The former head of the Gazprom Media holding, Mikhail Lesin, has died. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to his family. The cause of death was a heart attack. Mikhail Lesin was 57 years old. Mikhail Lesin headed Gazprom Media from 2013 to January 2015. Under his leadership, the holding acquired the main assets of ProfMedia, including TV-3 and 2×2 TV channels, as well as the Central Partnership film company.

Frame: Legendary / YouTube On Friday, November 6, the first trailer for the film “Warcraft”, shot through the same game universe, was released. The video shows the conflict of orcs and people, and the creators of the film previously promised not to pay the main attention of any of the parties. The film will be released in June 2016. Legendary Warcraft - Official Trailer (HD)

The passengers of the flight to Sharm el-Sheikh of Orenburg Airlines were disembarked from the plane at Vnukovo, returned to the airport and canceled the stamps in the passports about crossing the Russian border. RIA Novosti was told about this by one of the passengers of the flight. According to the schedule, the plane to Sharm el-Sheikh was supposed to take off at 17:25. The Vnukovo website indicates that the flight departed at 20:13.

What will happen to tour operators after the ban on flights to Egypt: Forbes Photo: Khaled Desouki / AFP / Scanpix The Russian authorities banned flights to Egypt. This decision put the domestic tourist industry on the facet of survival: tour operators lost their most important direction and, in addition, will have to pay compensation tourists. Forbes quickly interviewed market participants to find out how they will cope with this situation.

Passengers who were planning to fly to Egypt on the next flight from Sheremetyevo Airport were sent to exchange tickets. As a Meduza correspondent reported, Aeroflot's flight to Cairo, whose departure was scheduled for 20:25, was canceled 10 minutes before boarding. Citizens of Russia and foreigners who have a Russian visa were sent to exchange tickets at the box office. Foreigners without a visa were issued tickets for connecting flights.

An Egyptian official called the attack the most likely cause of the crash of the Russian A321. According to him, the authorities of the country can no longer exclude the possibility that the explosion led to the disaster. As this ABC official stated, a technical malfunction is at the bottom of the list of likely causes of the crash. His name is not called. Earlier, the Egyptian authorities claimed that the disaster occurred for technical reasons.

The flight recorder of the crashed A321 recorded the sound of an explosion on board. This is reported by the French TV channel France 2, citing one of the participants in the investigation of the disaster. According to him, this is not about the explosion of the aircraft engine. The newspaper Le Point reports , citing the results of the decoding of the "black boxes", that after the explosion on board the aircraft, the power was turned off.

The Russian Union of Travel Industry said that a temporary ban on flights to Egypt could lead to the bankruptcy of large tour operators. According to the press secretary of the union, Irina Tyurina, operators will have to pay compensation for canceled tours. As Tyurina said, the hot season is now in Egypt, there are 45-50 thousand Russian tourists there. On November 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to suspend flights to Egypt due to the crash of the Russian A321 aircraft.

The authorities closed the main tourist direction Photo: Thomas Hartwell / Ap / Scanpix Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to suspend the flights of Russian airlines to Egypt and ensure the safe return of citizens who are now in this country. The head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, previously suggested introducing such a restriction - in his opinion, flights must be prohibited until the causes of the A321 crash are established.

Border control officials in Russia's Federal Security Agency (FSB) have denied reports that Russia recently ceded to China 4.7 square kilometers (about 1,160 acres) of land near the city of Ussuriysk, in Primorsky Krai. Russian customs officials told the news agency RIA Novosti that they are unaware of any changes in the international border between China and the Russian Federation. “It never happened. It's just nonsense.

The FSB border department for Primorsky Krai denied reports that Russia had transferred a 4.7-square-kilometer piece of land near Ussuriysk to China. The Far Eastern Customs Administration said they had no information about the change in the border. “It didn’t happen, it’s some kind of stupidity. Absolutely, the borders did not move, ”said a representative of the border department of the FSB in the Primorsky Territory.

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation opposed the proposal to ban doctors from speaking negatively about their leadership and about officials involved in health care. Press Secretary of the Ministry of Health Oleg Salagay recalled that the Russian Constitution guarantees freedom of speech. “The establishment of such a ban is not based on law and cannot be implemented,” he said.

The head of Rostourism, Oleg Safonov, said that from November 6, Russians will not be able to fly to Egypt. “Due to the fact that air traffic is suspended, naturally, new Russian tourists will no longer be able to come to the Arab Republic of Egypt to rest,” he said. The website of the Moscow airport "Sheremetyevo" says that at 20:25 Moscow time for Cairo an Aeroflot flight will depart . At the time of writing the news, it was being registered.

A huge technopark was built in the Urals, but so far no one needs it Photo: Andrey Alshevsky The modern Technopark “Universitetsk”, which was built around the clock on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg, was supposed to become the “place of power” of the Sverdlovsk IT industry. In fact, no one has settled on an object surrendered almost a year ago.

The head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko , said that there were no grounds for a ban on the flights of Boeing 737 airliners. He made such a statement after a meeting at which the decision of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) to withdraw the certificate from aircraft of this type was discussed.