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The court arrested the director of the Tyumen administration department on suspicion of fraud five million rubles allocated under two municipal contracts. This is reported by TASS. The court arrested Frolov. He will go to the pre-trial detention center until February 2. As Lenta.ru was told by the regional department of the Investigative Committee of Russia, in February 2020 and in February 2021 he, together with an employee of the department, his relative and the director of a commercial company stole money allocated for the maintenance and cleaning of the city's highways. He is suspected under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud committed by an organized group on an especially large scale”). Frolov said that he was ready to compensate for the damage caused.

“Sberbank, buy me gold!” – new voice service in SberBank Online sell precious metals using virtual assistants of the Salyut family. To complete a deal, just call one of the Salyut assistants in the SberBank Online mobile application and ask him, for example, to buy 10 grams of gold for you … If you have an account in the desired metal and the card has the necessary funds to purchase it, the virtual assistant will display the operation parameters. All that remains is to say: “I confirm” – and the operation will be completed. Metal can be sold in the same way. The assistant also “knows” at what price it is now possible to buy or sell metal – you just need to ask. “The new service makes it easy to manage a portfolio of precious metals, spending a minimum of effort on routine purchase and sale operations. We see

Research by MegaFon: TikTok entered the top three most popular social networks in Russia TikTok entered the top three most popular social networks in Russia “Odnoklassniki” and taking the third place in the rating, which was prepared by analysts of “MegaFon”. The first place went to Instagram, the second – to VKontakte. MegaFon experts analyzed the mobile Internet traffic of users of social networks in 2021. According to a study by MegaFon, the total volume of mobile Internet traffic doubled over the year in social networks. Instagram accounts for 35.5 percent of consumed traffic, followed by VKontakte and TikTok, with a share of 28 and 24 percent, respectively. The highest growth was shown by TikTok – in 2021, mobile Internet traffic on platform has more than doubled. MegaFon analysts attribute the increased interest in TikTok to a general trend towards the growing popularity of short videos. The metrics on Instagram

Izvestia: Russia will create airborne units in light vehicles Subdivisions of Russian reconnaissance, paratroopers and marines will switch to ultralight vehicles. The Russian Ministry of Defense is working on the organizational structure of new units that will receive buggies. This is reported by Izvestia with reference to sources in the defense department. The reconnaissance units of the Ground Forces, the airborne assault formations of the Airborne Forces (Airborne Forces) and the marines of the coastal forces of the Russian Navy will receive the new vehicles (Navy). Sources of the publication noted that new models of buggy will be created for the paratroopers. Airborne units will receive light fire support vehicles with machine guns, grenade launchers and flamethrowers, as well as buggies with anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM). Logistics divisions will equip buggies for transporting spare parts and supplies, and anti-aircraft gunners will be armed with vehicles with portable anti-aircraft missile systems

The Latvian Seim Commission refused to expand the program of payments to victims of totalitarianism This is reported by the Telegram channel of the Baltnews portal. The Commission rejected the proposal of the national association “Everything for Latvia” to expand payments for the local Jewish community to other victims of totalitarianism, in particular to Latvians and Roma. It is noted that a similar decision was made by parliamentarians due to the shortage of 40 million allocated for the corresponding payments to distribute the program to other categories of citizens. Earlier, the Latvian Seim adopted a bill banning the public use of St. George's ribbons. The restriction will apply to entertainment and holiday events, meetings, processions and pickets.

Journalist Dmitry Gordon said that Zelensky launched a campaign to persecute him Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of he began a campaign to persecute him. He stated this on the air of the program “Hour Golovanov” on the channel “Ukraine 24”. A fragment of the program is available on YouTube. According to the journalist, Zelensky is unhappy with Gordon's open criticism of the government. However, he noted that he does not understand why he should lie and keep silent about important issues. “Why is our corruption so severe? And I ask questions that hang in the air. But the president was very offended, I know that for sure, “Gordon said. The journalist is convinced that the head of state has given a command to the tax and special services to check him thoroughly. According to Gordon, work is already underway to search for incriminating evidence on

The income of Norwegian athletes for 2020 has become known, Magnus Carlsen is in the lead It is known how much the leading Norwegian athletes earn. The size of the annual income and the general condition of the athletes was published by Dagens Naeringsliv. The leader in this indicator was the chess player Magnus Carlsen. At the end of 2020, he earned a little more than three million euros. His total income is estimated at 4.7 million euros. The income of leading skiers and biathletes is also calculated. The leader of the men's national cross-country skiing team Johannes Klebo earned 335 thousand euros with a fortune of 887 thousand euros. For skier Teresa Johaug, these figures are 561 thousand and 5.3 million euros, respectively. Biathlete Tiril Eckhoff earned 423 thousand euros with a condition of 985 thousand. The representative of the Norwegian men's team, Johannes Boe, received 1.3 million euros

Gas prices in Europe soared 9.4 percent to $ 1,219 Gas prices in Europe soared 9.4 percent during trading on the London ICE exchange on Wednesday, December 8, rising to $ 1219. January futures on the Dutch TTF hub surpassed $ 1200 for the first time since October 18. At the time of this writing, 1,000 cubic meters of gas were trading at $ 1,186. Gas prices are rising on news that the US will seek to block the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if Russia invades Ukraine. Recently, Western media have been writing about the prospects for military aggression from Moscow. The Russian side has repeatedly categorically denied the accusations.