At the Congress of the Civil Initiative party, journalist Ksenia Sobchak presented her program in the presidential election of “123 difficult steps”. This was reported on her website. “There are no interests of the state. There are only the interests of people. The state should have only one interest, and only one goal is the rights and freedoms of citizens on behalf of which this state acts, ”the TV presenter postulated.

Today is a congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Even before his beginning, it became known that the leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov would not nominate his candidacy for the post of president of Russia. Instead, it was proposed to be sent to the elections of a man who had never had experience in big politics and even never in the party - Pavel Grudinin. He is 57 years old (and Zyuganov, by the way, 73), was born in Moscow, received an engineering education.

In the Southern Federal District, the finalists of the All -Russian contest of managers " Leaders of Russia " were determined, according to the website of the event. The competition was held from 10 to 13 December. 30 people fell into the final in the Southern District. Of these, 13 contestants are represented by the Rostov region, nine people - Krasnodar Territory, two people - Volgograd, Astrakhan regions and Sevastopol and one person - Crimea and Adygea.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at a plenary meeting of the United Russia party, the Kremlin press service reports . As noted, among the delegates of the congress, representatives of 85 regional branches of the party, “heads of ministries and departments, deputies of the State Duma, representatives of the executive and legislative authorities of the regions ... representatives of the expert and scientific communities”.

Ilona Mask SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 missile with ten telecommunications satellites Iridium Next. All satellites were successfully brought to orbit and started work, according to the company's Twitter. The rocket launched on December 22 from the US Air Force base Vandenberg in California. The first step of the Falcon 9 rocket was already used when launch in June. It is planned that SpaceX will deliver a total of 75 Iridium Next devices to orbit. The launch was the last for SpaceX this year.

The social network Facebook launched a tool that allows users to find out whether they received messages or viewed groups associated with the “troll factory” (the St. Petersburg organization “Internet Research Agency”). About this writes The Guardian . In Russia, this service is not available . The innovation allows users to find out whether they put Likes on Facebook or Instagram on the pages associated with the Troll Factory.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov believes that his Instagram account was deleted by the social network itself. After the New Year, he can start an Instagram account in the local Analogue - Mylistory network, Kadyrov said in Telegram. “On Saturday night, my Instagram page disappeared. The account had a box (official status), so Instagram was obliged to ensure security. For the sake of interest, we turned to the support service, but the answer was not followed.

The UN Security Council approved a new package of sanctions against the DPRK, prohibiting the export of labor from North Korea. The document is published on the UN website. In addition, the Security Council resolution, developed by the United States, provides for a restriction on fuel supply and other goods to the DPRK. The resolution was supported by all 15 members of the Security Council, including Russia and China - the main trading partners of North Korea.

Vladimir Putin at the Congress of United Russia Photo: Press Service of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin performed at the Plenum of United Russia. “We have many, many tasks,” he advanced the party members and in combination with the country's main legislators and officials. EP Chairman Dmitry Medvedev supported Putin’s decision to go a self -nominated person. About 2500 people welcomed Vladimir Putin at the Congress of United Russia.

Russia will pay $ 15 million, which will go to create an independent organization of doping testing (ITA). This was stated by the head of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, reports TASS . The IOC ordered Russia to pay this amount as one of the sanctions for manipulations with doping. Zhukov himself, like the rest of the Russian officials, was removed from the Olympic movement. OKR membership was also suspended.

The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that US plans to supply weapons to Ukraine are fraught with a breakdown of the Minsk agreements. This was stated by RIA Novosti by the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin.

The head of the U.S. Armed Forces Committee, John McCain, issued a special statement regarding the decision of the Donald Trump administration to supply Javelin anti -tank complexes to the Ukrainian authorities.

Seven children and one adult were hospitalized after an accident on Nizhny Mnevniki Street in Moscow, the source of Interfax said. According to him, the bus transported 16 children and 6 accompanying from the South Butovo to the Aviation Public shopping center, where the New Year's event takes place. “The accident occurred at about 11:00 at the house 20 on the street Nizhny Mnevniki. As a result of a collision of a bus with a mast of urban lighting, seven children were injured [and one adult].

Until the spring of 2018, the NTV television company will launch the NTV-Hit thematic channel, a source in the television company told RBC . On December 21, Roskomnadzor issued NTV a universal license to broadcast the new television channel. According to the source, the NTV Hit will partially show programs and TV shows that have already been on NTV, but “there will be new projects”. In October 2016, NTV launched three thematic television channels: NTV Style, NTV Law and NTV series.