In St. Petersburg, at the ceremony for the European Theatre Prize (Europe for Theatre) and the New Theatre Reality Prize, several directors spoke out in support of Kirill Serebrennikov, who was awarded in 2017 but was unable to attend the ceremony in Rome due to criminal prosecution .

Ingush activists organized a cleanup day at the request of representatives of teips whose clan towers were in the territories transferred to Chechnya . As the head of the local Yabloko, Ruslan Mutsolgov, told Meduza, several days ago armed men did not allow people from these teips to enter, after which they appealed to the presidium of the World Congress of the Ingush People.

Belgian and Dutch farmers supply pears to Russia, despite the "counter-sanctions" imposed by the Kremlin. As the Dutch De Volkskrant writes, pears are imported counterfeit through Lithuania and Belarus under the guise of African ones. According to media reports, certificates are acquired in Africa according to a corruption scheme, according to which pears were grown in Africa, but arrived in Europe through Belgium and Holland.

Marina Devo / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On November 15, mourning events were held in Argentina in connection with the anniversary of the disappearance of the San Juan submarine-despite all the efforts of the local Navy, it was not possible to find it. On board the San Huana were 44 people, including the first female officer in the history of Argentina, Eliana Kravchik’s submarine. Already in the morning of November 17, it became known that the SEABED Constructor ship found a submarine.

The singer Evgeny Osin died. He was 54 years old. The death of Osin is reported by the Zvezda channel with reference to Alexander Sidorenko, who was his concert director. The cause of Osin’s death has not yet been named. In recent years, he, as he himself told the Rossiya TV channel in 2018, had alcohol dependence.

A suicide bomber set off an explosion at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Grozny, Apti Alaudinov, acting head of the Chechen Interior Ministry, said. Other people were not injured in the explosion. According to Alaudinov, the police noticed the “inappropriate behavior” of a young woman approaching the checkpoint and asked her to stop and show her documents, but she did not.

27 members of the European Parliament wrote an open letter to the main owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, with a request to remove items with Soviet symbols from sale. They note that this symbolism offends the victims of the Soviet regime, and recall that more than 60 million people suffered from it; about 10 million were deported to camps. The letter is primarily about T-shirts and other clothes with a hammer and sickle, flags and memorabilia.

Why Red Dead Redemption 2 is the best and worst video game in the world Red Dead Redemption 2 everywhere. About the game, even the singer Grimes and FBK employees tweet. Critics put the “dozens” new Rockstar Western, bloggers call it boring and prolonged. Users are enthusiastic about realism - they are answered by those who infuriate that the horse constantly throws them out of the saddle. Medusa gathered in one place that the game can be loved and hated.

A fifth criminal case has been initiated against opposition activist Sergei Mokhnatkin, who is serving a sentence in a colony in the Arkhangelsk region. This was reported to Interfax on November 16 by his public defender Andrei Krekov. 64-year-old Mokhnatkin is suspected of disorganizing the work of the colony. On November 14, Krekov told the regional website 29.ru that the reason for the case was the conflict over the transfer of Mokhnatkin from the hospital.

Update. According to the French Interior Ministry, more than a hundred people were injured as a result of the actions, five are in serious condition. More than 50 people have been detained. A total of 244,000 people took part in the protests, reports . AFP In different regions of France on November 17, protests are held by motorists who are dissatisfied with the increase in gasoline prices. Activists in yellow reflective vests block roads.

US President Donald Trump said he had finished writing questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump noted that he answered the questions himself and did it "with ease." Responses to the special prosecutor's team have not yet been transmitted. “I’m sure the questions were tricky, because they like to catch people. It is necessary to answer carefully when people have bad intentions, ”the US President told reporters.

The vice-president of the organization Oleksandr Prokopchuk will most likely be chosen as the new head of Interpol. According to anonymous sources of The Times, South Korean Kim Jong Yang will become his main rival in the November 21 elections. The need to choose a new head of Interpol arose after the disappearance of the previous head of the organization, Meng Hongwei. Subsequently, it turned out that he was arrested in China on suspicion of corruption. On October 8, he resigned .

And Kadyrov, it seems, has nothing to do with it! White Wolf Vampire: The Masquarade is one of the most popular board role -playing games in the world. In it you need to play for vampires that exist in the universe, very similar to ours - the game has a lot of references to history and the modern state of affairs in the world. Among the advantages of Vampire: The Masquarade is called the detailed elaboration of the universe - a whole book with a legend is attached to the set.

In Ingushetia, the police detained several activists who had gathered at the Memorial of Memory and Glory in Nazran in order to go on a subbotnik to the territory transferred to Chechnya. This was reported to Fontanka by the head of the local branch of Yabloko Ruslan Mutsolgov. Journalist Isabella Yevloeva posted a video showing police detaining activists and beating them with batons. Evloeva's Facebook page mentions at least four detainees.

Josh Edelson / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Photo of the Paradage district in the north of California, which was destroyed by the Camp Forest Fire. The picture was taken on November 15th. According to the latest data, 71 people died as a result of the fire. The location of more than a thousand people has not been established .