In Tatarstan, the administration of the pre-trial detention center has begun to implement a plan to allocate separate cells to which non-smoking detainees are assigned. This was reported by the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Republic of Tatarstan. The first non-smoking cells in the republic appeared in the republic in May 2012 as part of an experiment.

In Singapore, a taxi driver returned the money they had forgotten to passengers - a tourist couple from Thailand. The bag containing cash contained more than a million Singapore dollars (almost 900 thousand US dollars), reports Agence France-Presse . According to the taxi driver himself, he discovered a bag of money shortly after he dropped the couple off at the shopping center.

A former employee of the EA publishing house has declassified the new part of Mirror's Edge. Ben Cousins ​​tweeted : "It's common knowledge among developers in Stockholm that DICE is working on Mirror's Edge 2." Thus, Cousins ​​commented on an interview with EA Games Vice President Patrick Soderlund to OXM magazine.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire, Reuters reported on Wednesday . A Palestinian official familiar with the negotiations told the news agency on condition of anonymity. Israeli sources confirmed information about the ceasefire, but did not provide any details of the agreement. Sources familiar with the progress of the negotiations from the Egyptian side also acknowledged the existence of an agreement between Israel and Hamas.

In Moscow, work begins on the construction of the Small Stage of the Vakhtangov Academic Theater, which will be located at Arbat 24-26. As reported in a press release received by Lenta.ru, office premises for the theater will be built there. The Moscow authorities allowed the theater to use the building on Arbat back in 1994, but construction was delayed for 18 years due to changes in the rules for developing the historical center.

Kazakhstan has decided to change the appearance of the presidential standard. The corresponding decree, as reported by Kazakhstan Today, was signed by the President of the Republic Nursultan Nazarbayev . The old-style standard, the type of which was determined by a decree of 1995, was a blue flag, in the center of which there is a golden image of the leader of the Saka era (nomadic tribes that existed from the first millennium BC to the first centuries AD), sitting on winged leopard.

21.11.2012, 09:55:13 version Print | PDA/PDA Irakli Okruashvili in Tbilisi court, November 20, 2012. Photo by Reuters Hawk cage Irakli Okruashvili returned to Georgia On the morning of November 20, a half-forgotten character unexpectedly returned to Georgia - former Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili. Several years ago, after trying to act as an oppositionist, he actually had to flee the country.

The Moscow City Duma adopted a law allowing copies of the Victory Banner to be hung on the streets of the city on December 5, RIA Novosti reports . On this day in 1941, the counter-offensive of Soviet troops began near Moscow. “The adoption of this law will play an unconditional role in the patriotic education of young people,” said Andrei Klychkov, leader of the Communist Party faction in the City Duma.

In Moscow on the evening of November 20, the presentation of the Enlightener Prize for 2012 took place. The fifth anniversary award ceremony took place at the Polytechnic Museum. A message about this is provided on the website of the award organizer, the non-profit Dynasty Foundation. Astronomer Vladimir Surdin won the “Enlightener” award in the field of natural sciences for his book “Exploration of Distant Planets .

attempted to commit suicide On November 21, in the court of the city of Taldykorgan (the administrative center of the Almaty region of Kazakhstan), where the case of murders on the border is being considered, the defendant Vladislav Chelakh . Tengrinews reports this. The incident occurred after the judge rejected one of the defense's motions (the lawyer demanded that the wiretapping of the defendant's mother be declared illegal).

Amendments to the law on increasing deposit insurance from 700 thousand to one million rubles have been submitted for consideration by the government. This , Interfax was stated by Finance Minister Anton Siluanov reports . Now 700 thousand rubles is the maximum amount that is guaranteed to be reimbursed to a depositor who has lost a deposit.

Eksmo Publishing House has released the book "Pussy Riot. What was that?" without agreement with the group. The husband of team member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Pyotr Verzilov, told Lenta.ru about this. The book is signed with his wife's name. According to Verzilov, the book includes only publicly available materials: interviews, newspaper publications and posts from the Pussy Riot blog.

The head coach of the London football club Chelsea, Roberto Di Matteo, has been dismissed. The reason for this decision is the unsatisfactory results of the team. A statement from Chelsea's management posted on the club's website emphasized that a change of coach in this situation was "necessary." Di Matteo's successor has not been specified, but it is reported that the club will make an announcement regarding the new team coach in the near future.

The conclusion of a peace treaty between the Israeli authorities and representatives of the Palestinian movement Hamas , which, as previously reported, was supposed to take place in Cairo on November 20 at 23:00 Moscow time, is postponed. reports this Agence France-Presse . The decision on the truce issue has been postponed indefinitely, since Israel has not yet expressed official approval of the truce plan drawn up in Cairo .

The mayor of the American city of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker made a bet with a Twitter user to prove the need for government funding for school meals. Politico reported this on November 20. According to the terms of the dispute, both opponents must live on food stamps for a week. Thus, the mayor proposed to resolve the dispute that began on November 19 on a social network between him and a TwitWit user .