Mikhail Mettsel / TASS / Vida Press The newspaper Novaya Gazeta has published an interview with Andrey Mikhailov, the man who allegedly helped catering magnate Evgeny Prigozhin build a media empire. Mikhailov says he agreed to speak to the news media as retribution for an incident last year, when he claims men with ties to Prigozhin abducted him, brought him to a forest, and beat him. In the interview, Mikhailov discussed the creation of the St.

The wheelchair of the British scientist Stephen Hawking was sold at Christie's auction for 296 thousand pounds (about 390 thousand dollars). We are talking about a chair with a motor, which Hawking used in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Proceeds from the sale of the lot will go to the Stephen Hawking Foundation and the Motor Neuron Disease Association of England.

Spartak Moscow defeated Glasgow Rangers 4-3 in the fourth round of the Europa League group stage. During the match, the players of the Russian club lost three times in the score, but recouped. Goals for Spartak were scored by Lorenzo Melgarejo, Luis Adriano and Sofiane Hanni. Both teams conceded the ball as a result of an own goal. At the end of the tour, the Rangers and Spartak are in second and third place with five points; leads the Villarreal group with six points.

The US Treasury has imposed sanctions related to the situation in Ukraine and Crimea against several companies and three people. The sanctions included the Crimean sanatoriums “Ai-Petri”, “Dulber”, “Miskhor”, which, according to the United States, were illegally nationalized and sold to the “Infrastructure Projects Management Company”; the company and its owner Vladimir Zaritsky were also subject to sanctions.

Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Vida Press The New Gazeta interviewed Andrei Mikhailov - a man who, in the words of the publication, "stood at the origins of Mediahimperia Evgeny Prigozhin ." Mikhailov explained that he decided to talk with the media so that his “trip to the forest” did not remain unpunished - according to him, in 2017 he was abducted and beaten by people associated with Prigozhin.

Charlie Neibergall / AP / Scanpix / Leta Matthew Whitacher during the election campaign for the place of the Senator in Ayov, April 24, 2014 On November 7, a few hours after summing up the intermediate elections to the Congress, US President Donald Trump fired Jeff Sehns from the post of Prosecutor General, who heads the Ministry of Justice in America. His duties are now fulfilled by Matthew Whitler - earlier he led the Ministry of Justice’s apparatus.

For the past two weeks, Meduza has been at the center of a sexual harassment scandal involving its chief editor. In the interests of transparency, Meduza is summarizing recent events, its executive board’s response, and reactions from around the Russian mediasphere. Disclosure: The following article concerns developments inside the Meduza newsroom. What happened?

Spanish police have arrested a suspect in an assassination plot against the country's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez. The operation took place in the city of Terrassa in Catalonia three weeks ago, but has not been reported until now, the newspaper Publico reports . The suspect, Manuel Murillo Sanchez, 62, worked for a private security company and had a license to possess weapons. Publico calls him a sniper: he was the best shooter in one of the shooting clubs where he trained for many years.

In the summer, English footballer Jesse Lingard, who plays for the Manchester United club, complained that in FIFA his game version had the same hairstyle for many years. He asked the publisher of the game to change it. the athlete's request - he was also not satisfied with the haircut of his digital copy.

China showed the first TV presenter-robot . His appearance, facial expressions and manner of speaking as believably imitate a person. Thanks to artificial intelligence, he is able to improve skills, learning from the living “colleagues”. Robot-TV presenter is a joint project of the Sinhua agency and the Chinese search engine Sogou.com. The virtual presenter was shown as part of the World Internet Management Conference, which takes place in Wijen. Subscribe to our YouTube

The gunman who opened fire at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California was named Ian David Long. The gunman was 28 years old and a Marine Corps veteran, police said. Long is believed to have committed suicide. Long opened fire at the Borderline Bar & Grill nightclub late on November 7. 12 people became his victims.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. One fate for two. The story of two friends: one committed a murder, and the other went to prison In October 2008, a murder occurred in Saratov - as a result of a drunken quarrel from a knife, a woman died. The murder occurred in the apartment of the Saratov realtor Sergei Timokhin, who was convicted of crime in 11 years in prison.

Oscar Rabin, Soviet non-conformist and organizer of the Buldozer Exhibition died, died Victor Bazhenov / Photoxpress.ru On November 8, Oscar Rabin, a Soviet non-conformist, died in Florence, deprived of citizenship in the 1970s and left for France. He was one of the founders of the Lianozovo group - an unofficial art association named after the village near Moscow, where Rabin lived.

In Sochi, blogger Alexander Valov, accused of extorting State Duma deputy Yuri Napso, was brought to court with a neck wound. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" by one of his defense attorneys, Yevgeny Vitishko. According to Vitishko, Valov was brought to court with a bandaged neck and blood on his hands and under his nails. He refused to explain what had happened to him; the guards said he had cut his neck himself.

A London court has released on bail Zamira Hajiyeva, the wife of Azerbaijani banker Jahangir Hajiyev , who is accused by the Azerbaijani authorities of embezzling funds, the BBC reports. The bail amounted to 500 thousand pounds sterling (655 thousand dollars). Gadzhieva will have to report to the police every day. She was also banned from leaving her home after 9 p.m., approaching international railway stations and airports, and from traveling outside London.