Finland will sign an agreement with the United States in the field of military cooperation. According to Euronews, the agreement will allow Washington to place its troops and weapons in Finnish territory, near the border with Russia. Finland Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen announced that the Minister of Defense Anti Khiakkean will sign an agreement on cooperation in the field of defense (Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) on Monday, December 18.

On charges of Gosizmen, a scientist from Tomsk Vladislav Galkin, who was engaged in hypersonic technologies, was detained, T-Invariant reports with reference to Elena Nefedova, acting Chairman of the Soviet District Court of Novosibirsk. Galkin became another detained in the case of Siberian scientists from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITPM) named after Christianovich of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Japan has banned the import of Russian non -industrial diamonds from January 1, 2024, and also announced new sanctions against individuals and companies from Russia, Belarus, Armenia, the UAE, Syria, Uzbekistan - in total on the list of more than 135 people and organizations. The application is published on the website of the Ministry of Economy of Japan. Tokyo continues to impose sanctions due to the invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine.

The Investigative Committee of Russia proposes to deprive the acquired citizenship of the Russian Federation of people who have committed any serious and especially serious crimes. This is stated in the official Telegram channel of the department. Now the indicated norm is valid when rape, but does not act when committing a murder, for which longer terms of imprisonment are established. In this regard, the agency proposes to amend the legislation.

News "It is impossible to prohibit the book." Bykov and Akunin reacted to the withdrawal of the release and sale of their books The Insider December 15, 2023 Boris Akunin and Dmitry Bykov, the spread of whose books previously decided to suspend the AST publishing house, expressed confidence that they would still find their reader.

News The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation intercepted the initiative in Zaporozhye, the “offensive cycle” near Bakhmut.

The father of the Bryansk schoolgirl, who opened fire on classmates and then committed suicide, was released from the pre -trial detention center. According to TASS, the court changed the measure of restraint to Dmitry Afanaskin to the ban on certain actions. 53-year-old Afanaskin was arrested on December 10. He is accused of careless storage of firearms, as well as of bringing his daughter to suicide. Come of threats, cruelty and systematic humiliation.

The associates and legal team of incarcerated Russian politician Alexei Navalny, who is serving a lengthy prison sentence in a penal colony in Melekhovo in the Vladimir Region, have been unable to contact him for ten straight days and are unaware of his whereabouts. A court in Vladimir postponed a hearing involving Navalny to December 18 as he had apparently “left the Vladimir region,” without specifying where he was transferred. The news was published on the Navalny Team's Telegram channel .

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow in absentia sentenced to 8 years of colony of general regime, director Ivan Vyrypaev in the case of Fakes about the Russian army (part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), reports Sota. As the Insider wrote, earlier in the debate the prosecutor's office asked for ten years of the colony. Vyrypaev himself lives in Poland. The accusation is based on an interview with Vyrypaev to various media: “Ivan Vyrypaev.

The general director of the Excalibur, Sergey Poddubny, whose company was engaged in the protection of the gymnasium in Bryansk, where 14-year-old Alina fired, was released on bail of 1.5 million rubles, reports Shot. Also, Alina’s father, Dmitry Afanaskin, was freed from the pre -trial detention center and security officer , who was on duty on the day of shooting at school. Afanaskin softened the preventive measure to ban certain actions.

Antifacked His reality and our reality. 9 fakes by Vladimir Putin from the "results of the year" The Insider 15 December 2023 “Results of the year”-a format combining the large press conference of Vladimir Putin and the “direct line”-lasted more than four hours.

News “Unhealthy growth” and “overheating”: economists doubted the optimistic assessments of 2023 and Putin's forecasts The Insider December 15, 2023 In the Russian economy, signs of overheating are observed, the consequences of which can occur in 2024, say economists interviewed by The Insider. In particular, there is a reduction in civilian production in conditions of high rates and rise in labor, growth in internal debt, acceleration of inflation and aggravation of personnel hunger.

The record shows how a man enters the hall, and then, standing at the door, takes out a grenade from his pockets and throws them. “Ukrainian Pravda” writes that, according to preliminary data, this was done by the deputy from the party “Servant of the People”, in which the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Sergey Batrin, consists. He worked in the commission on legality and law and order in the Keretskovsky village council.

The AST publishing house reported that it is suspended “before clarifying the situation” the dissemination of books by Boris Akunin and Dmitry Bykov-because of their public statements that “caused a wide public resonance” and “require legal assessment”. What kind of writers' statements caused questions, AST does not specify in the press release. Bykov and Akunin publicly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

OPINION The “no human” factor: How Russia’s workforce shortage rolls back its industrial development 15 December 2023 Igor Lipsits Doctor of Economics The nationwide mobilization (and the resulting outflux of qualified professionals abroad) exacerbated the crisis in the Russian labor market, already profoundly affected by the demographic decline. Russia's workforce shortage will only increase, experts warn , and may reach 4 million people by 2030.