NATO will have a command center to counter cyber threats. The decision, according to a Meduza correspondent, was made at a meeting of the alliance's defense ministers in Brussels. As NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference, the meeting participants recognized cyber attacks as part of the hostilities. The task of the organization is to be able to repel such attacks as effectively as defending against a conventional attack, he said.

Several trees were dug up at the memorial to those who died in the plane crash over Sinai, which was opened in the Leningrad Region on October 31, 2017. This was reported by one of the authors of the monument project Svetlana Danilova. Several two-meter-high firs, which symbolize children who died in a plane crash, were stolen, she said. Intruders dig up the plants at night. As of November 8, "several dwarf pines and large firs" were stolen.

Gazprom Invest paid about 1.7 billion rubles for the construction of a 125-kilometer gas pipeline in the Leningrad Region, which was never built. Fontanka writes about it. According to the contract, the Omega company was supposed to complete the construction of a gas pipeline to the city of Priozersk in 2014. At the end of 2015, according to Fontanka, Gazprom invest accepted "almost all the work" and transferred 1.7 billion rubles to Omega.

American television journalist Heather Anruh said that actor Kevin Spacey molested her 18-year-old son in July 2016. According to Anru, it happened in a restaurant on the American island of Nantucket in the Atlantic Ocean. Spacey bought the young man a few drinks, and when he got drunk, he put his hand in his pants and grabbed his genitals. At that moment they were in a poorly lit room, where there were a lot of people.

Promoters called it an “iPhone on wheels,” but the R1 — a train prototype designed by the Russian state corporation Rostec — won’t be coming to a railway station near you. According to Vasily Brovko, the company’s special projects director, the R1 will never be mass-produced, despite its futuristic appeal. “The R1 is certainly very beautiful. I’m very interested in industrial design, and I’m working to develop it in Russia, but we have a serious gap between our designers and manufacturers.

In the Yaroslavl region, a sightseeing bus with passengers from Yekaterinburg, making a tour of the Golden Ring, collided with a truck. According to the head physician of the Rostov hospital, 15 children and two adults were hospitalized after the accident. “The bus driver is in critical condition. The rest have moderate injuries. By the nature of the injuries: some children have a concussion, facial wounds and head bruises, ”Natalya Ovechkina told Interfax.

A resident of Nizhnekamsk said that he was beaten by the police, and committed suicide Business Online / YouTube The 22-year-old resident of Nizhnekamsk Ilnaz Pirkin for a dispute with a friend stole an audio system from the car. The owner of the car found both, they made up and agreed on the return of the stolen. The police intervened: Pirkina was detained, he was supposedly beaten - and they forced him to admit a series of 47 thefts.

Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky reported that he asked the rector of the Moscow Art Theatre School Igor Zolotovitsky for an explanation regarding the appearance of a naked actor in a performance by university students.

Mario Anzuoni / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The film company Disney in early November forbade reporters of the newspaper Los Angeles Times to attend pretexts - sessions for critics who take place before the official premiere. Disney was offended by the newspaper due to the investigation, which the publication published in September 2017.

Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine introduced an amendment to the bill on ensuring sovereignty over Donbass, which provides for the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia. This was announced by the deputy from the "People's Front" Andrei Teteruk. The initiators of the amendment were members of the deputy group "Ukrop". In accordance with the amendment, the government of Ukraine is invited to consider the issue of breaking off diplomatic relations with Russia within three months.

The Chairman of the Union of Theatre Workers (STD), actor and director Alexander Kalyagin called the case of the Seventh Studio a sign of a “campaign to discredit the cultural sphere” and called for a review of the legislative norms regulating creative processes.

November 8. The very 2 million dollars Sechin 💵, a very complicated test, too cool tram Main The court showed two million dollars, which Igor Sechin transferred to Alexei Ulyukaev. The types of sausages donated by the head of Rosneft were also listed there, however, the judge refused to listen to the full list. Sechin was caused by testimony. In general, an extremely live meeting turned out .

Vitaly Mansky - about five films from the program "Wednesday". Artdokfest On December 6, the Artdokfest documentary movie will begin in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. The President of the festival Vitaly Mansky represents at Medusa all films participating in the competition program of the festival. This time, the director talks about the parallel program “Wednesday” on the example of five films: “Andrey Zvyagintsev.

The Match TV channel published on its website anonymous testimonies of Russian athletes about the “Rodchenkov cocktail” - illegal drugs, which, according to its own claims, were given to athletes by the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov. The article, written by journalist and skater Sergei Lisin, who served a doping ban in 2012-2014, quotes the words of an athlete, sportswoman and sports manager who encountered the “Rodchenkov cocktail”.

The Russian punk group “Pussy Riot” has released a new music video titled “Police State,” featuring people in police uniforms, a ballerina, children in balaclavas, and frontwoman Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who is unmasked near the end of the song. The video, which also features the American actress Chloë Sevigny and is the group’s first tune without any guitar, appears to be an effort at a pop hit.