One of the best in the history of Soviet and Russian biathletes and skiers, the three -time Olympic champion Anfisa Reztsova announced that at the time she played for the Russian team, the whole team took doping. In an interview with Sports.ru portal, she said that in 1996, before the competitions, skiers were “pricked to all places”, and “the effect was” - Reztsova, according to her, won everything. At the same time, what kind of drugs they pricked her - she does not know.

The UN is an alarm: after the Covid-19 outbreak, cases of violence against women and girls, especially domestic violence, have become more frequent. And the number of victims of the “shadow pandemic” continues to grow. The Russian authorities, on the contrary, declare a noticeable reduction in the accounted facts of domestic violence. They are in no hurry to adopt a profile law, referring to “traditional family values”, and they consider the problem the problem. Why?

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

The decision of the IOC is made against the backdrop of the lasting acceleration of mass shares in Belarus against Lukashenko. A number of Belarusian athletes who supported the demonstrators announced persecution and pressure.

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Dictators often resort to reception of the creation of an external threat. It’s good for the dictator, if there is a threat, and if not, then it must be invented. In this case, Poland, the Baltic states, the European Union, NATO and the caterpillars clang tanks near the borders turned out to be an external threat. Alexander Lukashenko reads the same text from the leaflet in different circumstances, trying to convince the public: the threat is approaching.

On December 24, the inauguration of the elected president of the Republic of Moldova Maya Sandu will be in Chisinau.

Protest rally in Yerevan, Armenia, December 8, 2020 In Armenia on December 8 , the term of the ultimatum about the resignation, which the opposition nominated Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, expired . Opposition parties said that the shares of civil disobedience are being started. Politicians urge citizens to conduct peaceful rallies within the framework of the law, but in Yerevan the protesters tried to block several streets. The police detained more than 30 people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Tuesday several previously adopted laws enshrining the provisions of amendments to the Constitution approved in the summer of this year. Among them are a package of laws on toughening the punishment for alienation of Russian territories and calls for it. Documents are published on Tuesday on the official portal of legal information.

94-year-old Georgian finds happiness in the work of the janitor

Maya Sandu Elected president of the Republic of Moldova on the main challenges for the country Vitaly Portnikov: On December 24, in Chisinau, the inauguration of the elected president of the Republic of Moldova Maya Sandu will be held in Chisinau. With this victory in Moldova itself, and around her hopes for serious changes are associated, because Sandu, a politician who adheres to projuroral views, won the current President Igor Dodon, closely connected with the Kremlin.

The court in Minsk sentenced five people to the real terms of conclusion and restriction of freedom to the inscription on the asphalt. On September 9, in the capital of Belarus, several citizens made the inscription "We will not forget!" On the sidewalk tiles near the death site of Alexander Taraykovsky, a participant in protests against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. They had a criminal case of hooliganism committed by a group of persons, after which they arrested.

Mike Pompeo The US authorities have compiled a list of 10 countries where religious freedoms are violated. Among them are Iran, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. This was announced by the Secretary of State of the United States Mike Pompeo. For the first time, Nigeria was on the list.

Two tectonic plates - the conservative foundations of the Catholic Church and the centuries -old European traditions and the values of classical humanism and liberalism - were set in motion, forcing about a hundred thousand indignant citizens last fall to the decision of the Constitutional Court of Poland significantly narrow the list of indications for termination of pregnancy.

The young businessman Kirill Shamalov, when he was the president’s son -in -law, received a 3.8% of Sibura shares, paying only $ 100. The market price of its package could be about $ 380 million. Shamalov was involved in a number of lobbying stories, actively used offshore companies for his deals. Millions of dollars from companies with state participation were received by Putin's daughter, Putin Katerina Tikhonova.