The Constitutional Court of Germany partially satisfied the lawsuit of German energy concerns about compensation for the refusal of nuclear energy. Recall that the German government decided to accelerated the rejection of atomic energy, referring to the consequences of the accident at the Japanese Fukushima NPP in 2011. Then E.on, RWE and Vatenfall filed claims with a compensation.

After the meeting of the leaders of the European Union, which will be held in Brussels on December 15, the EU anti -Russian sanctions will be extended for another six months, Reuters reports citing sources in diplomatic circles. According to them, at the end of the Brussels meeting, representatives of France and Germany briefly inform their colleagues from other EU countries to extend sanctions against Russia.

The English -speaking media discuss the prospects for establishing a visa -free regime in the EU for Georgia and Ukraine. After long negotiations, the EU finally agreed on the mechanism of rapid cancellation of this regime. Due to this, the European block will be able to establish a visa -free regime for these countries, without fear of an influx of illegal immigrants.

Maxim Russo The mummy from the crypt, in which a sample of the smallpox Kiril Cachovski, Lithuanian Mummy Project was found Natural smallpox was considered the culprit of many epidemics, starting from the first centuries of our era. Her traces were seen in the marks on the bodies of the Egyptian mummies, about thousands of people who died from smallpox, the chronicles of Japan, India, the Roman Empire, Byzantium, and the Arab countries reported.

Lawyer of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) Richard McLaren began to announce the second part of his report on the use of prohibited substances. His performance is broadcast on the organization’s website. According to McLaren, more than a thousand Russian athletes were involved in the manipulations with doping tests.

The Russian Gazprom holding appealed in the Stockholm arbitration a decision of the Ukrainian side to recover a fine of 172 billion hryvnias (about $ 6.673 billion), Interfax reports. We will remind, earlier the Commercial Court of Kiev satisfied the lawsuit of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) against Gazprom on the forced recovery of a fine.

Ukraine has about 700 million dollars provided in the form of international assistance that can be used to purchase Russian gas in winter. This was announced by TASS to a source in ministerial negotiations on gas between Russia, Ukraine and the EU. “Ukraine has a sufficient amount of funds for the acquisition of Russian gas in the winter, if this is necessary. We are talking about the amount of about $ 700 million, ”the agency’s interlocutor said.

Over the past day, about 8.5 thousand inhabitants have been released from the districts of the Syrian city of Aleppo. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of the warring parties. 8461 people came out of the eastern regions of the city, including 2934 children. It is also known that 14 militants surrendered and moved to the western part of Aleppo to the location of the Syrian army. All of them are amnestied.

The euro exchange rate during the trading on the Moscow Exchange on December 9 fell below 67 rubles for the first time since July 31, 2015. As of 11:42 Moscow time, the euro during the trading of the trading decreased to 66.99 rubles (-0.17 rubles). At the same time, the dollar is traded at 63.1 rubles (-0.18 rubles).

Syrian troops unilaterally stopped fighting in some areas of the provinces of Idlib and Damascus, reports Reuters with reference to a military source familiar with the details of the anti -terrorist operations of the SAR armed forces. According to him, military operations were discontinued today, December 9, from 18:00 local time.

The Investigative Committee of Russia announced the work on combating corruption. In particular, the department is conducting several resonant cases. “At present, active investigative actions in criminal cases of corruption are continuing: in relation to the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, the former vice-governor of St.

In the 70th year of his life, the former Minister of General and Professional Education of Russia died, director of the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics of the Higher School of Economics Alexander Tikhonov. This was reported on the Site of the Higher School of Economics and the Ministry of Education and Science . Tikhonov was the Minister from April to August 1998.

The marble head of the Roman Empress Julia Domna, almost sold at an auction in Amsterdam, will be returned to the Italian museum, from where it was stolen. In May 2015, a man and a woman made an offer to sell his head to the Amsterdam office of the auction house Christie's.

The Government of the Russian Federation left the lower and upper levels of unemployment benefits in 2017 unchanged. The corresponding resolution signed by the head of the Cabinet of Ministers Dmitry Medvedev is published on the official website of the government. According to the document, the minimum amount of the allowance in 2017 will be 850 rubles, the maximum - 4900 rubles. Similar amounts are valid this year.

At the United Nations (UN) General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), a majority vote, a resolution on the immediate cessation of military operations in Syria, TASS reports. For a document calling for the UN Security Council to take all possible measures to prevent further bloodshed in Syrian territory, representatives of 122 countries voted. 13 participants in the meeting opposed the resolution, including the Permanent Representatives of Russia, Belarus, DPRK, Iran and Syria itself.