The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has announced the list of nominees for the 2022 Grammy Awards. The leader in the number of nominations (11) was jazz musician John Baptiste. Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and HER each can receive 8 awards, Billy Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo are presented in 7 categories. Rapper Jay Z has received three nominations. Thanks to this, the total number of nominations received by him during his career increased to 83 - this was a new Grammy record.

United Russia Deputy of the Ryazan Regional Duma Vladimir Sidorov during the meeting proposed to shoot people who buy vaccination certificates against coronavirus. Denis Sidorov, head of the Communist Party faction, spoke about this on his VKontakte page. “Today they buy these vaccination certificates. Actually, you should be shot for it. I figured... I myself would have taken part in the executions. It must be done!” — said Vladimir Sidorov.

The lawyer of journalist Ivan Safronov, who is accused of treason, Yevgeny Smirnov, has left Russia for Georgia. He told The Insider about this. Smirnov did not specify when exactly he left Russia. He did not rule out that he would have to stay in Georgia.

In the Leningrad Region, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after a 90-year-old pensioner performed surgery on herself without receiving timely medical care. This was reported on the website of the regional department's office. The case was opened under the article on the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements (Part 1 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The maximum penalty under it is two years of imprisonment.

Draft legislation on QR-code vaccine passports has caused a split in the Russian Cabinet — and the Kremlin isn’t too keen on it either Artem Dergunov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA In mid-November, the State Duma received a package of bills that would require Russians to present QR-code vaccine passports in order to take flights and trains, and access public events, stores, cafes, and restaurants.

During the exercises, American bombers worked out the option of using nuclear weapons against Russia. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, Interfax reports. According to Shoigu, the training took place during the exercises of the US strategic forces Global Thunder.

Against the three-time world champion in finswimming Vitalina Simonova, a criminal case was opened for insulting a representative of the authorities after the conflict at Pulkovo Airport due to the lack of a mask from her coach. The athlete told Match TV about this. “I have a written undertaking not to leave. Charge under Article 319 (Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for insults. The coach - because of the mask and resistance. He has a trial tomorrow.

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Bastrykin shared his thoughts on digitalization and how to solve youth problems (with a shovel, of course!) We have been experiencing legal idealism for thirty years, believing that a person is the highest value, forgetting about responsibilities. Because of this, we have school shootings, where the killers go with the ideas of "I am God, I have the right." In order not to lose our youth completely, we should not give them to the virtual world.

Telegram will stop publishing promotional messages in the channels of heads of state , other government officials and government agencies. This was reported in the Durovʼs Chat group, where Telegram founder Pavel Durov repeatedly answered questions from messenger users.

A Russian court has acquitted a Jehovah Witness charged with extremism for the first time since the country’s Supreme Court outlawed the religious group in 2017. On Tuesday, November 23, a district court in Vladivostok acquitted local Jehovah’s Witness Dmitry Barmakin of charges of organizing the activities of an extremist group.

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, proposed to cancel the Unified State Examination and return to the Soviet education system. According to TASS, he said this at the scientific-practical conference "The role of law in ensuring human well-being" in Moscow. Let's revive the Soviet school of education. She was the best in the world, everyone has always recognized this. And our legislative proposals should be aimed at this.

Russia’s censorship agency (Roskomnadzor) threatened to block the website of the investigative journalism outlet iStories over a report on Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov’s connections in the waste removal industry. According to iStories editor-in-chief Roman Anin, Roskomnadzor attributed its actions to the fact that the investigation was prepared jointly with Proekt, an investigative outlet the Russian authorities outlawed as an “undesirable” organization in July 2021.

The Ministry of Health of Russia proposed to give Roszdravnadzor the right to decide on extrajudicial blocking of sites with offers to sell fake medical documents. The corresponding draft law is published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

It turned out beautifully. Well, perhaps all Parisa Taghizadeh / Focus features On November 25, the film “Last Night in Soho” directed by Edgar Wright, who shot several superpopular comedies: “Zombies named Sean”, “Armageddets”, “Type of Cool Legal”, “Scott Pilgrim against everyone”, is released.