Russia decided to return to Ukraine the vessels detained in the Kerch Strait in November last year. Kommersant was told about this by two well-informed sources. We are talking about small armored boats "Berdyansk" and "Nikopol", as well as the tugboat "Yany Kapu". According to the interlocutors of the publication, the ships will be returned together with standard weapons, but without ammunition.

The leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia will hold a meeting of heads in the Normandy format on December 9 in Paris. This was reported to Le Figaro at the Elysee Palace. The purpose of the meeting is “to develop a new strategy for the implementation of the Minsk agreements,” the report says. Participation in the meeting has so far been confirmed by Ukraine and Germany, Russia has not commented on the information about the meeting.

The Ministry of Defense explained the threat of rape Ramil Shamsutdinov with a distorted understanding of the Russian mat. A few days after the tragedy in the military unit in Transbaikalia, when the soldier Ramil Shamsutdinov shot eight people, the New Gazeta turned to the representatives of the special commission of the Ministry of Defense, convened to investigate this incident.

Who makes business on the supply of dog food for the FSIN Photo: RIA Novosti The New Gazeta and Transpenser Internet -Russia continue to study the business related to the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). In the previous parts, we talked about how the leadership of departmental FSUPs learned to bypass anti -corruption laws and who and how earns on the supplies of fish for prisoners. The current story about how they earn in the production of food for service dogs of the FSIN.

In Kyiv, one of the leaders of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia, Caesar Tokhosashvili, known as Al Bar Shishani, was detained. This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine. Tokhosashvili was detained in a private house in a joint special operation by the SBU, the Georgian Interior Ministry and the US Central Intelligence Agency. Now Tokhosashvili is in a temporary detention center, he is going to be extradited.

FAS deputy leader Anatoly Golomolzin - about how to maintain competition in the digital sphere and what ended with Google and Microsoft Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" Antimonopoly organs around the world fight on how to limit the growing market power of digital platforms.

Photo: Telegram channel #metropield A series of Friday single pickets in support of political prisoners was held in Moscow for the fifth time. The action was held at 50 metro stations, mainly located outside the garden ring. The purpose of the pickets is to tell residents of sleeping areas about "Moscow business" and other political affairs.

For verification, the Investigative Committee singled out new materials from the criminal case of the Khachaturian sisters regarding their father Mikhail, related to bringing Krestina Khachaturian to a suicide attempt and causing grievous bodily harm to her daughters. This was reported to TASS by lawyer Alexei Liptser.

Moscow City Duma deputy Sergei Mitrokhin, municipal deputies of the Presnensky district Nikolai Vasilyev, Elena Ivashkina and Anastasia Romashkevich, as well as activists opposed to the demolition of the Nightingale cinema center, filed a class action lawsuit challenging the inaction of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and his deputy Marat Khusnullin. It is reported by RBC. The Mosgosstroynadzor, the capital's departments of culture, cultural heritage and education are also defendants.

The Russian Academy of Sciences has summed up the voting results and announced the names of new academicians and corresponding members, RIA Novosti reports . The number of academicians included the chief urologist of the Ministry of Health, the leading developer of a unique Russian surgical robot, Dmitry Pushkar. Marine Tanashyan became one of the new corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, writes RBC.

The Zamoskvoretsky court arrested for five days the founder of the decommunization movement Dmitry Tsorionov (Enteo) for the action in support of political prisoners, a press secretary of the court told Novaya Gazeta. On the eve of the activist was detained at passport control at Sheremetyevo Airport. It drew up a protocol on repeated violations of the rules of rallies (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Ministry of Justice has included Sever.Realii (a Radio Liberty project) in the register of media outlets acting as foreign agents. This is stated on the website of the department. This decision was made by the Ministry of Justice on the basis of materials received from the State Duma on the facts of interference in the internal affairs of Russia.

The Khamovniki Court of Moscow ordered the special correspondent of Novaya Gazeta, the editor-in-chief of the Mokh magazine, Ilya Azar, to pay 400 thousand rubles in a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity filed by the family of MGIMO Vice-Rector Natalia Kuzmina. It was about the publication “A Brief History of the Destruction of the House of Children's Creativity in Khamovniki. What are Sobyanin's promises worth?

The Russian authorities in Lithuania handed over Frode Berg, convicted of espionage, to representatives of Norway. This is stated on the website of the Norwegian government. “We are happy that Frode Berg is now returning home to Norway as a free man. I thank the Lithuanian authorities for their cooperation and for their contribution to the release of Berg,” said Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN Stolen goods are not given away. The Federal Tax Service wants to take away property from the children of bankrupt businessmen. Not all experts condemn this The Federal Tax Service is going to seize property from the children of debtor entrepreneurs. The final decision will have to be made by the Supreme Court, Vedomosti reports .