A third of the inhabitants of Russia (29%) said that recently their attitude towards President of the country Vladimir Putin has worsened. This is evidenced by the results of the Levada Center survey, reports on December 13 "Interfax." The study conducted on November 18–21 was attended by 1.6 thousand people in 137 settlements of the Russian Federation. Another 55% of respondents noted that their attitude to the head of state has not changed, and 14% said that it improved.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov promised to check whether at the reception in the Kremlin with President Vladimir Putin in honor of the Heroes of the Fatherland Day the commander of the private military company Wagner Dmitry Utkin. It is reported by Interfax . “I will need to check the list of invited. I can’t say so offhand, ”he said. Earlier, Fontanka reported that on December 9, Dmitry Utkin was present at the reception in the Kremlin, nicknamed Wagner.

The Moscow Arbitration Court restored the license of the European University (EU) in St. Petersburg. This was reported on the site of the university. Arbitration suspended the relevant order of Rosobrnadzor. As explained in the EU, this will allow the university to return to work before consideration on the merits of the claim for contesting the order of the department. On the suspension of the EU license , it became known on December 9.

Tatfondbank will not be combined with the largest financial organization of Tatarstan Ak Bars. This was stated by President of the Republic Rustam Minnikhanov, reports Prime . According to him, the authorities of Tatarstan will support the Tatfondbank "as their capabilities." Minnikhanov did not specify the volume of possible assistance. Earlier on December 13, the Vedomosti newspaper wrote that the merger with Ak Bars is considered as one of the possible options for healing Tatfondbank.

The appearance of a video on the Internet, which allegedly shows preparations for sending Chechen soldiers to Syria, was the reason for the criminal case of disclosure of information. It is reported by Rosbalt. The source of the publication said that five people, including one officer, were detained as part of the case.

Hacker attacks on the Russian financial sector are effective due to poor awareness of organizations about the existing danger. Such conclusions came the ESET viral laboratory, which analyzed directed attacks on Russian banks. According to ESET, they are mainly organized by three groups of hackers: Corkow, Carbanak and Buhtrap. The company notes an increase in the number of attacks since 2015. According to ESET, most of them are built on the human factor.

Sunny fuel power plant of Aivonpa in California. Photo: Steve Marcus / Reuters On December sixth, Google Vice President Holtsl said on the company’s blog that by 2017, Google would completely switch to ensuring his work-both the data centers and the offices-renewable energy. Now Google is its largest corporate consumer in the world - 2.6 Gigavatt provides wind and sun.

Ukraine discovered a 40 billion cubic meters of gas in the northwestern shelf of the Black Sea, said Nikolai Boyarkin, head of the Ukrainian civil service of geology. His words are given on the department’s website. As Boyarkin said, a field of 7 thousand square meters in the area of ​​the island of Zmein was found using the Schoolmaker’s geological and reconnaissance vessel.

The Pentagon announced the murder of three militants of the Islamic State, who were involved in the preparation of terrorist attacks in Europe. The statement of the department is given by ABC. They were killed on December 4 in Racca, as a result of an air strike of American fighters. The names of the dead are not called, but it is specified that they were allies of the previously murdered “ISIS press secretary” Abu Muhammad al-Adnani.

The elected US President Donald Trump announced plans to appoint the head of Goldman Sachs Gary Cohen to the post of assistant president for economic policy and director of the National Economic Council. It is reported by Reuters . “It will help to form an economic policy that will contribute to the growth of wages for workers, stop the outflow of jobs abroad and create many new opportunities for Americans,” Trump said.

The International Bobsleya and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) postponed the 2017 World Cup from Sochi. This was reported in a press release on the organization’s website. “The IBSF Executive Committee decided that in such a difficult time it would be better not to hold such a tournament in Russia,” the report said.

For refusing to go to Syria from the service, 12 military personnel of the Ministry of Defense, deployed on the basis of Hankal near Grozny, fired. It is reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to sources. According to the publication, a combined detachment of a military police of 500 people was sent from Chechnya to Syria. With refusing (all of them, local residents) the contract terminated the contract ahead of schedule, said the source of the Caucasian Knot.

The President of Russia Vladimir Putin “good relations” with the head of the Exxonmobil oil company Rex Tillerson, whom the elected US President Donald Trump chose a new Secretary of State. This was announced to reporters by the assistant to the president Yuri Ushakov, Interfax reports. “Russian representatives, not only the president, have good business relations with this person, and he is perceived by all as a very solid figure with his views and points of view,” he said.

The State Security Service of Abkhazia announced the impending power overthrow of power, which could occur on December 15 in the city of Sukhum. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the statement of the special services. According to the State Security Service, radical oppositions allegedly want to “physically eliminate” the current president of the Republic of Raul Khadimbu. Supporters of the opposition are going to use firearms and incendiary mixtures, specified in the message.

The socio-political movement “Open Russia” launches a project to prepare 400 candidates for municipal elections in Moscow. This was reported to RBC by the teacher of the new educational center. The main goal of the project is the nomination of the applicant for the election of the mayor of the capital in 2018. The school will teach methods of improving the efficiency of public campaigns, the basics of Moscow legislation, the rules for collecting signatures, and public speeches.