A documentary film about the murdered politician comes to Russia's Artdocfest Screencap: “My Friend, Boris Nemtsov” Later this month, the documentary film festival "Artdocfest" comes to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Vitaly Mansky , the festival's president, recently spoke to Meduza about one of this year's films in competition, "My Friend, Boris Nemtsov" (Russia and Estonia, 2015), directed by Zosya Rodkevich. This is what he had to say.

The space images provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense as evidence of oil trade between Turkey and the "Islamic State" (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) actually show Iraqi Kurdish fuel trucks. This was announced to the Turkish state news agency Anadolu by official representatives of Iraqi Kurdistan.

The European Commission has launched a formal review of the tax agreement between McDonald's and Luxembourg, allegedly allowing the company to evade taxes. The exact amount that McDonald's is suspected of not paying is unknown. Earlier it was reported that we are talking about a billion euros. McDonald's denied these allegations, saying that in 2010-2014 the company paid more than $2.1 billion in taxes in Europe, reports The Guardian.

Short: "Game of Thrones" A teaser of the sixth season of the series, which will be released in April 2016, appeared on Twitter of the series “Game of Thrones”.

Tashfin Malik, 27, suspected of attacking a developmental disability center in San Bernardino, was a Pakistani citizen. According to an FBI spokeswoman, Malik was in the United States on a K-1 visa, which is issued to foreigners engaged to American citizens. The Los Angeles Times reports that Malik came to the US from Saudi Arabia, where another suspect, Siad Farouk, went to pick her up some time ago. According to other sources, the couple first met in Pakistan.

The actress and model Pamela Anderson starred for the cover of the last issue with naked girls in the history of the Playboy magazine. The release for January-February 2016 will go on sale on December 11. Pamela Anderson said that she was called the representative of Playboy Hugh Hefner and said: “We do not want anyone but you. Could you star for Playboy for the last time?

The wife of one of the leaders of the Kushchevskaya organized crime group, Natalya Tsepovyaz, said that the Sugar Kuban company, in which the former wife of Deputy Prosecutor General Olga Lopatina owned a stake, was created without her knowledge. According to Tsepovyaz, she knows for sure that the company did not work. Why she was created, she does not know. As Natalya Tsepovyaz said, her husband was in charge of all business-related matters.

Ilya Kreimer, a former Internet archive programmer, created the Oldweb.tode website, which allows users to sit on the Internet of 15 and even 20 years ago. Oldweb.tode allows you to choose one of the ancient browsers (to choose from NSCA Mosaic, Netscape Navigator and the early versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer) and try to download some site in it. Moreover, copies of sites are taken from the archives and loaded very slowly so that the immersion is even more spectacular.

Photo: @mikamale727 / Instagram On the square near the Milan Cathedral, a 30-meter Christmas spruce was installed. True, at the time of installation, she did not look at all festive. In fact, they made a bald spoon on purpose - the tree was taken from the autonomous region of Trentino in northern Italy and cut it specifically for transportation. After installation, the workers began to fix the branches on it and decorate it. On December 8, Christmas spruce will be ready.

Turkey expressed condolences to Russia in connection with the death of the pilot of the Su-24 bomber, shot down by a Turkish fighter. This was stated by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Belgrade. Lavrov himself, after negotiations with Cavusoglu, said that he had not heard "anything new" from him. “The Turkish Foreign Minister confirmed the approaches that were publicly voiced by the President and Prime Minister of Turkey.

The winner of the Russian Booker Literary Prize for 2015 was Alexander Snegirev with his novel Vera. The shortlist of contenders for the award also included: Alisa Ganieva with the novel "The Bride and Groom", Vladimir Danikhnov ("Lullaby"), Yuri Pokrovsky ("Among the People"), Roman Senchin ("Flooding Zone") and Guzel Yakhina (" Zuleikha opens her eyes. The winner of the award received 1.5 million rubles, all finalists received 150 thousand rubles each.

The High Court of London issued an arrest warrant for banker Sergei Pugachev. This was reported in the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), which is suing Pugachev in London due to the bankruptcy of Mezhprombank. According to the DIA report, the court decided to arrest Pugachev, since he did not confirm his participation in the trial.

"Carnegies" on "Medusa". Andrey Kolesnikov - about why the presidential message is still needed Photo: press service of the President of Russia Medusa continues a joint project with the Moscow Center of Carnegie . In the next text, the journalist, head of the Russian Internal Policy and Political Institute of the Center, Andrei Kolesnikov, analyzes the message of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, with whom he addressed the Federal Assembly on December 3.

Truck drivers demanding the abolition of tolls on federal highways are going to hold an action on the Moscow Ring Road called "Snail" - they will occupy two lanes on the road and will move at the minimum permitted speed. This was told by Kommersant journalist Alexander Chernykh, who is in the Moscow region along with truckers. Chernykh said that the drivers would try to arrange a "Snail" on Friday, December 4th.

Grown men pretend to be awake for a lecture by the President Photo: Kremlin press service On December 3, Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to the Federation Assembly. During his speech, which lasted exactly one hour, television cameras repeatedly turned to Putin's audience of lawmakers and senior officials, whose sleepy faces served as a powerful reminder of how hard it is to sit through a lecture. A very boring lecture. After a night of no sleep.