At the Moscow metro station, Domodedovskaya, a passenger who fell on rails died. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the capital's transport police. As a result of the incident on the Zamoskvoretsky line, trains were suspended on the segment from the Alma-Ata station to “Orekhovo” towards the center. The work of the metro was completely restored by 13:00 Moscow time. The police began an audit on the fact of the incident.

The State Duma will accept an amnesty project not in one, but in two readings, RIA Novosti reports. As the head of the Duma committee on criminal law, Pavel Krasheninnikov, told on December 16, after amendments, the final editor of the document can be adopted on Wednesday, December 18. “Tomorrow we are considering in the first reading. Most likely, there will be two readings, ”Krasheninnikov noted.

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The Moscow City Court has dismissed the appeal of the lawyer of the vice-president of the All-Russian Public Organization of Rossiya Pavel Sigal, suspected of embezzlement of state centuries aimed at paying maternity capital, Interfax reports. Earlier, the Tver court of the city of Moscow arrested the case until January 19, 2014.

Despite the assurances of the new chairman of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina that the “personnel revolutions” are not expected, the staffing of the Central Bank, as Izvestia found out, are waiting for serious changes. After each regional employee of the Central Bank, according to the order of Nabiullina, will be certified next year, a third of the employees of the financial regulator will lose their posts, Izvestia writes.

In China, 16 people died during an attack on the police station in the west of the country in the Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region, Reuters reports. As it became known, on December 15, people armed with knives threw the building of the site with explosive devices. During the attack, two police officers died. In response, the police opened fire on the attackers, 14 of them were shot dead, two more were arrested.

Trading pavilions caught fire in the Sadovod market in Moscow, at the moment the fire area has reached 300 square meters, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Glavk of the Ministry of Emergencies in the capital. The message about the fire in the Sadovod market at the 14th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road was received at the remote control at 00:37. The department explained that the pavilions in which the goods were burning. There have been no data on the victims yet.

China’s authorities accused the United States of provocations, which almost led to the clash of the warships of the two countries in the South China Sea on the naval border of the PRC, reports The Global Times . The incident occurred on December 1, 2013. According to the Chinese side, the American Copens missile cruiser came close to the naval border of the PRC, which forced the border guards to send him a warship to prevent the invasion.

The Washington Federal Court supported the requirement of mobile subscribers for the National Security agency to terminate the collection of personal data, reports Associated Press . According to the court decision, the NSA is prohibited from collecting metadata of two subscribers of the Verizon cellular company, who went to the court with the corresponding claim. The decision will not enter into force until the NSA makes a decision to submit an appeal.

The Pechersky District Court of Kiev postponed the consideration of the lawsuit to clean the streets of the city, sidewalks and pedestrian crossings from the barricades, RIA Novosti reports. The decision on the claim was not made on December 16 in connection with the end of working time at the hearing. The court will return to the consideration of the claim of the city council of Kyiv on the release of streets from the barricades on January 28, 2014.

In Dagestan, during the clashes, three police officers and a border guard died, RIA Novosti reports. According to the source in law enforcement agencies, the clash occurred in the vicinity of the Dagestan village of Shaitley in the Tsuntinsky district. Other details are not reported. Bandits search measures will begin on the morning of December 17.

Citizens of Russia took first place in terms of the number of requests for the provision of political asylum in Germany. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the ambassador of Germany in Moscow Ulrich Brandenburg. According to Brandenburg, the number of requests for the provision of political shelters from immigrants from the Russian Federation has grown sharply in recent years. It is they who are currently significantly ahead of citizens of other states by this criterion.

The passenger who staged a brawl on board Boeing 737, who made the Krsanoyarsk-Moscow flight, turned out to be the former deputy head of the Chelyabinsk region Andrei Tretyakov. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the head of the transport police in the Siberian Federal District.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine confirmed the continuation of negotiations on signing an agreement with the EU, Interfax reports. According to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Olefirov, the agreement has not yet been signed, but negotiations are ongoing. The high diplomatic mission of Ukraine visited Brussels, where the discussion of a number of issues on signing an association agreement with the EU continued, Olefirov recalled.

On December 16, the Ministry of Education and Science will discuss a preliminary version of the youth policy development strategy, said the head of Rosmolodezh, Sergei Belokonev. According to him, the document was prepared for about six months and was discussed at more than 50 different sites. “I hope that in the coming months, that is, already in December -January we will come out in the view that suits everyone,” the head of Rosmolodezh commented on the situation with the document.