The United States expelled 35 Russian diplomats and people close to them from the country. Within 72 hours they need to leave the country's territory. It is reported by Reuters . At the same time, the diplomatic member members closed access to the residential complex in Maryland and New York, which, according to the agency’s source, were used to collect “intelligence data”. The American leader Barack Obama also signed a decree on the expansion of sanctions against Russia.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called the Media Media reports about the dismissal of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of ATTI Alaudinov. He wrote about this in his instagram. “I learned from the press that I“ demanded from General Alaudinov to resign. ” What to say here? Frank boltology and empty conversations! " - said the head of the republic.

Law enforcement officers conducted searches in the office of the company "Sea Trade Port of the Ust-Luga". This was reported to TASS in the press service of the organization. “In the morning, investigative actions were really in the morning. This did not affect operating activities, ”the company said. RBC notes that we are talking about checking in the northwest direction. Sources of the publication claim that the FSB officers “interest the flows of smuggling”.

A picket participant in defense of the right to abortion on the Marse Field. Photo: Svetlana Kholyavchuk / Interpress / ITAR-TASS This year, it became obvious that Russian society, or at least its part of it, had grown up to pay attention to the agenda that is not very successful in the West to be “progressive” in the West.

Three military personnel of the Armed Forces of Armenia died on a section of the border with Azerbaijan, the press secretary of the country's Minister of Defense Archrun Ovannisyan told Interfax .

With the next update, the operating system is optimized for games Microsoft plans to introduce in Windows 10 “Gamer mode”. According to Ubergizmo, the Twitter user @h0 × 0d found in the assembly of the OS for developers a new Gamemode.dll file. According to Ubergizmo, the “gamer mode” will free up additional resources of the system and give priority to advanced games. Perhaps Ubergizmo writes, Microsoft will offer this function along with the next large Windows 10 update.

The US Department of Internal Security and the FBI issued a report “On malware of Russia”. The department noted that this is the “first detailed technical analysis” represented by the government. The document states that Russian hackers made two attacks against an unnamed American party in the summer of 2015 and in the spring of 2016. Hacker groups are listed in the report as APT28 and APT29.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, RusHydro CEO Nikolai Shulginov and the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Sergey Katyrin, asked the government to make the All-Russian Bank for the Development of Regions (VBRR) an investor during the reorganization of the Bank of the Russian Orthodox Church Peresvet. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the source.

The Twitter transaction function appeared on the panoramic video via Periscope, reports The Verge. The first panoramic video is published here . Not everyone can launch broadcasts and publish videos, they test a new function on a “small number of partners”. According to The Verge, the quality of the video is not very good, but otherwise it would be harder to broadcast 360 degrees video. The new function on Twitter appeared two weeks after the testing of panoramic videos announced Facebook.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law regulating the use of physical force, special equipment and firearms to prisoners. The corresponding document is posted on the official portal of legal information. The State Duma adopted the corresponding bill in the second and third reading on December 21. It was introduced to the lower house of parliament in May 2015, in October of the same year he passed the first reading.

The police released the detained citizen of Tunisia, who was suspected of involvement in the terrorist attack at the New Year's fair in Berlin. It is reported by AFP. The police found that he was not connected with the main suspect in the attack - Anise Ampry. The police representative said that the detainee number was found in Amri's phone book, which was the reason for his detention, Reuters reports. A citizen of Tunisia was detained on December 28, it was reported that he was 40 years old.

US sanctions caused by the “intervention” of Russia in the American presidential election are unpromising. This was stated by Interfax by the authorized Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation on human rights, democracy and the rule of law Konstantin Dolgov. “I can only pave the fact that the sanctions hysteria demonstrates the complete absence of orientation in the space of the outgoing US administration,” the diplomat noted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing the military to conclude short -term contracts for service abroad. The corresponding document is published on the official portal of legal information. According to the law, military personnel will be able to conclude contracts for the term “until the termination of circumstances that caused the need to conclude them”, but no more than a year. On December 14, the State Duma adopted the document in the second and third reading.

The National Security and Defense Council (National Security and Defense Council) of Ukraine has expanded sanctions against Russia. This was reported on the website of the department. “In connection with the ongoing hybrid aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the National Security and Defense Council imposed additional sanctions against individuals and legal entities of the aggressor state,” the message explains.

The new owner of the Makhachkala football club "Anji" was businessman Osman Kadiev. This was reported on the club’s website. The statement notes that the structures of the former owner of the club Suleiman Kerimov "guaranteed the settlement of all his debts." “Osman Kadiev took control of the club and expressed his readiness to develop him and the potential of football players from Dagestan, who could not be completely disclosed in previous Anji work,” the report said.