Prosecutors in Russia’s western Oryol region have managed to get postage stamps featuring a portrait of Nazi Germany’s leader Adolf Hitler withdrawn from sale. According to the head of the Karelia-based community organization that printed the stamps, they were meant to underscore the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. The Oryol Regional Prosecutor’s Office, on the other hand, concluded that the stamps violate Russia’s federal law banning the use of Nazi symbols.

Fake quote attributed to future U.S. Secretary of State spreads from Wikipedia to the Russian media Mark Makela / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Before U.S. president-elect Joe Biden formally announced Antony Blinken as his pick for Secretary of State, an anonymous Wikipedia editor took it upon himself to edit Blinken’s Wikipedia page. The editor beefed up the section on his attitude towards Russia and its President Vladimir Putin, throwing in a quote attributed to Blinken for good measure.

Former and current employees of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase told The New York Times (NYT) about discrimination against blacks in the company. The NYT refers to the words of 23 people, as well as internal documents of the exchange and recordings of conversations. So, one of the employees of Coinbase told the publication that her immediate supervisor, in a conversation with colleagues, suggested that she was dealing drugs and carrying weapons.

Argentine prosecutors are investigating whether there was negligence on the part of a nurse during the treatment of football player Diego Maradona. This is reported by the TV channel TN. According to the channel, Maradona was given eight drugs. The prosecutor's office finds out if the nurse could for some reason not give the footballer one of them.

The Government of the Russian Federation has agreed with the largest taxi operators on free trips on house calls for local doctors. Interfax reports this with reference to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko. “We have identified pilot regions with the most difficult situation in terms of the transport provision of doctors,” the official said, without specifying how many regions he was talking about and without naming any of them.

So how many Muscovites do I have immunity? (Three versions) Volunteers tell how to help help in hospitals. Putin refused to personally communicate with reporters Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here . If you read this on the site, share a link on social networks.

Journalists ask Kremlin spokesman to explain why Putin isn’t social distancing during the pandemic Alexey Nikolsky / Kremlin Press Service / TASS / Scanpix /LETA During a press conference on Friday, November 27, journalists asked Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov why, in the midst of a global pandemic and spike in coronavirus cases across Russia, footage has aired of President Vladimir Putin walking around without a mask and even shaking hands with people.

Roskomnadzor demanded that Google remove ads for sites with "narcotic content" from search results, the ministry said in a statement. We are talking about the .com and .ru domain zones, Roskomnadzor specified. The agency also demanded that Google “check the correct operation of contextual advertising pre-moderation mechanisms for Russian users.” The press service of Google told Interfax that the policy of using the company's services prohibits drug advertising.

Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny is urging the European Union to impose personal sanctions against Russian billionaires and oligarchs. He raised this issue while speaking at a meeting of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday, November 27. “So far we didn’t see any real attempts to target oligarchs.

Facebook will launch digital currency Libra in January 2021, reports citing sources from the Financial Times (FT). The currency will be issued in a “stripped down format”, the newspaper specifies. If Libra was originally supposed to be backed by a basket of traditional currencies, now it will be a currency backed only by the US dollar at a 1:1 rate.

The country's leading nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in an assassination attempt in a suburb of Tehran. The information about this, The Times of Israel reports, was confirmed by the Iranian Defense Ministry. According to the department, Fakhrizadeh's car was attacked by "terrorist elements." In a shootout between the attackers and the scientist's guards, he was seriously injured and later died in hospital. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

During a visit to a Minsk hospital on Friday, November 27, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko seized the opportunity to share his thoughts on the importance of amending the country’s constitution. According to Lukashenko, changes to the Belarusian constitution must be “beneficial for the country,” to keep it from collapsing “later on.” “I am a supporter of a new constitution. Not because you need some kind of democracy. It’s not about democracy.

Mark Makela / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta In the administration of the future US President Joe Biden, his long -standing ally will be engaged in foreign policy on the office of President Obama Anthony Blinken. His name as the future head of the US State Department appeared on the official website of the new presidential administration on November 25.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Journalist Marfa Smirnova made a film about Muslims who ran away from their very conservative fathers and husbands. Here are the stories of these women Martha Smirnova, a journalist of the rain, shot a documentary about the Muslims of Dagestan, who fled from their traditionalist families. This is the first episode of the series - its next issues will be devoted to the same stories in the Jewish and Christian communities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold his annual press conference on December 17, the Kremlin’s website says. Due to the challenging epidemiological situation, the news conference will be held in the videoconference format this time, which the President will join from his Novo-Ogaryovo residence. Members of national federal and foreign media will be invited to the same World Trade Centre’s conference hall as in previous years.