At least six Democrats called their Republican colleagues not to vote on December 19 for the elected President of the United States Donald Trump. According to Politico , their goal is not so much the odious billionaire as the institute of electors in the United States. The publication reports that former supporters of Bernie Sanders from the states of Washington and Colorado understand that 37 Republicans will not be able to pull on their side.

The ex-head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, who is under house arrest on charges of receiving a bribe, called an ambulance, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the deputy head of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) Eve Merkachev. “Alexei Ulyukaeva became ill - pressure jumped up. In this regard, a team of doctors was called at home. They provided him all the necessary assistance, ”said Merkacheva.

The American authorities imposed sanctions against three leaders of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, the State Department said in a message on the website of the State Department . We are talking about Abdullah Ahmed al-Meshedani, Basile Hassan and Abelil Chemistry.

The citizen of Uzbekistan Gulchekhru Bobokulov, who killed a 4-year-old girl in Moscow, can be sent instead of a colony to treatment to a psychiatric hospital. The prosecutor addressed the court with the corresponding request. The lawyer of the accused supported this initiative, reports TASS with reference to the press service of the Khoroshevsky District Court.

The Moscow District Military Court decided not to wait for the arrival of the model Anna Duritskaya, a witness in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov . He will announce earlier evidence of it without her presence, RIA Novosti reports. “In view of this circumstance (that Duritskaya did not appear to the court), the request of the state prosecution is subject to satisfaction, the testimony of Duritskaya will be announced during the court session,” the agency quoted Judge Yuri Zhitnikov quoted.

Maria Blokhina Vladislav Mushroom press service of the OPRF On Monday, November 21, in the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as part of a conference on the modernization of the personnel training system in the field of science, the constituent congress of the new structure within the scientific community - the Russian professorship.

The Huidestar charitable non -profit organization, one of the creators of which is the elected US President Donald Trump, admitted to the non -targeted use of funds - in particular, in transfers of money to third parties, writes Washington Post .

Allegedly genuine questionnaires of the two Russian military, stolen by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on the border with the Crimea, were published on the scandalous Ukrainian site “ Peacemaker ” - the very one that was criticized by the OSCE for attacks on the freedom of the press.

The eighth batch for the title of world chess champion in New York ended in favor of Sergei Karyakin. He won the current world champion Norwegian Magnus Karlsen, TASS reports. Karyakin won the 53rd course of the party, which lasted about 5 hours. According to the results of the parties played, seven of which ended in a draw, Karjakin leads - 4.5: 3.5. The ninth party will take place on Wednesday, the Russian will again play black figures.

On Monday, the elected US President Donald Trump said that he gave his transition team an order to draw up a draft plan of paramount tasks, writes Wall Street Journal . The authors note that this is Trump's first attempt after election to directly inform the citizens about their intentions for the first time after the inauguration. It is also noted in the material that before Trump, the elected presidents George Bush Jr.

The State Duma and the Government in the near future can reconsider the prevailing practice of adopting laws. Although this process is quite clearly regulated by the Constitution, reality is somewhat different from how the authors of the Basic Law imagined it. Recall that in accordance with the Constitution, the law of legislative initiatives has a limited circle of persons and institutions.

"Kommersant" in the article "Tax on the delivered value" writes that online retailers suggest instead of VAT to introduce sales tax. Citizens prefer to bite at the gas station, the article "Fastfood accelerated on gasoline" is claimed. “ The design office will include an answering machine”: national projects on housing and communal services and roads will require feedback from citizens.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian leader will make a message to the Federal Assembly on December 1, Interfax reports. “The message will be the first number,” said the Kremlin representative. Peskov also spoke about Putin's plans to hold a large press conference in the second half of December. About this writes the agency RIA Novosti .

Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Ilya Trunin said that his department will offer to reduce insurance premiums and increase VAT in Russia after 2018, RIA Novosti reports. “We will offer to do this in every new budget cycle,” Trunin said. In accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation, any tax amendment should be reflected in the main areas of the tax policy for the next three -year -old.

The international group of researchers announced the completion of work on the decoding of the Ginkgo Biloba genome. Ginkgo is often called living fossil. Now the type of ginkgo biloba ( Ginkgo Biloba ) is the only representative of the once extensive group of plants that arose at the end of the Perm period more than 250 million years ago. During the Mesozoic era, representatives of the Ginkgov class were widespread.