Former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko considers the case of state treason, initiated by the State Bureau of Investigations (GBR), "confirmation of the double standards of the Russian Federation." He stated this in an interview with Radio Liberty, the full version of which can be read tonight on our website.

Memorial of victims of the genocide The US Congress Senate on Thursday approved a resolution in which the mass murder of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire is recognized as genocide during the First World War. The document, previously supported by the House of Representatives, was approved unanimously. Democrat Bob Menendes and Republican Ted Cruz repeatedly submitted a resolution for discussion, but previously their colleagues blocked him.

In St. Petersburg, suspects of attacking girls were detained due to appearance. This was reported in the city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A criminal case has been instituted under the article "Intentional infliction of medium severity of harm to health." Three detainees. Suspects from 16 to 19 years old. The department said that they were all representatives of the "informal community". One of them does not study anywhere, does not work.

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Alexey Kudrin Failure to fulfill the expenses of the federal budget in 2019, according to the forecast, may amount to one trillion rubles. This was reported to the President of Russia by Vladimir Putin by the head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin. “No, no, something a bit,” Vladimir Putin said to this. “Of course, we never had this yet. Last year, the federal budget was not executed by 770 billion,” the Kremlin website quotes Kudrin quoted.

We are discussing the risk and growth points in international relations last year with a member of the European Dialog expert group Evgeny Gontmacher and the organizers of the Nargo project, students Igor Iglann and Victoria Plekhanova.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow sent Mikhail Kvasov, accused of threatening one of the judges in the “Moscow case” Stanislav Minin, to a psychiatric hospital. The prosecutor requested that Kvasov be sent for a psychological and psychiatric examination. He motivated this by the fact that back in 2007, doctors diagnosed the accused with “mixed anxiety disorder.” The detention of Mikhail Kvasov became known on December 10.

In Madrid, the United Nations Climate Climate Climate Climate Climate, the participants of which once again discuss the alarming trends of global warming. It is already clear that 2019 will become one of the most warm from the start of temperature measurements. Each new decade after the 1980s turned out to be warmer than the previous one. In Greenland, glaciers melt, as a result of which by 2100 the water level in the oceans can increase by almost a meter.

In Moscow, several opposition activists were detained on Frunze Square. They were going to hang out a banner with the inscription "Putin buried the constitution." However, even before they managed to do this, they were surrounded by about 10 police officers. They forced activists to remove the poster out of the bag, put it on the ground and expand. According to the ATS-Info, among the detainees-Nikolai players, Daria Polyudova, Kirill Kotov, Sergey Gureev, as well as journalist Yuri Timofeev.

In this issue: victories in Sochi at the price of the three Olympiads and the contradictory figure of the former mayor of Moscow

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives of the US Congress approved a document providing for sanctions against key contractors participating in the construction of the North Stream-2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines. Sanctions, providing for the refusal of visas and freezing American assets of entrepreneurs and companies participating in the construction of the project are contained in the bill on the defense consumption of the United States.

Graphics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Andrey Antonenko - a new suspect of involvement in the murder of Pavel Sheremet The main version of the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet is the destabilization of the situation in Ukraine by killing a famous person. This was announced at a briefing in Kyiv by the deputy head of the National Police Yevgeny Koval. According to him, initially "the investigation considered four versions", including the professional activity of Sheremet.

In the landscape of the global economy, Russia looks like a quiet swamp: macroeconomic stability, huge reserves, near -mowal growth and lack of reforms. Does the next decade of stagnation await us? What risks and “black swans” can change the balance? And will the government have enough oil revenues and gold and foreign exchange reserves to continue to pay stagnation and ghostly stability? Guests: Boris Grozovsky, economic observer and Andrei Movchan, economist, founder of Movchan's Group.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

Posters for Brexit and a pro -European demonstration in front of the British Parliament building in London In the UK, early elections to the House of Commons began. Polling stations will be open until 22:00 local time (1:00 on Moscow on Friday). There are 650 places in the British parliament, and the main issue of the current elections is whether the ruling conservative party will receive the majority, that is, 326 seats and above.