Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have found a planetary system 11 light years from Earth that they believe may be the "closest known habitable" place in space. The star in question is the red dwarf Ross 128, which is orbited by an Earth-sized planet known as Ross 128 b. Ross 128 is located further from the Sun than Proxima Centauri, around which the nearest Earth-like exoplanet, Proxima b, orbits.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation demanded to disqualify lawyer Olga Dinze, who is defending Akram Azimov, a defendant in the case of a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. She told the Vedomosti newspaper about this. The head of the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, Alexey Romashin, filed a complaint against Dinze with the Ministry of Justice. He accused the lawyer of “illegally receiving a notebook with notes from the accused A. A.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with the leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky. This was reported on the Kremlin website. The conversation concerned Viktor Medvedchuk’s proposal to exchange prisoners between the Ukrainian military and separatists.

Ksenia Sobchak announced that she plans to run for president of the Russian Federation in 2018 from the Civil Initiative party. “I am ready to become a candidate from the Civil Initiative party, provided that the congress approves my candidacy,” she said. The party congress will be held at the end of December, according to the website of Ksenia Sobchak. “I hope that together we will be able to speak seriously and represent the democratic forces in these elections,” the TV presenter said.

Personal page of Movsar Eskerkhanov on Facebook On November 14, the republican state television and radio company “Grozny” announced a “sensational investigation”: a resident of Chechnya Movsar Eskerkhanov, who fled to Germany, openly announced that he was gay, apologizes to the Chechen authorities and residents of the republic. Eskerkhanov has been in Germany since 2013 and tried to get political asylum, but received refusals - so he was threatened with deportation.

State Duma Vice Speaker Peter Tolstoy told Medusa which media will become foreign agents Alexander Shalgin / TASS / Vida Press On November 15, State Duma deputies - in one day and unanimously - adopted amendments to the law on the media, which allow us to recognize individual publications by foreign agents.

The abbot of the Sretensky Monastery, Bishop Tikhon Shevkunov, in conversations with President Vladimir Putin “expressed dissatisfaction” with the work of Kirill Serebrennikov, Dozhd reports, citing two federal officials. When this happened, what works of Serebrennikov the bishop spoke about with Putin, and what he answered him, is not specified.

Deputies of the State Duma adopted a bill in the third reading, which allows us to recognize foreign media foreign agents. All 414 deputies attended at a meeting voted for the document.

The Russian Justice Ministry has threatened to restrict the activities of the independent U.S.-government-funded television network Current Time on the grounds that the news outlet “shows signs of performing the functions of a foreign agent.” Current Time published a letter from the Justice Ministry on Wednesday, where Russian officials warn that draft legislation imposing new limits on foreign agents in the news media will likely be enforced against Current Time, if the law is adopted by the

The leader of the Artpodgotovka movement, banned in the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Maltsev, received political asylum in one of the EU countries. He himself told about this to the Current Time TV channel. Maltsev, who left Russia in July, said that in Europe he "had to serve time in prison and much more." According to him, he managed to substantiate that he was being persecuted in Russia for political reasons, and was released.

In the psychiatric hospital of the Butyrka SIZO, two people committed suicide with a difference of about eight hours in one cell. Interfax writes about this with reference to a member of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow (ONC) Eva Merkacheva. On November 10, at about 01:40, a 40-year-old man tried to commit suicide in a cell; he was taken to the Research Institute. Sklifosovsky, where he died.

Vladimir Shakhrin and Sergey Bobunets listen to young musicians. Fragment of the documentary "About Rock" On November 25, in the October cinema, the Moscow premiere of Yevgeny Grigoryev’s film “About Rock” will be held (fortunately, the film itself is much thinner and witty than a pun in the name). This is a documentary about the life of three novice musical groups from Yekaterinburg, on which veterans of the Ural Rock are betting.

The driver of businessman Georgadze, who shot four people in Krasnogorsk, was recognized as innocent after two years in a pre -trial detention center Gennady Gulyaev / Kommersant Shota Elizbarashvili On November 15, the jury in the Moscow Regional Court recognized the innocent Shot Elizbarashvili, the driver of businessman Amiran Georgadze, who killed four people in Krasnogorsk in October 2015, after which he committed suicide.

The 20th Century Fox studio released the teaser of the film “Deadpool 2”, disguised for drawing lessons from the American painter Bob Ross. In the video, the main character of the film (he is played by Ryan Reynolds), putting on a wig, like Ross, writes landscapes, letting go of jokes about drugs and sex. At some point, the video is interrupted, and show a 10-second cut from the film itself.

November 15. A murder that was not. The coup that was Top 5 news A passenger plane crashed in the Khabarovsk Territory. There were seven people aboard; Only a four -year -old girl survived . In Zimbabwe, the military seized power . The 93-year-old president, the legend of African politics, Robert Mugaba is placed under house arrest, his wife fled from the country. The State Duma allowed the media to recognize the media as "foreign agents .