The government approved a bill establishing the procedure for growing drug -containing plants in Russia for the production and manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical purposes. According to RBC, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov reported.

The head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova said that the investigation of violations in the elections of the Governor of the Primorsky Territory in September 2018 was not completed. “Grinded (investigation),” said Pamfilova. In her opinion, the violations took place "behind the Primorsky election commission." “You need to understand who forced people to do this. The organizers must be found, ”she emphasized.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, said that the cost of oil is now affected by the increase in the rate of the US Federal Reserve System. “We seemed to have concluded an OPEC+agreement, and the price of oil is falling. It would seem that everyone had to be scared, but no one was afraid. The main factor in this case was an increase in the Fed’s rate, ”Sechin said. Earlier, bank analysts Wall Street sharply worsened oil prices in 2019.

RIA Novosti reports a statement by the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov: “Israel applied the air at the time when civil liners entered the airports of Beirut and Damascus. <...> According to him, in order to avoid the tragedy, restrictions on the use of air defense and radio electronic warfare funds were established.

The department of the President of Russia explained that the purchase of new cars for the department is associated with a planned replacement of cars for officials with cheaper ones. According to Interfax, the department commented on media reports about two tenders totaling 400 million rubles.

Ukraine will impose sanctions against Russia because of the Kerch incident and elections in the Donbass. According to Interfax, President Petro Poroshenko stated on Wednesday. The project of this decision will be considered by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. According to Poroshenko, “those who attacked Ukrainian ships, those who were involved in illegal trials, detentions, those who gave orders will fall into the sanctions list.

During the operation of martial law, about 1650 citizens of Russia were not allowed to be in Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine reports with reference to the press secretary of the Ukrainian State Border Service Oleg Slobodyan. Over the past day, 89 Russians have not been allowed into the country. Earlier, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the abolition of martial law in the country. On November 26, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on the introduction of martial law.

On December 25, Channel One said that the intestinal infection, which struck several Russian tourists in Georgia in the summer, could be bred artificially. “Our scientists have found out what these are the pathogen with whom the children came here in such serious condition. It turned out that this version of Escherichia Coli was not described and not represented in Genbank. This raises certain questions in us, to which there are no answers today.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the abolition of martial law in the country, UNIAN reports . On November 26, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on the introduction of martial law. It operated in separate regions along the border with Russia and along the coast of the Black and Azov Seas. Earlier, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Alexander Turchinov, said that martial law can be canceled at any time.

The Moscow City Duma adopted a law that increases the penalty for non-payment of parking on the road network of Moscow from 2.5 thousand rubles to 5 thousand rubles. “We increase the fine from 2.5 to 5 thousand rubles, since the size of the fine is currently not disproportionate for the cost of parking in open parking lots, which ranges from a thousand to 7 thousand rubles per day,” said Tatyana Portnova, chairman of the Moscow City Duma Commission, regulations and procedures.

The Ministry of Health of Russia has prepared a new draft concept of the implementation of a state policy of countering tobacco consumption, according to which the level of tobacco consumption is planned to be reduced to 5% in the next 30 years, and after that it was led to the tobacco from legal turnover in stages, TASS reports.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, said that the cost of oil is now affected by increasing the rate of the federal reserve system, Interfax reports. “We must take into account a large number of factors. In this case, we seemed to have concluded an OPEC+agreement, and the price of oil is falling. It would seem that she should stabilize, everyone had to be scared, and no one was afraid.

The residence of the Supreme Court in St. Petersburg will be built by structures close to businessman Evgeny Prigozhin and his Concord Management and Consulting company. This was written by Kommersant with reference to sources familiar with this construction project. Boris Eifman has not yet begun to build a judicial quarter with the EU residence and the dance palace, the newspaper writes.

In the USA, an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala, who was detained on the border with his father, died. This was written by AP with reference to the US Border and Customs Service. The boy was hospitalized on December 24. After the inspection, he was discharged by prescribing an antibiotic and ibuprofen, but soon his condition worsened. He was returned to the hospital, where he died. It is noted that this is the second case of the death of a child from Guatemala in custody in the United States.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered to verify the materials of all criminal cases, in which acquittals were issued in Moscow, including the jury by a court of jury, "in connection with the evaluation of the investigation expressed by the judicial community." This was reported on the website of the department.