The prosecutor’s office accused the former US presidential adviser Michael Flynn of giving false testimonies of the FBI as part of the investigation of the case of the alleged intervention of Russia in the presidential election. It is reported by CNN. The accusation believes that Flynn “intentionally and consciously” lied to the bureau’s employees when he was interrogated about the content of conversations during his meetings with the then Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided on lifelong disqualification of the Russian biathlete Olga Zaitseva. This was reported on the organization’s website. The decision was made after rechecking the doping industry of the Olympics in Sochi. The result of Zaitseva in the female relay is canceled. The athlete won silver in this discipline along with Yana Romanova and Olga Vilukhina. They were also disqualified, and the country has already been deprived of this award.

Yuri Kuli, convicted of the so -called "case of March 26", was released. It is reported by the OVD-Info. He became the first person involved in the case to be freed after the departure of the term of imprisonment. As Kulia’s lawyer said, he is now going to Moscow from the Ryazan region, where there is a colony-settlement in which he was serving his sentence. Kuly was convicted in May 2017.

In New York, this week they heard the testimony of the trader and businessman of Iranian origin of the cut of Zarrab. In court, he said about the scheme according to which Iran, with the participation of Turkey and its President Recep Erdogan (at the time of the events described, he was the Prime Minister) bypassed American sanctions and laundered a large amount of money.

The president is called the king almost no way, and in Russia the king needs his poet Exhibition of contemporary art in St. Petersburg. Photo: Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters The president, within the framework of the struggle for the future, is still preoccupied with issues of family, motherhood and childhood. Everyone is heard by the famous dispute with Senator Elena Mizulina during a meeting of the Council on National Strategy.

The Nizhny Novgorod District Court of Nizhny Novgorod arrested Leonid Volkov, chief of staff of politician Alexei Navalny, for 30 days for calls for participation in an unauthorized rally on September 29. Volkov himself wrote about this on Twitter.

The authorities have the task of holding presidential elections in March 2018 without scandals and violations. This was written by RBC with reference to unnamed federal officials. The corresponding attitude was given to governors, envoy, power structures and heads of election commissions of the regions. According to one of the interlocutors of RBC, the task "Personally set Vladimir Putin." “There are three key tasks - the elections should be open, legitimate and without scandals.

Argentina authorities stopped the mission to save the San Juan submarine crew, which disappeared 15 days ago, Reuters reports . Despite this, the search for the submarine itself with the assistance of other countries will continue. The representative of the Argentina Navy Enrique Balby said that twice as many days have passed since the moment when it was still possible to save all 44 people who were on the submarine. “We will continue the search ... People will not be saved,” he said.

Our civilization literally stands on the sand. This is the second natural resource exploited by mankind after water and the most mined solid raw materials in the world. According to UNEP (the UN program on the environment), the sand and gravel accounts for 68–85% of everything that a person dug from the bowels of the Earth. They make concrete and asphalt from them, create bulk areas at sea, used in the production of glass, electronics and for oil production.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during an interview. Photo: Astafyev / press service of the Government of the Russian Federation / TASS On the eve of the next large annual interview with Dmitry Medvedev, Medusa issued a thorough investigation , convincingly proving that all issues in such interviews are written and agreed in advance and there is no talk of any improvisation on both sides. Formally, this is a sensation, but in fact, of course, such a sensation does not matter.

Google introduced the Aiy Vision Kit kit, which includes a cardboard camera and a special chip for designing artificial intelligence. The user is invited to assemble the device himself. This was reported in the official blog of the company. The chip allows the user to process photos directly on the camera. To do this, you do not need to connect to another computer or cloud service.

The Russian national team at the World Cup in the group stage will play with the teams of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Uruguay. This became known according to the results of the draw, held in the Kremlin on December 1. Its broadcast was conducted by Channel One. The team of Stanislav Cherchesov in the opening match of the tournament will meet with Saudi Arabia in Luzhniki on June 14. On June 19, Russia will play with Egypt in St. Petersburg, and on June 25-with Uruguay in Samara.

The US immigration and customs police suspected DJI, the manufacturer of drones from China, in monitoring enterprises and ordinary Americans. This is written by New York Times. The explanatory note that the publication drew attention to was released in August. In it, the department with “moderate confidence” claims that drones collect data on the critical infrastructure of the United States, after which these data are transferred to the Chinese authorities.

Andrey Sharonov. Photo: Skolkovo We continue the project that started last Friday : entrepreneurs and just active people talk about what you can learn in a week. Today's entry is the president of the Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo" Andrei Sharonov . In a week, you can probably learn several good things, but it is no less important not to forget what you learned earlier. Such actualization of knowledge can be very on time. 1.

In the north-west of China, a group of scientists from the Institute of Paleontology of vertebrates and paleoanthropology Beijing discovered about 200 fossils of adult pterosaurs and more than 200 eggs of these dinosaurs. In 16 of them, petrified pterosaurus embryos were preserved. The study is published in the journal Science. Read more about finding Sciencealert. The find is one of the largest in the history of paleontology.