The court fined the Kurdish family living in Sheremetyevo for trying to illegally cross the border Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS / Scanpix On Thursday, November 19, the Khimkinsky City Court fined the Kurdish refugees Hassan Ahmed Abdo and Gulistan Issa Shaho, who, together with four children from September 10, 2015, live in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport. The family escaped from Iraq, hiding from the war and persecution by militants of the Islamic State prohibited in Russia.

The Enlightener Award was presented in Moscow. In the natural science nomination, the main prize was given to the authors of the book "Mathematical Component" - the creator of the project " Mathematical Etudes " Nikolai Andreev and two of his co-authors. The book is available free of charge on the Internet .

In Russia, a single protest of truckers was held: "Mediazone" Photo: Anton Vergun / TASS On Thursday, November 19, several dozen Russian cities held protests of truckers, dissatisfied with the commissioning of trucks on federal routes. The system for the collection of money from drivers, called Plato, earned on November 15 - and after the first protests, the authorities promised that until March 2016, fines for the failure to use the system would be charged only in the Moscow region.

Kurds who have been living at Sheremetyevo airport for several months have been found guilty of illegally crossing the Russian border. Hassan Aman Ando and his wife Gulistan were fined 5,000 rubles each. They were accused of having crossed the Russian border on fake passports. Under this article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation there is no lower limit of punishment.

Russian athletes due to a doping scandal will not be able to compete at the World Championships in Athletics in the halls, which will be held March 17-20, 2016 in the United States. This follows from the schedule of inspections of the All-Russian Federation of Athletics (ARAF), which was compiled by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). She said that the first inspection report would be submitted no earlier than March 27.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved DNA-modified salmon for consumption. This was reported in a press release on the agency's website. The product, called AquAdvantage Salmon, is an Atlantic salmon that has been added with a gene for a chinook fish from the salmon family and a promoter for the American eelpout , a bottom-dwelling eel-like fish. Thanks to the DNA modification, the new salmon grows twice as fast as normal fish.

Russian Yevgeny Erofeev, accused in Ukraine of terrorism, complained of torture after his arrest. At the court session, he stated that torture was used against him during the recording of a video in which he recognizes himself as an active serviceman of the Russian army. Security Service of Ukraine Explanation of the citizen of the Russian Federation, the captain of the GRU Yevhen Erofeev (eng) This video has been cut. During the breaks there were tortures, there was pressure.

The mother of Moscow State University student Varvara Karaulova, who tried to escape to the Islamic State, said that her daughter was sent to a pre-trial detention center because she refused to cooperate with the FSB. In an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets, Kira Karaulova said that since July 2015, Varvara had corresponded with her recruiter under the control of FSB officers, but then refused to do so. “They completely controlled the correspondence with him.

Frame: bonds australia / youtube The Australian manufacturer of the underwear Bonds has released a series of life commercials about how hard it is testiculas. The role of the testicles is played by two beards in the golden cocoon, who react violently to what is happening and constantly try to protest the solutions of the brain. In the first video, the testicles begin to itch when their owner performs on the Council of Directors. Also in it, testiculas experience a blow.

The Minister of Sports of Russia and President of the RFU Vitaly Mutko said that before the European Championship in 2016, a football player for the Russian team will be naturalized. “This is part of the concept of preparing the national team,” Mutko said. Which of the foreign players will receive a Russian passport is unknown. “We will have time to naturalize a player for the national team before Euro. But with an eye on the World Cup," Mutko said.

"Black square." All details about the discoveries of the Tretyakovka Photo: Yuri Kadenov / AFP / Scanpix In the State Tretyakov Gallery on November 18, journalists were told about the results of museum studies of one of the main paintings of the 20th century-Malevich’s Black Square (in 2015, the work celebrates the 100th anniversary). They formed the basis of the book of an employee of the museum, specialist in the work of the artist Irina Vakar “Kazimir Malevich.

"Medusa" found that officials confuse the words "tender" and "gender" Photo: Chiplyakov / RIA Novosti / Scanpix In official Russian documents, the words “gender” and “tender” are sometimes confused. "Medusa" decided to explain how these two concepts differ. Just in case. On Benders. Example No.

The average salary in Russia in October year on year decreased by 10.9 percent in real terms, Rosstat said. For ten months of 2015, the average salary in real terms, according to the statistical office, decreased in the Russian Federation by 9.3 percent. The real disposable money income of Russians in October 2015 decreased by 5.6 percent compared to October last year. In January-October, real incomes of the population in real terms decreased by 3.5 percent.

The reason for the derailment of the high-speed train TGV in France was too late braking. This was announced at a press conference by representatives of the National Society of Railways. The braking system should have worked at least one kilometer earlier, said the head of the society, Jacques Rapoport. As a result, the train tried to turn at a speed of 265 kilometers per hour instead of 176 kilometers per hour.

A career diplomat lays out Russia's tough options in Syria Photo: Alexander Astafyev / RIA Novosti / Scanpix The horrific terrorist attacks in Paris and apparent bombing of a Russian passenger flight in Egypt have galvanized the world's attention like few events in recent memory, offering a rare moment in Russian-Western relations for common cause in the Middle East. The focus, of course, is the Syrian Civil War, where the terrorist organization ISIL has been expanding for more than a year now.