Moscow State University’s Political Science Department offers an elective course on “information war” where students are currently learning how Western intelligence agencies falsified news about the attempted assassination of Sergey Skripal and his daughter in order to embarrass the Kremlin and erode international trust in Russia.

Artist Oscar Rabin has died at the age of 90. This was reported by Radio Liberty with reference to his relatives. Published by Oscar Rabin Tuesday, December 20, 2011 The radio station reports that Rabin died in Paris. The newspaper "Culture" writes with reference to the Russian Embassy in the Vatican that this happened in Florence, where the artist came to the opening of the exhibition .

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned at the request of President Donald Trump. Hours before the announcement, Trump declined to say in a press conference whether he intended to fire Jeff Sessions. We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service and wish him all the best. The name of the new prosecutor general will be announced later.

CSKA Moscow lost to the Italian Roma with a score of 1:2 in the fourth match of the group stage of the Champions League in Moscow. CSKA finished the match with ten men after defender Herdur Magnusson was sent off. Roma scored the second goal two minutes after being sent off. Also, CSKA spent most of the meeting without the main defender Mario Fernandez, who suffered a head injury in the ninth minute and left the field on a stretcher.

Deputy General Director of Channel One, TV presenter Kirill Kleimenov, on the air of the evening program “Vremya,” called Kirill Serebrennikov, accused of embezzlement , “a deeply decent person and a very gifted director.” "How is this compatible with his status as a defendant? Anything can happen in life. It is the court's job to judge," the TV presenter said, noting that until the verdict is passed he "cannot know" whether Serebrennikov was involved in the thefts.

The rector of the Moscow Theological Academy, Archbishop Amvrosy of Vereya, was not allowed into Ukraine at the Kyiv airport. This was reported by the head of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church for Relations with Society and the Media, Vladimir Legoida. According to Legoida, Ambrose flew to Kyiv to participate in events at the Kyiv Theological Academy. Ukrainian authorities have not yet explained the decision.

Deputy of the Saratov Regional Duma Nikolai Bondarenko, who argued with the regional Minister of Labor about the possibility of living on 3.5 thousand rubles a month, lost almost six kilograms in two weeks of the corresponding experiment. “I weighed 94 kilograms at the start of my experiment, exactly two weeks ago. Now I weigh 88 kilograms with a little, I lost weight, ”said Bondarenko. After the first week, he, in his own words, lost two kilograms.

What was interesting in the US elections (except results) The intermediate elections in the United States did not reveal a clear winner: the Democrats managed to get a majority in the House of Representatives, but the Senate remained in the hands of the Republicans, and the successes of the Democrats were not as outstanding as many were expected. But in addition to the struggle between the supporters and opponents of Donald Trump in the elections, there were many more important stories.

In the video game Red Dead Redemption 2, you can pet horses and dogs. At the same time, virtual animals happily snort, whine and wag their tails. Instagram user darthswader9 decided to find out: what would happen if, right in front of his beagle, Bella, you caress another (albeit fake) dog? The experiment turned into a silent drama - apparently, Bella considered her master's actions a vile betrayal. The darthswader9 video was also posted on Reddit.

Explain the former prisoner and prison lawyer Mzk1.ru On November 6, the media began to widely discuss photographs in which Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, who was convicted of mass murder in the village of Kushchevskaya, serving a 20-year term in a colony in the Amur Region, fries barbecue and eat crabs and red caviar. The Investigative Committee conducts an audit on the violation of the internal regulations in a maximum security colony.

Igor Rozhkov / Photobank Lori Zheleznodorozhny station Moscow Tovarnaya-Paveletskaya, 2014 One of the transshipment points where Moscow garbage will be packaged to other regions will be built near the Paveletsky station. A tender for engineering surveys for designing objects of loading and unloading cluster at the Paveletskaya-Tovarnaya station was placed in the public procurement system on October 31. A tender also appeared for the construction of energy networks for a cluster.

In Monaco, the court brought charges against Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Principality's Prosecutor General's Office told Nice Matin. Rybolovlev was released from custody, leaving him under judicial supervision. In addition, charges were brought against lawyer Tatiana Bershede, as well as the wife and son of the former Minister of Justice of Monaco, Philippe Narmino. The prosecutor said that she does not yet know what kind of charge was brought (French).

The American feature film Hunter Killer about the rescue of the Russian president by US troops has received a distribution certificate, the distributor, Megogo Distribution, told Interfax. “The film will be released on November 8,” the agency reports. "Hunter Killer" was supposed to be released on November 1, but the day before the distributor asked cinemas to remove the film from the schedule due to the lack of a distribution certificate.

Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS / VIDA Press Start of the autumn bicycle parade in Ostankino passage, September 16, 2018 The LETʼS Bike IT project has been successfully conducting mass bicycle parades in Moscow in recent years. For sponsorship Since 2012, the LETʼS Bike It project has been holding mass cycling in Moscow under the Bike Paradum brand.

On November 7, it became known about the detention of the acting mayor of Makhachkala Abusupyan Gasanov in the case of abuse of authority. A few weeks ago, his predecessor in this post Musa Musaev was sentenced to four years under the same article. Photo in the announcement: The official portal of the Makhachkala administration