For the Russian Orthodox Church, the establishment of a new Orthodox church in Ukraine “means absolutely nothing,” said Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, deputy head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations.

Justin Sullivan / Getty images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On December 14, Reuters published an investigation into Asbest’s traces in the children's podp. Johnson & Johnson, due to which thousands of claims from people with cancer were filed against the company. According to the agency, for decades, the company knew about the content of Asbest’s impurities in the talc, but hid these studies from the authorities and the public.

A unifying council was held in Kyiv, at which a new local Orthodox church was established. This was announced by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Metropolitan Epiphanius, 39, who served in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, was elected primate of the church. How exactly it was decided to name the new church is not clear from Ukrainian media reports. “This is a church without [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. This is a church without [Patriarch] Kirill.

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to "look into" the joint project of businessman Mikhail Gutseriev and the Canadian circus Cirque du Soleil in Skolkovo after a complaint from Edgard Zapashny, general director of the Great Moscow State Circus.

In the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, a Su-27 fighter crashed while landing, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. The pilot of the plane was killed. The crash happened during a planned flight. This is the second Su-27 crash in Ukraine in recent times. in a crash in the Vinnytsia region In October, two pilots, Ukrainian and US National Guard soldiers, died .

The American sports channel ESPN showed a fragment of the training of the St. Louis Blues NHL team. The puppy took part in the training. First, he grabbed the puck, ran quickly with it, but stopped - after all, you can’t skip the ice cleaning and not check if you can dig something out of the resulting mini-drift. Then he began to take away the puck from the hockey player, but decided that the stick was more promising.

Igor Matvienko: I want to talk about the problems in pop culture (if you can call it culture). There are many artists with a million-strong audience on the Internet who are not on TV. Mostly it's rap. "It's a kind of chanson for the youth," but better. It's wrong to cancel concerts , but musicians will now "line up" to cancel their performances for the sake of hype. Rap ​​came from America, it's mostly about sex, drugs, and protest.

Andrey Stepnov / PhotoxPress.ru Date Center, owned by Mail.ru Group Imaginary news. The Russian authorities abandoned the global Internet under the pretext of ensuring security. The country switched to the use of its own domain name system and routing Internet traffic. Only Russian sites work. Roskomnadzor took up the centralized department of the isolated segment of the Internet. All major Russian companies agreed to new rules of the game.

Australia has recognised western Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. The Australian embassy will remain in Tel Aviv until the conflict in the region is resolved. At the same time, Australian military and trade missions will be established in Jerusalem.

A unification council has begun in Kiev in St. Sophia Cathedral, following which, as expected, a new local Ukrainian Orthodox Church will be established. This was reported by the website of the UOC-KP. Bishops from three Ukrainian churches and one priest and layman with each of them arrived at the council.

The choice of Galina Yuzefovich The Literary critic of “Medusa” Galina Yuzefovich talks about three new foreign books that recently published in Russian: the epic written in the style of magical realism about Indonesia of the 20th century “Beauty is the grief” of the crew of Kurniavan; The novel about the spirit of the travel “Begun” by the Polish writer Olga Tokarchuk and the German novel in the nine stories “Glory” by Daniel Kelman. Eka Kournian. Beauty is grief. M.: Phantom Press, 2018.

The organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos lifted the restriction on the participation of Russian businessmen who fell under the sanctions, a source in the Russian government told Russian news agencies. “[In this regard] an official government delegation will travel to Davos and take part in the forum,” a TASS source quotes. The forum will be held from 22 to 25 January 2019.

Artem Firsanov on the set of the action "Be Kirill Serebrennikov", December 12, 2018 The leadership of VGIK first agreed to shoot a film about Gogol Center in the university, but at the last moment banned The playwright of Gogol-Center Valery Pechekin and a student of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography Artem Firsanov, as a thesis, shoot the film “Seven” about “Gogol Center” and the case of Kirill Serebrennikov.

On December 14, the Moscow City Court awarded compensation to the relatives of Nadezhda Podoplelova, who were not allowed to visit her in intensive care at a Moscow hospital before her death in May 2017. This was reported to Meduza by her daughter Olga Podoplelova, who represented her family in court. The court awarded Podoplelova, her sister and father 30,000 rubles each.

Wireed told how work on the Model 3 car was going Susana Gonzalez / Bloomberg / Getty images By 2015, Ilon Musk finally turned into one of the business icons, not least due to how the Tesla Model S car was successfully sold. In the spring of 2016, Musk invited everyone for a thousand dollars to reserve the car of the next model.