On the complaint of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Popular Front party, Grigory Logvinsky, the Kiev prosecutor's office of Crimea, launched a criminal case against the Dutch tour operator Booking.com. It is reported by 112 Ukraine . According to the deputy himself, he was outraged by advertising and sale of residence in sanatoriums and hotels of Crimea.

The UN Security Council recognized the murder of the Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov as a terrorist attack and called for its perpetrators to be punished. writes about this RIA Novosti with reference to the text of the statement. “Members of the Security Council condemned in the most serious terms the terrorist attack on December 19 in Ankara, Turkey, as a result of which the Ambassador of the Russian Federation was killed,” the document says.

The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko spoke about the appeal of a group of European parliamentarians to the Russian side with an appeal to make a joint trip to Syria, TASS reports. “A group of European Parliamentarians asked our consent to go to Syria together, to look at the place of what is happening there,” Matvienko explained. She believes that attempts to isolate Russia crashed, and the growth of inter -parliamentary contacts clearly confirms this fact.

The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlyut Chavushoglu announced the country's intention to continue negotiations with the Russian Federation regarding the situation in Syria, TASS reports. “Türkiye intends to continue the dialogue with Russia in Syria,” said the Turkish minister. Chavushoglu emphasized that Ankara decisively condemns the murder of the Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov, which happened on December 19 and grieves with the people of Russia, RIA Novosti reports.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that she did not delete her post with a photograph of Andrei Karlov’s ambassador, who was killed in Ankara, Andrei Karlov and a quote from the song of Vladimir Vysotsky. She told Gazeta.Ru about this. She said that the post was removed by the Facebook administration.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the attack by a truck to visitors to visitors to the Christmas market Brightshadplaz in the center of Berlin, which died 12 people, reports AFP . As Angela Merkel noted, based on the information available, we can admit that it was a terrorist attack. The Bundescanzler also expressed gratitude to all doctors, rescuers and police officers for the help of the victims.

On the Czech tennis player Peter Kvitkov, a two -time Wimbledon winner, an attack was made. It is reported by The Guardian . The publication reports that she received stab wounds, but nothing threatens her life. The representative of the athlete Karel Tezhkal said that the doctors treated the wounds on his left hand that the criminal inflicted. He burst into Kvitkova’s apartment to rob her, and did not know that he was encroaching on the health and property of the world -famous athlete.

Turkish journalists published a new video of shooting at the Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara. It shows how a shooter, a 22-year-old graduate of the Police Academy Mevlut Altintash, is preparing to take shots. Another Video from Ankara's Russian Ambassador's Assassination Showing the Assassin in the Background Till The Attack Moment Pic.twitter.com/ipkdb73brh - Ali Hashem علي هاشم (@alihashem_tv) December 20, 2016

The Moscow Arbitration Court confirmed the decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) on an additional fine for the American Internet company Google. This was reported on Tuesday was reported by RNS . Earlier, the arbitration granted Google's petition for consideration in a closed claim for an additional fine from the FAS Russia. In September 2015, the FAS recognized Google Inc.

The forward of the Russian national team and FC Krasnodar Fedor Smolov was recognized as the best football player in 2016. The results of the vote held by the Russian Football Union (RFU) together with the Russian Football Premier League and the Sport-Express newspaper are published on the RFU website. 16 coaches, 16 managers of the country's clubs, 16 journalists and football fans took part in the vote. The voters for Smolov indicated that they were impressed by his indicators.

Washington decided to expand the anti-Russian sanctions list due to the situation in the east of Ukraine, follows from the statement of the US Treasury on December 20. Two water vessels (“Marshal Zhukov” and “Stalingrad” related to “Transflot”), 26 organizations and seven citizens were added to the list - Mikhail Dedov, Mikhail Klimin, Kirill Kovalchuk, Dmitry Mansurov, Oleg Minaev and Evgeny Prigozhin.

Murder of the Russian ambassador in Ankara Burhan Ozbilici/ AP/ Scanpix/ Leta Digest "Polit.ru" is a selection of the ten most noticeable news of the outgoing day. Today, the Kremlin called the reason for the murder of Russia's ambassador in Ankara, Germany recognized the events at the fair in Berlin with a terrorist attack, and the media reported the intention of AP to prevent Alexei Navalny to elections of the president.

The emergency regime was introduced throughout the Irkutsk region, where 54 people died from the surrogate alcohol -containing product in two days from surrogate alcohol -containing products, TASS reports with reference to the Governor of the Irkutsk Region Sergey Levchenko. “We decide on the introduction of emergencies. Alexander Semenovich, you will lead the headquarters, ”said the governor of the Irkutsk region Levchenko, referring to the head of the regional government Alexander Bitarov.

The head of the Russian Pension Fund (PFR) Anton Drozdov at the expanded meeting of the department of the department said that a single payment of 5 thousand rubles, together with the pension, will receive some of the pensioners only after the holidays. It is reported by TASS . “We will have citizens who will not receive 5 thousand rubles along with the pension, who receives a pension in the first ten days.

In the capital's metro on the Filevskaya line on the morning of December 20, a failure occurred. This was reported on Twitter Metro. “The Filevsky line. Use other metro lines, MCCs and ground transport, ”the subway reporters said. They noted that they are currently making the necessary efforts to restore the normal movement of trains. It is worth noting that the subway failure is caused by a malfunction of one of the trains. 9:12 Filev line. The train malfunction is eliminated.