Yuri Chaika and his sons, appearing in the investigation of the Corruption Fund, lead in the traditional final poll Polit.ru in the social network VKontakte. 32.7% of the survey participants cast their votes for the scandalous Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. The closest rivals of Yuri Chaika, according to the intermediate results of the vote, are the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov and the governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Sakashvili.

The Russian biathlonist Anton Shipulin became the third in the persecution race in the third stage of the World Cup, which takes place in Slovenian Popard, R-Sport reports. The first to the finish line was German Simon Shempp. According to the results of the previous early sprint, he started first and overcame the distance of 12.5 km, not allowing a single miss. After 16.6 seconds, phourten Fourcade finished phraseus. He started the fifth, and at the firing lines allowed one inaccurate shot.

On December 19, 1944, Anastasia Vertinskaya, theater and film actress, was born Personal business Anastasia Aleksandrovna Vertinskaya (71 years) was born in Moscow in the family of the famous chansonnier Alexander Vertinsky and the film actress Lydia Tsiggvawa. Parents tried to give her and her sister Marianne the best education, while special emphasis was in music and foreign languages. Little Nastya wanted to become a ballerina, but turned out to be “too large” for the troupe.

Igor Svinarenko I began to write this modest note about racism for a long time, in the last era - that is, to the attacks in Paris. But somehow the topic seemed to be gone, and I switched to something, more eternal. But, as it turned out, racism is a very eternal topic. And global! Then the Magyars covered the border from those who arrived, and now the States themselves. In order.

SpaceX, owned by Ilon Mask, has concluded a NASA contract for the implementation of the second manned flight to the International Space Station (ISS), according to the website of the American Airlines Agency. As noted in NASA, after receiving the necessary certificates, the SpaceX and CST-100 Starliner CST-100 Starliner will be able to deliver two people annually to the station.

The medical report of the doctor Joseph Steiner Brin, who examined Adolf Hitler in prison, says that the head of Nazi Germany had only one testicula. The certificate of the physician who worked in prison, where Hitler sat after the “beer putsch” was discovered by a German historian who published the discovery, writes The Telegraph . The medical certificate, together with other documents, was left from the hammer in 2010, and currently its owner retains anonymity.

The Syrian authorities will have to negotiate with the opposition, starting them immediately after the New Year, in early January. The corresponding condition is contained in the resolution on the peaceful settlement of the Syrian conflict, which the UN Security Council unanimously approved at today's meeting in New York, RIA Novosti reports. The resolution provides for a change in power in Syria for six months, and the elections for a year and a half.

The ten -year -old resident of the Karelian city of Sortavala Irina Nikitenkova, who, in a letter to the President of Russia, spoke about her desire to become a video blogger, received a video camera from Vladimir Putin, according to the official website of the Republic of Karelia. The New Year's gift of the president was handed over to the girl by the head of Karelia, Alexander Khudilinen.

The 22-year-old native of Yekaterinburg Sofia Nikitchuk became Vice-Miss World 2015, according to Twitter of the Organizing Committee of the Miss World 2015 competition. The third place went to the contestant from Indonesia, and the winner was the Spaniard Mirea Lalagun Royo. The final of the competition took place on December 19 on the Chinese island of Hainan in the city of Sanya.

The countries of Europe and Turkey closed their heaven for Russian aircraft of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) that strikes the positions of terrorists in Syria, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the interview of the Major General Anatoly Konovalov Ekho Moscow, which is deputy commander of the distant aircraft. Now, in order to participate in the operation against the Islamic State terrorist organization in Syria, pilots have to look for alternative ways bypassing Europe.

Anton Bykov UN Councils discusses a resolution on Syria The UN Security Council on the night of Saturday unanimously adopted a resolution on resolving the conflict in Syria. The document is devoted to the transition to the political process in the country. It should begin with a ceasefire between the government army and opposition groups.

The Russian hockey team won a major victory over rivals from Finland in the Channel Channel Cup match in Moscow, R-Sport reports. Eight goals visited the Gate of the Finnish team, while Vasily Koshechkin missed only one. As part of the Russian national team, captain Ilya Kovalchuk and Alexander Radulov, four more goals on the account of Nikolai Prokhorkin, Daniil Apalkov, Maxim Chudinov and Danis Zaripov made a duga.

In Moscow, a case was initiated on the fact of the death of a child as a result of the fall in the elevator in one of the residential buildings, Interfax reports. A criminal case was opened under Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Providing work that does not meet security requirements”) The tragedy occurred on December 19 on Ostrovityanov Street in the south-west of the capital. A married couple went into an elevator with a baby in a stroller.

The draft resolution on resolving the situation in Syria, which provides for the consolidation of Viennese agreements, was unanimously adopted by members of the UN Security Council. The resolution approves the international map of the peaceful settlement of the Syrian conflict based on the agreements reached within the framework of the Vienna process, Reuters reports.

The US authorities recognized the likelihood of the death of Iraqi soldiers as a result of the airstrike coalition on the positions of the Islamic State (IG) terrorist group near the city of El Falluj, the ABC television company reports. In the statement of the central command of the US military, it is noted that the attacks on the positions of the militants were agreed with Baghdad and the special services of Iraq.