Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Syrian armed forces, with the support of the Russian military, freed almost the entire territory of Syria from terrorists, the Kremlin said .

On December 5, 1620, Protopop Avvakum, one of the main ideologists of the Old Believers, the Holy Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, was born. Personal business "Holy Martyr and Confessor Avvakum" Fresco in the Ilyinsky chapel of the Nikolsky Church (Moscow) Avvakum (1620 - 1682) was born in the family of a rural priest Peter, son of Kondratyev, in the village of Grigorovo near Nizhny Novgorod.

The international team of researchers read the genome of pumpkin-gorlian, also known as Lagenaria Siceraria , and also reconstructed the genome of the common ancestor of all representatives of the pumpkin family ( Cucurbitaceae ). The birthplace of this plant is South Africa. From there, it spread widely not only through the African continent, but throughout Asia and Polynesia. They grow it in South America.

The former owner of Yugra Bank Alexey Khotin and Alfa Bank entered into a settlement agreement regarding the claim of Alfa Bank against structures associated with the businessman. The amount of the claim was 2.6 billion rubles, reports RNS . We were talking about debt on a loan to Khotin’s company “Fasis” in the amount of $43.615 million, including overdue principal debt and a penalty.

The head of the Commission of the Council of the Federation Council for the Protection of State Sovereignty Andrei Klimov expressed confidence that in the near future the list of media foreigners would not expand. There is no reason for this, he said to RIA Novosti . Klimov noted that if the oppression of the Russian media in the United States does not receive a new development, the already taken mirror measures is enough.

During the meeting with the heads of settlements of the district, the deputy head of the administration of the Volokolamsky district of the Moscow Region, said that they were faced with the task of ensuring a 70% turnout in the 2018 presidential election and the same number of votes for the “main” candidate, whose name was not named, told RBC on the conditions of anonymity two chapters of the settlement and confirmed a source close to the leadership of the district.

All representatives of the Russian side present at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne must submit the means of communication to a public official announcement of the results of the meeting, InSide The Games reports. Recall, on December 5, the IOC Executive Committee is discussing the issue of Russia's participation in the 2018 Olympic Games against the backdrop of a doping scandal.

On the southern coast of Peru in the deserted plateau of Palp, it was possible to find a geoglyph opened by archaeologists almost half a century ago, and then lost. The most fame in the world were the Peruvian geoglyphs from the NASK PLATO - giant drawings on the surface of the Earth, which can be completely seen only from the plane. But in the neighborhood, just twenty and a little kilometers from the NASKA plateau, there is a palpa plateau, where a large number of geoglyphs are also located.

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved changes to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, defining the rules for confiscating income received by criminal means by decision of a foreign court. The document is published on the portal of legal information. According to the law, property confiscated in Russia by decision of a foreign court will be transferred to the instance that is indicated in the international treaty between the Russian Federation and a foreign state.

The leader of the Ukrainian “Movement of New Forces” Mikhail Saakashvili, accompanied by a column of his supporters, approached the Verkhovna Rada building in Kiev, Interfax reports. In total, there are about a thousand activists in the column. As they write in social networks, Saakashvili spent a performance 30 meters from the parliament building.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has developed criteria for the possible admission of athletes of the Russian Federation for the Olympic Games in South Korea. It is reported by Inside the Games with reference to your own source. Russian athletes were obliged to submit individual applications for participation with evidence of their non -involvement in the reception of prohibited substances.

In the Central Office of Voentelecom, as well as the organization’s employees in Moscow and St. Petersburg, dozens of searches were held as part of the fraud case in the supply of equipment to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Kommersant writes. The first deputy director of Voentelecom Oleg Savitsky and commercial director of the holding Yevgeny Zhilkov was detained as suspects.

The Presidential Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs, the leader of the Growth Party Boris Titov, who decided to participate in the presidential election, considers his main task after them to "take control of the economy." He stated this during a press conference, writes Kommersant . “We are ready to take over the management of the country's economic reforms,” the politician said.

The Informant of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), a former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, in his testimony of the IOC commission, informed how allegedly the replacement of the doping industry of the Russian skier Alexander Legkov in Sochi took place. The testimony of Rodchenkov is given by the Norwegian edition of VG .

SBU forces near the House Saakashvili Digest "Polit.ru" is a brief selection of the ten most noticeable news of the outgoing day. Today, the Ministry of Justice called foreign agents from among the media, the IOC Executive Committee gathered in Lausanne to resolve the issue of Russia's participation in the Olympics, and in Kyiv the confrontation between the SBU and Mikhail Saakashvili.