International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has asked judges to reschedule the trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta due to insufficient evidence, Reuters reports . The prosecutor made this request because one of the key witnesses refused to testify, and the second admitted that he had lied to investigators. During the delay, she plans to collect new evidence. Kenyatta is accused of crimes against humanity.

The wife of Deputy Prime Minister Dagestan Haji Makhachev, who died in an accident in the west of Moscow, is alive, but got into intensive care, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the medical circles of the capital. According to him, the wife of Makhachev and their three children were hospitalized in one of the capital's hospitals. In addition to the Dagestan official in the accident, two more people died in another car, caught in after a collision with the Makhachev car.

On December 20, 2013, the Federal Civil Committee of the Civil Platform party was headed by the famous public figure Irina Prokhorova, replacing Mikhail Prokhorov in this post, ex-businessman and politician. This is the same rotation in the party that its leader announced a few months ago.

The European Court of Human Rights united and put a high priority to the complaints of the defendants in the “Swamp case” Stepan Zimin, Denis Lutskevich and Alexei Polikhovich, lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky said on his twitter . According to him, the term of the Russian government response to an ECHR request was determined until April 14, 2014. In total, 12 defendants in the “swamp business” addressed the ECHR.

Intellectual partner of the project Wise -wide infrared infrared telescope made the first series of test shots after its reactivation. The probe, launched in 2009, was "wake up" after disconnecting for 31 months. According to the NASA website, the telescope is in excellent condition, and its new pictures look as good as in front of a forced hibernation.

One day and even at the same time, two press conferences of the two presidents - V. Yanukovych and V. Putin were held in two capitals. And after all, they even talked about each other that they produces a certain intrigue here, muddy - how this picture is higher (they are together on December 17). The background is understandable: on December 17, under the leadership of V. Putin and V. Yanukovych, a meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian interstate commission was held.

The government introduced 27.7 billion rubles to the authorized capital of Russian Railways, according to the Cabinet website . The bulk of the funds will go to transport projects in the Moscow region. 22.8 billion rubles were allocated for the development of transport in Moscow and the Moscow Region, and 4.62 billion will be invested in the reconstruction of the site named after M. Gorky - Kotelnikovo - Tikhoretskaya - Crimean with the bypass of the Krasnodar railway junction.

The government has changed the investment declaration of the National Welfare Fund, RIA Novosti reports. The FNB was allowed to invest in some securities. This change will allow Russia to allocate money for a loan for Ukraine from the FNB. The country will invest in Ukrainian Eurobonds $ 15 billion. Previously, the funds of the fund could only be directed to ruble assets or bonds of 13 developed states. Ukraine was not among these countries.

The press conference of Vladimir Putin, which disappointed many, ended with a sensational message. After her, already in a narrow circle, Vladimir Putin said that Mikhail Khodorkovsky wrote him a petition for pardon. He, Putin, in turn intends to sign this petition in the near future. Since Khodorkovsky has humanitarian considerations, "his mother is sick." And besides, he has already served everything almost.

The Harju district Estonian court acquitted four Russian-speaking Estonian citizens who were accused of hacking to embezzle money, Interfax reports . The court also decided to lift the seizure of the property of all suspects - Vladimir Chashchin, Timur Gerasimenko, Dmitry Egorov and Konstantin Poltev. The state prosecution demanded a prison term of two and a half to six years for them. They are currently in custody pending extradition to the United States.

The Russian Ministry of Defense can recreate six military districts that existed before the reform that reduced them to four, write Vedomosti in the issue of December 20. This publication was reported by two officers of the Ministry of Defense. According to them, this decision has not yet been made, but the question of it is already raised by the results of inspections of the military department.

On December 21, the New Year's corporate party will be held in the State Duma for the money of several dispersor depots. As the chairman of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin said, several dozen deputies “threw themselves to organize this table,” Interfax reports. Naryshkin emphasized that there would be no costs from the budget. New Year's concert and buffet will take place on Saturday in a large hall of plenary meetings.

The largest car dealer Avtomir refused to renew the contract with LADA next year, Kommersant reports. The company said that the decision was made in connection with the "optimization of the brands portfolio." Avtomir said that the decision was mutual. However, the source of Kommersant said that the car dealer abandoned LADA due to service problems. Buyers of domestic cars rarely contact car services, which affects the profit of the company.

The government approved the bill "On Postal Communications", according to the website of the Ministry of Communications. The document involves the creation of virtual post offices in the country and mobile automated departments - post offices. New departments will provide services over the Internet, and Russians will be able to transfer electronic postal messages.

In an accident on Kutuzovsky Prospekt on Thursday evening, Deputy Chairman of the Government of Dagestan Haji Makhachev died, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the data of the metropolitan police. In addition, a source in the republic’s law enforcement agencies told the agency that the wife of Deputy Prime Minister had also died during the accident. According to him, children of Deputy Prime Minister are hospitalized.