Photo: Yuri Gripas / Reuters On the ninth of December, US President Barack Obama demanded that the special services provide him with this year hacker attacks before he leaves the presidential chair (January 20). The order was preceded by the requirements of the group of American senators to conduct a thorough investigation and publicly provide facts of foreign intervention in the US election campaign in the United States.

In a hospital for patients infected with AIDS virus, 1990. Photo: Valery Khristoforov / TASS In the summer of 2017, the first diagnosis of AIDS will be 30 years old. In the 1980s, this disease still seemed exotic, it seemed that the virus was not common with us, but in Africa in the West. Its victims were not “ ordinary citizens ” , but drug addicts, prostitutes, homosexuals, and the disease was perceived as a kind of punishment for deviant behavior.

All women and children who were in controls controlled by the militants of the East Aleppo were taken outside the city. This is stated in the message of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, which entered the Republic. “The operation of the Syrian army to liberate Aleppo’s eastern quarters controlled by the militants,” the center said. Also, more than 4.5 thousand militants and 337 wounded were taken outside the borders, the message says.

The confrontation around Aleppo - the largest city in Syria - is almost completed. Russia announced that the eastern quarters, "under the control of the militants", were liberated by the Syrian army (although, according to other sources, armed groups of rebels in this part of the city remain). The civilian population was evacuated from Aleppo, and the rebels allow the city to leave the city.

American Joshua Aaron, accused of hacker hacker Jpmorgan hacking, was offered asylum in Russia, but he refused. About this writes The Wall Street Journal with reference to the lawyer Benjamin Braffman. According to the defender Aaron, his client first asked Moscow asylum, but, having received a positive answer, he changed his mind. “Someone in Russia tried to leave him there,” Braffman said. Earlier on December 14, it was reported that Moscow handed over to Washington Joshua Aaron.

Palmyra again passed under the control of the “Islamic state” because of the inconsistent actions of the coalition, Syria and Russia. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Interfax reports. “I have already talked many times to be effective in the fight against terrorists, it is necessary to combine efforts,” Putin recalled. According to the president, at the moment, the liberation of Aleppo from a military-political point of view is more important than Palmyra.

The US Supreme Court refused to consider the lawsuit of Maxim Freidson against Gazprom and Lukoil, the decree published . Since 2014, Freudzon has been suing Russian oil companies. He claims that he was illegally deprived of the company "OSEX", which belonged to 20% in the fuel-reference complex (TZK) of the Pulkovo airport. The businessman requires compensation of $ 540 million.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund and the Japanese Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) will create an investment fund of $ 1 billion. The head of the RDPI Kirill Dmitriev spoke about this by The Wall Street Journal. The fund, according to him, is created for joint projects, including energy and pharmaceuticals. RDIPI and JBIC will invest $ 500 million in the fund. As Dmitriev specified, 20 projects are planned, four or five of them will begin to be implemented in the next six months.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested 10 land plots and the residential building of the former Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the court. “As early as November 29, the court arrested 10 land plots and a residential building in the Smolensk region,” the agency was told in court. The property was arrested as a security measure in a criminal case of extortion of $ 2 million.

“Neither a wallet, nor life” by Simon Singha and Edzard Ernst is a story about non -traditional medicine, which Corpus recommends as uncorporate and truthful. In December, the book was published in Russian in the translation of Anastasia Borodotskaya. The authors expose acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractor and herbalization using a scientific arsenal.

The social network Facebook has developed a mechanism for combating false news. This was reported on the company's website. Facebook users will be able to mark inaccurate, in their opinion, posts published on the network. After that, dubious material will be sent to organizations engaged in verification of facts. The news that caused user distrust will not be displayed at the beginning of the tape.

The Rosstat data on industrial production contradict arithmetic calculations. This conclusion was reached by Sberbank CIB analysts (Sberbank investment unit), follows the report received by Republic. According to the materials of Rosstat published on December 15, in November, Russian industry increased by 2.7% in annual terms - the maximum pace in two years, and in the first 11 months of 2016 - by 0.8%.

The authorities of the Austrian Brownow-on-Inna changed their minds to demolish the house in which Adolf Hitler was born. It is reported by BBC News. The building will be restored and transferred to an organization that helps people with disabilities. According to local authorities, the refusal to demolish the house is a “life -affirming message” and “a clear symbol against the crimes committed by Hitler”.

The court arrested the property of the former Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev, Interfax reports with reference to an informed source. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the arrest of property was chosen as an interim measure. What kind of property is in question, the source of Interfax did not specify. Alexei Ulyukaev has been under house arrest in the criminal case of extortion $ 2 million at Rosneft since November 15.

All funds from the sale of 19.5% of Rosneft shares are transferred to the Russian budget. This was announced on December 16 by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. According to him, on the transfer of money from Rosneftegaz accounts (managed by state droves in Gazprom, Rosneft and Interrao), the head of state Vladimir Putin was reported by the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin. In Rosneftegaz, Sechin heads the board of directors.