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The cost of bitcoin has exceeded 17 thousand dollars and approaching $ 18 thousand, according to the portal Сoinmarketcap. The course of bitcoin exceeded this mark for the first time in history. On Thursday it was reported that the cost of bitcoin for the first time exceeded one million rubles, rising to over 16 thousand dollars for one bitcoin. Last month, bitcoin update records almost every day. So, by 09:00 GMT on 7 December, almost a day, the cryptocurrency has broken the 14 and 15 thousand dollars per unit. In January 2017 bitcoin for the first time in 2013 was worth more than a thousand dollars since April, its value has not fallen below that mark. Background: the Cost of a bitcoin exceeded one million roubles

Alexander Ovechkin Russian hockey player Alexander Ovechkin, the Creator of the public movement in support of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin Putin Team (“Team Putin”), in an interview with RIA Novosti said about for whom the movement was created. Responding to a question whether the supporters of the Putin Team to collect signatures in support of the Russian leader needed to provide to the Russian Central election Commission, Ovechkin said, “Our movement is not about campaigning and collecting signatures, but about the people who share basic human values such as trust, respect, fairness, pride for the country”. Also, the hockey player said that this movement is unofficial and informal, it is governed only by common sense and real human values. Ovechkin pointed out that he had not discussed the creation of a Team with Putin by Putin and the presidential administration of Russia. The athlete added that “Putin’s Team”

Alisher Usmanov Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov has written an open letter to the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach, urging them to allow to raise the Russian tricolor and sing the national anthem of the Russian Federation in honor of the victories of Russian athletes at the Olympics in Pyeongchang. The text of the letter published by the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. “Although any form of discrimination, as stated in the Olympic Charter, is not consistent with the principles of the Olympic movement, the IOC decision puts the clean athletes of Russia at a disadvantage compared to athletes from other countries,” wrote Usmanov. “After all the purgatory qualification for the Olympic games, clean sportsmen of Russia will be: a) for months waiting for the decision of the special Commission of the IOC about their fate, b) deprived of the support which is traditionally organized by the national Olympic

A former major in the Armed forces of Ukraine (APU), Yuri Baturin revealed in an interview with TV channel “Star” the details of the crash of the Boeing MH17 over Donbas in July 2014. Baturin said that at that time held the position of chief of the command post of the military unit A-1215 anti-aircraft missile troops near Kharkov and in the day of the crash he personally saw the plane on the indicators. “Attention all aircraft that flew over the combat zone, because, from my point of view, this is nonsense. And pay attention at exactly the moment when the plane disappeared from the indicators. Was mark — not mark. And it attracts attention,” he said. A few days after the crash on a command post near Kharkov, where he served Buchanan, came the military involved in the relocation of equipment 156th anti-aircraft missile regiment near the village of

Rex Tillerson The United States would like to remove sanctions against Russia, but this is impossible without solution of the Ukrainian question. On Thursday, December 7, said the U.S. Secretary Rex Tillerson. His words are reports Reuters from Vienna, where the Council of Ministers of internal Affairs of the countries-participants of OSCE. “We gave Russia to understand that we have to solve the question of Ukraine. This is the hardest obstacle to restoration of relations with Russia, which we would like to achieve,” — said the Secretary of state. Earlier, on December 6, Tillerson met with the foreign Ministers of NATO and has criticized Russia for state-funded hacking and disinformation campaign against the West. 7 December, the head of Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held their first 2014 in-person meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Pavel Klimkin. Relations between Kyiv and Moscow deteriorated sharply after the accession of Crimea to Russia

U.S. ready to resort to military solutions to create a system of medium-range missiles in the event of a violation by Russia of the Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range nuclear forces (INF). This was the Deputy Secretary of state Thomas Shannon told the newspaper “Kommersant”. “Although we remain committed to a diplomatic resolution of the question of violations by Russia of the provisions of the Treaty, the US is also beginning to explore possible military solutions to create a system of medium-range missiles, ground-based,” said Shannon. He noted that in the case of non-compliance by Russia of the provisions of the INF Treaty and its termination in the result of admitted violations by Russia, these missiles will protect the US and its allies, as well as offset the military superiority of Russia, which Moscow is seeking through the establishment of proscribed missiles, said Shannon. “As you know

The statement of the Pentagon about that part of the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia) in Syria is still not defeated, is a pretext in order to leave American troops in that country. On Wednesday, December 6, said the official representative of Russian defense Ministry major General Igor Konashenkov, reports “Interfax”. “Word about the alleged undefeated ISIS in Syria — an artificial pretext and excuse by the Pentagon to the illegal abandonment of American troops in the Syrian Republic”, — said Konashenkov. He noted that the situation in Syria “managed to stabilize and now to completely destroy ISIS thanks to the Russian military operation began on September 30, 2015”. “I would like to remind the representative of the Pentagon, that the emergence, expansion in Iraq and the invasion of Syria by the international terrorist group ISIS happened de facto with the tacit non-interference of the Pentagon”, —

Drug trafficking in Europe received for the year to 24 billion euros. On Thursday, December 7, reports Deutsche Welle. According to the police service of the EU, criminal groups spend the money to Finance criminal acts, particularly terrorism. 6 December in the Hague, Europol published an official report which admitted the illegal drug trade the largest market in the European Union. It is noted that more than a third of organized criminal groups in Europe involved in the manufacture and sale of prohibited substances. In the largest sizes in the EU are distributed cocaine and marijuana. In addition, in recent years there have been great changes in the production of synthetic drugs. According to Europol, in five years Europe was discovered 620 new psychoactive substances.

A resident of Stockholm Mons Jonasson, who first published the photo of the ambulance with the St. Petersburg rooms, in one of the districts of the city, wrote a post on Twitter specifically for the Russians. The Swede noted that he did not meant anything wrong when he asked in his microblog about the causes of the Russian ambulance in the area of the Seder. “I’m just consumed by curiosity as I’ve never seen a foreign ambulance. This is not an example of Swedish Russophobia. I love vodka and Alfred Schnittke” — he explained. Earlier, on 7 December it was reported that one of the witnesses drew attention to the ambulance with the Russian numbers in the centre of the Swedish capital and posted a photo of the car on his Twitter page. Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet speculated that the car could take part in the filming of any movie or

The court of Saxony authorized the sale of mini-gallows with the names of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel. It is reported by Zeit Online. In its decision, the court noted that this product is not a “public call to commit a criminal offence”. Moreover, the verdict specified that from an objective point of view, the production and sale of such products can also be understood as “symbolic political death wish”. The verdict also highlights that the case is not a precedent, and every subsequent similar case should be considered separately, as it may contain signs of a criminal offense. The Berliner Kurier newspaper reminds that the first such products appeared on the demonstrations anti-Islam movement Pegida in Dresden in 2015. Hinges were attached sign reading: “reserved for Angels”, “reserved for Sigmar”. Currently these crafts are sold as Souvenirs for 15 euros apiece.