Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev, ranked fourth in the list of the best tennis players in the world, won the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) Final Tournament. In the final, he defeated the third racket of the world, Austrian Dominic Thiem, in three sets (4:6, 7:6, 6:4). The match lasted 2 hours 42 minutes. For winning the tournament, Medvedev will receive over $1.5 million. Medvedev is the second Russian in history to win this tournament. In 2009, Nikolai Davydenko did this.

Stefan Sammer / Imago / Scanpix / Leta A vaccine with the unforgettable name BNT162B2, the joint development of the American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the German biotechnological startup BIONTECH, was the world's first vaccine against coronavirus, the protective efficiency of which was proved in clinical trials.

Stringer / EPA / Scanpix / Leta In Minsk on November 22, the next protest was held against President Alexander Lukashenko. They were combined under the general name "march against the Nazis." In anticipation of shares in the morning, military equipment was pulled into the city, the largest areas were blocked by barriers. In the city center, ten metro stations were closed to the input and exit, it was reported about interruptions in the work of mobile Internet.

Russian President Vladimir Putin explained that the Kremlin has not yet congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the US presidential election, since legally he is not yet the elected head of state. He said this in an interview for the TV show "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin".

The story of the Kosovo leader Hashim Tachi, which was glorified by Joe Bayden, and now it will be condemned for the trade of human organs Eva plevier / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In November 2020, President Kosova Hashim Tachi announced a resignation, and then voluntarily went to the Hague as a defendant in the case of war crimes and the trade of human bodies.

Moscow authorities are planning to erect a monument to singer Iosif Kobzon in the city center. This was initially written on Facebook by municipal deputy of the Tverskoy district Ketevan Kharaidze. The plans to erect the monument were later confirmed to Ekho Moskvy by the head of the Moscow City Duma commission on culture and mass communications, Yevgeny Gerasimov.

In Yakutia banned the sale of antiseptic, which caused the death of seven people. The corresponding decree was signed by the Chief Sanitary Doctor of Yakutia. The antiseptic produced in the Sverdlovsk region contains 69% methyl alcohol. It was sold in five-liter canisters. On November 18, residents of the village of Tomtor bought a canister of antiseptic, after which they drank it. Nine people were poisoned - seven of them died, two more survived and are now in a coma on a ventilator.

Yuri Maltsev / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Four days after the icy rain in Primorye, tens of thousands of people remain without light . Initially, due to the consequences of the cyclone, houses in which 150 thousand people live were de-energized-the areas of the cities of Vladivostok and Artem were more injured; A day later, the power lines collapsed under the weight of the snow that had fallen snow left another 60 thousand people without light.

The chapter from the book "Explosion"-about the disaster at the Sverdlovsk-Sortirovka station. In 1988, an explosives and a coal train collided there Anatoly Semeykhin / TASS Parsing the rubble after the explosion at the Sverdlovsk-Sortirovka station. October 10, 1988 In the publishing service of Ridero, the book of journalist Vyacheslav Soldatov “Explosion” was published in electronic form (the book was published as part of the project “Laboratory of Memoirs”).

Interview directed by Alexei Teacher - about the film "Tsoi" and conflict with relatives of the musician Alexander Utkin for "Medusa" In mid -November, the feature film of Alexei Teacher “Tsoi” was released in a wide rental, the fictional events of which unfold in the first days after the death of the musician in a car accident. The film was planned to be released back in August, but the son of the rock star Alexander Tsoi opposed this.

The price of a single dose of the covid vaccine produced by the American company Moderna will range from $25 to $37. This was stated by the head of the company Stefan Bansel in an interview with Die Welt. Bancel said the company was "not interested in maximizing profits" and called the price set "fair" given how much it costs the healthcare system to treat one critically ill patient. The specific cost in one case or another will depend on the volume of the batch that the buyer orders.

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips, and then briefly talk about the best or at least the most noticeable of them. In this issue: songs in honor of the birthday of rapper Basta and comedian Dolgopolov, Nick Cave's solo concert and the return of the Minsk Cassiopei.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation will create a centralized biometric data bank that will allow identifying people by face image and fingerprints. It is reported by TASS. Work on the creation of the bank will be carried out in 2021-2023 - during this time it is expected to develop the software necessary for the functioning of the database. The bank will include the data of both Russians and foreigners and stateless people.

Over the past 24 hours, 24,581 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia, the task force reported on the morning of November 22. The total number of infected people since the beginning of the pandemic has reached 2,089,329. The day before, 24,822 cases were recorded. The largest number of cases were in Moscow (+6,575 people per day), St. Petersburg (+2,668), Moscow (+949) and Nizhny Novgorod (+448) regions. Over the past 24 hours, 401 patients have died from coronavirus.

A court in Pennsylvania has dismissed a lawsuit filed by US President Donald Trump's lawyers to review the results of the presidential election in the state. Trump's lawyers pushed for the invalidation of thousands of ballots that came to the election commissions by mail. The president's lawsuit was dismissed without the right to resubmit. The Trump team has already said it will appeal the decision to dismiss the lawsuit and, if necessary, will go to the Supreme Court.