The Rosetta apparatus in 2015 recorded on the surface of the Cometa Churumov-Gerasimenko a layer of dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). This was reported on November 17 by the European Space Agency (ESA). A spot with an area of ​​80 meters by 60 meters was recorded on March 21-22 on the southern part of the comet. It was photographed by the Virtis spectrometer. In April, there were no traces of dry ice in this place - the researchers believe that it has evaporated.

Metallica released their tenth album, Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, on November 18, their first in eight years. The regular version of the disc has 12 songs, and the band shot a video for each of them. Meduza put together a playlist of these clips. You can listen to them in order in the player below or go to the page with the whole list.

The Soyuz MS-03 manned spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The launch was broadcast live by Roscosmos. On board are members of the ISS-50 expedition cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and ESA astronaut Tom Peske. They will join the American Robert Kimbrough and the Russians Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, who flew to the station in October as part of Expedition 49. The launch took place at 23:20 Moscow time.

The wife of the convicted activist Ildar Dadin, Anastasia Zotova, said that the instigator of the fight involving her husband, which was reported by the Federal Penitentiary Service on November 17, was his cellmate. “At some point, this“ comrade ”begins to bully Ildar, cuts his lip, grabs him by the neck, tries to fill him up on the floor ... The administration does nothing until Ildar begins to kick back - apparently, so that there is a video for the next“ penalty ”” , — wrote Zotova.

Press Secretary of the President of Ukraine Svyatoslav Tsegolko said that employees of the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry helped Russian pranksters organize a telephone conversation on behalf of the Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev with Petro Poroshenko. The recording of the conversation, which took place on November 2, was published on November 17 by prankster Vladimir Kuznetsov, known as Vovan.

Russian wrestler Khasan Baroev and two weightlifters Khadzhimurat Akkaev and Dmitry Lapikov have been stripped of the Olympic medals they won in Beijing in 2008. This was reported on the website of the International Olympic Committee. Turinabol was found in their doping samples. Khasan Baroev won the second place in the Greco-Roman wrestling in the weight category up to 120 kg in Beijing.

The Leninsky District Court of Saratov sentenced the former head of correctional colony No. 10, Vadim Dolgov, to four years in a penal colony, who was accused of abuse of power for ordering to beat a prisoner. According to FreeNews-Volga, the prosecution demanded that Dolgov be sentenced to eight years in prison. Two former employees of the colony Alexander Berezhnov and Vitaly Voldyrev were sentenced to four and three and a half years in prison, respectively.

The Council of the European Union supported the proposal of the European Commission to launch a visa-free regime with Ukraine. It is expected that citizens of the EU countries will be able to travel to Ukraine without restrictions, and Ukrainians will be able to visit Europe without a visa for up to 90 days within six months. At the same time, the EU Council stressed that the regime will come into effect only when the EU works out the procedure for suspending visa-free regimes.

Prisoner Oleg Navalny responds to the prisoner Ildar Dadin Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta On November 1, Medusa published a letter from the prisoner Ildar Dadin, the first Russian who was in the colony for "repeated violation of the rules of public event." Dadin participated in protests, including stood in single pickets that do not require coordination; He was repeatedly detained and fined.

The Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Chelyabinsk Region opened a criminal case due to the provision of a house from railway sleepers to a girl left without parental care. According to the department, the building is not suitable for habitation. “The house is deprived of a water supply and sewerage system, a bathroom, interior doors,” the report says.

The blocking of the social network for business communication LinkedIn in Russia will make it difficult for Sberbank to find personnel. To compensate for the delay in finding applicants, the bank will have to additionally involve recruitment agencies. At the same time, activists from Roskomsvoboda note that only the LinkedIn address via an insecure HTTP protocol (http://www.linkedin.com) appears in the court decision and the registry of Roskomnadzor.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova threatened to set aside a "special seat" for US media representatives at her briefings. The reason for the decision, Zakharova said, is State Department spokesman John Kirby's statement that he is not going to treat journalists from Russia's state-owned RT channel the same way he treats independent media correspondents.

Spoiler: The director is not right at all Photo: Mikhail Klimentiev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture and director Stanislav Govorukhin spoke out in defense of censorship in art. In his opinion, due to the fact that the state can no longer interfere in the creative process, the level of morality has fallen in the country. And the deputy seriously claims that the Russian Constitution is the only one in the world that prohibits censorship.

How labor slavery is arranged in Russia. Report "Medusa" Sasha Baranovskaya for "Medusa" In Russia, there is an extensive system of exploitation of people in complex life situations- drug and alcohol-dependent, homeless, visitors, seeking work in a foreign city: private rehabilitation centers, which, under the guise of free assistance, create workers in garbage collection or cargo transportation; Recruiters who sell their victims to the owners of large and small industries.

Rosneft spokesman Mikhail Leontiev said he did not apologize to Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov. As Leontiev told RBC, he "didn't offend Alekperov in any way." “I don’t understand how it was possible to get the impression from the text of my speech on [air of the radio station] BFM that I apologized,” he added.