The Minister of Health of Russia Mikhail Murashko, by his order, approved the procedure for a medical examination for future drivers, those who want to return their rights after the deprivation or expiration of the previous certificate. The text of the order is available on the portal of legal information. The new procedure provides that some categories of drivers will undergo more research, told reporters.

A brief history of Memorial, Russia’s oldest and most prominent human rights group Sergey Smolsky / TASS A memorial wall at the “Week of Conscience” exhibition organized by the Memorial Society. 1988. Many people associate Memorial with the study of Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror. But for more than 30 years, this organization has also carried out crucial human rights work, on top of preserving the memory of victims of Soviet-era political repressions.

The head of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Steve Simon announced that the organization has suspended all WTA tournaments in China, including Hong Kong, due to the situation of tennis player Peng Shuai, who said that former Chinese First Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli forced her to have sex.

Yes, it really happened: the first in six years (the first since Gorgorod!) Oksimiron's album "Beauty and Ugliness" was released. 🎉🎉🎉 It is available for listening on Spotify , VKontakte and other platforms. The cover for the album was drawn by Boris Grebenshchikov, writes The Flow. Dolphin (“I Feel”), Aigel (“Mixed”), ATL and Needle (“Dirt”) participated in the recording of some songs. The anticipation for the album was especially dramatic.

A California resident who returned from South Africa on November 22 became the first American to have a new strain of the omicron coronavirus, Anthony Fauci, head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said. The man tested positive on November 29, Fauci said. He noted that a person who became infected with omicron had previously been vaccinated against a coronavirus infection, but was not revaccinated.

ABC has released excerpts from an interview with Alec Baldwin following the shooting incident that occurred on the set of the film "Rust." The interview will air on December 2. During the interview, TV host George Stephanopoulos said the film's script did not call for the actor to pull the trigger. Baldwin responded, "The trigger was not pulled. I did not pull the trigger." "So you didn't pull the trigger?" Stephanopoulos asked.

Bloomberg has included Russian politician Alexei Navalny on the Bloomberg 50 list, "an annual survey of those in business, entertainment, finance, politics, science and technology whose achievements deserve recognition." Navalny is listed by Bloomberg as "an ardent critic of the Kremlin" who spent more than 10 months in prison "after recovering from poisoning abroad." The Bloomberg 50 list includes, among others, singer Britney Spears (the "newly freed princess of pop" as the agency calls it),

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow has arrested in absentia the former teacher of the Moscow Central Art School at the Russian Academy of Arts, Viktor Elizarov. A court representative told TASS that Yelizarov is suspected under the article on indecent acts against two or more people. The former teacher has been declared wanted. Mash reports that wanted notices for Yelizarov have been sent out all over Russia.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken promised to impose new sanctions against Russia if it "continues to follow the path of confrontation" with Ukraine. “It will be about effective economic measures, which we have refused in the past,” the head of the State Department said. He did not specify what those measures would be. According to Blinken, the United States is concerned about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Baza Telegram channel and the Novaya Versiya publication received fake letters on behalf of Important Stories journalist Alesya Marokhovskaya, who was declared a “foreign agent” in Russia. As reported by the editorial staff of Important Stories, the letters were sent from an email address on the domain istory.media, which was created on November 29 and disguised as Marokhovskaya’s work email on istories.media.

The World Bank has updated its forecast for the growth of the Russian economy in 2022, follows from the report of the organization ( .pdf ). According to updated data, Russian GDP will grow by 2.4%, which is 0.4 percentage points less than the World Bank forecast in October. The forecast for 2023 remained the same - growth of 1.8% is expected.

During the trial, she identified him. Now it turned out that he was innocent Leonardo Cendamo / Getty images The American writer Alice Sibold publicly apologized to Anthony Brodoooter, who spent 16 years in prison on false charges of her rape. In her post on the Medium platform, Sybold commented on reports that at the end of November, Broduoter was justified in this case almost 40 years after the sentence.

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Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Deputies of Krasnoyarsk said that the mayor is “ridiculous” to have a salary of 250 thousand rubles, and raised it to 300 thousand. How much do officials pay? And why is it hard to know? In Krasnoyarsk, deputies of the city council considered the “ridiculous” salary of the mayor of the city of 250 thousand rubles a month and increased it to 300 thousand.

On December 1 , Taliban militants clashed with Iranian border guards on the Afghan-Iranian border in Kong district of Afghanistan's Nimroz province, the Afghan news agency Aamaj News reported , publishing several videos of the clashes. Aamaj News claims that the Taliban have captured several checkpoints and captured Iranian border guards. A source from Iran's Tasnim news agency denies this.