In Paris, at about 23:00 Moscow time on December 9, the first bilateral meeting between Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky ended.

The publication of The Washington Post previously classified documents on the US military operation in Afghanistan will seem to become one of the key achievements of journalism of the year, if not a decade. “Afghan files” showed that the US authorities have misleading the Americans regarding the possibility of winning the conflict, while closing their eyes to the corruption of local authorities.

Russia was excommunicated from international sports for four years. How much do we spend on it? The Executive Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has banned Russian athletes from competing under their flag at the Olympics and other major international competitions. The Bell assessed how much money the state and private companies have invested in Russian high-performance sports, which will spend four years under a neutral flag. What's happened.

The defendant of the Moscow Affairs Eduard Malyshevsky, who knocked out the glass of the car carrier after the detention on the rally on July 27, was sentenced to 3 years in the colony. The state prosecution asked for him 3.5 years in a colony. According to the prosecution, the 47-year-old worker from Udmurtia, while in Avtosak, knocked out the glass that fell on the employee of the Russian Guard Dmitry Astafyev and caused him pain.

The Executive Committee of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) forbade Russian athletes to speak under his flag at the Olympiads and other major international competitions. The Bell appreciated how much money the state and private companies invested in the Russian sport of high achievements, which will spend four years under a neutral flag.

The outstanding financier Paul Walker, who headed the Fed (1979-1987) for 16 years, died on December 8 at the age of 92 years. About this Financial Times writes with reference to the Volcker Alliance near parliamentary group.

The IL-96 President Vladimir Putin landed at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, and transferred the Russia-24 channel. Today, one of the most anticipated events of the year will occur - the meeting of the Norman four in Ukraine in the Norman format. The first meeting of Putin with Ukrainian colleague Vladimir Zelensky will be the last in turn. Before this will be a double -sided meetings of Putin and Zelensky with the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.

145 Russian athletes, whose doping tests in the base of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, were changed or hidden from participation in the Olympics-2020. This was announced today by the chairman of the Committee on compliance with the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) Jonathan Taylor. The broadcast of the press conference of the agency led VGTRK. WADA is known for all the names of athletes, Taylor said, but they will be made public only if there are reliable evidence of violations.

The creation of breakthrough technologies is given to humanity with increasing efforts, numerous studies show. But they, as a rule, do not take into account the contribution that the inventors-single inventors make to progress, and it is great. The publication about the ECONS economy presents another selection of articles from blogs of famous economists on The Bell. Handmade technological progress is one of the topics. Home inventions are an underestimated source of innovation.

The Kaspersky Laboratory fixes the surge of the telephone science in Russia: people come to people that they will receive money for a survey or participation in the action, but as a result, the user himself loses money, writes RBC. Only in the second half of 2019, the damage from such "divorces" reached 7 billion rubles. Having promised a person a large win, scammers are asking him to make a “fixing payment”: pay a small commission to receive the full amount.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) granted the AvtoVAZ petition to buy a share of 50% of voting shares in the joint venture with the American GM (GM-AvtoVAZ), Interfax said. The petition was filed a month ago - November 8. "GM-AvtoVAZ" was one of the first joint ventures in the Russian car market (created in 2001). Its only product is the Chevrolet Niva SUV.

The World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) made a decision on sanctions against Russia for changing samples in the database of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory. It turned out to be tough - but not the toughest of the possible. What's happened The WADA Executive Committee unanimously deprived Russia of the right to participate in international sports competitions for four years, as well as the right to accept the competitions of world championships and submit applications for their holding.

In Russia, national standards of environmentally friendly agricultural products have been developed: such goods will have a single “green” marking, writes RBC. Experts of the Roskacality with scientific and industry associations presented a document on environmental products. All products that apply for such a name will have to be produced, stored and transported according to established rules. In mineral fertilizers for such products, the content of heavy metals will be limited: lead, cadmium.

The Ministry of Economic Development intends to introduce two bills to the government: on the ban on the collection of bank debts from insurance pensions and on the obligatory balance in the amount of the subsistence minimum when collecting debts from salaries, Russian Gazeta reports . Ruble, money. Photo: Agency "Moscow" Now bank debts, fines and utility bills cannot be collected only from some social payments, for example, for adoptive children.

Kamaz is preparing to produce not only heavy trucks, but also light commercial vehicles (LCVs) such as the Gazelle, but they will not be intended for passengers yet, said Kamaz General Director Sergei Kogogin. Serial production of the vehicles could begin as early as 2021. Kamaz developers have already presented the Compass light vehicle project to the company.