“Kommersant” under the heading “ This is what the Life -Giving Gas does” placed a report on the dispute of Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin and the price of Russian gas for Belarus. “ The Prosecutor's Office is changing fellow travelers ”: the department resumed BlablaCar work checks. “Resignations have accumulated in the Pension Fund: replacements are expected in the leadership.

The Court of Appeal of Armenia upheld the decision of the court of first instance on the arrest of the former President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, NEWS.AM reports with reference to Kocharyan’s lawyer Ayk Alyumyan.

Lithuania President Dalya Grybauskaite said that the Lithuanian authorities decided to introduce individual Sancts in relation to Russian citizens involved in the Certic Strait incident, TASS reports. Gribauskaite noted: "Lithuania firmly supports Ukraine and imposed national sanctions against the persons responsible for aggression in the Kerch Strait and the Black Sea." The names of Russians who have fallen on sanctions lists are not yet reported.

US President Donald Trump in the near future overwhelms the appointment of a press secretary of the State Department of the United States Heiser Nauert by a permanent representative of the country at the UN, Fox News TV channel reports . Recall that in October, Nikki Haley announced that at the end of the year she would leave the post of permanent representative of the United States at the UN. Trump is expected to announce the appointment of Nauert on his Twitter.

The ancient strain of the plague found in a woman buried in Sweden may be evidence of a pandemic that covered the farmers of Europe about 5500 years ago and created the conditions for mass migration to Europe from the east. Genetic samples of Yersinia Pestis bacteria were isolated from a dentist in a twenty -year -old woman whose remains were buried in the Gökham village, in the west of Sweden. Burial has the age of about 5000 years and contains the remains of 78 people.

Chairman of the United Committee of the Chiefs of Staffs of the US Armed Forces General Joseph Dunford said that the United States is not discussing the option of a military response to the incident in the Kerch Strait with the detention of Ukrainian ships by Russian border guards, reports The W Ashington Post .

The head of Rosobrnadzor Sergey Kravtsov said that in 2018, more than half of the nine -graders chose secondary vocational education in 2018, Interfax reports.

The Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Onufry and other bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church returned the invitation to the so -called unification council, Interfax reports with reference to a source in church circles. Patriarch Bartholomew, Constantinople, sent invitations to the cathedral to the heads of local administrations - they, in turn, presented invitations to the Bishops of the UOC with an urgent recommendation to accept him and go to Istanbul.

On December 7, 1878, Konstantin Skryabin, a Soviet helminthologist, was born. Personal business Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin (1878–1972) was born in St. Petersburg in the family of a railway worker. In 1905 he graduated from the Yuryevsky Veterinary Institute (now the city of Tartu). From 1907 to 1911 he worked as a veterinarian in Central Asia in the city of Auli-Ata, and then until 1917 in St. Petersburg-Petrograd.

Washington does not consider the military version of the response to the incident with Ukrainian courts in the Kerch Strait, said General Joseph Dunford, head of the Joint Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces. The general made this statement on the discussion site of the Washington Post on December 6.

Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Igor Zubov said that the agency is ready to deal with the causes of the increased lifting in the regions of the Russian Federation of concerts of young Russian performers, Interfax reports. At the same time, Zubov noted that the corresponding appeals to the Ministry of Internal Affairs were not received: “We must understand each case. The prosecutor’s office will entrust us - we will understand.

In January-October of this year, the export of Russian oil increased in value terms compared to the indicator for the same period in 2017 by 38.6% and reached $ 106.59 billion. About this, as Kommersant writes , the reports of the Federal Customs Service said. In October, this indicator amounted to $ 12.359 billion, which is 6.5% more than in September. At the same time, the physical volume of oil exports over 10 months of this year decreased by 0.1% and amounted to 213.471 million tons.

In January-October of this year, the export of Russian oil increased in value terms compared to the indicator for the same period in 2017 by 38.6% and reached $ 106.59 billion. About this, as Kommersant writes , the reports of the Federal Customs Service said. In October, this indicator amounted to $ 12.359 billion, which is 6.5% more than in September. At the same time, the physical volume of oil exports over 10 months of this year decreased by 0.1% and amounted to 213.471 million tons.

The key to maintaining an agreement on medium and smaller missiles is the issue of the Russian cruise missile 9M729, the US State Department said. Americans believe that Russia should destroy or modify this type of missiles. The corresponding statement was made on December 6 by the Deputy Secretary of State to control the arms and international security of Andrea Thompson during a briefing on December 6.

Actor Kevin Hart rejected the proposal of the organizers of the Oscar Award ceremony due to his own jokes. On December 5, it became known that Hart was chosen by the host of Oscars-2019. However, after this, a selection of actor jokes about faces with non -traditional sexual orientation appeared on this. The LGBT community accused Hart of homophobia. As a result, the actor decided to abandon the proposal to conduct Oscar-2019.