Novgorod doctors are fighting for the life of an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who received severe gunshot wounds after the detention of a criminal. The attacker managed to take possession of the guardian of order and open fire on him.

Information on the completion of many months of negotiations between the United States and Afghanistan about the presence of the American military forces in the country and ensuring security after the withdrawal of the main contingent in 2014 was premature.

The main elements of the generally accepted story about the Stuxnet virus, which was developed by the special services of the United States and Israel and three years ago, damaged the Iranian nuclear facility to enrich uranium in Natanze - either not true or reflected a complete picture, says Ralph Lengner in the article for Foreign Policy , one of the leaders of the Langner consalting company Group working in the field of cybersecurity.

As it became known the day before, the Russian Internet company Mail.ru enters the American market with a number of postal and gaming applications under the common brand My.com. The Financial Times evaluates the prospects of the project.

Barcelona striker Lionel Messi on Wednesday was awarded the Golden Botskoy - a prize of the best scorer of European championships in the 2012/13 season. This is the third similar trophy in the collection of the Argentine striker. The winner in this nomination is revealed by multiplying the number of goals clogged by the corresponding coefficient, depending on the level of the tournament. During the reporting period, Messi scored 46 goals and scored 92 points.

Writer Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili), known not only with his books, but also with an active civil position, refused to take part in the Russian literary assembly , as Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to visit him. “While there are political prisoners in the country, to be near the ruler, just even in the same room with him, I can’t.

Greenpeace activists and members of the Arstic Sunrise team accused of hooliganism after the Promotion of Gazprom Prirazlomnaya platform began to be released from the jail almost two days after the first decision of the court on the possibility of their release. The first liberated was the Brazilian Ana Paula Alminhan Masel, reports Greenpeace on Twitter . Activists publish a photo of the exit of Ana Paula from a pre -trial detention center.

Perhaps in primitive antiquity, our planet was something like Middle -earth from the famous trilogy of the Lord of the Rings of John R. R. Tolkien - in the variety of human species. Of course, the distant ancestors of modern man were far from so highly developed and, let's say, colorful as creatures from the fictitious world. However, the comparison in itself is interesting, especially since it sounded from the lips of the scientists of anthropologists, reported by Nature and New Scientist .

Structures close to Mikhail Gutseriev were part of the shareholders of the Arsenal St. Petersburg plant. As it became known to RBC , changes in the joint -stock staff of the enterprise occurred in early November, the transaction amount was not disclosed. The Arsenal plant is the largest manufacturer of space equipment in the North-Western Federal District. The company accounts for about 10% of the total volume of the state defense order of the region.

The Russian authorities are discussing the reduction of one of the most important freedoms for investors in the country - the introduction of restrictions on transactions of foreigners with real estate. On Monday, a bill was published on a permissive procedure for the acquisition of land, residential, commercial and industrial real estate both by foreign individuals, and companies with a control package in foreign property.

Modern school education was again under a hail of criticism. The next scandal erupted around the textbook "The World" for the third grade (authors of Vinogradova N.F., Kalinova G.S.), published "Ventana-Graf". Experts, and after them the Ministry of Education and Science found semantic and actual mistakes in the manual and demanded a report from the Russian Academy of Sciences, which had previously given a positive conclusion on this educational material.

Facebook officially entered Kosovo on the list of countries. Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Tachi said that representatives of the social network informed him of their decision on November 19. According to Tachi, he greeted this step. Until now, the inhabitants of Kosovo who wanted to create a page on Facebook should be registered as citizens of Serbia, reports Newsru.ua . As Ruserbia.com adds, the Minister of Cosovo Vlor Chitaka also joyfully reported on this event on his Twitter.

The Mexico national team became the 31st participant in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. In the response butt match of the intercontinental round of the qualifying tournament, the Mexicans won visiting the team of New Zealand with a score of 4: 2. As part of the winners, the Hit-trick designed the Oriba Peralt (14 ', 29', 33 '). Another ball was scored by Carlos of a stump (87 '). Chris James (80 'Pen) and Rory Fallun (83') distinguished themselves among the owners.

The main defendant in the criminal case of large -scale theft in the structures of the Ministry of Defense Yevgeny Vasiliev, who has recently actively attacking their main opponents - from the ranks of law enforcement officers trying to understand fraud in the Oboronservice - answered the next portion of criticism in her address.

The triptych of Francis Bacon "Three Sketches of Lucien Freud" sold at Christie's a week ago for the record for the artist’s work $ 142.405 million was acquired by Sheikh Masa al-Tani, according to the website of one of the projects of the New York Post holding with reference to anonymous sources. Recall that in 1969 a triptych, considered one of the most valuable works in the artist’s heritage, was put up for auction for the first time. His pre -sale estimate was $ 85 million.