Roskomnadzor added the openrussia.org domain of the Open Russia project to the register of banned sites. As stated on the agency's website , the domain was blacklisted on December 11, and providers were immediately instructed to start blocking it. Open Russia itself reports that the blocking is carried out by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office: "The reason for the blocking is 'calls for unrest'." The site is no longer available from some major providers.

The Pechersky Court of Kyiv rejected the prosecutor's office's petition, which demanded that the former governor of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, be placed under house arrest. At the end of the court session, Saakashvili was released. “My next steps are to do what I have always done, to consolidate with other political forces… We don’t need some kind of coup – we need to put the squeeze on them so that they pass all the necessary laws.

Ingushetia Permanent CEO Comedy Club Production Andrei Levin and the Permanent Representative of Ingushetia in Moscow Alikhan Tsechoev The number about the escort service was published in the Comedy Woman on the TNT channel on December 8. According to the plot of the number, the hostess of the escort agency reports her subordinate-a girl from Ingushetia. The Ingush community of Moscow regarded the number as an insult.

Apple bought the Shazam app, which allows you to determine by the sound what music is playing. The amount of the transaction is not officially disclosed. TechCrunch estimates that Apple paid $400 million. Apple hasn't said if Shazam will continue to be available on Android devices. Shazam is a British company founded in 1999. In 2016, she reported that the music recognition app had over one billion downloads.

A Moscow court has indicted Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of Russia’s national anti-doping laboratory and the man who fled to the U.S. and blew the whistle on Moscow’s state-sponsored doping program, in absentia for illegally trafficking dangerous substances, an anonymous source told the news agency Interfax on December 11. Rodchenkov headed the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory from 2005 to 2015.

The Moscow Office of Rospotrebnadzor reported on the origin of the unpleasant odors that residents of the capital have been experiencing in recent days. As stated in the message on the department’s website, on December 8, 9 and 10, atmospheric air samples were taken at 37 addresses in nine administrative districts of Moscow.

Junnin's page in Weibo On November 8, the popular Rufer at Yunnin, during the execution of the trick, fell from the top of the 62-story skyscraper in the city of Changsha. He climbed to the roof of the building to shoot a video for an unknown sponsor. For this, Rufer was supposed to receive about 15 thousand dollars, which he planned to spend on the wedding and treatment of the mother. The camera, set by a ruffer for shooting a video, captured the moment when it broke off the roof.

Three American women spoke on NBC about the sexual harassment of Donald Trump. They demanded that Congress launch an investigation against the President of the United States. Samantha Holvey described how, during the Miss USA pageant in 2006, Trump walked into the dressing room of the half-dressed contestants on the show. “He looked at me like I was a piece of meat,” Holvey said. According to her, Trump treated the contestants as his property.

Critics - about the ballet "Nureyev" Kirill Serebrennikov at the Bolshoi Theater Damir Yusupov / Bolshoi Theater On December 9 and 10, on the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theater, the premiere of the ballet Nureyev was held to the music of Ilya Demutsky in choreography Yuri Posokhov.

Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory and WADA informant, has been charged in absentia with drug trafficking. On December 11, an anonymous source familiar with the situation told the Interfax agency about this. Update . As later clarified in the Zyuzinsky Court of Moscow, Rodchenkov was arrested in absentia on this charge on May 4, 2017. “Rodchenkov has been charged with two episodes of Part 3 of Art.

The Shcherbinsky Court of Moscow issued a verdict against five natives of Central Asia, accused of participating in a mass brawl at the Khovanskoye cemetery. According to Interfax, Khodjikurbon Buriev, Dilovar Yunusov, Jomi Chakalov, Rakhmuddin Sadurdinov, Shoimardon Akhmadov were each sentenced under article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism) to three years in a penal colony.

December 11th. Nuclear war, Golden Globe and Presidential Game Main The "dislike" of Andrei Zvyagintsev was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in the "Best Foreign Language Film". You can read about other nominees here . Vladimir Putin came to Syria and announced that the Russian troops “defeated the most combat -ready grouping of international terrorists”, so part of the Russian contingent can be returned home. Putin speaks of the withdrawal of troops from Syria for the third time .

Kiichiro Sato / AP / Scanpix / Leta Reddit users have found that the performance of iPhones and macbooks is highly dependent on the battery state - over time, the batteries wear out, and, apparently, the devices begin to work more slowly in order to stretch from one charge longer. When replacing the battery, the performance of phones and computers grows again.

Kirill Kukhmar / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On December 10, the exhibition “Russia is my story” opened in St. Petersburg; Similar expositions are open in 15 other cities of the country. Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov), who is considered the confessor of Vladimir Putin, oversees the exhibition.

Warning: the following video contains acts of violence. Dozhd TV On December 8, a group of Moscow university students attacked a classmate and forced him to apologize on camera for comments he published on social media Oleg Tereshchenko (who uses the online pseudonym Alexey Knyazev) told Meduza that he left campus on the afternoon of December 8.