Employees of the law enforcement agencies of Russia and Belarus stopped the activities of the international group of drug dealers. This was reported by the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs. As a result of the special operation, drugs were seized by $ 1.5 million. According to the agency, the grouping for a long time produced and sold large batches of methadone.

The British company GLAXOSMITHKLINE will produce and transmit a vital antibiotic for Russian patients with cystic fibrosis. She, along with two other pharmaceutical companies, Teva and the “R-Farm”, was forced to leave the Russian market due to import substitution, which led to the disappearance of vital drugs from the counter.

Under Kazan, the police detained about 10 people opposing the construction of a garbage plant. This was reported by "MBH Media" with reference to the activist Vera Kerpel. “We will now be taken to the police department, they say that we are detained. We were all detained, it turns out, ten people, riot police here were three times more, will draw up protocols. I was brought by riot police, two employees in helmets and masks. They demand that I show them all my things.

The Baltic and Arctic Administration of Rosprirodnadzor revealed in emissions of the cellulose-paper plant in the city of Segezha in Karelia, excess of permissible concentrations of hydrogen sulfide, soot and carbon monoxide. About this writes "New Gazeta". In the wastewater of the Central Bank, an increased level of phosphate ions, sulfates, oil products, phenols, iron, manganese and copper was revealed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin extended the freezing of the funded part of the pension until the end of 2022. The corresponding law is published on the Internet portal of legal information.

The American magazine Forbes included the founder of the Wildberries online store Tatyana Bakalchuk in the list of the most noticeable new billionaires of 2019. Bakalchuk became the second woman in Russia, whose fortune reached $ 1 billion. Bakalchuk created a business in 2004, when she was on maternity leave. Now her project has grown into one of the largest online retailers in the country. In 2018, the company's revenue grew to 1.9 billion rubles.

For the first time in its practice, the European Court of Human Rights accepted the case of the parental rights of a transgender person, writes Kommersant. A citizen of Russia filed a complaint to the ECHR, previously, according to the documents, she was a man and was married in which two children were born. According to the publication, the applicant was born in 1972 “genetically and phenotypically” a man. In 2008, A. M., who had not yet changed the floor, married a Russian woman.

The verdict Yegor Zhukov is appealed. This was announced in the Telegram channel by the head of the Human Rights Group "Agora" Pavel Chikov. Zhukov’s defense asks to cancel the sentence and stop the criminal case. “We appealed the verdict and asked to justify Yegor. Expert Korshikov in no way confirmed his guilt, moreover, in the hearing he himself stated that the lack of calls for extremism, in his opinion, was not excluded.

The opponent of the construction of a garbage plant near Kazan Zoya Martyashin was fined 10 thousand rubles. It is reported by "Apology of Protest." She was charged with Part 1 of Art. 20.2.2 Code of Administrative Offenses (organization of mass stay of citizens in public places that have entailed a violation of public order). The Zelenodolsky City Court of Tatarstan arrested 7 days of another activist - Andrei Zheleznov - for disobedience to the police officer.

FBK director Ivan Zhdanov will run for the State Duma in 2021. He reported this in a video message in his Telegram channel after leaving the special receiver. Earlier today, he was detained at the exit from the institution where he was serving for 10 days in connection with the action by the Moscow City Wharus. Zhdanov emphasized that he decided to go to deputies, serving administrative arrest.

On the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the text of the bill of President Vladimir Zelensky on the decentralization of power in the country was published. The document is aimed at updating local self-government and the organization of the administrative-territorial structure in accordance with the requirements of the European Charter of Local Self-Government, this is stated in the explanatory note to the bill.

The most reflected cyber attacks this year was directed against the rocket-space, defense and chemical sectors of Russia. This was announced by the deputy director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents, which was created by the order of the director of the FSB, Nikolai Murashov. “Attackers are looking for any opportunity to obtain closed information, including information constituting a commercial or other secret protected by law,” Murashov said.

For the nine months of 2019, the natural decline of the population of Russia amounted to 259.6 thousand people, at the end of the year it will become the highest in 11 years. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called what was happening "the heritage of the past decades." “The demographic pit, which was repeatedly explained by the president himself and all our leaders of the social region, is now in its climax,” he said.

The Presnensky court of Moscow sentenced to 4 years in prison of a conditionally former member of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission Denis Nabiullin. According to Interfax, he was found guilty of fraud on an especially large scale and attempt on fraud. The defendant pleaded guilty. The prosecutor asked the court to put him to the real term - 5 years in a general regime colony.

News Ex-minister of transport Maxim Sokolov will become the vice-governor of St. Petersburg 16 December 2019 The former head of the Ministry of Transport Maxim Sokolov will take the post of vice-governor of St. Petersburg. As reported on the website of the St. Petersburg administration, the Governor of the city, Alexander Beglov, has already sent his candidacy for coordination to the Legislative Assembly. Sokolov will oversee the issues of transport infrastructure, invest-policy and tourism.