State Duma deputy from United Russia Maxim Ivanov on November 28 published a video from Sheremetyevo Airport, in which a luggage loading machine drives across a snow-covered field next to an airplane and other cars, periodically skidding and circling in place. This is how employees at Sheremetyevo Airport rejoice at the first snow. Luckily the plane wasn't damaged. Formula one is resting.

It’s a week to raise an eyebrow at Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee, after a spokesperson told a religious conference on Monday that the agency will reexamine the 1918 execution of Russia’s last tsar and his family to determine if it was a “ritual killing.” The announcement follows remarks by a Russian Orthodox bishop that “a significant part of the church commission has no doubt that this murder was ritualistic.” The willingness of the Russian Orthodox Church and federal government to

The macOS High Sierra operating system has been found to be able to activate the so-called superuser, the main administrator, who has the right to perform any operations without entering a password. Lemi Orhan Ergin, a Turkish IT specialist, tweeted about the vulnerability.

Alexei Ulyukaev's lawyer, Daredzhan Kveidze, said that when passing the verdict, the court would not be able to refer to the testimony of the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, given during the investigation. “He did not come to court, and his written testimony was not examined during the trial,” Interfax quotes Kveidze. On November 28, the court refused to summon Igor Sechin for the fifth time.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing the South Korean Chiefs of Staff Committee. The Pentagon said the missile was believed to be intercontinental. According to the South Korean military, the rocket gained an altitude of about 4,500 kilometers and landed about 960 kilometers from the launch site. In Japan, the maximum flight altitude was estimated at about 4000 kilometers. The missile landed in the sea in the Japanese exclusive economic zone.

November 28. Felix Dzerzhinsky, a sank of a satellite, $ 20 kilograms Main The second launch from the Eastern Cosmodrome was unsuccessful . The problems arose during the operation of the acceleration block, which was supposed to bring a meteorological satellite into orbit. As a result, the satellite fell into the Atlantic Ocean. The first launch from East in April 2016 was successful. The Krasnodar school was named after Felix Dzerzhinsky - the organizer of the Red Terror.

Activists from the movement “Protest Moscow” have accused Ksenia Sobchak’s presidential campaign of registering fake supporters on its website to exaggerate the candidate’s following. Activists tracking the number of supporters’ signatures displayed on Sobchak’s website say they've observed irregularities suggesting that the campaign is cheating. On November 24, between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m.

Meduza obtained a letter from producer Yekaterina Voronova, in which, among other things, she talks about financial irregularities at Seventh Studio. The full text of the letter is published here , the shortest retelling is here . Ekaterina Voronova, who worked as an executive and then general producer at the Seventh Studio theater company, accused her former chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva of financial irregularities and confessed to destroying financial documents.

Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS The artistic director of the Gogol Center Kirill Serebrennikov (in the center) with the administration and actors of the theater. Moscow, September 2, 2014 “Medusa” on November 28 published a letter from the theater producer Ekaterina Voronova, which the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office asked to put on the international wanted list in the “Seventh Studio” case.

"Medusa" publishes a letter to Ekaterina Voronova, put on the wanted list in the case of the Seventh Studio Alexandra Mudrats / TASS Despite the protests, the case of the Seventh Studio continues. Under house arrest on charges of fraud on an especially large scale, director Kirill Serebrennikov and the former general director of the theater company Yuri Itin, as well as its former chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva are located.

Saudi prince Miteb bin Abdullah has been released after more than three weeks in detention. This is reported by Reuters, citing a member of the royal family. The agency does not specify under what conditions the prince was released. There was no official announcement of his release. Miteb bin Abdullah is one of 34 children of King Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, who died in 2015 at the age of 90.

A recording of Georgy Sviridov's poem "Departed Rus'" performed by Dmitry Hvorostovsky, who died on November 22, was among the contenders for the Grammy Award in the nomination "Best Classical Solo Vocal Album". The recording was made by Hvorostovsky together with conductor Konstantin Orbelian and the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra. During his lifetime, Hvorostovsky was nominated three times for a Grammy - in 1992, 1994 and 2008. In all cases, the award went to other nominees.

Meduza interviews the Polish historian deported from Russia PortalARCANA / YouTube On November 27, Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance reported that the Russian authorities had detained and deported Polish historian Henryk Glebocki, a scholar who’s spent many years studying Russian-Polish relations. While in Russia, Glebocki was working in archives and giving lectures.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Can I joke about the Holocaust? Ekaterina Krongauz and Andrei Babitsky discuss whether it is possible to joke on painful and heavy topics, such as sexual harassment, rape or even the Holocaust, as to react to others and whether it makes sense to condemn or punish people for a bad sense of humor. In this issue: 00:00 - Why did nobody like the joke of TV presenters Kohershyn Sagieva and Pavel Lobkov about Harassment?

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court overturned the decision to expel from Russia an activist of the Other Russia, Igor Shchuka, who was detained for trying to set fire to a monument to Boris Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg. According to Mediazona, the activist provided the court with documents on temporary registration in Moscow. According to activist Olga Shalina, after that, Shchuka was released from the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens, but was immediately detained again.