A mass demonstration took place in the capital of South Korea, the participants of which demanded the resignation of Park Geun-hye from the presidency of the country due to suspicions of corruption. According to law enforcement agencies, about 43,000 people took part in the demonstration. The protest organizers, in turn, announced almost 100,000 participants. Initially, the police rejected the request to hold the demonstration, but the Seoul Administrative Court allowed the event.

Activists of the "Other Russia" threw bones and smoke bombs at the building of the Consulate General of Ukraine in St. Petersburg, Fontanka reports. According to the publication, about 20 people participated in the protest against the policy of the Ukrainian authorities, one of them was detained. Representatives of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for St.

Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a demonstration in support of arrested journalists from the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, a Reuters correspondent said from the scene. The special means, he said, were used by law enforcement officers to prevent the demonstrators from breaking through to the entrance to the Cumhuriyet office.

The unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will change its name to the Republic of Artsakh. This was stated by the Chairman of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Nagorno-Karabakh, the head of the professional commission on constitutional reforms, Ashot Ghulyan, on the air of local television. The new name, he said, is spelled out in the new draft constitution. “There will be no longer the constitution of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, but the Republic of Artsakh,” Ghulyan said.

WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning made a second suicide attempt. Manning's lawyers said their client attempted suicide in October. The lawyers did not disclose the details of what happened, stating only that the conditions in which she is kept in prison are to blame for Manning's unstable state of mind. In September, Manning was sentenced to 14 days in solitary confinement in connection with a previous suicide attempt.

Russian dance couple Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov won the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix series in figure skating. After a short dance, Bobrova and Solovyov were in second place, but in the free dance they set a personal record (111.7) and scored 186.68 points in the sum of two performances. Thus, according to TASS , Bobrova and Solovyov secured their participation in the Grand Prix final, which will be held in Marseille, France from December 8 to 11.

Director Nikita Mikhalkov said that he did not understand “where they infringed” the head of the Satyricon Theater Konstantin Raikin, who accused the Russian authorities of censorship. “I love Kostya Raikin very much, he is a talented person. But I would like to understand: where did he infringe? What does he not have? It has a Raikin Plaza center, its own theater and school. He puts on what he wants, ”Mikhalkov said on the air of the program“ Right to Know ! ”, Aired on the TVC channel.

Yevgeny Zinichev, who left the post of acting head of the Kaliningrad region on October 6, became the deputy director of the Federal Security Service (FSB). Zinichev appears on the list of the FSB leadership, published on the official website of the special service. Information about the leadership of the FSB states that Zinichev was appointed to the post of deputy director in October 2016. His work at the post and. O. the head of the Kaliningrad region is not mentioned.

Holidays for schoolchildren in Dagestan will be extended by 10 days due to the massive poisoning of drinking water in the republic. Such an order, the press service of the regional government reported, was given by the head of the republic, Ramazan Abdulatipov. In addition, in Makhachkala, where the largest number of poisonings was recorded, by order of the head of the republic, crowded places will be temporarily closed, the press service said, without specifying details.

Yakut Thriller, "Girl on the train", Amanda Knox and TV shows At the request of Medusa, the film critic Yegor Moskvitin compiled a list of seven detectives on the weekend that should be seen. It included two new films, the current documentary and four series. My killer Director Kostas Marsan, from November 3 What is this? The film adaptation of the story “The Case on Lake Saysary” by the Yakut writer Yegor Neimokhov.

The head of one of the subdivisions of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Combating Corruption (GUEBiPK) was dismissed from the internal affairs bodies following the results of an audit initiated after the detention of Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko. This was stated on the air of the NTV channel by the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

The Russian Foreign Ministry expects an official response from the United States to reports of American hackers infiltrating Russia's telecommunications, energy and command systems.

And not a word about Harry Potter! Daniel Radcliffe, after filming the last picture of Harry Potter, confidently left the role of the "boy who survived." Recently, the film “Absolute Power” was released in a wide rental, where he played an FBI agent, which is being introduced into a gang of neo -Nazis. "Medusa" decided to remember why we still love the actor, except for the image of a wizard from the books by Joan Rowling.

The traffic police proposes to make mandatory the installation of warning signs on cars. Such a proposal, said Vladimir Kuzin, deputy head of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in an interview with Interfax, is contained in a package of amendments to the rules of the road, which was prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The security of computer systems in the Russian Federation is provided "at a level corresponding to the current moment." This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the reports of the American media that hackers from the United States gained access to the Russian energy system, telecommunications networks and "Kremlin command systems".