A billionaire Alisher Usmanov appealed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with a request to allow the Russians to use a hymn and a flag at games in Pyeongchang. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, he wrote about this in an open letter addressed to the IOC members. “Innocent cannot be punished and knelt down. This humiliates the dignity of a person and an athlete, undermines faith into law and justice.

The State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom" posted on the public procurement website an order for the purification of the Mayak plant contaminated by radiation in the Sverdlovsk region. As stated in the document, the release of radiation occurred in the plant in 1957.

Vladimir Putin fired the head of the forensic center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Peter Grishin, who is accused of embezzlement of more than 90 million rubles - large -scale fraud. Now Grishin is under house arrest until February 5, 2018. The same measure of restraint was elected against deputy Grishin Oleg Mazur and general director of Atif LLC Sergey Narutov.

A student of the 8th grade of one of the schools of Krasnoyarsk, died in the hospital, where she got after a fight with a classmate. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Main Investigative Directorate of the SK in the region. The committee explained that the procedural decision will be made after the causes of the death of the schoolgirl are established. A fight between students of school No. 23 in Krasnoyarsk occurred at the end of November.

In a joint investigation, The Insider and Bellingcat managed to establish the identity of the key person involved in the joint investigative group in the case of the Malaysian Boing MH17, is Colonel General Nikolai Fedorovich Tkachev, chief inspector of the Central Military District of Russia. The fact that the voice of General Tkachev’s voice is identical to the face of the face was confirmed by two independent examinations. Tkachev himself denies that he was in Ukraine.

The UK will pay the European Union 40-45 billion euros as a financial settlement within the framework of Brexit, Sky News reports citing the official representative of the Great Britain. “We expect the range will be 35-39 billion pounds. We consider this as an honest settlement of our obligations, we always said that if we have obligations, we will fulfill them, ”he said.

The Miratorg company reported the outbreak of African Pigs of Pig (ASF) on its site in the Belgorod region. This was reported by TASS with reference to the representative of the company. “I can confirm information about the outbreak of ASF,” the agency’s interlocutor said. The company created an operational headquarters, a quarantine was introduced on a site with a number of 24 thousand heads. Miratorg is the largest producer of pork and beef in Russia.

Policy Igor Girkin (Strelkov): "To the authorities both in the Donetsk and in the Lugansk Republic of Surkov brought bandits" The Insider December 8, 2017 Today, The Insider and Bellingcat have published an investigation that proved that the Dolphin International Investigative Group is no other than the Russian Colonel General Nikolai Tkachev.

The Kalinin-Solntsevsky line of the Moscow metro is planned to extend to Vnukovo in the next three to four years. According to Interfax, this was stated on Friday by the head of the capital's construction department Andrei Bochkarev. “At present, we are starting the design and trace of this section of the Kalinin-Solntsevskaya metro line. For three or four years, I think we will build two stations and reach the line to Vnukovo, ”he said. Bochkarev said that the end station may be ground.

The Roman Catholic Church should change the translation from the ancient Greek language of the phrase from the prayer “Our Father”. This was stated by Pope Francis, reports The Daily Telegraph.

The Basmanny Court arrested the car of the first general producer of the Seventh Studio and the ex-director of Gogol-Center Alexei Malobrodsky, accused of embezzlement from the budget of 68 million rubles.

News The investigation group became interested in Russian General Tkachev in the Boeing Boing case MH17 8 December 2017 The JIT International Investigative Committee commented on a joint investigation of The Insider and Bellingcat, noting that investigators "drew attention to this information with great interest." “This information is taken into account and attached to the investigation,” the JIT reaction says.

In Moscow, preparations for the military parade on May 9, 2018 will begin on December 14, 2017. As reported on the website of the Department of Regional Security and Combating Corruption, traffic will be limited on the road field for five days. “On December 14, 19, 21, 26 and 28, the movement will be limited on the road of the girl’s field from 8:00 to 9:30 in connection with the start of preparation for the military parade on May 9, 2018. The length of the site closed for travel - 270 m.

The Russian government has prepared a list of 126 companies with state participation, the state procurement of which will be transferred to a closed area. According to Kommersant, the list is most likely compiled to counteract new US sanctions. It is assumed that from December 15, companies from the list will begin to make purchases on the site for the state defense order, which is administered by Sberbank.

Residents of Moscow report on social networks about an unpleasant odor that appeared on Friday in different areas of the city. It is reported that it is similar to the smell of hydrogen sulfide. Meanwhile, the Moscow Nature Management Department reports that as of 13:00 in the city, a low degree of atmospheric pollution is noted in the city as a whole. The Ministry of Emergencies "RIA Novosti" reported that they received several applications from Muscovites about the unpleasant odor.