In 2018, a major Russian cryptocurrency exchange lost $450 million in Bitcoin. Now, the exchange's founder is saying he transferred the funds to the FSB. The BBC Russian Service has released a new report arguing that $450 million in Bitcoin that went missing from the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Wex may have been transferred to wallets owned by Federal Security Service (FSB) employees. After those funds were lost in 2018, an embezzlement case was opened to investigate their disappearance.

Tatyana Makeeva / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Izvestia on November 12 published a note on the investigation of the case of the poisoner of the Mediazone publisher and Pussy Riot Pussy Riot, Peter Verzilov. In the material, he was mistakenly called the publisher "Medusa". Three days later, Verzilov himself paid attention to the news. Pussy Riot participant on his Twitter called the material “Izvestia” “drain” and jokingly confirmed his appointment to the post of publisher of Medusa.

The Security Service of Ukraine spoke about the detention of “one of the key leaders” of the Islamic State terrorist organization Al Bara Shishani. Security Service of Ukraine Abu Bara Shishani It is noted that Shishani is a Georgian citizen who has been in various “positions” in IG since 2012, being in Syria. In 2013, he became deputy one of the most influential field commanders of the organization Abu Umar Ash-Shishani (Tarkhana Batirashvili).

Apple has removed 181 vaping apps from the App Store, writes Axios. “Recently, experts have linked many lung disease fatalities to e-cigarettes and vaping. We have updated the App Store policy, apps [vaping related] are not available for download," Axios was quoted as saying by the company in a statement to the editors. Mashable tried searching the App Store for some vaping apps and made sure they weren't available. The App Store has never had an app to buy vaping products.

The Antimonopoly Service warned the authorities of St. Petersburg that the public transport reform planned in the city could violate the law. In particular, according to the message of the FAS department for St. Petersburg, the increase in fares for travel in the metro and land transport will be a violation.

Kevin Lamarque / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The White House published a retelling of the first conversation of US President Donald Trump with the newly elected President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. This conversation took place on April 21, 2019 - three months before the July conversation , which became the reason for the start of the tram impeachment. Promising to publish a retelling of the April conversation, Trump called him "more important." Here is the translation of the published text.

The general assembly of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) has voted unanimously to recommend that the country’s Science and Education Ministry cancel an August order that places harsh restrictions on communication between Russian scholars and their international counterparts. “The free exchange of scholarly ideas is a necessary condition for scholarly and scientific development,” argued a statement read before the assembly.

The Justice Ministry of the Russian Federation has named Sever.Realii , a regional news project for Russia’s north created by Radio Liberty, as a “foreign agent” media source. The designation follows the formation of a State Duma commission to investigate foreign interference in Russia’s elections. Commission members have publicly accused Radio Liberty and Meduza , among others, of taking part in such interference.

Poland's state oil and gas company PGNiG has informed Gazprom and Gazprom Export that it is not going to renew the contract for the purchase of gas, which ends on December 31, 2022. A message on the PGNiG website says that the decision was made due to Poland's desire to ensure the security of energy supplies. The head of PGNiG, Piotr Wozniak, noted that over the past four years, the company has diversified its sources of natural gas.

Dmitry Muratov, whose storied career saw him launch one of Russia’s major independent news sources with support from figures as famous as Mikhail Gorbachev, has returned to his former post as editor-in-chief of that publication, Novaya Gazeta . 51.7 percent of the newspaper’s staff (or 74 individuals, according to the Moskva news agency) voted for Muratov to take the post.

Tourism Development Committee of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg acquired a new tourist logo-this is a turquoise circle with a large name of the city. Important clarification: the logo costs seven million rubles. Here's how the authors of the project, the SPN Communication agency, explain what it is: “turquoise northern sun”, symbolizing “a faith in a human genius, faith in a breakthrough and faith in illumination”. And the font composition of the logo causes associations with divorce bridges.

The judge of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow, German Bugynin, ordered the special correspondent of Novaya Gazeta, Ilya Azar, to pay 400,000 rubles to the family of MGIMO Vice-Rector Natalia Kuzmina. The lawsuit against Azar and journalist Ksenia Luchenko was filed because of an article in the Mokh magazine created by Azar , which stated that the Kuzmina family was involved in "raider seizures" and was involved in the demolition of buildings in Moscow.

Page Cyril Tereshin in VKontakte Blogger Kirill Tereshin from Pyatigorsk, who in 2017 turned into a hero of social networks, nicknamed Mr. Sentol (with the help of injections in the muscles, he made his “bazuki hands”), lay down on an operation to remove the consequences of these injections. As Komsomolskaya Pravda writes , this happened after his hands began to swell and blin out, and Tereshin began to complain about severe pain, fever and fainting.

229 individuals have been selected to join the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) following the body’s elections on November 15, Interfax reported. 71 of those scholars were chosen to become full RAN academics, while 158 were elected as corresponding members. They make for a total of 2,042 RAN members: 898 academics and 1,144 corresponding members.

The Ministry of Justice has recognized Sever.Realii (a project of Radio Liberty) media as a "foreign agent," according to the agency's website. The decision was made on the basis of materials received from the State Duma Commission to investigate the facts of interference in the internal affairs of Russia. Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation that Sever.Realii be included in the register of media outlets as “foreign agents” On November 14, the State Duma demanded .