Residents of Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Arkhangelsk held protests against QR codes. In Yekaterinburg, about 350 people came to the action, which was approved by the authorities, according to an E1.Ru correspondent. The action was organized by lawyer Ivan Volkov, who has been unsuccessfully trying to challenge the introduction of QR codes in the region.

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips, and then briefly talk about the best or at least the most noticeable of them. In this issue: a continuous rap, but there is also something no less important 🐸. "Daughter" and Nike Borzov "Bicycle" Again, there is no reason not to praise our favorites-defitants of the year-the group "Daughter"!

A Russian attack on Ukraine would be "highly costly" and entail "enormous consequences," according to a statement issued by the G-7 summit in Liverpool. “We call on Russia to de-escalate, use diplomatic channels and comply with its international obligations regarding the transparency of military activities,” emphasizes a document published by the British Foreign Office.

Residents of the village of Oktyabrsky, Vaninsky District, Khabarovsk Territory, 14 and 16 years old, were arrested on suspicion of causing serious injuries to a 60-year-old man, from which he died. As reported by the Investigation Department of the RF Investigative Committee for the Khabarovsk Territory, the girls beat the pensioner in his apartment on the night of December 10. The victim was taken to the hospital, but his life could not be saved.

Dutch Red Bull pilot Max Verstappen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Briton Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes finished second. Before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - the final stage of the championship - Verstappen and Hamilton had an equal number of points. Verstappen, having overtaken Hamilton on the last lap , became the winner not only of this stage, but also the champion of Formula 1. Russian pilot Nikita Mazepin, who plays for Haas, missed the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

The “hand of God” is released, a film about Neapolitan childhood Paolo Sorrentino. He told us about his most personal work Rick Madonik / Toronto Star / Getty images On December 15, Netflix is ​​released by the new film by Paolo Sorrentino “The Hand of God”, who received the “Silver Leo” for the best directing at the Venice Film Festival in 2021. The action takes place in the native to the director Naples of the mid-1980s.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Medusa scientific editor Alexander Ershov tells everything that we know now about Omicron Omicron as soon as possible became almost the main word of 2021. At the end of November, scientists from South Africa discovered a new version of coronavirus, which the World Health Organization ranked into the category of concerns (there are five of them now) and called Omicron in the Greek letter.

TV channel "Russia 1" showed a documentary film "Russia. Recent history”, which, among others, included an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin spoke about “the collapse of historical Russia called the Soviet Union”, that in the 1990s “the situation was very difficult - “there was a civil war in the country”, and also for the second time in a week remembered a CIA officer who worked as an adviser to the government RF.

The past and future of aromas in the big material of Harper= ULLSTEIN BILD / GETTY IMAGES Parfumer from a grace. 1943 The perfumery industry is not only perfumes from world famous houses, but also everything that surrounds us in everyday life: from household chemicals to fertilizers. And all these smells are created mainly on a hunch: even the famous Chanel No. 5, according to legend, turned out as a result of either an experiment or errors.

Valeria Vetoshkina from the team 29 tells Kevin Rotroka about this - in the podcast The Naked Pravda The new episode of the podcast The Naked Pravda is about human rights in Russia and the fate of those who protect them. In the center of the issue is a conversation between the chief editor of the international version of Medusa Kevin Rotrok with lawyer Valeria Vetoshkina . She was a participant in the “team 29”, represented the interests of the FBK .

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov in an interview with the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” commented on the talks between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden on the Russia 1 TV channel. “Of course, there were no special reasons for joy. The president performs his functions as the head of state, the situation is very serious and requires the constant attention of the head of state, which the president does, ”Peskov said (quote from Interfax ).

Here are eight evidence In Russia, 103 reserve and 48 national parks. In total, it is 203 million hectares - that is, a whole country in area. Especially for those who have not yet decided where to spend the New Year holidays, Medusa and the Beautiful Children in the Beautiful World charitable foundation chose reserves and parks, where it is worth going precisely in winter. Zyuratkul National Park A. Korolev / National Park "Zyuratkul" Where is it: Chelyabinsk region.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Human rights law in Russia The lawyers and journalists who worked with the Team 29 project specialized in Russia’s most hopeless political prosecutions — the treason case against journalist Ivan Safronov, the extremism charges against Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption movement, and dozens more indictments all but doomed to convictions. Earlier this year, the project was forced to disband after Russia’s federal censor started blocking its website.

Anne Rice, who wrote, among other things, the novel “Interview with the Vampire”, died at the age of 80. About death, Rice was written on Twitter by her son Christopher. The cause of the death of Rice is the consequences of a stroke. Lenny Ignelzi / AP / Scanpix / Leta Rice published her first book - “Interview with the Vampire” in 1976. The novel became an international bestseller and was filmed.

The plane of one of the Russian airlines, flying from Yekaterinburg to Sochi, “was forced to change course due to an unidentified aircraft,” according to the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. There were 160 people on board the plane. The head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, the report says, instructed and. O.