On November 24, director Eldar Ryazanov was taken to the Burdenko Hospital for examination. Reports that he was admitted to the hospital in serious condition have not been confirmed. “Most likely, there is no stroke - Eldar Alexandrovich just felt unwell, there was nothing wrong with him,” said one of the friends of the director’s family. It is expected that Ryazanov will spend no more than two or three days in the hospital.

Director Eldar Ryazanov hospitalized. He was taken to the Burdenko Moscow Hospital. The director's condition is assessed as serious. He was diagnosed with acute cerebrovascular accident. Interfax does not have official confirmation of this information. Interfax Eldar Ryazanov is one of the greatest directors of Soviet and Russian cinema. After graduating from VGIK in 1950, he took up documentary filmmaking, but 5 years later he began making feature films.

Photo: Daniil Maxyukov / Calvertjournal.com The photographer Daniil Maxyukov arranged virtual trips to the Russian regions using the Yandex.Panorama service and shot interesting stories that came across the Yandexmobile. He notes that he preferred the Russian service, because in it, unlike Google Street View, the faces of people and cars of cars are not blinked, so a full -fledged picture appears to the audience.

Matthew McConaughey will star in the film adaptation of "Confrontation" - a post-apocalyptic novel by Stephen King, which tells about the epidemic caused by the leakage of a deadly virus from the laboratory. The actor will play the main negative character named Randall Flagg, a man with supernatural abilities who is trying to create an authoritarian state from the surviving people on the ruins of Las Vegas. Studio Warner Bros. going to make 4 full-length films based on the book.

Russia has stopped deliveries of coal to the Ukrainian company DTEK Rinat Akhmetov and the state-owned company Centrenergo. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine. Since the beginning of November, about 1 million tons of Russian coal has been delivered to Ukraine. The reasons for the cessation of supplies are not called.

An Instagram user from Japan has been posting photos of two hedgehogs living with her for several months. Unlike other pet owners, she doesn't build special compositions with them or send them on trips - she just posts hundreds of photos and videos of fat hedgehogs contented with life.

Interview of Elizabeth Glinka to the Snob project - about orphans in Donetsk and relations with the authorities Photo: Julia Mayorova / Snob Elizabeth Glinka, better known as Dr. Lisa, the founder of the Fair Help and the famous Phil Region-unexpectedly collided by the public for her activities and statements in connection with the conflict in the southeast of Ukraine.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation appealed to the Moscow City Court demanding that the unregistered movement "People's Militia named after K. Minin and D. Pozharsky", headed by retired GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, be recognized as terrorist. The first hearing on the motion ban lawsuit will take place on December 8.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs Center for Combating Extremism (Center E) turned to Dmitry Khomak, administrator of the online encyclopedia Lurkomorye, with a request to provide information about the authors of articles about Ramzan Kadyrov and the Molotov cocktail. The police are interested in the date of publication of the articles and the ip-addresses from which the users who posted them came in, as well as any other information about these users.

Frame: Amundson Rivers / YouTube Sony published, but quickly removed the advertising video containing sexual subtext from its official channel. In the video, a girl in a doctor’s costume claims that “he knows that you have already done this today,” and is interested in the audience whether they are concerned about what they are doing “this” too often.

US President Barack Obama has decided to fire Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, several sources in the presidential administration said at once. Obama will officially announce Hagel's resignation on November 24 during a special speech to reporters. At the same time, sources in the Obama administration emphasize that the decision to leave Hagel was made after consultations with Obama that lasted for two weeks. The decision, they said, was mutual and there was no talk of firing Hagel.

Former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadim Boyko, known as the Pearl Ensign, was sentenced by the district court of St. Petersburg to 3 years of probation for hooliganism. In May 2013, he shot at a cafe with a hunting rifle. The defendant's lawyer, Anna Murray, promised to appeal the verdict. The lawyer noted that the prosecutor asked to appoint Boyko a sentence of four years in prison. Interfax Vadim Boyko was detained on May 11, 2013 in one of the St. Petersburg cafes.

“Portrait of Maria Cetlin” Valentina Serova’s brushes left the hammer at Christiegn in London for 9.266 million pounds and became the most expensive work sold at the auction by Russian art. Before the auction began for the picture, it was hoped to help out 1.5 - 2.5 million pounds. The name of the buyer of the portrait is not revealed by tradition. Valentin Serov.

The Rosselkhoznadzor asked Belarus to stop processing batches of meat products from November 30, which follows in transit through Russia to Kazakhstan and other countries. The reason was the discovery of a channel of illegal supplies in violation of the food embargo: the products, according to the documents, were going to Kazakhstan, were actually sold in Russia.

British blogger Graham Philips was wounded near Donetsk. This was announced by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the RT television channel, with which Philips cooperates. The blogger was wounded by a fragment of a mortar shell during shelling near the village of Peski. Komsomolskaya Pravda published photos of the blogger. The correspondent of the publication was next to him when a fragment of a mortar shell hit him.