News Messi repeated the record of the best football player of the 20th century Pele. The Brazilian wrote on Instagram that he admires him 20 December 2020 The captain of Barcelona Lionel Messi repeated the record of the former player of the Brazilian national team by the number of goals scored in one team. On December 19, in the next round of the Spanish La Liga, the 33-year-old Argentine scored the 643rd goal for Barcelona in a match against Valencia (the game ended with a score of 2: 2).

St. Petersburg overtook Karelia and went out in first place in the coefficient of incidence of coronavirus, calculated RBC. The coefficient of incidence is calculated as the number of identified cases per thousand people over the past 30 days. Since the beginning of October, the first place in the rating was occupied by the Altai Republic - the indicator in the region ranged from 8 to 20.7. The maximum was recorded on November 15, and this was a record value for all regions.

The chairmanship of Germany in the EU Council will hold a meeting of the anti-crisis mechanism on December 21 in Brussels in connection with the situation with a new variety of Covid-19 coronavirus. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the official representative of the Committee of the Permanent Representative (Coreper) of the European Union Sebastian Fisher.

The new "British" strain of coronavirus was found in Italy. It is reported by RBC. Previously, it was recorded in three more countries: the Netherlands, Denmark and Australia. Italy planned to suspend air traffic with Great Britain because of the new mutation of coronavirus. The Netherlands (until January 1) and Austria also announced the cessation of air traffic with Britain, and Belgium closed the border with the kingdom for a day.

“Dear comrades, colleagues! Dear veterans! I congratulate you on the holiday - the day of the security officer ... Our common task is to withstand any attempts to rewrite history, including silence or distort the role of domestic special services in the defeat of Nazism, in general in ensuring national security, and national interests of our country.

2811 POLITICS The Insider December 20, 2020 Investigation topic The Lab: FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Poisoning of Politicians, Journalists and Writers 12 materials In their previous investigation , The Insider и Bellingcat named the officers of the FSB Criminalistics Institute (commonly known as the NII-2) complicit in Alexei Navalny's poisoning.

Huzhinkov was detained for protest shares on November 8. Three days later, she was awarded 12 days of arrest, accusing her of "violation of the order of organization or mass events." Later, according to the same article, Huzhinkova twice received another 15 days for three episodes of participation in unauthorized shares. Thus, after the third court, the arrest period increased to 42 days.

In the Peterge there are 27 free beds for patients with coronavirus and pneumonia. The report is published on the Smolny website. About this writes Fontanka. As follows from the schedule, at the 51st week of the fight against coronavirus in the city 2444 beds are occupied by patients with severe forms of the disease, 7448-with medium severity of the disease, 612 beds are given to patients with mild cases. In total, 27 beds remained free in the city, a week earlier there were 386.

POLITICS “He was not supposed to survive”: One of Navalny’s poisoners admits to the assassination attempt 20 December 2020 The Insider In their previous investigation , The Insider и Bellingcat named the officers of the FSB Criminalistics Institute (commonly known as the NII-2) complicit in Alexei Navalny's poisoning.

It is difficult to explain to Ukrainians why they cannot receive a vaccine from coronavirus from Russia if Europe and the USA do not supply their drugs. This was the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky in an interview with The New York Times. According to the publication, Zelensky expressed disappointment that US President Donald Trump signed a decree prohibiting the export of vaccines.

In Minsk, about 100 people were detained during unauthorized shares, TASS was told in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. This information in a conversation with The Insider was confirmed by a member of the opposition coordination council of Belarus Pavel Latushko. “The information that we receive from human rights organizations suggests that about a hundred people have already been delayed and delivered to the RUVD.

Italy will suspend air traffic with Great Britain due to a new coronavirus mutation discovered in the kingdom, said the head of the Italian Foreign Ministry Luigi di Mayo, AP reports . Earlier, the Netherlands (until January 1) and Austria were also announced to the cessation of air traffic with the UK, and Belgium closed the border with the kingdom for a day.

The bailiffs began to recover fines from violators of the self -isolation regime during the pandemic. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Moscow Department of the Federal Bailiff Service. According to December 1, 247 such decisions were received in the service.

The Minister of Health of Great Britain Matt Hankok announced the “way out of control” of the new coronavirus strain, discovered a few days before. This is written by Bloomberg. According to him, the number of new cases of infection has grown sharply. Because of this, it was decided by new restrictions, because of which more than 16 million British will have to be quarantined on Christmas.

In Thailand, doctors will take tests for the presence of Covid-19 in more than 10 thousand people after 689 cases of the virus were identified in the province of Samutshon south of the capital of Bangkok this week. It is reported by Interfax. According to local media, the focus of the disease is associated with the local seafood market. The first infected Covid-19 was recorded last Thursday.