How Irina Shikhman made a popular, liberal YouTube talk show on the Moscow government's dime Ivan Kleimanov for Meduza At the end of December 2017, the YouTube channel Let’s Talk ( or, in Russian, A pogovorit?) posted its very first video, an interview with the blogger Nikolay Sobolev that has accrued almost 670,000 views.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation proposed to increase the salaries of contract soldiers serving in the Crimea by 10%, "due to the deterioration of climatic conditions and the aggravation of the environmental situation in the places of deployment of military units." In the draft government decree, developed by the ministry, it is proposed to pay extra to contract soldiers as those who serve in the regions of the Far North and equivalent areas.

French chef Marc Veyrat has filed a lawsuit against the Michelin guide after his restaurant La Maison des Bois in Haute-Savoie was left with two Michelin stars in January instead of three. The restaurant was stripped of its third star after an unnamed Michelin critic thought the cheese soufflé it was served had English cheddar cheese instead of French reblochon, beaufort and tom cheeses .

On the first line of the Moscow Central Diameters (Lobnya - Odintsovo) on the evening of November 27, there was a failure due to a suicide attempt. This was reported on Twitter by the Central Suburban Passenger Company. On the morning of November 27, a failure occurred on the second line of the MCD (Nakhabino - Podolsk) due to a faulty current collector.

Writers, directors, musicians, and human rights activists have signed an appeal calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin not to sign the law allowing individuals to be recognized as “foreign agents.” The authors of the open letter believe that the president is being asked to sign an unconstitutional law. "The label of 'foreign agent' discredits a person in the eyes of his fellow citizens, belittles his dignity," which is prohibited by the Constitution, the appeal says.

Border guards at Sheremetyevo Airport did not allow French sociologist Karine Clement into Russia, Kommersant reports. Clement flew to Moscow on the evening of November 27 for a conference of sociologists, where she was supposed to give a lecture on the “yellow vests” and the protests in France. "At passport control at Sheremetyevo Airport, I was informed that I was banned from entering Russia.

In mid -November, the director of the ninth episode of Star Wars, Jay Abrams, said that one of the actors of the new film forgot his copy of the script at the hotel. The script was found and put up to the ebay trading platform. Naturally, the studio employees panicked - they made too much effort to keep the plot a secret. Good Morning America The leaks were avoided: they found a copy of the script and bought it before someone else did it. Abrams spared the culprit and did not call his name.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow began to consider the case of Yegor Forests, Maxim Martintsov and Alexander Mylnikov, accused of applying violence to a representative of the authorities. According to investigators, they were knocked down on July 27 shares from the National Guard fighter Maxim Kosov. Kosov, who has the status of the victim, said in the court that in total, he detained “about 14 people” and does not remember which one of them the force applied to.

The share of illegal cigarettes in Russia accounts for every sixth sold pack, follows from the study by Nielsen conducted by order of the largest manufacturers of cigarettes. In the analysis, Nielsen employees studied more than 15 thousand empty packs from cigarettes collected in large cities and villages. According to the authors of the study, the record share is recorded in Rostov-on-Don, where 51% of sales are on counterfeit cigarettes.

The Ministry of Health has submitted to the government a draft law banning the dissemination of false information about HIV, TASS reports. The document was published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

A court in the Russian city of Kazan has upheld a decision by the Internal Affairs Ministry of Tatarstan to deny asylum to two Chinese citizens. Shakhrizat and Shakhdiyar Shavkat are twin brothers from a Tatar-Uyghur family, Kommersant reported . The twins were expelled from Kazan Federal University, where they had studied since 2015.

Sergey Shishkarev's Delo Group has won an auction to sell a controlling stake in TransContainer, Russia's largest container operator. Russian Railways confirmed this to TASS. We are talking about one of the largest privatization auctions of recent years, Kommersant wrote earlier. The Delo Group offered 60.3 billion rubles for the shares, which is almost twice the starting price (36.2 billion rubles).

The independent Russian-language newspaper Novaya Gazeta has sent letters to the Kremlin, the Russian Investigative Committee, and the Prosecutor General’s Office demanding that officials open a criminal case to investigate the brutal killing of a Syrian army deserter. A scanned copy of a passport belonging to one of the alleged perpetrators was attached to each letter.

The founder of the Russian-language investigative news outlet Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) has posted on Facebook saying he was physically attacked in Moscow. The CIT specializes in using open-source methods to report on covert Russian or Russian-supported military, intelligence, and mercenary activity. Вступил в зелёное братство) Шёл утром по дворам домой, постепенно со мной поравнялся какой-то чувак, дальше провал... Опубликовано Русланом Левиевым Среда, 27 ноября 2019 г.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled his futuristic Cybertruck pickup on November 22. Almost a week has passed since then - it would seem that during this time the memes about the new Tesla car should have bothered everyone, but no. On the contrary, users and entire companies do not let up and continue to make fun of the appearance of the pickup truck. For example, LEGO introduced its own version of the Cybertruck - a building block with wheels attached to it. They say "guaranteed shockproof".