interfax reports , citing a source in the region's emergency services. “During the execution of maneuvers in the area of ​​the Kedrovka site, the helicopter made a hard landing, fell on its side and collapsed,” he said. According to the agency, there were 22 people on board the helicopter, according to TASS - 25 people.

UPDATED 13.21 & Later, the press secretary of the cantonal police, Rebecca Thielen, said that, according to law enforcement officers, six Russians were injured in the accident, . RIA Novosti reports A bus accident in Switzerland has killed one person and injured 44 people, said . police in the canton of Zurich The accident happened early in the morning on December 16th. The police noted that three people were seriously injured, 41 people - mild and moderate.

Due to a gas explosion in a residential building in Vologda, a state of emergency was introduced, Mayor Sergei Voropanov said on his page on VKontakte. The signal about the explosion, according to him, came on the night of December 16. As a result of the incident, the mayor said, a woman died, three more people were injured. All residents of the house where the gas explosion occurred were evacuated. Demolition work on the collapsed house was scheduled to begin on December 16.

The plane with 287 tourists of the Pearl River Company, who could not return to Russia from China, flew from the city of Haikou (the administrative center of Hainan Province) to Moscow. It is reported by TASS. The flight took off at 10:17 local time (05:17 Moscow time).

Under the auspices of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Kyiv, the first Metropolitan is the first for 350 years of Moscow Metropolitan Epiphanius (Dumenko). Photo: Reuters As the “new” predicted, 39-year-old Metropolitan Epiphanius (Dumenko) was elected the first Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine.