50 years of the Cuban Missile Crisis ALEXANDER GABUEV 50 years ago our world almost disappeared. It’s not even very clear what saved him. But what is certain is that if it had not been for the Cuban missile crisis, there would have been no watchmaking art, no art in general, no people to create these objects. It’s surprising that so little is known to the general public about those 13 days in October 1962.

Wilhelm Schmidt, A. Lange & Sohne The President of the Saxon watch manufacturer A. Lange & Sohne, Wilhelm Schmidt, who was appointed to this position at the end of 2011, came to Moscow to personally present one of the brand’s complex models. The Lange 1 Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar watch was shown to guests at the private sale of Christie's.

About 700 grenades found by workers of the ASG investment group during construction work on the street. Moskovskaya, 68, were successfully destroyed outside of Kazan - on the territory of the tank school training ground, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan reported. On November 27, the duty department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Tatarstan received a message that objects similar to grenades had been found in the building.

The launch of the South Korean KSLV-1 rocket, scheduled for November 29, was canceled due to technical problems. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to local media, the countdown to the launch of the rocket with the STSAT 2C satellite was suspended 17 minutes before the launch. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute told reporters that a "problem" had been detected in the second stage of the rocket. However, the department did not disclose which one.

A powerful tornado hit the Italian port city of Taranto, causing a crane with several construction workers on it to fall into the sea. Three of them were rescued; the body of the fourth, presumably dead, is being searched by divers. The thunderstorm that accompanied the tornado also contributed to the destruction of Taranto - lightning struck one of the pipes of Europe's largest steel plant, Ilva. Its fragments fell on power lines, stopping intercity communication.

The party of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the People of Freedom (NS), refused to hold primaries to determine its leader, who will lead the center-right in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the spring of 2013, RIA Novosti reported on November 29, citing Italian media.

Snowfall prevented hundreds of passengers from flying out of Moscow airports on time. More than 70 flights were delayed at Domodedovo on Thursday night due to bad weather. There are about 30 flights to Vnukovo. Kommersant FM correspondent Daria Polygaeva told the details to presenter Andrei Norkin. The night before, a storm warning was announced in Moscow and the Moscow region due to strong winds and snowstorms.

Mobile communications and the Internet stopped working in Syria today, reports the American network monitoring company Renesys. The country is believed to have remained cut off from the internet since noon local time. Previously, the authorities partially blocked access to the Internet during anti-government protests and large-scale operations by government forces, but a complete disconnection from the global network had not occurred before.

Daniil Granin received the main prize of the Big Book Literature Prize On Tuesday, the Big Book national literary award announced its winners for the seventh time. The main prize was awarded to one of the oldest Russian writers, Daniil Granin.

Former Minister of Agriculture of the Penza Region found guilty of bribery The Penza Regional Court found the region's former Minister of Agriculture, Marat Faizov, guilty of bribery. By a court decision, the ex-minister was sentenced to 7.5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony with a two-year ban on holding positions in government bodies. In addition, the convicted person will have to pay the state a fine of 12 million rubles.

In the southwest of the Moscow region, supercooled precipitation and freezing rain are already observed in places; by the middle of the night this zone will reach Moscow, a representative of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia told RIA Novosti . Freezing rain occurs when a layer of cold air near the earth's surface is covered by a warm layer at altitude. Drops of rain falling down instantly freeze on a cold surface, forming a crust of ice.

Yesterday, a session of the Novosibirsk City Council adopted an appeal to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu and the head of the Federal Property Management Agency Olga Dergunova with a request to transfer into municipal ownership the boiler house of the village of Gvardeisky, as well as kindergartens and other social facilities owned by the defense department in the city.

Preparations for the founding congress will be undertaken by Vladimir Putin’s proxies In the regions, the preparations for the founding congress of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF) will be carried out by President Vladimir Putin’s proxies in the presidential elections and representatives of public organizations.

Keeps track of time IRINA MIKHAILOVSKAYA, FORBES STYLE and FORBES WOMAN I try to get more done than I can. I have a very small child and a very responsible job. In the morning - it’s time for my youngest son Pasha, in the afternoon - I need to have time to do some journaling so that in the evening I can return to my 16-year-old daughter Anya and husband Yura. I really love playing in the theater and I try to keep up with that too. I also never regret taking the time to get myself in order.

The National Bank fulfilled its promise to prevent the devaluation of the hryvnia before the parliamentary elections, but in order to do this, it was necessary to allocate about $2 billion for currency interventions in October alone. In November, sharp fluctuations in the dollar exchange rate again occurred, as the market experienced a rush of demand for currency.