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Princeton University / Denise AppleWhite / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta; Soeren stache / dpa / AP / Scanpix / Leta In 2021, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was not awarded to RNA vaccines. It seems that this is all that will be remembered from today's announcement.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service banned Avito from buying the CIAN real estate ad service. This is stated on the FAS website. As emphasized in a press release from the department, the deal would lead to a restriction of competition in the market, since if it were completed, the combined company would receive more than 50% of the market. In this case, the FAS noted, this would threaten to increase prices for services for realtors and developers.

In the Belgorod region, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a 17-year-old teenager for justifying terrorism for a post on a social network. According to the department's press release, the teenager published a certain post, accompanying it with photographs of Timur Bekmansurov and Ilnaz Galyaviyev , as well as automatic firearms. The Investigative Committee did not specify the text of the post; according to the Belgorod No.

Komsomolskaya Pravda shutters branch in Belarus after authorities block its website and arrest reporter The popular Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda is shutting down its branch in Belarus.

The World Health Organization has approved the widespread use of the world's first malaria vaccine. This was reported on the organization's website. The latest phase of trials of the vaccine, marketed under the brand name Mosquirix, has been ongoing since 2019, involving more than 800,000 children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. The vaccine showed limited effectiveness, preventing infection in only 39% of cases and reducing the likelihood of severe disease by 29%.

Senator from Adygea Oleg Seleznev died of coronavirus. It is reported by RBC. As Vyacheslav Timchenko, head of the Federation Council committee on regulations, told the publication, Seleznev died in a hospital in Krasnodar. He was diagnosed with Covid more than two weeks ago. Seleznev was 62 years old. According to TASS , Seleznev became the first senator whose coronavirus was the main cause of death.

Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Scanpix / Leta In the Archive of Pandora, published on October 3, information about offshore accounts of several post -Soviet leaders and members of their families was found at once. Among them was the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and his closest associates. Given that he built the image of a person who was not covered in dubious schemes and differs from representatives of the old Ukrainian elite, a leak can hit Zelensky's popularity.

“Soldiers' mothers” will no longer help the military? And what does the FSB have to do with it? Explains the head of the organization Oksana Paramonova Sergey Malgavko / TASS Sending conscripts for military service in the spring of 2021 The human rights organization "Soldiers' mothers of St. Petersburg" announced that it would no longer help the military.

Investigative journalists find luxury real estate registered abroad to the wife of the federal official who ‘curates’ Russia’s war on ‘foreign agents’ Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant Especially where kids are involved, divorce can be a harrowing experience. Few manage to get along with a former spouse as well as Russian Deputy Justice Minister Oleg Sviridenko, who reportedly fathered two children with his ex-wife, dancer Natalia Poluichik, after their marriage officially ended in 1999.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sent Artur Stetsenko, the common-law husband of former Deputy Minister of Education Marina Rakova, under arrest. Stetsenko was arrested until December 5th. Like Rakova, he is a defendant in a large-scale fraud case.

Galina Yuzefovich and Anton Dolin argue about Potterian in the podcast "Book Bazaar" This fall marks 20 years since the release of the first film about Harry Potter. In the new episode of the “Book Bazaar”, the literary observer Galina Yuzefovich and film critic Anton Dolin disassemble all the films of this series and compare Harry Potter with the franchise “Fantastic creatures” (and it seems, Harry loses).

136 people have been detained for comments on social networks regarding the murder of a KGB officer in Minsk, the Investigative Committee of Belarus reports.

NATO decided to halve the size of the Russian diplomatic mission in the alliance. Sky News journalist Deborah Haynes reports this. According to Haynes, eight diplomats who are believed to be intelligence officers and two more people will be required to leave the diplomatic mission to NATO. NATO's actions, writes Haynes, are driven by "Russian malign activities," including assassinations and espionage.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Saakashvili returned to Georgia, where his opponents are now rule - and was behind bars. Is this a miscalculation or such a trick? It looks like a trick Former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili returned to the country to help his party “Unified National Movement”. This was before the municipal elections in the country, Saakashvili drove into Georgia for the first time in eight years.