A formal decision on whether U.S. athletes will participate in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has not yet been made, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said. “I think ultimately the president [of the United States Donald Trump] will weigh in,” Sanders said when asked who would make the decision. "The United States looks forward to participating in the Winter Olympics in South Korea.

The Savelovsky Court of Moscow refused to accept the claim of State Duma deputy Valery Rashkin (CPRF) against Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko. This was reported by TASS with reference to the court's press secretary Maria Mikhailova. Earlier, Rashkin filed a lawsuit demanding Mutko's resignation. "This is a lawsuit for moral damage that Mutko caused to Russia while serving as Minister of Sports," Rashkin told Vedomosti.

One hundred years ago, the First All-Russian Congress of the Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries (Internationalists) concluded in the Mikhailovsky Castle. It was the second force of the October Revolution after the Bolsheviks, which provided them with support in the villages and among the soldiers. Representatives of 68 Socialist Revolutionary organizations gathered within the walls where Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Sechenov and Pavel Yablochkov studied.

The capital's government signed an order to transfer the Bolshoi State Circus, located on Vernadsky Avenue, to Moscow's ownership. A copy of the document is posted on the legal information portal. The order states that the Federal Property Management Agency and the Ministry of Culture are responsible for the transfer process. Initially, the authorities were going to privatize the circus founded in 1971, but later abandoned this idea.

President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Turkey on an official visit on December 11. He plans to discuss international issues with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in particular the situation in the Middle East and the Syrian issue, the Kremlin website reported. “It is planned to discuss current issues of bilateral cooperation, primarily the progress of major joint projects in the energy sector,” the statement said.

08 December 2017, 14:52 / Auto The Russian car market grew by 15% in November undefined Vedomosti Sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in Russia in November 2017 increased by 15% compared to the same month last year - to 152,259 units, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) said in a statement. The market in October grew by 17.3% year on year. In January - November of this year, 1.43 million cars were sold, which is 11.7% higher than the same period in 2016.

Nizhny Novgorod PJSC GAZ increased its share of voting shares in the authorized capital of PJSC Avtodizel (Yaroslavl Motor Plant, YaMZ, also part of the GAZ group) from 62.65% to 93.64%, the company said. The Board of Directors of PJSC GAZ approved the deal in early November; the purchase price for the stake was not announced. In October, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the alienation by Rostec of 966,416 shares of PJSC Avtodizel.

The developer Capital Group will develop 8.73 hectares on 2nd Institutskaya Street together with PIK Group, said Capital Group shareholder Pavel Tyo. The project in the industrial zone on Ryazansky Avenue, in which each party will receive half, belongs to the comfort class, while Capital Group itself specializes mainly in premium real estate, Cho explained the choice. A representative of PIK confirmed the partnership with Capital Group, refusing to disclose details.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the house arrest of the co-owner of the Yulmart company Dmitry Kostygin until March 14, 2018. TASS writes about this with reference to the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg. The defense asked to release Kostygin from house arrest, under which he has been since October 11. He is suspected of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159.1 of the Criminal Code (“fraud in the field of lending”).

The leader of the Ukrainian party "Movement of New Forces" Mikheil Saakashvili was detained in Kiev. This was reported on his Facebook page. "Urgent! Mikheil Saakashvili has been detained. They are taking him to Askoldov Lane," the message says. The information was confirmed by Saakashvili's ally David Sakvarelidze. He clarified on Facebook that the politician was being taken to the Security Service of Ukraine.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has declared former State Duma deputy Alexei Mitrofanov bankrupt following a lawsuit filed by BMW Bank, Interfax reports. The property sale procedure has been introduced for 6 months in relation to the former parliamentarian; the financial manager will report on the results of the sale on June 6, 2018. According to the financial manager, the register of creditors' claims for this comment includes approximately 543 million rubles.

The Russian developer of voice biometrics, TsRT-Innovations, received a grant of 270 million rubles from the National Technology Initiative (NTI) on December 7. to create a technology for analyzing the sound environment using artificial intelligence (AI). This was reported by representatives of the company and the program.

A survey by the Prosecutor General's Office has shown that a quarter of Russians have given a bribe to an official at least once. This was reported by the head of the Prosecutor General's Office department for supervision of compliance with anti-corruption legislation, Alexander Rusetsky, in an interview with TASS . A year ago, the Prosecutor General's Office launched a survey on its website about Russians' attitudes toward corruption and whether citizens had to give bribes.

December 08, 2017, 00:02 / Finance Exclusively by subscription Sanitators of the Life group banks are afraid that the DIA will demand an early return of 64 billion rubles To prevent this from happening, they are trying to return to the register of creditors of Probusinessbank Svetlana A.

State Duma deputies have adopted in the first reading a bill toughening the punishment for knowingly false reporting of an act of terrorism, according to materials from the lower house of parliament. The document proposes amendments to the Criminal Code of Russia. Currently, telephone terrorists face a fine of up to 200,000 rubles or imprisonment for up to 3 years for making a false bomb threat. The bill proposes to diversify the punishment.