Former US Vice President Joe Biden , who held this post in the Barack Obama administration, called himself the most suitable person for the role of American president. "I'm going to be frank with you. I think I'm the best person in the country to be president," Biden said at the University of Montana. The 76-year-old politician said he would make a final decision on his candidacy within the next two months, after consulting with his family.

Several US senators, following a briefing with CIA Director Gina Haspel, accused Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul. "If the crown prince had been before a jury, he would have been convicted in half an hour," said Republican Senator Bob Corker.

Explain the example of Dota 2 In Russia, e -sports is officially recognized - and some teams are known throughout the world. Together with the Megafon Winter Clash tournament, we explain that it is interesting in e -sports and how to root for players - all with the example of Dota 2, one of the most popular disciplines. Player of the team Virtus.pro Roman Kushnarev. Virtus.pro Why is the sitting at the computer is considered sports?

Teenager Anton B., who attacked school No. 5 in Ulan-Ude in January 2018, was declared insane. This is stated in the message of the UK on the transfer of the case to the court.

In Moscow, on the evening of December 4, law enforcement agencies staged an inspection at all nine railway stations due to anonymous reports of a bomb threat. This is reported with reference to sources by Russian news agencies. TASS writes that the threats were not confirmed. There were no evacuations, according to the source of the agency, during the checks.

NATO has accused Russia of violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. “We support the US claim that Russia is violating its obligations under the treaty,” the statement said. According to the alliance, the development of the 9M729 missile system by Russia became a violation of the agreement. Russian senator Franz Klintsevich called this statement "a lie" because this missile, according to him, has a range of less than 500 kilometers, Interfax reports .

Tatyana Belyakova / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On the air of the Russia 1 TV channel, the results of the contest “Great Names of Russia” were summed up. It was arranged in order to choose additional names for 47 airports of the country by voting. About five million people took part in the vote.

In 2018, the winner of the Big Book National Literary Prize was the poet Maria Stepanova, author of the novel In Memories of Memory (Medusa published a fragment of this book). The second prize was awarded to Alexander Arkhangelsky with the book "Checking Bureau", the third - Dmitry Bykov with the novel "June". Lyudmila Petrushevskaya received an award for her contribution to literature.

The results of the Great Names of Russia competition were discussed in a special edition of the 60 Minutes program. Below is a brief retelling of the theses voiced there. The national competition took into account the whole palette of opinions, although some do not agree with this. In total, five million people took part in it. Not without scandals - Yegor Letov in Omsk, Kant in Kaliningrad. Questions also arose for Nicholas II.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has disqualified Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky for four years after meldonium was found in his doping sample during the Olympics in Pyeongchang. The ruling states that during the hearing on September 19, Krushelnitsky failed to prove that he accidentally took meldonium. Because of this, his sentence was not reduced. The athlete will appeal this decision, TASS reports .

In Saratov, the police arranged an inspection for explosives and drugs in the My Bar club, where the IC3PEAK group is due to perform on December 4th. It is reported by Mediazona. The entrance of fans inside due to the inspection of the premises was postponed. Letting people into the club, the police take pictures of everyone's passport, Mediazona writes.

Gorky Moscow Moscow Art Theater was headed by Boyakov, Prilepin and Pukepalis. What does all this mean? Sergey Fadeichev / TASS Eduard Boyakov, 2012 On December 4, producer and director Eduard Boyakov, by decision of the Ministry of Culture, headed the Moscow Art Academic Theater (Moscow Art Theater) named after Gorky.

In Colorado, a court delivered a verdict in the murder of 19-year-old Natalie Bollinger, who disappeared in December 2017 and was soon found dead in the woods. The convict - 23-year-old Joseph Lopez - said that the girl hired him for her own murder, leaving an ad on Craiglist. According to Lopez, he saw Bollinger's "I want to book myself" ad and responded with a fake name.

On December 5, diplomats from EU countries will discuss the issue of expanding sanctions against Russia due to the situation in Ukraine. This follows from the agenda of the meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of EU Member States ( COREPER ), which RBC has reviewed. The sanctions are expected to be expanded due to the elections in the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR.

Mary altaffer / AP / Scanpix / Leta Jeff Dean and Sanji Gemavat are one of the best programmers of Silicon Valley. They came to Google in 1999 and now hold the positions of senior researchers. This is the highest, 11th level in the corporate hierarchy of Google developers. Dean and Hemavat are the only ones who have reached it. For many years they write the code together, sitting at the same computer. The New Yorker magazine published a text called “Friendship that made Google great” about them.