The Adler District Court of Sochi found electrician Mardiros Demerchyan guilty of false denunciation for the story of torture in the police. The court appointed Demerchyan 300 hours of correctional labor, according to the website of the Public Verdict Foundation. The lawyer of the defendant, Alexander Popkov, said that the court rejected the “actually all” defense petitions, and the investigation did not allow me to get acquainted with the case materials. He intends to appeal the court decision.

The disaster in Vnukovo, in which the president of the Total oil company Christophe de Margeri died on October 21, was influenced by the privatization of the airport. This was announced in his speech in the Federation Council by the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia (SK) Alexander Bastrykin, Interfax reports. “I looked at how all this is done. There was fog, and therefore it was difficult to exercise visual or television control.

The European Tribunal of the General Instance blocked the decision to extend Hamas in the list of terrorist organizations, Reuters reports. At the same time, the court supported the extension of the measure for three months or until the case is closed. The court ruled that Hamas was included in the list not on the basis of the studied actions of the organization, but on the information received from the media.

Elections to the State Duma of the VII convocation will be held on December 4, 2016. This date was called the deputy chairman of the CEC Leonid Ivlev at a meeting with representatives of the parties, writes TASS. “As of today, 14 parties will not collect signatures. Last year, there were 12. Four parties of them - parliamentary, the fifth party - Yabloko, like a party that scored more than 3% of the votes in previous elections, ”he explained.

The head of the AFC “System” by Vladimir Yevtushenkov was released from house arrest. About this with reference to unnamed sources reports TASS. The entrepreneur took the obligation to appeal to the investigator. The reasons why the investigation changed the measure of restraint Yevtushenkov are not reported. At the same time, the lawyer of Yevtushenkov Alexander Gofstein and the Moscow City Court told Interfax that they did not know anything about changing the preventive measure.

The Lifenews TV channel will fire 70 employees out of 480 by 2015, the editor -in -chief of the resource Anatoly Suleimanov said on his Twitter. “There were 480 people, by January 1 there will be 410,” he wrote, clarifying that this is only about the channel, but not about all News Media holding.

A memorable event dedicated to the anniversary of the tragic events in the theater center on Dubrovka. Photo: Dmitry Lekai / Kommersant Continuation: • The alleged organizer of the attack on Dubrovka was detained at the entrance from Ukraine → The Office of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) in Moscow resumed an investigation into a criminal case of a terrorist attack in the theater center on Dubrovka in October 2002, Kommersant reports on Wednesday, December 17.

The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko told reporters how senators will celebrate the New Year, reports Interfax. According to her, funds from the budget will not be spent on the corporate party. “On the eve of the New Year, we will raise the New Year's glass of champagne, but all this will be for the modest means of the senators themselves,” she promised. At the festival “there will be no populism, but at the same time everything will be done humanly,” Matvienko shared.

The Lifenews television channel will reduce to half the employees by the New Year, TJournal said with reference to sources familiar with the situation within the company. The management made a decision to reduce the state about two weeks ago due to the difficult financial situation of the Newsmedia holding that owns the holding. Which of the employees will leave the company, it became known on December 16.

The Russian crisis like what happened in 1998 will cost 12 large European banks € 7.5 billion ($ 9.3 billion), Bloomberg reports with reference to the Deutsche Bank review. The most Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International, the French Societe Generale (owner of Rosbank) and the Italian Unicredit will be lost. The damage of each of them is the analysts of the German bank at € 1 billion.

Alfa-Bank demanded that the Federal Air Transport Agency, Rostransnadzor and the State Corporation for the Organization of the Air Movement stop flights of the UTAIR airline. This was reported by TASS with reference to unnamed sources, familiar with the claims of the bank.

Photo: Reuters Black December failed a line under an entire era, which will be remembered with Nostalgia with the Brezhnev Stague - the era of the “well -fed zero”. Politically, it ended in Bolotnaya in 2011 along with the middle class uprising, and economically-right now, along with the fall of the ruble on the screens of exchangers.

Barack Obama. Photo: Reuters / Doug Mills / Pool US President Barack Obama announced the recreation of diplomatic relations with Cuba. The official appeal of the American president is published on the White House website. Obama announced the order of Secretary of State John Kerry to immediately start negotiations with Cuba on the restoration of diplomatic relations interrupted in January 1961, as well as the normalization of economic and tourist relations.

Continuation- UTAIR will reduce the park of aircraft by 40% due to debts → The Federal Air Transport Agency considers Alfa-Bank claims sent against the UTAIR airline, an attempt to pressure on the authorities, according to the Federal Air Transport Agency, which is referred by Interfax . Currently, the bank, through the court, is making more than $ 20 million from UTAIR.

Continuation: • Medvedev spoke about the “separation” of the ruble from the “fundamental indicators” → The Bank of Russia sharply raised the courses of the main world currencies. On December 18, the euro will cost 84,5890 rubles - 8.4 rubles more compared to the previous day. The official dollar exchange rate is increased by 6.6 rubles to 67.7851 rubles.