The international pharmaceutical company GSK, which produces the antibiotic Fortum for people with cystic fibrosis, offered to donate this medicine for free to patients in Russia. According to Novaya Gazeta, the manufacturer offered to distribute the required amount of Fortum among patients through charitable foundations and medical institutions. The Ministry of Health reported that GSK will donate 30,000 packages of the drug, which will be delivered to the regions of Russia.

Studio Warner Bros. announced the release date of the fourth part of the film "The Matrix". It is scheduled for May 21, 2021, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As of July 1, 2022, Warner Bros. planned the premiere of the film "Flash" about the superhero Flash from the DC Comics universe. Ezra Miller will play the lead role in the film. Studio Warner Bros. in August 2019, she announced the filming of the sequel to The Matrix.

The Mi-28 helicopter crashed in the Krasnodar Territory after it took off from the city of Korenovsk, Interfax reports citing the Russian Defense Ministry. The helicopter was found destroyed near the village of Platnirovskaya, two kilometers from the departure airfield, an unnamed agency source said. Only the captain and co-pilot were on board. They died. According to preliminary information, the helicopter could have crashed due to bad weather conditions.

The head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, told Russian President Vladimir Putin that, according to forecasts, the non-fulfillment of federal budget expenditures in 2019 could amount to one trillion rubles. This was reported on the Kremlin website. "Of course, we have never had anything like this before. Last year, the federal budget was not executed by 770 billion [rubles]," Kudrin said. “No, no, that’s a bit too much,” Putin commented on Kudrin’s words.

The TV channel TNT will no longer show the series Servant of the People, in which the main role was played by the current President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. This is reported by Vedomosti. There have been changes in the TNT TV program. Instead of "Servant of the People", which was planned to be shown on December 12 and 13, the TV series "Interns" and "SashaTanya" will be released on the TV channel.

The Soviet District Court in Ryazan has decided to deport five employees of the American University at Buffalo from Russia after they spoke to students of the Ryazan university. This was reported by the local publication Vid Bokoe. According to the publication, the Americans were fined, deported and banned from visiting Russia for several years by a court decision.

"Jellyfish" The developer Luis Anlow created the REWOUND application, which turns the iPhone into an iPod, a cult music player from Apple. The application appeared in the App Store back in September, but the media paid attention to it only now. This is how it looks: REWUND-a music player that can be configured so that it looks like any player from the 2000s, according to the developer’s website. Among the skins used are the iPod Classic.

The authorities admitted that the architectural monument had to be partially dismantled City News Agency "Moscow" Since the end of November, Moscow has been discussing the reconstruction of “art” - an important monument of architecture and the oldest cinema of the city. The press and bloggers suspected that under the guise of restoration the building was actually demolished.

Courtesy of Greenpeace Russia A group of climate activists gathers at the COP25 summit in Madrid. Arshak Makichyan of Russia is at center wearing a brown coat. In a significant step forward from outdoor individual pickets, young Russian climate activists say they have met with an advisor to Vladimir Putin at the COP25 summit in Madrid.

The TNT TV channel cut a joke about Russian President Vladimir Putin from the first episode of the TV series Servant of the People, where Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky played the main role. The joke was removed from the series shown in Moscow, writes BBC Russian Service. also This is reported by users of social networks . In the first episode of the TV show, the hero of Zelensky, the newly elected president of Ukraine, Vasily Goloborodko, chooses a watch.

The head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, Valery Fadeyev, has spoken out against including the defendants in the "Moscow case" in the amnesty lists that will be announced for the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. This was reported by Interfax. "I am against [the inclusion] and have spoken out publicly. They cite the example of the 1993 amnesty, that a year later all participants were amnestied, those who were in the White House.

Ruslan Gorring, the former first deputy head of Rosgeology, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in a case of fraud on an especially large scale. It is reported by Interfax. Gorring was detained in March 2019, according to Kommersant , he was charged in an eight-year-old case on the illegal allocation of a plot of land in the Moscow region. Gorring was fired from Rosgeologiya in January 2019 after he talked about sex with his subordinates in a video game stream.

Blogger Ilias Mercouri posted a video on Twitter comparing two appearances by FBK employee Lyubov Sobol on the show "Navalny Live." One video with her participation was released on November 19, the other on December 3.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced colleague Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, teacher of the cadet school Boris Vershinin to 17 years in prison. Vershinin was found guilty of participating in a terrorist organization. The prosecutor asked for 16 years in prison for him. According to the indictment, Vershinin headed the "military vertical" of the banned movement "People's Militia of Russia" and was supposed to become Minister of Defense after the planned armed rebellion.

"Portrait of a woman" was stolen 22 years ago - and he was one of the most wanted art objects Polizia di Stato / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In the Italian city of Piacenets, a picture of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt “Portrait of a Woman” was found , the cost of which is estimated at 60 million euros. The canvas was stolen in 1997 and was included in the list of the most wanted art objects of Italy.