Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have stepped away from managing the company's parent structure, the Alphabet holding. Alphabet said this in a statement. Page served as CEO of Alphabet, Brin was president of the holding. Now management of the holding has passed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai; he will lead both Google and Alphabet. Page and Brin will continue to participate in the holding company as members of the board of directors.

He designed Moscow's legendary first skyscraper, sold it, and disappeared. Now, we finally know how Ernst-Richard Nirnzee died. TASS The Nirnzee House, 1925. The Nirnzee House was Moscow’s very first skyscraper — or, as early twentieth-century journalists called it, “cloudslicer” ( tucherez ). The legendary building is still standing: You can find it on Bolshoi Gnezdnikovsky Alley at the intersection of Tverskoy Boulevard and Tverskaya Street.

A relatively short report from a 12-hour trial over student Yegor Zhukov. He is accused of extremism in the framework of "Moscow case" Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On December 3, in the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow, consideration of on the merits of the case Yegor Zhukov began.

Chip somodevilla / getty images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Head of the Adam Schiff Intelligence Committee at a press conference after publishing a report on the impeachment procedure of Donald Trump. December 3, 2019 A 300-page report on the impeachment of US President Donald Trump was published. The document was prepared by three US Congress Committee controlled by the Democrates: Intelligence Committee, Committee on Supervision and Foreign Affairs Committee.

A gas explosion occurred in a four-story house in the village of Yakovlevo, Belgorod Region. As a result, one of the walls of the high-rise building completely collapsed, TASS reports with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. A gas explosion occurred in one of the apartments, but no fire followed. According to a TASS source, the cause of the explosion was a faulty gas boiler. 18 people were evacuated from the high-rise building.

PA / Scanpix / Leta the place of the London terrorist attack, the responsibility for which the Islamic State took on. November 30, 2019 The Islamic State published the first statement about its responsibility for the Tamtam Russian Messenger attack in London , Peter Van Ostaine told the InSider by the InSider. According to him, the statement of terrorists appeared on Tamtam two minutes earlier than in Telegram. In 2017, Tamtam launched Mail.ru Group, which owns VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and ICQ.

Guillaume Horcajuelo / EPA / Scanpix / Leta On December 3, a summit of the heads of the state - NATO members began in London. For almost a month before his opening, politics and diplomats discussed the resonant interview of French President Emmanuel Macron, in which he stated the “death of the brain” of the alliance and stated that the role of this organization should be revised.

The student funding committee at Moscow’s prestigious Higher School of Economics (HSE) has issued a decision stripping the Doxa student journal of its status as a student organization. Oleg Solodukhin, an advisor to the university’s rector who also leads the committee, broke the news to MBK Media . Solodukhin argued that Doxa had damaged the HSE’s reputation by publishing an article about another academic, Russian State Social University Rector Natalia Pochinok.

The American authorities accused two Russians - the owner of the KS-Engineering company Oleg Nikitin and its employee Anton Cheremukhin - of trying to circumvent sanctions on the supply of equipment to Russia. This was announced by the US Department of Justice. Nikitin is under arrest in the city of Savannah (Georgia). Whether Cheremukhin was arrested is not specified. They both face about 20 years in prison and about a million dollars in fines.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. "I already know everything, forget it!" How we tried to become good fathers with the help of books, Utuub and forums (yeah, so straight!) The Internet is full of different articles that are called the same - "science to be a parent." And one gets the impression that being a good father or mother is really something that you can learn. Or not? Should you trust numerous books, articles and videos on YouTube?

The student magazine Doxa was deprived of the status of a student organization by decision of the Council of the Foundation for Supporting Student Initiatives of the Higher School of Economics (HSE). Oleg Solodukhin, head of the foundation and adviser to the rector of the Higher School of Economics, informed MBKh Media about this. He claims that Doxa caused “reputational damage” to the university by publishing a text about the rector of the RSSU, Natalya Pochinok.

The Supreme Court of Karelia sentenced previously convicted Petrozavodsk resident Anton Ipatov to life imprisonment. He killed two unknown women in one day and was nicknamed the “Petrozavodsk maniac” by local media. In addition, Ipatov was ordered to pay the parents of the women he killed 3.2 million rubles in compensation for moral damages. He must also compensate for the funeral costs of one of his victims.

In the Leningrad region on November 28, four natives of South Asia were detained who wanted to illegally enter the European Union, and a resident of St. Petersburg, who built a fake border between Russia and Finland for them. According to the border department of the FSB of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, foreigners found a guide on the Internet. It turned out to be a native of one of the CIS countries, who lived in St. Petersburg.

The taxi hailing service Citymobil was lauded among Russian activists for offering free rides in Moscow to the Nasiliu.net (No to Violence) women’s center. However, a Citymobil representative has now announced that the promotion code for the free taxis will only be made available to those who call Nasiliu.net asking for help escaping domestic violence.

Paul Zinken / DPA / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Police at the site of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin, August 23, 2019 At the end of August, the former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was shot in Berlin. For his murder, a Russian was detained with a passport addressed to Vadim Sokolov. But, as stated in a joint investigation by Bellingcat , The Insider and Der Spiegel , this is a fictional name.