The Moscow District Military Court recognized the former student of Moscow State University Alexander Ivanov (Varvara Karaulov) guilty of trying to join the militants of the Islamic State terrorist group (prohibited in the Russian Federation). It is reported by RIA Novosti . At the moment, the judge continues to announce the verdict. The punishment against Karaulova will be announced at the end.

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Director of the Lenkom Mark Varsaver said that the famous Russian actress Inna Churikova broke her hand. Given the state of Churikova, it was decided to replace the play “Aquitaine Lioness”, where she plays the role of Aquitaine Alienora, for the play “Juno and Avos” on December 22. TASS writes about this. “Inna Mikhailovna Churikova broke her hand and the performance declared today with the participation of the actress“ Aquatian Lioness ”changes to“ Juno and maybe.

The Russian national football team was at the lowest positions in the FIFA ranking in its entire history. The new version of the rating was published on December 22. The Russian team sank to 56th place, that is, it turned out to be two lines below compared to the indicators of the month ago. At the same time, the first dozen rating remained unchanged. At the head of the rating is the Argentine national team, followed by Brazil, Germany, Chile, Belgium, Columbia, France, Portugal, Uruguay, Spain.

The Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Ella Pamfilova during a meeting with the heads of regional election committees made the probability of the cancellation of a single voting day, Kommersant writes with reference to one of the participants in this meeting. Pamfilova also made the possibility of transferring the voting day to another date (now it falls on the third Sunday of September).

“Polit.ru” publishes a video clinic of the speech of a biologist, a junior researcher at the Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology named after A.N. Belozersky Moscow State University, author of the book “The Origin of Life. From the nebula to the cage "Mikhail Nikitin. A conversation on the topic “The origin of life on Earth and other planets” took place on December 15 in the I.S. Turgenev as part of the Public Lectures cycle Polit.ru .

The State Duma deputy from the LDPR Ivan Sukharev sent a letter to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a proposal to secure special forces for Russian ambassadors abroad, RT reports. Such a reaction is caused by the murder of on December 19 of the Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov. The diplomat was shot dead in Ankara by the former Turkish police murth Altyntash, who shouted that it was “revenge for Aleppo”.

Maria Blokhina Dmitry Medvedev press service of the Government of the Russian Federation On Wednesday, December 22, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting of the Presidium of the Presidential Development Council and priority projects.

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Pavel Korolev has been appointed the new Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Crimea, who has been working as Deputy Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev for the past four years. This is stated on the website of the Crimean parliament. The candidacy of the Korolev was introduced by the head of the republic Sergey Aksenov. According to RIA Novosti , there are nine deputy prime ministers in the Crimean government. According to Aksenov, Korolev will oversee property and land issues.

The First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Alexander Buksman, allowed the possibility of establishing cases against officials, due to the negligence of which there was mass poisoning by surrogate alcohol in Irkutsk. About this writes " Interfax ." “Based on the results of the prosecutor’s audit, strict measures will be taken until the question of initiating criminal cases of negligence and inaction of officials in connection with this emergency.

"Kommersant" in the article "FSUPs rolled back" writes that the idea of ​​coercive FSUPs to corporate and controlled procurement failed in the State Duma. “There are not many gifts under the Christmas tree”: New Year's sales are not yet able to disperse the inflation of December. “ The government will report to the State Duma Council”: the lower house corrected its regulations.

Archaeologists working in the Canadian province of British Colombia discovered the most ancient garden in the north-west of the country, and this garden was located under water. It was arranged by the Indians at least 3800 years ago. Excavations took place 30 kilometers east of Vancouver, on the territory of the Katzi tribe, speaking in one of the dialects of the language of Halkomel . In ancient times, these places were very marshy.

Ilya Karpyuk Voting in the State Duma elections Mikhail Tereshchenko / AGN "Moscow" The Chairman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova during the meeting , with the heads of regional election commission, made the possibility of canceling a single voting day in Russia. This was written by Kommersant with reference to one of the participants in the meeting. Currently, a single voting day falls on the third Sunday of September.

The Russian Ministry of Transport announced the restoration of air traffic with Tajikistan, which was supposed to stop at midnight on December 22, RIA Novosti reports. The authorities of both countries were able to agree on the conditions for the flights of the Russian airline Yamal between the Zhukovsky airport and Tajik cities of Dushanbe and Khujand.