The editors of Novaya Gazeta published a statement in connection with the decision of the Moscow City Court, which on November 30 ordered the publication to remove from the site and refute the article “The Secret of Princess Olga” about the vacation of the wife of the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin.

French President Francois Hollande has announced that he will not run for president in 2017. “In the coming months, my only duty will be the leadership of the country, which you entrusted to me in 2012,” said . he According to him, the decision not to run is connected with the risks that the nomination of a candidate that does not enjoy wide support carries, reports Reuters.

Continuation. A possible cause of the fall has been named. The Progress cargo ship, which launched on December 1 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, was lost at an altitude of 190 kilometers above the territory of Tuva. This was reported by Roscosmos. “Most of the fragments burned up in dense layers of the atmosphere,” the report says. Information about the causes of the accident is not yet available.

Pyotr Aleshkovsky, the author of the novel The Fortress, won the Russian Booker Literary Prize in 2016. The name of the winner was announced on December 1 in Moscow. Sukhbat Aflatuni (“Adoration of the Magi”), Sergey Lebedev (“People of August”), Alexander Melikhov (“And there is no recompense for them”), Boris Minaev (“Soft fabric: Baptiste. Cloth”) and Leonid Yuzefovich with a documentary novel "Winter Road".

Crown Prince of Thailand Maha Vajiralongkorn ascended the throne. During the solemn ceremony, he officially agreed to the request of Parliament to become the next king, reports Associated Press. The coronation of Vajiralongkorn, who will rule as Rama Tenth, will take place after the cremation of the body of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, which is expected to take place in the fall of 2017.

In Moscow, on December 1, the largest Russian Festival of Documentary Cinema "Artdokfest" began. The festival was opened by the painting “ Pavlensky: Man and Power ” by Irena Langeman. In addition, this year, Artdokfest takes place in two Russian cities-St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. Artdocfest "Pavlensky. Man and drove " Artdokfest will last until December 9 - on this day the closure ceremony will be held, at which the winner of the festival will be announced.

The Progress MS-04 cargo ship, which launched on December 1 to the International Space Station, crashed on the territory of Tuva. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the power structures of the region. “The fragments fell, presumably, in Tuva, their search was organized,” the source said.

Photo: Natalya Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin addressed the annual message to the Federal Assembly and, as always, talked a lot about success, confirming his words with statistics. Medusa checked the president’s statements and commented on the most dubious fragments of his speech. Birth Quote: In 2013 - Demographers have such a “birth rate coefficient” - it amounted to 1.7 in Russia, this is higher than in most European countries.

The Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Karelia during the pre-investigation check did not find confirmation of the words of the prisoner of colony No. 7 Ildar Dadin about the beatings and unbearable conditions of detention in the institution. “The arguments of the convict have been studied and carefully checked during the pre-investigation check and have not been confirmed,” the statement says.

The Progress-MS04 cargo ship, which launched on December 1 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station, stopped transmitting telemetry. This is reported by Roscosmos. “After the launch of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle with the Progress MS-04 transport cargo ship, telemetry disappeared from the 383rd second. Roskosmos specialists are investigating the situation, ”the message says .

Bloomberg - about FIDE and Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who was supposedly abducted by the aliens Photo: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Chess is very popular in the world. For the match for the title of world champion between Magnusem Karlsen and Sergey Karyakin, millions of people followed. On the main chess resource, Ches.com, several million subscribers pay $ 99 a year. A lot of money is being played into chess.

Around 350 people in the UK have reported being sexually harassed on football teams as children. This is reported by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC). Appeals were received both by law enforcement agencies and the National Society for the Prevention of Violence Against Children (NSPCC) hotline, opened in November. The organization emphasized that they continue to process the received data, so the information on the number of those who have reported harassment may change.

Photo: Evan Vucci / AP / Scanpix / Leta Stephen Mnuchin, future Minister of Finance The elected US President Donald Trump in election speeches has repeatedly criticized the financiers of Wall Street. He said that the bankers led the country to serious problems, and promised to punish them. Now Trump appoints the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Trade of the former top managers of the largest American banks-the very Wall Street wolves, which he denounced before the election.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he called on religious figures in the republic not to bury people who were responsible for an accident while driving while intoxicated. It is reported by TASS. “If a drunk driver made an accident, died or killed a person, religious figures will not deal with his funeral and reconciliation issues. Society must understand that this person deliberately committed a crime, ”the agency quotes him.

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a new concept of Russia's foreign policy, which states that in international relations "the role of the force factor is increasing." The document refers to the aggravation of political, social and economic contradictions. The authors of the concept note the growing likelihood of the leading countries of the world being drawn into regional conflicts.