The first teaser trailer for the superhero film The Avengers. The finale turned out to be rather gloomy: Iron Man drifts alone in outer space (and seems to be dying), Captain America mourns his dead friends, and Hawkeye, who changed his image, stares intently into the camera. And only Ant-Man jokes that Thanos did not spray half the universe at the end of Infinity War.

Users of "Peekaboo" found on Instagram, which, presumably, is maintained by the head of the Tver diocesan scientific library, Archpriest Vyacheslav Baskakov, photos of expensive items of fashion brands. According to Medialeaks, the man running the Instagram account looks like the author of the Vyacheslav Baskakov account on VKontakte.

The TASS agency reported that the reason for the cancellation of the Friendzone concert in Nizhny Novgorod was not pressure on the musicians or organizers, but a small number of tickets sold. The agency received the information from a source in the presidential administration of Russia.

The Christian Democratic Union has chosen a new chairman. Angela Merkel will be replaced in this post by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the general secretary of the party. Former Bundestag member Friedrich Merz and Health Minister Jens Spahn also claimed the post of leader. The change of the head of the CDU does not mean an automatic change of Merkel as Chancellor of Germany. Merkel announced her resignation as leader of the CDU in October, she did not run for new elections.

Maxim Zmeyev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The definition of the Russian nation (the multinational people of the Russian Federation) appeared in the updated “strategy of the state national policy of the Russian Federation for the period until 2025”, approved by the Decree of the President of Russia . "Medusa" found that the decree was formulated in such a way that not all citizens of Russia, but only 84%can claim to belong to the Russian nation!

On orders from Russia’s federal censor, Internet service providers across the country started blocking Alexey Navalny’s “Smart Vote” project on Friday, three days after Moscow’s Tagansky District Court ruled that the site’s domain name registrar, the French company “Gandi SAS,” violates privacy protection laws. When registering at Smart Vote, participants are asked for the following information: name, email, telephone number, address, voting district, and age bracket.

The Moscow City Court has reduced the term of administrative arrest of human rights activist Lev Ponomarev from 25 to 16 days, Mediazona reports. Judge Anna Seliverstova found the initial punishment to be excessively harsh. Mediazona On December 5, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow placed 77-year-old Lev Ponomarev under administrative arrest for calling for a rally "For our and your children" in defense of the defendants in the "Penza case" and the "New Greatness" case.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Valery Limarenko as acting governor of the Sakhalin Region. Prior to his appointment, Limarenko served as the head of the ASE group of companies, the engineering division of the state corporation Rosatom. Valery Limarenko in 2000-2007 held ministerial posts in the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region, and then worked in various structures of Rosatom.

On December 7, the Ministry of Internal Affairs first commented on the massive abolition of concerts of Russian performers throughout the country. The department assured that they did not give instructions on this subject. The Kremlin, in turn, said that if law enforcement agencies had claims to the Alexander Sokurov fund, now they are exhausted. Photo in the announcement: Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Scanpix / Leta

Altria Group, maker of Marlboro cigarettes in the United States, has acquired 45% of Cronos, a marijuana grower in Canada. The deal amounted to approximately 1.77 billion US dollars. In Canada, the sale of marijuana for recreational purposes was legalized in mid-October 2018.

Roskomnadzor added the website of Alexei Navalny about "smart voting" to the register of violators of the rights of subjects of personal data, said the representative of the department Vadim Ampelonsky. On December 7, the site began to be blocked in Russia. The notice of blocking the MGTS provider indicates the number of the materials of the case of the Tagansky Court against the registrar Gandi SAS, through which the site was designed. The decision was made on December 4th.

Lithuania has become the first country in the North Atlantic Alliance to impose sanctions on Russia over the conflict in the Kerch Strait . This was announced by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite at a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

US President Donald Trump has nominated William Barr for the post of Attorney General. In addition, Trump proposed the candidacy of State Department spokesman Heather Nauert to the post of US permanent representative to the UN. The nominations of the Attorney General and the US Permanent Representative to the UN must be approved by the Senate. William Barr already served as Attorney General from 1991 to 1993.

Athletes from the devonlevesque instagram , dedicated to intensive training, run with kettlebells during classes, get hit on the press while standing with a barbell in their hands, and lift dumbbells while pumping the press in the pool. A clip of their workouts was posted on Twitter - and many users were surprised by such unusual exercises. But that's not all they can do. Jumping push ups? Easily! Run on all fours? Easy! Walk on your hands on a treadmill? No problem!

After PETA called for the removal of animal cruelty idioms from the English language, we asked readers to paraphrase popular Russian sayings about cats, dogs, cows and bears. From hundreds of messages, we have selected 20 of the most harmless (well, almost!) expressions invented by Meduza readers. ❌ Eat the dog in this business Kiryuha ✅ Eat soy dog ​​in this case Julia ✅ Raise two dozen puppies in this business Vladimir ✅ I've taken down a hundred pants in this business!