tass.ru The Russian Foreign Ministry proposed declaring 35 American diplomats in Russia persona non grata. According to the head of the department, Moscow will not leave Washington’s sanctions unanswered and will act on the principles of reciprocity The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry proposed to Vladimir Putin to expel 35 American diplomats from Russia in response to sanctions.

The Leningrad Region Construction Committee in St. Petersburg has decided to dismantle the statue of a Soviet soldier, which previously outraged city activists with its “ugly” facial features. this . reports Radio Baltika Statue of a Soviet soldier.

Photo by Maria Sibiryakova Moscow police detained two employees of one of the city car washes on suspicion of stealing a Volvo car, the owner of which used their services. Taking a car, they stole several Christmas trees from the Christmas tree market. Later, the suspects returned the car back to the car wash and tried to sell the stolen goods, but did not have time to do so.

on Twitter The video was posted by Thomas Pesquet, a representative of the European Space Agency on the ISS-51 mission. This is perhaps the most original video in The Mannequin Challenge series.

On December 30, the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) announced the commissioning of the Iset tower, a 52-story skyscraper 209 meters high, which became the northernmost “high-rise” on the planet. The construction of the building, located on the western bank of the City Pond formed from the Ural river of the same name, has continued over the past eight years. TJ collected photographs of the Iset tower and its surroundings.

Three nurses from the City Hospital of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Territory, were required to write a letter of resignation. Employees of the intensive care unit posted a short video on Instagram, and thereby, according to management, “violated sanitary and epidemiological standards.” One of the girls published the video on her account, but soon deleted it. The nurses have written their resignation letters and are completing the allotted two weeks until January 16th.

The Russian authorities signed a decree to close the Anglo-American school in Moscow, where children of diplomats from the USA, Great Britain and Canada studied. this CNN reports with reference to American officials. Updated: The Foreign Ministry has denied information about the closure of the school where the children of US diplomats study. Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama at the G20 summit in September.

US President Barack Obama, among other sanctions, announced the closure of two Russian “diplomatic dachas” in New York and Maryland. TJ has collected everything that is known about the former ambassadorial buildings. Mansion of the Russian diplomatic mission in Maryland. Photo: Daily Mail Russian diplomatic dachas in New York and Maryland were closed following Barack Obama's decree imposing sanctions against Russia for cyberattacks during the US presidential election.

Facebook Messenger, Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, Gmail, Yahoo, Dropbox and Yandex.Mail were banned by Kaliningrad officials. The city hall decided to refuse “products and services of foreign Internet companies.” This was reported by New Kaliningrad. Facebook and Facebook Messenger.

On the eve of the holidays, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs published a memo on how to properly buy alcohol, how to distinguish counterfeit, and that legal drinks will not be sold in plastic cans. Photo "Kazan Reporter" The first point in the memo calls for the Ministry of Internal Affairs not to consume non-edible alcohol-containing liquids, cosmetics, household chemicals and perfumes as drinks. There is a separate reminder about where and in what containers you should not buy alcohol.

ria.ru Russia will not expel diplomats in response to US actions RIA Novosti The Russian Foreign Ministry recently proposed to Putin to expel 35 American diplomats in response to sanctions. In response to this proposal, the president said that the diplomats expelled from the United States would spend the New Year holidays with their families, and no one would touch the US diplomatic mission in Russia.

www.thelocal.it The Italian who created Kinder Surprise dies aged 83 William Salice, who helped create the hugely popular Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs for children, died in Italy on Thursday aged 83, his foundation said. In the Italian city of Pavia, William Salis, the creator of the “Kinder Surprise” - a chocolate egg with a toy inside, died at the age of 84. He was an executive at Ferrero and invented the treat in the 1970s. Salis died of a heart attack at his home.

On December 28, US President Barack Obama signed an order imposing sanctions against a list of Russian organizations and so-called “Russian hackers.” The sanctions included the FSB, the GRU and three other organizations, one of which, TsOR Security, was founded by a well-known cybersecurity specialist in the industry, Alisa Shevchenko.

Before the Euroleague basketball match, Serbian fans paid tribute to those killed in the Tu-154 plane crash over the Black Sea. They stretched out a banner: “Let the song of this 20,000-strong choir be heard in heaven!”, and sang the song before the match between the Red Star club and the CSKA team. On December 25, the liner fell into the Black Sea.

On December 29, Jack Dorsey, founder and CEO of Twitter, asked users what changes they want from the social network in 2017. Most of the responses were about adding the ability to edit tweets and create Twitter lists. Photo by Getty Images: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey In his post, Dorsey asked users what they would like to see added or improved on Twitter in the next year.