Rosprirodnadzor, in connection with the appearance in Moscow of the smell of hydrogen sulfide, opened an administrative case under the article “Violation of the rules for the protection of atmospheric air” and is conducting an administrative investigation against an unidentified person, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Rinat Gizatulin said. Information on this fact was sent to the Moscow prosecutor's office.

Mozilla has partnered with the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Tor Project to launch a strategic Polaris initiative to protect user privacy and anonymity. Polaris will run two experiments related to the Firefox browser. For example, Mozilla plans to implement the developments of programmers from the Tor project in Firefox in order to evaluate whether this will help speed up work on the anonymous network.

The American television channel CNN will stop broadcasting on Russian cable networks by the end of 2014. The TV channel sent a corresponding notice, a copy of which is at the disposal of Vedomosti, to cable TV operators in Russia. The reasons for the refusal to broadcast in the Russian Federation are not specified in the notification.

An informational video portal will be created on the website of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's project "Open Russia", which will be headed by Renat Davletgildeev, former deputy editor-in-chief of the Dozhd TV channel. Daily releases will reflect the picture of the day with an emphasis on the situation in the Russian regions. The video content will consist of five to six stories, each two to three minutes long.

The head of VTB Andrey Kostin revealed the details of the preparation of a private party for Russian and foreign financiers, which received wide coverage in the media. In particular, it was reported that a video “Anti-sanction concert” was shown at the party, where Kostin portrays a composer-conductor, and VTB employees are musicians. According to Kostin, holding such annual parties is a long tradition, which they decided not to abandon despite the difficult economic situation.

Palestinian terrorists armed with knives carried out two attacks on Israelis on November 10. In Tel Aviv, a terrorist attacked an IDF soldier with a knife, inflicting severe injuries on him. The attacker was shot dead at the scene. Hours after the first attack, a Palestinian armed with a knife attacked three people voting on a road near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Two men and a 25-year-old woman who later died were injured.

The world premiere of the last picture of Christopher Nolan "Interstellar", one of the most anticipated this year, took place on November 5th. In Russia, "Space Odyssey" was shown on the 6th. The film here caused completely opposite assessments of the assessment from both critics and viewers.

Representatives of the Kremlin and the White House denied that a conversation had taken place between Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama at the APEC summit in Beijing. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, there was "a brief contact" between the leaders of the two countries. At the same time, it is possible that Putin and Obama will meet and talk on November 11.

The reason for the unpleasant smell that appeared in Moscow on November 10 was a malfunction at the Moscow Oil Refinery (MNPZ). This was stated by the first deputy head of the EMERCOM of Russia for Moscow Yuri Akimov. At the same time, Gazprom Neft, which owns the Moscow Oil Refinery, stated that the information about the accident at the enterprise is not true.

The German Foreign Ministry responded to the Russian embassy with a note sent after publications appeared in a number of German media based on a report by the BND intelligence service on the circumstances of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in Donbass.

The official exchange rate of the ruble to foreign currencies is set every day by the Central Bank. The basis is the price of the ruble against the US dollar at daily trading on the Moscow Exchange. Based on this rate, the Central Bank calculates the value of the ruble relative to other foreign currencies. Yes. The Central Bank influences the ruble exchange rate if it changes too sharply. Recently, the ruble has been constantly falling in price, winning back several points from time to time.

How in Perm they fought with the Museum of the History of Political Repression: Reporting Ivan Kozlov Photo: Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant The Perm-36 Museum is the only complex of buildings of the Stalinist Gulag in Russia. For almost 18 years, the museum has successfully worked as an independent organization.

Employees of the Library of Stanford University "Resurrected" the first site on the Internet, created outside Europe. Several web pages with contacts of university employees and a search engine for electronic publications were saved on the carrier of information to one of the employees. A copy of the site was published on the university’s website, but it works only partially.

How is the business live in Donetsk: the report of Novaya Gazeta Photo: Marko Djurica / Reuters / Scanpix In Donetsk, despite the declared truce, artillery volleys are still heard, but the city is trying to live according to the laws of peacetime. The self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic even developed the Tax Code and began to fill out the budget - money, however, does not have business and have to pay products.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma for consideration, proposing to postpone the day off from January 8 to December 31.