The jury acquitted Shota Elizbarashvili - the driver of Amirame Georgadze, who shot four people in Krasnogorsk. On November 17, a discussion of the legal consequences of the verdict will be held in the Moscow Regional Court. On October 19, 2015, the first deputy head of the administration of the Krasnogorsk district, Yuri Karaulov and general director of Krasnogorsk Electric Networks OJSC, Georgy Kotlyarenko were killed from firearms at the workplace by the entrepreneur Georgadze.

8 years of strict regime and a fine of two million dollars - the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow today announced the sentence to the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev. He is forbidden to occupy positions in state authorities and state corporations for eight years after serving a sentence.

The FBI is studying more than 60 money transfers sent to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to its embassies around the world, most of which the appointment indicated “financing of the 2016 election campaign,” Buzzfeed reports . One of these transfers in the amount of 30 thousand dollars was received on August 3 at the expense of the Russian Embassy in the United States. Translations were carried out by VTB to the accounts of Citibank.

A bill on the patriotic education of Russian citizens has been submitted to the State Duma. According to Interfax, deputies from the United Russia faction made an appropriate initiative . Patriotism authors of the bill call a social feeling, the content of which is love for Russia and willingness to subjugate their private interests to the homeland. The bill also prescribes the concept of "Fatherland".

Dmitry Utkin, the general director of the restaurant holding of the restaurant holding, Evgeny Prigozhin LLC Concord Management and Consulting, the full namesake of the alleged commander of the PMC Vagner. This was reported by RBC with reference to the data "Spark-Interfax". The source of the publication surrounded by Prigozhin confirmed that the new general director of the company is the commander of the PMC Wagner.

Deputies of the State Duma adopted a bill in the third reading, which allows us to recognize foreign media foreign agents. All 414 of the deputies were voted for the document, it follows from the broadcast on the Duma website. “We did not want to adopt this law, this is a law that might not have been.

The International Civil and Political Freedoms of the Freedom House has published the annual report “Freedom to the Web”. It presents an analysis of 65 countries whose inhabitants make up 87% of the number of all Internet users. The Insider gives a translation of the most interesting information from the report on how over the past 12 months freedom on the World Wide Web has declined sharply.

Former Minister of Economic Development, Alexei Ulyukaev, said that he was not ready to testify before he presented his evidence and interrogation of witnesses. The accused informed the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow about this. “I will testify after my defense provides all evidence and will be questioned by the witnesses called to the court,” said Ulyukaev, answering the court’s question.

The military, who seized power in Zimbabwe, was placed under the arrest of the president of the country Robert Mugaba and his wife Grace. This was reported by the Arab News portal with reference to the statement of the army representative. It is reported that the head of the republic has already agreed with the military that his wife would leave the country while he "is preparing to resign." Recall that earlier in the morning the army of Zimbabwe announced the seizure of power.

Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow in absentia arrested the defendant of the "Swamp case" Dmitry Buchenkov. According to Mediazona with reference to the official representative of the FSIN Olga Balobaiko, Buchenkov will be put on the wanted list. According to Balobaiko, a commission was to be checked twice a week, the members of which went to the defendant on October 30 and 31. On November 7, when a commission came to Buchenkov, he was no longer at the place of stay.

Last year, Russian hackers attacked the power grid, telecommunications and media of Great Britain. It is reported by Telegraph with reference to the head of the National Cybersecurity Center of Cyrena Martin. “I cannot go into intelligence data details, but I can confirm that the Russian intervention observed by the National Cybersecurity Center all last year included attacks on the British media, telecommunications and energy sector,” Martin said.

At a meeting in the Moscow Arbitration Court, the representative of Rosneft proposed a settlement of a settlement, the defendants supported this proposal. It is reported by RBC. ​ The meeting will essentially take place on December 15. The details of the settlement agreement are not yet clear, but the lawyer of Kommersant Dmitry Zharkov told RBC that the parties had already begun negotiations.

61.6% of residents cast their vote “for” the legalization of same -sex marriages in a referendum. It is reported by Bloomberg. 12 million people took part in the vote. The country's Prime Minister Malcolm Ternbull called for respect for the will of people and promised to change the marriage law until the end of the year. The first version of the bill, developed by a senator and a member of the Australian Liberal Party Din Smith, supports most parliamentarians.

About 45 thousand messages about the referendum on the issue of UK withdraw from the European Union (Brexit) were sent from Russian accounts on Twitter 48 hours before voting. This was written by Times with reference to the study of the California University of Berkeley. At the same time, according to the publication, only more than 150 thousand twitter accounts from Russia, which previously wrote about the Ukrainian conflict, on the eve of Brexit switched their attention to this vote.

The wife of President Zimbabwe Robert Mugaba left the country after the seizure of power by the military. This was reported by the BBC with reference to the representative of the ruling party "Zimbabvian African National Union - the Patriotic Front", as well as to one of the opposition politicians. It is reported that Grace Mugaba went to Namibia.