The crash of a Boeing 737-500 in Kazan on November 17 will lead to checks against Tatarstan Airlines, which was operating it. The airline's management has been trying for a number of years to establish relations with three leading Western aircraft manufacturers - Bombardier, Boeing and Airbus. Each time, an unfortunate coincidence of factors for the airline prevented the purchase of new equipment. Additional difficulties could be created by the complex ownership structure of the enterprise.

The band Travis was formed in Glasgow at the very beginning of the 1990s, but gained wide popularity only in 1999 - thanks to their second studio album “The Man Who”, which managed to rise to the first line of the British charts. To date, the group's discography includes a total of seven records. "Where You Stand", the last of them, went on sale in mid-August 2013.

Evgenia Vasilyeva, accused of theft of property from the Ministry of Defense, said that she does not hope to be included in the economic amnesty. “As for the amnesty for me, there will be no amnesty - otherwise there will be a social explosion,” the accused said in an interview with the Vedomosti newspaper , published on November 18. According to the accused, she does not know why she was placed not in a pre-trial detention center, but under house arrest.

Vitaly Sych resigned from the post of editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian weekly Korrespondent. A message about this appeared on November 18 on the website of the UMH Group media holding, which owns the magazine. As stated in the statement, Sych “decided to leave the editorial office by mutual agreement of the parties.” The former head of the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty v Ukraine, Andrey Ovcharenko, has been appointed acting editor-in-chief of Korrespondent.

Tatarstan Airlines announced that it is temporarily suspending the operation of passenger aircraft such as Boeing 737. This was reported on November 18 on the company’s official website. As the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov explained, after the crash of the Boeing 737-500, the airline had only one Boeing left.

Warner Bros. has offered Javier Bardem one of the key roles in the film about Peter Pan, according to Deadline. If an agreement is reached between the parties, the actor will play the main antagonist, the pirate Blackbeard, in the film “Pan”. The film will be Peter's backstory - it will tell how an orphan boy ends up on the magical island of Neverland and saves local residents from a gang of thugs. “Pan” is written by Jason Fewkes (“Ice Age 4: Continental Drift”).

Blue crabs ( Callinectes sapidus ) are typical inhabitants of the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States. Large males can reach 23 centimeters and are caught for their tasty, tender meat. Due to fishing and the reduction of coastal thickets suitable for shelter, the crab population has been steadily declining in recent years.

Law enforcement agencies of Tatarstan discovered and neutralized two improvised explosive devices. the official portal of the region, this According to was reported to the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov at a meeting of the anti-terrorism commission in Kazan on Sunday, November 17. Bombs were found in the Alekseevsky district of the republic and in the city of Nizhnekamsk. Criminal cases have been initiated based on these facts.

There were no complaints about the technical condition of the Boeing 737-500, which crashed at Kazan airport on Sunday evening. agency was told about this The Interfax by Tatarstan Airlines, which operated the plane. According to the head of the carrier's press service, Gulnaz Minnikhanova, on Sunday this plane flew on the route Kazan - Yerevan - Kazan, and then flew to Moscow.

Former US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has become president and managing director of investment firm Warburg Pincus. The company itself announced this on November 16 ( .pdf ). Geithner will take up his duties on March 1, 2014. He will be involved in developing investment strategies and investor relations. The amount of remuneration for the former finance minister is not reported.

Microsoft has released the 3D Builder application for the Windows 8.1 operating system. The program allows you to create three-dimensional models of digital objects and print them on a 3D printer, according to a Microsoft blog. A set of ready-made templates is supplied with the application. It includes decorative elements (ornaments, snowflakes), household items (banknote clip, buttons, ice molds) and toys (locomotive and carriages).

On November 18, 2013, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehkan held a ceremony to display the new Iranian-developed strategic unmanned aerial vehicle Fotros (Peter), Tasnim reports. According to the head of the Iranian military department, the drone is the largest device of its class ever produced in the country. The demonstration of the drone took place on the territory of Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries.

The police exposed multimillion-dollar theft of budget funds allocated for repair work in the Nizhny Novgorod branch of one of the federal institutions of the Russian Ministry of Health. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A criminal case was opened on the facts of theft on an especially large scale.

In the Stavropol Territory, a criminal case was opened against a police officer for sexual violence against a minor. This was reported on November 18 on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

Biologists from Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical School have discovered anti-inflammatory and skin-rejuvenating effects in household bleach, hypochlorite. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation briefly about the study , New Scientist writes . The motive of the authors was the desire to establish the mechanism of the calming effect of hypochlorite solutions on the skin for certain dermatitis.