More than half of the inhabitants of Japan negatively evaluate negotiations between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kyodo News reports . According to the survey, 54.3% of the respondents took negotiations negatively, which led to a decrease in support of the ABE government by six percentage points. Positive negotiations estimate 38.7% of the survey participants.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Adele al-Jubeir said that information on the reduction of military assistance from the United States is not true, reports Reuters . Earlier, the media reported that due to losses among the civilian population after air strikes of the Air Force of Saudi Arabia in Yemen Washington intends to cut out military assistance to Saudi Arabia. However, al-Jubeir said: “This news is a leak that contradicts reality.

The latest half-cub of Russian gas, which remained in Ukrainian storage facilities, will be sold at auction, the head of the Ukrtransgaz press service Maxim Belyavsky wrote on his Facebook page. Belyavsky indicated that the auction would be charity in nature - the money proceeds for fuel will be transferred to the orphanage. It should be noted that the Ukrainian side stopped the purchase of Russian gas in November, since it was not possible to coordinate the price and amount of prepayment.

Special forces of law enforcement agencies of the Chechen Republic held on the outskirts of Grozny a special operation to eliminate militants, five bandits were destroyed, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov, who led the operation, said that we are talking about the latest members of the bandit group who attacked law enforcement officials on the night of December 18.

The identities of members of the bandit group, who attacked law enforcement officers in Grozny on the night of December 18, are established, reports the Caucasian Knot with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the interlocutor of the site, Islam Altemirov, Sayd-Ibrahim Ismailov and Magomed Ilyasov were killed, the personality of the fourth killed is established: “All the dead are local residents.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in an interview with TASS spoke about the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan and the prospects for the development of Russian-Japanese relations.

Natalia Demina While Dissernet presented a list of 40 magazines, but this is only the beginning from the project website At the end of the year, Dissernet presented his new project “The disservice of Russian magazines” , work on which began almost a year ago. To date, 30 thousand texts of magazine articles from magazines included in the “VAK list” were analyzed.

In the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, shooting resumed, RIA Novosti reports with reference to eyewitnesses. On the night of December 18 in the same area of ​​the city, a group of militants attacked law enforcement officers. The four militants were eliminated with return fire. According to media reports, three managed to hide - they are called members of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia.

The elected US President Donald Trump responded to the statement of the current first Lady of the United States Michelle Obama that Trump's election will complete the era of “Hopes and Changes” in the country, reports The Hill .

The World Boxing Council will make a decision in the case of Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin no earlier than January 2017, TASS reports with reference to WBC president Maurisio Suleiman. Suleiman noted: “We started an investigation. Now now the time remains until the New Year, there will be many days off. We will complete the investigation in early 2017.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, revealed on his Instagram the details of the special operation to eliminate the gang group in Grozny, who attacked law enforcement officials on the night of December 18.

The Olympic Champion in Figure Skating in a single women's category Julia Lipnitskaya will not be able to take part in the Russian championship due to injury, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Figure Skarees of the Russian Federation.

In recent weeks, advisers to US President Barack Obama have repeatedly discussed various options for the American side response to cyber attacks allegedly carried out by Russian hackers, writes The New York Times. One of the proposed options is called the disclosure of "secret ties of Russian President Vladimir Putin with oligarchs." However, this method was canceled as ineffective, since “such news will not become a shock” for Russians.

The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with the newspaper Bild Am Sonntag said that NATO intervention in the Syrian conflict would only aggravate the situation. Polhenberg noted that “we will observe a terrible humanitarian catastrophe in Syria,” and emphasized that the use of military means could be “the right decision, as in Afghanistan,” but sometimes “damage from military intervention” (quotes for RBC ).

In the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, with the assistance of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill released the Ukrainian prisoner of war, RIA Novosti reports.