Bellingcat and The Insider called the names of the alleged poisoners of Navalny. They work at the Secret Institute of the FSB Bellingcat and The Insider, with the participation of CNN and Spiegel, published an investigation that leaves almost no questions about who stood behind the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, and proves that poisoning was prepared for several years and could not be carried out without the knowledge of the FSB leadership.

Greater London with the surrounding counties is included in the zone of the third, maximum level of coronavirus restrictions, which come into effect from Wednesday 16 December. A new variant of the coronavirus has been isolated in the south of the country, which may correlate with the accelerated spread of the infection, the country's authorities cautiously said. While the capital of Great Britain in the second zone of restrictions.

German sports shoes and apparel manufacturer Adidas has announced that it will consider selling the Reebok brand and will announce a final decision on March 10 next year when it unveils its five-year strategy. According to media reports, the company can sell the long-suffering brand for more than half the price it bought it 14 years ago.

The world's largest porn service PornHub began to remove videos posted from unverified accounts. According to Vice estimates , millions of videos have disappeared from the platform. According to the new rules, only materials from official partners or verified accounts are allowed on PornHub. In a statement, the service noted that there is still no such content requirement on any of the other popular platforms, namely Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter.

The final effectiveness of the Russian vaccine "Sputnik V" according to the results of clinical trials coincided with the value shown at the intermediate stage - 91.4%, said the Center in an official statement. Gamaleya and RDIF.

Due to coronavirus restrictions, every second fitness club in the capital will go bankrupt by the beginning of next year, Tatyana Mineeva, the commissioner for the protection of entrepreneurs' rights in Moscow, said. According to her, the industry is asking for a moratorium on the return of payments for annual membership, as well as other support measures, reports .

Quotes of British coronavirus vaccine developer AstraZeneca, which announced on Saturday that it was buying American drug developer Alexion Pharmaceuticals for $39 billion, fell on Monday in trading to the lowest level since April, reports Bloomberg . Investors do not understand the strategic meaning of the deal, the newspaper notes.

Bellingcat and The Insider, with the participation of CNN and Spiegel, published an investigation showing that the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny had been in preparation for several years and could not have been carried out without the knowledge of the FSB leadership.

Google experiences a large -scale failure - most of the most important services do not work. The company's search works. As of 15.00, YouTube, Gmail, Google Docs and other Google ecosystem services do not work for users around the world. Most complaints come from Europe, however, the downloadetector shows that they are common around the world. In the USA, the working day has not yet begun, in China it has already ended. Google has not yet commented on the cause of the failures.

The Moscow City Court canceled a fine of 200 thousand to the children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" and closed the case, RIA Novosti reported. The children's hospice was fined on December 10 - such a decision was made by the Zyuzinsky Court of Moscow after a complaint about the illegal distribution of narcotic drugs and an unscheduled inspection by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Crimean winery "Massandra" went to the structure of the St. Petersburg bank "Russia", which already owns the factory of sparkling wines "New World". The asset was bought by "Putin's friend's bank" at a price close to the starting one. The legendary plant was bought today at an electronic auction by the St. Petersburg-based Yuzhny Proekt LLC for 5.327 billion rubles at a starting price of 5.301 billion rubles and an auction step of 26.5 million rubles.

The Investigative Committee (IC) and the Prosecutor General's Office can check Mikhail Men, the auditor of the Accounts Chamber, who was detained in the case of embezzlement, in another case - it is connected with the construction of the elite Omega-2 residential complex in Crimea. about it . learned Kommersant The Simferopol developer “Krymstroy-master” filed a complaint against me with the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigative Committee.

Community site Reddit, one of the Internet's top 20 most visited sites, has bought TikTok's competitor Dubsmash, a short video service. As Reddit reported , just as Reddit "provides a place for content that you won't see anywhere else on the internet, Dubsmash provides a platform for creators and users who are themselves under-represented on social media." The Dubsmash audience, according to Reddit, is a quarter of all black teenagers in the United States.

Most of the cuts in Russia in 2020 were carried out by automotive companies, writes RBC with reference to a survey by the recruiting company Hays. 4% of Russian companies laid off more than half of their employees. One in five (20%) of the auto companies that made cuts laid off more than half of the staff, 17% - from 26 to 50% of the staff, 21% - from 11 to 25%.

Russia turned out to be one of the most gender conservative countries. Respondents agree least of all with the right of same-sex couples to marry and feel the worst about skirts for men. The survey was conducted by the Romir research holding and the international community of research companies GlobalNR (its results are described by Kommersant).