Russian President Vladimir Putin, at meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, drew a diagram of a conflict between Russian border guards and Ukrainian troops in the Black Sea. This follows from the words of his press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “He demonstrated it schematically <…>, he drew up such a diagram,” Peskov told journalists.

At the end of 2018, the IC3PEAK group, like some other Russian performers, encountered opposition during the tour in Russia: the organizers refuse to hold concerts under pressure from the security forces, and the police are watching the musicians themselves. On December 1, the musicians were detained at the station in Novosibirsk, where the concert was already under threat; Then the police came to the performance. Photo in the announcement: Alexander Mamaev / Ura.ru / TASS

for several hours to the concert of the IC3PEAK group, whose members were detained In Novosibirsk , police officers came at the station on December 1. Writes about this "Taiga.info". The police attributed this to "complaints about noise." The event, as far as is known at the time of publication of the news, was not stopped. The police checked the documents of those who had gathered and found out how old they were, reports .

Boris Grebenshchikov announced the cancellation of the concerts of the Aquarium group in Ukraine, scheduled for December 2018. “Unfortunately, due to force majeure, our tour of Ukraine cannot take place now. We hope that force majeure will sink into oblivion and we will return to you, ”the musician wrote on Facebook. According to Grebenshchikov, the concerts will be rescheduled for a "more reasonable time", possibly June 2019.

The English writer J. K. Rowling switched to Russian during a Twitter skirmish with businessman Arron Banks, the largest donor to the British exit campaign from the European Union. Here is what she wrote: The tweet caused surprise among Russian-speaking users. Rowling was responding to Arron Banks' comment about her recent Brexit tweet.

Fragment of the graphic novel "Electric state" The Like Book published a graphic romance of the Swedish artist Simon Stlenhaga “Electric state”. This is a tragic anti -utopia about the world destroyed during a terrible technogenic disaster - the war of drones. In the center of the novel is a girl traveling through the destroyed America of the 90s along with her only friend, old yellow robot. Medusa publishes a fragment of this novel.

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At the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, a worker died as a result of the collapse, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Chelyabinsk Region. Another person was injured and taken to the hospital. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the workers were clearing the ice from the "carbon-fiber box of the sulfur trapping unit." “During the work, the box on which they were located collapsed,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

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Update. The IC3PEAK musicians were released from the police. The police detained the IC3PEAK group at a train station in Novosibirsk, Oleg Mitrofanov, the group's spokesman, told Meduza. The police said they were going to test IC3PEAK for drugs. The musicians refused to go to the office until the arrival of a lawyer, but the police forcefully took away a member of the group, Nikolai Kostylev, saying that there was a woman in his documents in the photo.

Update 21:35. As a result of clashes in Paris, about 100 people were injured, more than 200 were detained, according to Reuters. Protesters smashed windows in several stores, overturned and set fire to cars, and started several fires. A machine gun was stolen from the police. The police said that representatives of radical movements penetrated the ranks of the "yellow vests".

Fox and National Geographic have launched investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and assault against astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, science promoter and host of the Cosmos program. An article about harassment was published on November 29 on the Patheos website. In it, Tyson's former assistant Ashley Watson said she was forced to quit due to sexual advances on his part, and Bucknell University professor Dr.

This is one of the main derby of the world Derby between the two Argentine clubs “Boka Huniors” and “River Plate” is considered one of the main sports confrontations in the world. Teams have been playing among themselves for 110 years, during this time more than 300 people died in skirmishes between fans. In 1968, 71 people died in the stadium "River Plate". There are no guest sectors on this derby: for considerations of the safety of fans, guests are not allowed into matches.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Why did Russia and Ukraine quarrel again? And who needed it Alexey Ponomarev and Sasha Sulim discuss the conflict in the Kerch Strait and its unpleasant consequences. Why could a collision be beneficial to Kyiv (or, after all, Moscow)? What was the plan of Ukrainian sailors and what went wrong with it? Did Russia use aviation in the Kerch Strait? Can martial law save Petro Poroshenko's rating?

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