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Confession "I first yelled: I will sign it!" Ex-head of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich on Belovezhsky agreements and the collapse of the USSR Natalia Frolova December 8, 2021 On December 8, it marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of Belovezhsky agreements that laid an end to the Soviet Union.

News Bundestag officially elected Olaf Sholtsa by the new chancellor of Germany 8 December 2021 The deputies of the German parliament officially elected the head of the Social Democrats of Olaf Scholtz by the new chancellor of Germany. 395 deputies voted for the appointment of a new chancellor. After the vote, Olaf Scholts and the new members of the government will take the oath. The new Chancellor will also visit the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the title of Major General of the internal service Leonid Sagalakov, who has been holding the post of head of the Main Directorate of the FSIN in the Irkutsk region on March 2, 2020. It was in this region that the Angarskaya IK-15 is located, where a riot occurred in April 2020, and hundreds of prisoners inflicted injuries in protest against mockery from the administration. The riot was suppressed by special forces.

CORRUPTION 8 December 2021 Sergei Ezhov Investigative reporter, The Insider The family of Vladimir Putin's former prime minister and ex-head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Mikhail Fradkov leads a luxurious lifestyle — one that could not have been financed with his official income, an investigation by The Insider has revealed.

In the investigative insulator No. 1 in Tver, prisoners are subjected to systematic bullying and beating from the overseers. One of the victims is Vladimir Domnin. He was sentenced to 9 years in a maximum security colony on charges of participating in the Ukrainian “right sector” prohibited in Russia. The Human Rights Center "Memorial" recognized Domin with political prisoner.

The top 10 includes such events as the European Football Championship, the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Eurovision, the World Hockey Championship, the Father's Day, conflict in Afghanistan, shooting at the Kazan gymnasium, the State Duma election, temporary blocking of the Suet Canal and a large-scale failure in the work of social networks. Recall that the most popular video in the Russian YouTube in 2021 was the film by Alexei Navalny about Putin's palace.

The 33-year-old man, detained on December 7 at Charles de Goll Airport, turned out to be the namesake of the suspect in the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashkudzhi. He was released, said the prosecutor general of France, writes Le Figaro. According to the publication, the detained Khalid Al-Otibi bears the same name as the former member of the Royal Guard of Saudi Arabia, which was, according to investigators, in a group of 15 people who killed Khashkudzhi in 2018.

The chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed the head of the Crimean department of the RF IC of the Russian Federation to understand the circumstances of the eviction of several Sevastopol families from apartments in the occupied Crimea, which in 2014 gave them the city government. Then he was headed by the current head of North Ossetia Sergey Avayolo.

Of course, not all migrants who are in France seek to get to the UK, about a quarter of a million migrants remain in France. Nevertheless, there are a lot of people who want to cross to England: in the camp of illegal migrants in Calais (what was customary to call Jungle) still live in tents from one to two thousand migrants, and, according to the study of International Health Journal , compiled on a refugee survey in Calais, only 12% of them would like to remain in.

The Tver court of Moscow sentenced Konstantin Lakeev to 2 years 8 months of a colony of general regime in the "palace case". This was reported by New Gazeta with reference to the press service of the court. Lakeev was found guilty of hooliganism committed by a group of persons, as well as intentional damage to property from hooligan motives. "Mediazona" notes that 337 thousand rubles were also collected from Lakeev in a civil lawsuit for damage to property.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced the Volgograd "authoritative" businessman Evgeny Remezov, who was found guilty of the arson of the Governor's house. One of the accused of this crime was the former head of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General of Justice Mikhail Muzraev, who received the nickname "Night Governor".

The temporarily acting head of the Kino Foundation Fedor Sosnov was appointed Executive Director of this organization. This order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Sosnov was appointed to this position for three years. Since December 28, 2020, he acted as the director of the fund, replacing Vyacheslav Telnov. Before that, he was the deputy executive director. The main activity of the Film Fund is the distribution of films, videos and television programs.

SUD in Yekaterinburg terminated the criminal case against a local resident Daria Belyaeva, who bought Bupropion through the Internet. It is reported by Znak. Belyaev was accused of acquiring and smuggling drugs. As her lawyer Irina Rachko told the publication, the criminal case was terminated due to the lack of involvement of the defendant to the crime.

The Supreme Court of Russia sent for a new consideration the case of former members of the neo -Nazi group of Russian nationalists (BORN) Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Hasis, convicted of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova. It is reported by the New Gazeta. “Choose a preventive measure in the form of detention by the convicted measure until March 8,” the Presidium of the court read out.