In Stockholm on December 10, the Nobel Prizes were awarded to the laureates. American poet and performer Bob Dylan, who was awarded this year's Literature Prize, was unable to attend the ceremony. In his acceptance speech, Horace Engdahl, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said that Bob Dylan "changed our ideas of what poetry can be." Patti Smith then sang A Hard Rainʼs A-Gonna Fall.

In St. Petersburg, the director of the film studio "Lenfilm" Sergei Mikaelyan died. He was 93 years old. The death of the director is reported on the website of the film studio. Mikaelyan has been working at Lenfilm since 1956. As TASS notes, he was called "the conscience of Lenfilm." Sergey Mikaelyan directed “In love of his own free will”, “Colorful stones”, “I accept the fight”, “I'm going into a thunderstorm”, “Only one life”, “Grandmaster” and other films.

The head of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Travis Tygart, demanded that Russia be temporarily excluded from the International Olympic Committee. According to him, such a measure should be in place until Russia meets all the requirements of the World Anti-Doping Agency. In addition, as Tygart said, until then, competitions should not be held in Russia.

Shot: NTV On December 10, NTV showed the program “New Russian Sensations” - the next issue exposing the Russian opposition. This time, the main character of the plot was the former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, who fled from Russia after the initiation of a criminal case. Employees of the channel call him the gray cardinal of the opposition and tell how he was going to lead Alexei Navalny to power. "Medusa" in two paragraphs retells a 40-minute plot for those who are not going to watch it.

The DATA party, which was supposed to start on December 10 at the Molniya plant, will not take place, the organizers reported on Facebook. “The reason for the cancellation, presumably, is the warning of the Kuzminsk inter-district prosecutor's office, which became known on Saturday, December 10, at 11:00. The organizers have not yet received an official order, ”the message says.

Russia, Kazakhstan and other non-OPEC oil exporters have agreed to cut production. They should produce less than 600,000 barrels per day than now - half of this volume will be taken over by Russia. An agreement to reduce production volumes was concluded with OPEC. Members of this organization at the end of November 2016, for the first time in eight years, agreed to produce less oil in order to raise its price. Together, they will pump less than 1.2 million barrels per day.

An Interfax source at the Baikonur Cosmodrome said that the accident of the Progress spacecraft launched on December 1 occurred due to a collision with the third stage of the launch vehicle. According to him, after the separation of the ship from the third stage, its engines for some reason continued to work, because of which it hit the cargo ship. There is no official confirmation of this information.

Naina, the widow of Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, said she was "deeply outraged" by director Nikita Mikhalkov's words about the Yeltsin Center. “It is striking that for several months now he has been spreading lies about how the history of the country is presented in the museum of the first president of Russia, without hesitation in pulling out of context elements of the exposition, labeling and directly insulting people who worked for the good of our country in those years .

In Kaluga, the head of the regional criminal investigation department, Dmitry Elistratov, was arrested. He is suspected of patronizing illegal business activities for a fee. What exactly Elistratov did is unknown. The case was opened under the article "Exceeding official powers" (Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). As stated in the message of the RF IC, Yelistratov was detained by the FSB on December 9.

In mid -November, the illusionist David Blain came to the Jimmy Fallon show and showed incredible card tricks, and then suddenly spat out the frog in the glass. And again swallowed it! And, you know, without any magic. One4all TV David Blaine Spits Up Live Frog on Jimmy Fallonʼs "Tonight Show" And then he showed the same trick to Drake. Only with three frogs.

Mockery of children, inhabitants and stars. And over Matt Damon American TV presenter Jimmy Kimmel will lead the 89th Academy Award ceremony. There are even more than two months to the ceremony (it will be held at the end of February), but we are already sure that it will pass perfectly. After all, Kimmel has been leading one of the main humorous shows of the United States for more than ten years. "Medusa" calls five reasons to love his show. 1.

Anxious questions about radiation in medicine and everyday Photo: Room the Agency / Alamy / Vida Press The radiation of any kind in Russia (and in other countries) is customary to be wary. Ultrasound and WiFai, microwave ovens and magnetic resonance imaging-all this seems to be something dangerous. We decided to explain why the radiation of medical devices and other types of radiation is not so scary. Why do everyone get so worried about x-rays and ultrasound?

Yes! With the novels of Salman Rushdi and David Mitchell The Literary critic of Medusa Galina Yuzefovich talks about interesting news on December - two “fairy tales” about the struggle of light and darkness: “Two years, eight months and twenty -eight nights” Salman Rushdi and “Hungry House” David Mitchell. Salman Rushdi. Two years, eight months and twenty -eight nights. M.: AST, Corpus, 2017. Translation from English L.

Russian hackers during the last stage of the US presidential campaign indirectly helped Donald Trump and harmed Hillary Clinton, The New York Times and The Washington Post write , citing US intelligence sources. The newspaper substantiates this statement by the fact that hackers hacked not only the National Committee of the Democratic Party, but also the Republican. At the same time, the documents of the Republicans were not published. The same hacker group Fancy Bear was behind the hack.