The Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel was re-elected by the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). More than 89 percent of the delegates of the party congress, which takes place in the city of Essen, voted for it. It is reported by the "German wave". Merkel recently announced the intention for the fourth time to run for the chancellors - in the Bundestag elections, which will be held in the fall of next year.

In Moscow, a traditional action was held in support of political prisoners. The main requirements are “freedom to prisoners on May 6” and “Freedom to Ildar Dadin”.

A survey of Muscovites and guests of the capital on the streets of the city.

According to the UN, more than 9,700 people were killed in the conflict in the east of Ukraine and more than 23 thousand were injured. Most of the 2 thousand dead civilians died from the shelling of residential quarters and from mines and unexploded ammunition.

How did it happen that the field hospital in Aleppo, where the Russian nurses were killed during the shelling of the front line? *** The features of the concept of information security of Russia, approved by Vladimir Putin, investigate the reasons for the shootout between law enforcement officers during the operation of the gang of robbers

The largest review of Artdokfest documentaries in Russia, celebrating the 10th anniversary, takes place simultaneously in three cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. With one of the contestants of Artdokfest-2016, director Ksenia Okhankina about her film about the life of a small Chechen village was talked by the curator of the festival Tamara Larina.

Alexander van der Belllen Alexander Van Der Bellen confirmed his victory in the elections of the President of Austria. After the counting of the ballots sent by mail, the former leader of the Green Party received about 54 percent of the votes filed in the election on Sunday. His rival, a candidate from the ultra -right Party of Freedom of Norbert Hofer, supported a little more than 46 percent of voters. The results of its calculations were reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Austria.

The Russian healthcare system is comparable to the medicine of the third world. Such conclusions are contained in the report of the International Analytical Company The Economist Intelligence Unit, which cites RBC . Experts compared healthcare systems in 25 countries. They studied how much the state’s costs for treatment relate to its results, and came to the conclusion that the Russian healthcare system is focused not on the result of treatment, but on the number of medical services provided.

The Swedish gamer Felix Sheberg became the highest paid video blogger in 2016. With the help of his YouTube channel called Pewdiepie , he earned $ 15 million, follows from the rating of Forbes magazine. Last year, Sheberg's income from videos with the passage of video games amounted to 12 million. Then he also headed the list of the richest bloggers on YouTube. Almost 50 million people are signed on the Pewdiepie channel.

Alexey Navalny The Lenin court of Kirov postponed the meeting on December 12, at which the re -consideration of the Kirovles case will continue, reports Mediazon. The judge also refused the prosecution in the petition for the compulsory drive to the court of the founder of the Foundation for the Corruption of Alexei Navalny, who, along with Peter Officer, is a defendant in the case, but did not come to the meeting on Tuesday.

Destroyed by the Georgian tank in Tskhinval (archive photo) Former employee of the Investigative Committee of Russia Igor Stepanov sued the FSB. He demands to explain what order in 2008 he was sent to Georgia with his colleagues during the Russian armed conflict with this country. It is reported by RBC.

Russian President Vladimir Putin President Vladimir Putin approved the new doctrine of information security of Russia. The document was published on December 6 on the official portal of legal information. The previous doctrine, adopted in 2000, has lost strength. The document, in particular, states that the possibilities of cross -border turnover of information "are increasingly used to achieve geopolitical, terrorist and criminal goals", causing damage to international security.

Employees of the South Korean Security Service check the Internet cafe, archival photo Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and YouT UBE began to create a single database that allows you to track and block terrorist orientation on the Internet. The Facebook Newsroom press release reports that we are talking primarily about images and rollers that the alleged terrorists use to attract new supporters to their side.

National Library of France "Bald singer" and other translations of Elena Suritz. - M .: Center for the book of Rudomino, 2016. - (Series "Master of Artistic Translation"). Penelope Fitzgerald. "Blue Flower" // Translation of Elena Suritz. - "Foreign literature". - No. 9. 2016. The Malta Laurids Brigge has two author: the famous secretary of the famous Rodin and the Danish aristocrat.

Nikolai Karpyuk A citizen of Ukraine Nikolai Karpyuk was sent to serve his sentence in a colony in the city of Vladimir. This was announced on Facebook by lawyer Ilya Novikov. At the end of May, the Supreme Court of Chechnya sentenced Karpyuk to 22.5 years in a maximum security colony, finding him guilty that in 1994 during the Chechen war he allegedly participated in hostilities against the federal forces of Russia.