The American leader Donald Trump tried several times over the summer to put pressure on influential senators from the Republican Party in order to stop the investigation of the “Russian trace” in the presidential election. Among the others, the US president appealed to the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee - Senator from North Carolina Richard Berra, writes The New York Times with reference to his assistants and another 15 representatives of the Senate.

On December 1, the Moscow City Court is consideration of the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office on the appeal of the property of the property of the Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the PF Dmitry Zakharchenko , accused of corruption. According to Kommersant , during a meeting, Zakharchenko complained about providing pressure on him from the FSB officers.

One of the main tasks of the upcoming presidential elections is to conduct them without violations and stuffing. In any case, according to RBC, the Kremlin puts such an installation to embrace, power structures, governors and heads of regional election commissions. “Vladimir Putin personally set the task,” one of the federal officials said in an interview with the publication. “There are three key tasks - the elections should be open, legitimate and without scandals.

The court turned the property of the family and former wives of Dmitry Zakharchenko into the state’s income. The Prosecutor General’s Office filed a civil lawsuit, she also estimated the total value of the property at 9 billion rubles - this was more than seized from all other officials combined since 2013.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a meeting of the Bishop Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church), which takes place in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, the Kremlin press service reports . The head of state noted the important role of the Russian Orthodox Church: “ The Church supported people, gave hopes, helped to find multiple spiritual, life guidelines, called for agreement and unity.

The head of the campaign headquarters of the opposition Alexei Navalny Leonid Volkov was sent under administrative arrest for 30 days. Volkov reported this on his tweeter. That is, until December 26, I am sitting somewhere. I will miss everything: both the nomination of candidates and the collection of the initiative group. Let's get friends, you yourself now.

Adidas LLC is guilty of violating the Russian Advertising Law, according to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). We are talking about advertising material under the heading "Adidas; The first decides ”, which was published by order of the company of the newspaper Sport-Express from July to September of this year, the message on the website of the supervisory authority is specified. FAS saw in this publication a violation of paragraph 1 of Part 2 of Art.

Anna Sakoyan Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State YouTube.com And the Merican newspaper New York Times laid the foundation for the speculation that the American White House is going to shift the current US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson from his post and replace it with the head of the CIA Mike Pompeo. Other media enthusiastically picked this topic with enthusiasm - first Washington Post, then others .

Sanofi Pasteur, the only manufacturer of the Denge vaccine in the world approved for clinical use, has spread the application , which reports that vaccinations of the vaccine should be done only by those who have already suffered a viral disease once. In people who have never painted Denge, after vaccination, the risk of a severe form of this disease increases . Denge's fever is caused by a virus, which is transmitted by the bites of mosquitoes Aedes Aegypti and AE. Albopictus .

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Tatyana Moskalkova, defended the initiative to reduce the age of complete legal capacity to 14 years, Interfax reports.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to disqualify the Russian biathlete Olga Zaitseva from participating in the Olympiads, the IOC press service reports. Zaitseva was punished for violation of anti -doping rules, they say in the IOC. Its results at the Winter Olympiad in Sochi in 2014 are canceled. Note that Zaitseva herself previously stated that she would rather throw her Olympic medal than give her to the IOC.

Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Maxim Pozdyshev said that the regulator applied to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to check a number of transactions with signs of the withdrawal of the Otkritie Bank, Bloomberg reports .

In early December, the final book “Russia 1900-2017. Newest history ”in the series“ Visual Chronology ”. The series began with books Medieval Rus' 839-1462 and Russia 1462-1917. From the kingdom to the empire. " Now these three books cover all the time of the existence of Russia. The third part of the publication is “The latest history of Russia in the XX - XXI centuries.” Dedicated to the history of the Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, the USSR and the Russian Federation from 1900 to 2017.

The international project for the study of whale sharks uses computer algorithms created by NASA to identify individual individuals to recognize areas of the starry sky. This was told by ABC News Marine Biologist Bradley Norman from the University of Murdok in the Australian city of Perth. Whale sharks ( Rhincodon Typus ) are common in the waters of tropical latitudes, but are not found in large quantities anywhere.

The wedding of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle will take place on May 26, 2018, writes The Sun with reference to his own sources. The fact that the wedding will be held in May previously declared the Buckingham Palace, but they did not call a specific day. It is known that the wedding will be held in the chapel of St. George in the Windsor Castle.