All European Union states received a vaccine from the Covid-19, said the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Layen. “Today we have been turning the page of a heavy year. Covid-19 vaccines were delivered to all EU countries. Vaccination throughout the European Union will begin tomorrow, ”she wrote. In her appeal, she noted that in all EU countries, vaccines have become available at the same time and doses of vaccines are enough for a population of 450 million people .

We completely dedicate this issue of the almanac to the work of Alexander Delfinov, poet, performer and activist. We offer to hear some of the poems in the author's reading. Fire in Salaspils Over and over again the moth beat against the lamp, I don’t remember well, it was in the summer, Visiting someone with my mother in Salaspils We arrived in eighty-one.

In Vladikavkaz, the court granted the request of the lawyers of the former head of the Ingush Center “E” Timur Khamkhoev, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in a case of torture of detainees, and released him on parole, the Caucasian Knot reports . In the case of torture of detainees at Center “E” in Ingushetia, there were seven defendants, including its head Timur Khamkhoev. In 2018, the court sentenced them to real terms of three to ten years.

Three sailors died in a fire that occurred on the Russian Fisheries Sveaborg in the Las Palmas port on the island of Grand Canarius, El Pais reports . The ship stood in the dock on the repair, the fire began in the machine department. The cause of the fire has not yet been set. Firefighters found three bodies on the ship. Four crew members were hospitalized due to smoke poisoning. The Russian Embassy in Madrid noted that there were no Russian citizens among the dead.

Putin signed the laws on the Gossimvolik. The status of a tricolor flag and a two -headed eagle is fixed, but the Alexander Anthem is still left without a text. After the publication of documents, the laws will come into force, and on New Year's Eve, the anthem will sound on TV throughout the country. The signing of laws coincided with another event. After a two -month break, the body of Lenin in the Mausoleum is again open to view.

The unknown opened fire in the center of Berlin, four people were injured, reports Reuters. Three wounded were found in Kroutsberg near the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The fourth police found in the nearby Landver channel. The causes of shooting are not yet known. The police are looking for participants in a shootout from a helicopter.

The military in Pskov accidentally shot a 30-mm gun, a shell without an explosive pierced the roof of a shopping center and fell in the Children's World store, Baza reports . REN TV clarifies that the military man examined the BMD-4 without the permission of the command and shot twice by accident. The gun was charged with an artillery shell with a solid core, but without explosives inside - the so -called "blank". One of the "Bolovnoks" broke through the roof of the FJord Plaza shopping center.

December 19, 2020, Krasnoyarsk Territory - a resident of Minusinsk spent money from them with a general budget girl. He decided to hide the embezzlement and set fire to the closet in which the money was stored. The police started a criminal case at a 23-year-old young man. He was already convicted earlier. He is accused under Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional destruction of other people's property by arson).

The Turkish authorities obliged everyone to get to the country to have a negative Coronavirus test. These measures will operate at least until March 1, 2021, Anadolu reports . “ Each passenger who arrives from abroad by air from December 28 and ground transport after December 30 is obliged to provide a negative result of the PCR test ,” the Edition of the Minister of Turkish Health Fakhrettin Khoja quotes. Those who do not have a test will not be allowed to enter the country.

The former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the USA Edward Snowden and his wife Lindsay Mills was born, Mills told Twitter. She published a joint picture with Snowden and the child and wrote: "Christmas baby." “The biggest gift is the love that we divided,” Snowden wrote on Twitter. Snowden wrote that they will educate their son “with all American values” who love, “including freedom to express their opinion”.

By December 25, coronavirus was detected in 79 840 206 (yesterday - 79 291 727) people, statistics were collected on the website of the University of Jones Hopkins. Covid-19 distribution leader-USA (18 756 360 sick). In second place is India (10,169 118 infected), in the third - Brazil (7 448 560), in the fourth - Russia (2 963 290), in the fifth - France (2 604 595). Since the beginning of the pandemic in the world, 1,750,580 people died from coronavirus.

In Khabarovsk, the last Subburine rally of support arrested on charges of custom-made ex-governor Furgal was held this year. According to the local administration, 30 people participated in the rally. “ Today, about 30 people gathered on Lenin Square. People are here in the conditions of an unfavorable epidemiological situation related to the spread of the Covid-19, and the restrictions introduced for mass events , ”the administration said in a statement.

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation approved the use of the Anti -ovid Vaccine "Sputnik V" to people over 60 years old, Interfax reports with reference to the Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko. “The Ministry of Health approved the amendments to the instructions for medical use. Now the "satellite V" vaccine is allowed for use in people aged 18 years and older. Thus, citizens over 60 years old can now also be vaccinated from coronavirus infection, ”Murashko quotes the publication.

The Constitutional Court of Russia allowed not to execute the decision of the international arbitration in the Hague, which decided to pay $ 57 billion to former shareholders of the Yukos. Explanations of the Constitutional Court of Russia appeared on the website of the KS on December 25, attention to the document I turned the Russian BBC Service. The government asked the KS to clarify the decisions of 2012.

Over the past day, 29,258 new cases of coronavirus have revealed in 85 regions of Russia. 15.6% of the infected were transferred asymptomatic disease, statistics were collected by the operastack. Leaders in the level of spread of infection: Moscow ( 7480 ), St. Petersburg ( 3755 ), Moscow ( 1615 ), Nizhny Novgorod ( 501 ) and Pskov ( 425 ) regions. The least new cases in the Chukotsk AO - only 6 people fell ill here. 567 people with a diagnosis of coronavirus died per day.