Journalist Yuri Dud took a great interview from director Nikita Mikhalkov. The conversation, lasting more than an hour and a half, was laid out on the UDUD Yetuub channel without bills-at the request of the director. Mikhalkov told why he considers his film “Tired by the Sun 2” the Great, and “The Death of Stalin” is bad, about friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his attitude to homosexuals.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has expressed his readiness to allow international inspectors to the nuclear reactor in Yongbyon to check the procedure for its shutdown. This is reported by Yonhap, citing a diplomatic source. According to the source, back in September, Kim Jong-un conveyed the corresponding message to US President Donald Trump through South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Paul Manafort, who headed Donald Trump's campaign in the US presidential election, met several times at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange has been hiding since 2012. This was written by The Guardian, citing sources. According to the publication, the meetings took place in 2013, 2015, and also in March 2016.

CSKA Moscow lost to the Czech "Victoria" in the home match of the group stage of the Champions League. The game ended with the score 1:2. Muscovites opened the scoring in the 10th minute: Nikola Vlašić converted a penalty. In the 56th minute, after Roman Prochazka's shot, Viktoria bounced back, and in the 81st minute, Lukas Geida set the final score in the match. CSKA lost the chance to take first or second place in the group and reach the 1/8 finals of the Champions League.

SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg has died. He was 57 years old. A year ago, Hillenburg was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but despite the disease, he continued to work on the animated series. As a young man, Hillenburg worked as a marine biologist for several years. He used his knowledge in this area to create an animated series about sea creatures. The first episode of SpongeBob SquarePants was released in 1999.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law introducing an experimental tax for the self-employed. The document provides for the introduction of a special tax regime for 10 years from January 1, 2019 in Moscow, the Moscow and Kaluga regions and Tatarstan. If the experiment is successful, it will be extended to the whole of Russia. The self-employed will have to pay 4% of income if they receive it as a result of providing services to individuals and 6% if they are legal.

In St. Petersburg, a fire broke out on the Viktor Chernomyrdin icebreaker under construction at the Admiralty shipyards. The fire area is 300 square meters, the fire was assigned the second number of complexity. 37 people and nine pieces of equipment are involved in its extinguishing. According to preliminary data, one person was injured. At 22:15 Moscow time the fire was extinguished. to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, two people were injured According - they received minor burns.

The "black list" of musicians and instructions not to allow their performances in the regions of Russia descend from the central apparatus of the FSB of Russia. Agora lawyer Pavel Chikov provided such information in his telegram channel. Chikov did not specify the source of his information. The authorities suddenly took up youth policy, as they know how, and they do it.

"Characteristic words of obscene language", "songs of antisocial content" Rapper Eldzhey's concert was cancelled in Yakutsk. He and the organizers of the performance were threatened with violence Eldzhey was scheduled to perform on November 28 as part of his Notorious tour (Episode 2). The organizers decided to cancel the performance after numerous threats and calls to ban the concert appeared on social media.

Alexander Polegenko / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Mychman Bugan "Yana Kapu" Yuri Budzylo in court in Simferopol. November 27, 2018 The text was updated on November 28 after the arrest of all detained sailors. The detained Ukrainian sailors faces a real term. The court arrested them On November 27, the Kiev District Court of Simferopol began to consider the arrest of 24 Ukrainian sailors, who were detained on November 25 by Russian border guards.

Daniil Turovsky / Meduza The “Best Clinic,” not far from the Baumanskaya subway station in Moscow, November 22, 2018 Advisory: This article contains detailed descriptions of genital mutilation. The Best Clinic medical center was recently offering “female circumcision” on its website to patients on religious or ritual grounds Not far from the Baumanskaya subway station in Moscow, there’s a small two-story building attached to a brick warehouse that dates back to the 19th century.

TV presenter of the TV channel "Russia-1" Sergey Brilev confirmed that he has British citizenship. Earlier this was announced by the founder of FBK Alexei Navalny. “Having first a British residence permit, and then a second citizenship is a fact that is well known to my employers,” Brilev wrote on Facebook. “Why investigate what I have never hidden?” the TV presenter asked.

In New Zealand, ten dwarf wars were thrown on the shore of a 90-mile beach on the island of Severny. To save six surviving animals, they organized a large -scale operation. More than 200 volunteers helped transport them to the other side of the island (there is a more calm current), where the animals were released into the ocean. The killer whales sailed from the shore by several hundred meters - zoo defenders hope that animals will not repeat the attempt to throw themselves ashore.

In Belarus, 31-year-old Semyon Berezhnoy was executed, who was found guilty in the case of the murder of several people in order to take over their apartments. The mother of another person sentenced to death in this case, Igor Gershankov, told human rights activists that she had not received letters from him for a month. He asked to suspend the execution of the sentence in 2018, according to the human rights center "Viasna", the UN Human Rights Committee.

A court in Dortmund has sentenced Russian and German citizen Sergei Wennergold to 14 years in prison for blowing up the bus of the local Borussia football club. The prosecutor's office demanded a life sentence for Wennergold. Wennergold admitted guilt in the bombing during the trial but denied that he intended to kill or injure anyone. He said he blew up the bus to profit from the subsequent fall in the club's stock.