Libya officially requested Turkey about air, ground and naval military support to prevent the advance of General Caliph Haftar. The day before, the Turkish president agreed to send his troops to Libya to support the government of national consent and requested the approval of the parliament. According to Recep Erdogan, the country has more than two thousand fighters of Vagner's private military company.

Memorial's human rights center recognized the political prisoner of the convicted person to 2.5 years by the "Moscow case" by Sergey Surovtsev. This was reported on the organization’s website. On December 24, the Tver District Court of Moscow found Surovtsev guilty of the application of violence to representatives of the authorities during an inconsistent campaign in the capital for honest elections to the Moscow City Duma.

The Russian company Gazprom paid $ 2.9 billion Naftogaz of Ukraine by decision of the Stockholm arbitration. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the representative of Gazprom. The payment was made in accordance with the agreements reached at a meeting in Minsk on December 20. The Executive Director of NAC "Naftogaz Ukraine" Yuri Vitrenko confirmed the transfer of funds on his Facebook page.

Civil activist Konstantin Kotov, sentenced to four years in a colony under the so -called "Dadinskaya" article - about multiple violations at rallies, became a person of the year according to readers of the newspaper Vedomosti in the nomination "Private Person". According to the newspaper’s editorial office in this category, another accused in the Moscow Case, a student of the Higher School of Economics, Yegor Zhukov, won.

China carried out the first after the failure of 2017 by the launch of a powerful Changen-5 launch vehicle (translated from Chinese-the Great Campaign). The start of rockets from the cosmodrome on Hainan Island in the South China Sea was followed by thousands of local residents. The launch was broadcast on the Internet. In China, they hope that the new launch will serve as the rapid development of the national space program and, in particular, the interplanetary flight programs.

"Comrade Putin, you are a great scientist!" The ingenious romance of Yuza Aleshkovsky, 60 years later, sounds just as fresh and tart. It is enough to replace the surname. The former leader knew a lot about linguistics, the current one in history. At the final press conference, he once again convincingly proved this. "The borders were determined completely arbitrarily and far from always justified. For example, Donbass was transferred to Ukraine.

Search in the Moscow office of the FBK The drawing of an employee of the special forces of the Federal Bailiff Service, left in the office of the Corruption Fund after yesterday’s search, was sold on auction on Facebook. It was organized by the former head of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny Leonid Volkov. Sold for 50,000 rubles, buyer - Alexey Belyaev. Laptop Para will restore spite FSSP. Thank you!

Residents leave Maarat-al-Numan In the north-west of Syria, over the past 2 weeks, more than 235 thousand people left their homes, fleeing the bombing and the advance of the President of Bashar al-Assad, which Russia supports. Such data leads on Friday the UN. In mid -December, government troops resumed an offensive in the province of Idlib. This is the last territory west of the Euphrates River, which is controlled by the armed Syrian opposition.

The film "Union of Salvation", dedicated to the uprising of the Decembrists, was released on Russian film screens with great pomp. The first channel in the premiere report called it the "most anticipated film of the year" - which is not surprising, given that the head of the channel, Konstantin Ernst, produced the tape. "You know, so much about the Decembrists, we wanted to separate the truth in general and show the facts.

Release of video novations Radio Liberty and TV channel Present

Sound self -portrait of the composer of Bakshi. *** Metaphysics of clothing. Actress Oksana Mysina and director Klim.

Ecologists are in alarm: the consumption of meat and animal protein, which have grown in the last decades, threatens the existence of the planet. Livestock is made by a decisive contribution to global warming, increasing methane emissions and reducing the area of forests in order to expand agricultural veil.