Photo: ESA / Rosetta / Philage / Civa The descent apparatus “Phil”, on November 13, who hung on the comet Churumov-Gerasimenko, recorded the sound of the first clash with the surface of the celestial body. The two -second entry was published on November 20 on the Rosetta probe blog on the website of the European Space Agency (ESA). The sound was recorded using the SESEME system - literally “ESPEROMENCE on electronic and acoustic monitoring of the surface”, consisting of several tools.

the Enlightener Prize for 2014 in the natural science category Asya Kazantseva received for her book Who Would Have Thought! How the brain makes us do stupid things,” Afisha Air tweeted. in the category of humanities Sergei Yarov won with the book "Daily life of besieged Leningrad". The winners will receive 700 thousand rubles each.

A helicopter crashed in the Nizhny Novgorod region. As a result of the disaster, 5 people died. According to preliminary data , the Eurocopter helicopter belongs to the Everest company. The helicopter took off from the Seliport airfield near Moscow at about 15:00. In two hours he was supposed to fly to the area of ​​the city of Kstovo.

The head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Veronika Skvortsova, said that the authorities will try to arrange medical workers dismissed in Moscow in the regions. According to her, the Ministry of Health has entered into an agreement with the job search site Headhunter, on the basis of which an all-Russian bank of vacancies in the medical field will be created.

The court refused to satisfy the claim of the LDPR against the former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. They demanded compensation of 10 million rubles from Khodorkovsky. for the unflattering reference to the Party in his book. In the book Prison and Freedom, Khodorkovsky said: “Since I myself was not engaged in party building, I supported the forces closest to me. Isn't it LDPR? The Liberal Democratic Party made money by voting. Direct and cynical.

Shot: Unisef Katie Parry, Will.I.am, Adam Lambert, Nicole Sherzinger and other American stars, as well as UN Secretary General Pan Gi Moon, took part in the Caver’s record for John Lennon's song “Imagine”. The video was shot by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in honor of the 25th anniversary of the signing of the child's rights.

Former Defense Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Igor Strelkov, claimed responsibility for starting the war in Donbas. “I still pulled the trigger of the war. If our detachment had not crossed the border, in the end everything would have ended, as in Kharkov, as in Odessa. There would have been several dozen killed, burned, arrested. And that would be the end of it," Strelkov said.

Evgenia Hasis testified in the Born case Photo: Vladimir Astapkovich / TASS / Scanpix Following the neo -Nazi Nikita Tikhonov in the Moscow Regional Court in the Born case (“Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists”), his civil wife Evgeny Hasis was interrogated. Hasis, sentenced for complicity in the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova by 18 years in prison, sat in the same Aquarium, from where Tikhonov testified a day earlier.

Frame: YOSIP1115 / YouTube The user YOSIP1115 uploaded the video of his father to YouTube, who tied the motorcycle to the rope on the tree and rides on it. “I returned home, and my father is doing this. I swear, he is a child, ”wrote the author of the video. YOSIP1115 I COME Home and My Dad Is Doing I Swear Heʼs a Child

Journalist Esquire - about the life and illness of his father Image: Esquire.ru The father of the Russian Esquire correspondent Polina Eremenko was sick with schizophrenia for 25 years. A year ago, he died. The journalist gathered the story of the life and illness of her father from her memoirs, the stories of her mother and grandmother and asked foreign and Russian specialists in the field of psychology and psychiatry to comment on her.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called calls for the violent overthrow of the existing system "a direct manifestation of anti-people thinking." He made this statement at a meeting of the Russian Security Council, which resulted in the adoption of a strategy to combat extremism.

A state system for monitoring the information field will be created in Russia, said Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev. This measure is provided for in the strategy to counter extremism, which was approved by the Security Council on November 20. The document will be sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin for approval. The government should develop a plan for implementing the document by the summer of 2015.

In the United States, director Mike Nichols, winner of the Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards, one of the largest American film and theater directors, died. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. Nichols was 83 years old.

On November 8, the Russian government changed the rules for the circulation of civilian weapons - in particular, the rules for carrying and transporting them. Some media outlets published this news with a headline like “The government allowed Russians to carry weapons for self-defense,” and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had to issue a retraction. After this, publications appeared that the amendments were purely technical in nature. In fact, some of the changes are quite significant.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service found more than 50 illegal advertising publications in the magazines of the Sanoma group. FAS found articles without a corresponding mark in Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Cosmopolitan Psychology, Harper's Bazaar, Domashniy Ochag, Good Housekeeping and Popular Mechanics magazines. FAS opened 27 administrative cases for violating the law on advertising, which requires labeling of advertisements. They will be considered on December 2 and 4.