PSG striker and Argentina national football team Lionel Messi received the Golden Ball - the prize for the best football player of the year according to the French weekly France Football, according to Sports.ru. Messi has won the Ballon d'Or for a record seventh time. Cristiano Ronaldo received this award five more times, Michel Platini, Marco van Basten and Johan Cruyff three times each.

The Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Russia has sent materials to the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case against former and current employees of the Russian National Guard, Kommersant reports, citing sources in the security forces.

The Austrian newspaper Die Presse has published excerpts from a draft bill on compulsory vaccination against coronavirus, which is planned to be introduced in Austria in February 2022. The authorities are going to oblige everyone who lives in Austria to be vaccinated against covid, including people with a residence permit in the country. It is assumed that mandatory vaccination can be avoided by people who have contraindications, as well as pregnant women and children under 12 years of age.

Hundreds of CSKA Moscow fans arrested over pyrotechnics at Sunday’s soccer match against Zenit St. Petersburg Sergey Fadeichev / TASS During a home game on Sunday, November 28, CSKA Moscow fans set off pyrotechnics inside the VEB Arena after their team suffered a 2–0 loss to Zenit St. Petersburg. Upon discovering that the stadium’s surveillance cameras were down, Moscow police kept spectators in the stands for three hours, while carrying out hundreds of arrests.

Students of St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) reported on social networks that the university teacher, American Michael Fries, was fired and deported from Russia. According to Fontanka, the FSB banned the teacher from entering Russia until November 11, 2026, due to participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization. According to the publication, Fries has already left Russia. For violating the ban, he faces criminal liability.

Virzhil Ablo-friend Kanye West, designer-self-taught and main target for accusations of plagiarism in the fashion world. He was 41 years old On November 28, at the age of 41, Virzhil Ablo, an American designer, creator of the Off-White brand and creative director of the Louis Vuitton brand, died . Close Ablo reported that two years ago he was found a rare form of oncological disease - the angiosarcom of the heart. Ablo did not advertise his struggle with the disease.

The billionaire and friend of Putin Gennady Timchenko spoke in court in the case of the Magomedov brothers.

A visitor to the Udacha shopping center in Kazan attacked a security guard with a knife when he demanded to see a QR code about vaccination against coronavirus or covid. The attacker wounded a 65-year-old security guard in the arm, the victim was hospitalized, according to local publication Business Online, citing several unnamed sources. The attacker, a man born in 1973, was detained by private security officers, told TASS.

Russia has not provided enough information to clarify questions about the poisoning of politician Alexei Navalny, which were asked to it by members of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in early October. This is stated in a new OPCW statement signed by 55 countries.

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Prosecutors have asked the court to sentence former Schema-Hegumen Sergii (Nikolai) Romanov to four years in prison, Interfax reported on Monday, November 29. Romanov’s trial is taking place at the Izmailovsky District Court in Moscow. The ex-communicated Orthodox priest stands accused of arbitrariness, violating the right to freedom of conscience and religion, and incitement to suicide.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has left his post. He wrote about this in his microblog. Dorsey's successor as head of the company will be Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal. According to Dorsey, he will continue to work as a member of the board of directors until the expiration of his term, after which he will finally leave the company. Dorsey explained his decision by saying that when a founder leads a company for too long, it ultimately limits its work.

The Gamaleya Center has begun developing a modification of the Sputnik V vaccine for the new strain of coronavirus, omicron, according to a joint statement by the center and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), cited by Interfax.

The Moscow-based clothing brand Feelosophy Store has released a new “foreign agent” themed t-shirt in support of Meduza and other media organizations and individuals the Russian Justice Ministry has blacklisted. The new design comes in neon yellow and features the word “inoagent” — the shortened form of inostranny agent, which means “foreign agent” in Russian.

Sweden's parliament has re-confirmed Social Democratic Labour Party leader Magdalena Andersson as the country's prime minister. 173 MPs voted against Andersson, out of the 175 votes needed to reject her candidacy. Andersson became a minority prime minister after her party, which has only 100 of the 349 seats in parliament, failed to form a broad coalition. On November 24, parliament had already supported Andersson's candidacy for the post of prime minister.