British playwright, director and screenwriter Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88, The Guardian reports. Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto/Getty Images Tom Stoppard is considered one of the most sought-after playwrights of the second half of the twentieth century. He wrote for film, radio, theater and television, and was a playwright for the Royal National Theater of Great Britain.

The Wikipedia article “The Valley Effect” has already appeared. Anatoly Medved / Sputnik / Profimedia The story of the sale of Larisa Dolina's apartment continues. On November 28, the Balashikha City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced four defendants in the case of fraud with the singer’s apartment to terms of four to seven years in prison. What's the story? In 2024, Larisa Dolina became a victim of scammers who stole 175 million rubles from her and forced her to sell her apartment in Moscow.

Vyacheslav Prokofiev / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Profimedia Kirill Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff at a meeting in St. Petersburg, April 11, 2025 US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian Presidential Representative Kirill Dmitriev have been holding informal negotiations on a settlement to the Russian-Ukrainian war for nine months, since February 2025.

The former head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, who resigned on November 28, said that he holds no grudge against Vladimir Zelensky because of his dismissal. “He was my friend before this job, and I will remember him after,” Ermak told the Financial Times. At the same time, he recalled the results of negotiations on Donald Trump’s peace plan, in which he took part.

A great interview with Joanna Stingray about how she introduced the Leningrad rock of the 1980s to Western audiences. And also about HD, censorship and selectivity of memory Joanna Stingray and Boris Grebenshchikov in 1984 in Leningrad. Joanna Stingray Archive In the 1980s, aspiring American singer Joanna Stingray came to the USSR and was surprised to discover the free world of underground Russian rock.

Oil tankers "Kairos" and "Virat", belonging to the "shadow fleet" of Russia, were hit in the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey by sea drones "Sea Baby" of the Security Service of Ukraine. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine , Ukrayinska Pravda and RBC-Ukraine , citing a source in the intelligence service.

The US President responded by calling the newspaper's journalists "enemies of the people" Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg/Getty Images The New York Times has published extensive material on how US President Donald Trump is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain his image as a tireless worker: he is noticeably tired, does not appear in public as often, and his speeches have become more confused than before.

US President Donald Trump announced a complete closure of airspace over Venezuela. “To all airlines, pilots, drug traffickers and human traffickers, please note that the airspace over and around Venezuela is closed. Thank you for your attention to this issue!” - he wrote on his social network Truth Social. The administration of US President Donald Trump accuses Venezuela of insufficiently combating drug trafficking.

This is how they discuss the dismissal of Andriy Yermak, the most powerful (after the president) Ukrainian official Julia Kochetova / Bloomberg / Getty Images Andrey Ermak Andriy Yermak built an impressive career during the years of Vladimir Zelensky's presidency. In 2019, Ermak became an assistant to the head of state, and in February 2020 he headed the office of the president.

On the online gaming platform Roblox there is a large amount of “inappropriate content that can negatively affect the spiritual and moral development of children,” Roskomnadzor said. According to the department, Roblox’s internal moderation system is not capable of “ensuring 100% safety of materials appearing on the platform.” “In the gaming space, conditions and prerequisites are created for the commission of illegal actions,” notes the press service of the supervisory authority.

One thousand three hundred and seventy-fifth day. Ukraine continues to discuss Trump’s peace plan without the main negotiator, the fired Andriy Yermak. He himself was going to war Kostiantyn Liberov / Libkos / Getty Images Consequences of a massive Russian strike on Kyiv, November 29, 2025 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters in our daily materials because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war.

One of the berths (VPU-2, remote mooring device) of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal in Novorossiysk received significant damage as a result of a strike by sea drones, the company’s press service reports. The incident, which CPC called a “targeted terrorist attack by unmanned boats,” occurred at 04:06 on November 29 Moscow time. During the attack, all loading operations at the port were stopped, and the tankers were diverted outside the CPC water area.

Interview with Ukrainian political scientist Vladimir Fesenko Andrey Ermak. Julia Kochetova / Bloomberg / Getty Images On November 28, Andriy Ermak, who headed the office of the President of Ukraine since February 2020, was searched as part of an anti-corruption investigation into embezzlement at the Energoatom company. That evening, Ermak wrote a letter of resignation.

Action artist Pavel Krisevich was arrested for 15 days under an administrative protocol for petty hooliganism, reports the “Word to Defense” project. He was accused of swearing in a public place. According to the actionist’s relatives, in fact, Krisevich was detained because he tried to hold a photo shoot in a cowboy costume at the rocket monument in Istra, near Moscow.

Special tests help with this, although they are not ideal. Nikolas Kokovlis / NurPhoto / Getty Images The release of each new artificial intelligence model is usually accompanied by assurances from developers that this is the smartest, fastest, and most useful system they have ever created. Of course, some quality measures can indeed be studied - for example, the number of hallucinations. And yet, many statements from the outside seem to be mere boasting.