Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has announced that she will be releasing a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. The novel, titled The Testaments, will be released on September 10, 2019. The story in it will be conducted on behalf of three heroines, and the action will unfold 15 years after the events of the first part. The Handmaid's Tale was released in 1985 and has since become one of the most famous dystopian novels.

Updated . Based on the results of processing 100% of the ballots, Salome Zurabishvili won the elections with a result of 59.52% of the votes. Independent candidate Salome Zurabishvili, backed by the ruling Georgian Dream party, wins the presidential elections in Georgia. This is evidenced by the data of the CEC of the country.

Meduza speaks to two Soviet rock musicians about KGB blacklists Vladimir Yatsin / TASS The rock group “Bravo” at a concert in Moscow on October 15, 1988 “I used to love 80s rock, and I’m having constant deja vu from what’s happening now.

Moscow "Lokomotiv" won the match of the fifth round of the group stage of the Champions League. The meeting against Galatasaray in Moscow ended with the score 2:0. Goals in the match were scored by Grzegorz Krychowiak and Vladislav Ignatiev. Lokomotiv lost the previous four matches in the current Champions League with a total goal difference of 2-11. Before today's game, Lokomotiv won the Champions League match in the spring of 2004 for the last time.

VTB CEO Andrey Kostin at the bank's private party with guests of the Russia Calling! spoke to the assembled investors in the image of the Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi. The photos were handed over to RBC by one of the participants of the event. The first deputy chairman of the board of VTB, Yuri Solovyov, dressed up as Luke Skywalker. Solovyov and Kostin welcomed the "Knights of the VTB Galaxy" and discussed their "investment Jedi armor".

Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen defeated American Fabiano Caruana in the World Chess Championship match and defended his world title. In a tiebreaker, during which the opponents played games with a shortened time control, Carlsen won three games out of three. Magnus Carlsen defended his world champion title after winning the rapid playoff against Fabiano Caruana 3-0. We...

The Ministry of Economic Development has published a forecast for Russia’s socio-economic development until 2036, approved by the government last week. The baseline scenario assumes GDP growth of 1.7 times, investments in fixed capital of 2.2 times. Real wages will increase by 1.6 times, and real disposable incomes by one and a half times. According to the results of 2018, real disposable incomes of Russians will grow for the first time in four years.

Rapper Husky (Dmitry Kuznetsov) announced that the money raised through the concert in his support will be spent on helping human rights organizations and other musicians facing persecution. Part of the money will go to Agora and Open Russia, which helped Husky after his arrest, as well as the Mediazona website, the rapper said.

One of the Protestant churches in the Hague on October 26 is constantly conducting a worship in order to prevent the police from deporting the family from Armenia. According to the laws of the Netherlands, police officers cannot enter the temple when a service is going on there. Sasun Tamrazyan and his family fled from Armenia in 2009 due to persecution for political reasons.

On November 28, a court in Simferopol arrested nine of the 24 sailors from Ukrainian ships detained by Russia in the Black Sea. On Wednesday, Oleg Melnichuk, Vladimir Lisovyi, Yevgeny Semidotsky, Andriy Shevchenko from the tugboat Yany Kapu; Bohdan Nebylitsa, Vyacheslav Zinchenko and Andriy Drach (he is called an SBU employee) from the boat Nikopol; Denys Gritsenko and Yuriy Bezyazychny from the boat Berdyansk were arrested. The remaining 15 people were arrested the day before.

The owner of the car, on the roof of which the rapper Husky performed in Krasnodar after the disruption of his concert, asks the police not to open a criminal case on damage to her property. This was announced on Facebook by Husky's lawyer Alexei Avanesyan. According to him, the request is due to the fact that she was fully compensated for material and moral damage. The day before, Avanesyan said that the restaurateur Tahir Kholikberdiev decided to pay compensation to the owner of the car.

In November, Disney launched the first teaser trailer for the King Leo Rome, shot by director John Favro (Iron Man). The main roles in the new version were played by Donald Glover (aka rapper Childish Gambino), Seth Rogen (“Neighbors”), Chvetel Edgyofer (“12 years of slavery”), James Erl Jones (Darth Vader's voice in Star Wars) and singer Beyoncé.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, despite the introduction of martial law , approved the date of the presidential election - March 31, 2019. Medusa talks about the most popular applicants for this post - what they will bet in their campaign and how they are going to return Crimea and Donbass. Gleb Garanich / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Petro Poroshenko Mikhailo Markiv / Press Service of the President of Ukraine / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Biography.

On November 28, Russian anti-corruption activist and opposition politician Alexey Navalny unveiled his latest project to undermine the Kremlin’s control over the Russian government. The new initiative, “Smart Vote,” will offer voting instructions in regional elections to maximize the odds of defeating the country’s ruling political party, United Russia. The project will be active for next year's gubernatorial race in St. Petersburg and Moscow's City Duma election.

The fact that TV presenter Sergei Brilev has British citizenship "cannot be a reason for accusations or criticism." This opinion was expressed by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov in a commentary to Ekho Moskvy. “In general, we do not understand the hype that has been made on this issue. Brilev absolutely does not violate anything, having the citizenship of another country. <...> He is not a civil servant, so no restrictions apply to him, ”Peskov said.