The Literary Review literary magazine awarded the annual Bad Sex Award - for the worst description of sex in the literature. The laureate of 2018 was American James Frey, he received the Katerina novel. Tristan Gregory / Camera Press / Vida Press James Fram The plot of Katerina describes the trip of a novice writer to Paris, where he starts a romance with a model named Katerina.

Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder Luka Modric has won the Ballon d'Or, the best player of the year award from France Football weekly. Modric won the Champions League with Real Madrid in May and reached the World Cup final with Croatia in July. In September, Modric was named the FIFA Player of the Year. Since 2008, only Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have received the Golden Ball: each of them has five awards. In the current voting, Ronaldo took second place, Messi - fifth.

The Osiris-Rex robotic spacecraft entered orbit around the asteroid Bennu. The scientific program of "Osiris" is designed for a little more than two years. As part of this program, in 2021, the probe will have to collect pieces of Bennu soil, and then deliver them to Earth. The orbit of the asteroid Bennu is located between Venus and Mars. NASA believes that potentially Bennu could collide with the Earth - the probability of this event at the end of the XXII century is estimated at 0.037%.

Forbes magazine has published an annual ranking of the highest paid bloggers leading their YouTube channels. The first place was taken by seven-year-old boy Ryan, whose parents run the Ryan Toys Review channel, where videos are laid out that show Ryan's reaction to buying new toys. The channel has 17.3 million subscribers, and Forbes estimated Ryan's income over the past year at $22 million.

Anthropologist Alexander Panchenko - about how he was fired from St. Petersburg State University and why they are afraid of sects in Russia Page Alexander Panchenko in VKontakte On December 3, a folklorist and anthropologist, Doctor of Philology Alexander Panchenko told Facebook about his dismissal from St. Petersburg State University. According to him, in August 2018, the rector removed him from the list of teachers without explanation.

Schoolboy from St. Petersburg - about an attempt to create a union of students Alexander Kryazhev / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta The activist of the Interregional Trade Union of Education Workers Andrei Demidov wrote on Facebook on December 3 that a tenth grader from St. Petersburg tried to create a student’s trade union in his gymnasium. The administration, having learned about this, began to threaten him with an exception to school and reprisal by law enforcement agencies.

In Moscow, at the age of 81, writer Andrei Bitov died. This was reported on her Facebook by the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich. Alexander Sverkin / TASS / Vida Press Bitov was one of the first postmodern writers in Russian literature. His most famous novel - Pushkin’s House (1971) - was distributed in Samizdat and was first published in the American publishing house Ardis in 1978.

In the Moscow region, an attack was made on Oleg Melnikov, the founder of the movement against modern slavery "Alternative". As reported in the public of the movement in VK, he was stabbed three times near the entrance of his house. The attacker's face was covered with a scarf and a hood. Alternativa's press secretary, Yulia Luganskaya, told MBKh Media that Melnikov's vital organs were not affected. After receiving medical attention, he refused hospitalization.

The military personnel of the Baltic Fleet called not to vote for the assignment of the Airport of Kaliningrad named after the philosopher Immanuel Kant. A video of an explanatory conversation with the sailors, which appeared at the end of November on Facebook, publishes the New Kaliningrad.

The Investigative Committee and the police launched an investigation into the site, which apparently offered the services of "renting" children for prostitution under the guise of advertising children's clothing. On December 3, several media outlets wrote about the site cpidzhak.ru, which offered hourly rental services for children's clothing. At the same time, the photos were sorted not by type of clothing, but by age and names of children.

Peter Dejong / AP / Scanpix / Leta Emil Ratelband answers questions from journalists after a court resolve The court in the Dutch city of Arnem refused 69-year-old Emil Ratelbandu in the right to officially reduce age in documents under 49 years. The court decision notes that age is inextricably linked with the rights and obligations of a person, and his official change would lead to the fact that many existing laws would lose meaning.

The Moscow cable car has again suspended work. From December 3 to 6, the press service of the cable car said, it will be closed to visitors "in connection with the planned annual inspection of the facility by Rostekhnadzor." The cable car connecting Luzhniki and Vorobyovy Gory was solemnly opened on November 27. On the second day of work, it was stopped due to a cyber attack. The cable car reopened on 30 November.

The Kazan police opened a criminal case for knowingly falsely reporting an act of terrorism after a concert by IC3PEAK was disrupted at a local club. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the city administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The IC3PEAK concert in Kazan was supposed to take place on November 23rd. The police said that on that day there was an anonymous report about an explosive device planted in the Nora club, where a performance was planned.

An 80-year-old woman died in Marseille after she was hit by a tear gas grenade during clashes between police and protesters against rising fuel prices. It is reported by Le Parisien. The incident happened on December 1st. Fragments of a tear gas grenade hit a woman in the face as she closed the shutters in her fourth-floor apartment. The victim was taken to the hospital. On December 2, she died during an operation.

In the Zhytomyr region, searches are being conducted at the homes of clergymen of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). According to sources of Interfax-Ukraine, investigative measures in the Zhytomyr region are being carried out within the framework of the same case of inciting interfaith hatred, in connection with which the head of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra was searched on November 30.