Russian skater Evgenia Medvedeva took first place after execution of a short program at the Grand Prix stage in the Canadian Mrs., showing her best career result. The current world and European champion on Friday received 76.24 points for her rental, surpassing a personal record of 1.66 points. The previous best result is 74.58 points - a 16 -year -old Russian woman showed in December 2015.

North Korea is able to deliver a preemptive nuclear blow to the United States and their allies, including Japan, “in the event of the slightest provocation on their part,” announced on Saturday the official information agency TSAC.

Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova commented on Russia's exit from the UN Human Rights Council: she stated that this situation is temporary and she could not affect internal positive processes to strengthen human rights and citizen, RIA Novosti reports.

The attacking defender of the Club of the National Basketball Association (NBA) of Chicago Duin Wade was fined $ 25 thousand for a threatening gesture in the regular championship match against Boston, ESPN reports. On October 27, in the end of the game “Chicago” - “Boston” (105: 99), the American basketball player implemented a three -point throw, after which he showed a gesture resembling throat cut.

The artistic director of the Satyricon Theater Konstantin Raikin met with the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, and they agreed to resolve the issues "without involving the media." At the meeting, the leadership of the Ministry of Culture promised the Satyricon not to leave the theater in a difficult financial situation. According to officials, the media replicated statements on the "technical issue".

Minister of Education Olga Vasilieva talked about how the final exam for schoolchildren will change in the coming years. Literature will become the first subject where all tasks will be creative with a detailed answer, but this is the direction of development of the exam and in other subjects, she said in an interview with REN TV . She emphasized that the changes will begin not this school year, but in the next.

Oleg Tabakov, artistic director of the Moscow Medical University and his own theater, commented on the resonant performance of the Satyrikon artist Konstantin Raikin at the congress of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia. Tabakov, in particular, called on all aspects of the conflict to "work without aggression", which became "a bad sign for our society." "My longtime friend Kostya Raikin spoke at the Theater Congress and said about our problems.

The American poet and musician Bob Dylan called the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and, in an interview with the regular secretary of the Academy Sarah Danius, said that he would accept the Nobel Prize in literature awarded to him, TASS reports with reference to The Daily Telegraph. Until now, the musician ignored the calls of representatives of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and on his own performances the topic of awarding the prize bypassed him.

Over the past year, the number of political prisoners in Russia has more than doubled, the Memorial human rights center said on the eve of the day of memory of victims of political repression. On Saturday in Moscow, the action "Return of the Names" takes place.

Interpol will re-consider the issue of announcing the international wanted list of the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an anonymous source “familiar with the situation” told Interfax . According to the agency, additional documents were sent to the international police organization in the case of the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk.

In the Russian strategic missile forces, they do not want to adopt the experience of the United States to work with generals and officers with overweight, which can be removed from the service. We have almost no such ones, the head of the combat training department of the Strategic Missile Forces Evgeny Shchelkanov said on the air of the Echo of Moscow . “It is necessary to enter this or not? From the Americans you can take, probably, all the best, but not all in a row,” the Russian racket said.

The winner of the competition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the throws on top of 2012, the American Jeremy Evans concluded an annual agreement with the Khimki near Moscow. "The NBA champion of the Jeremy Evans shots concluded a contract with our club. The agreement with the 29-year-old striker is calculated before the end of the 2016/17 season. We welcome Jeremy in our team," the official website of the team near Moscow reports.

In Karelia on the Kola highway, a mass accident occurred with three cars: one of them caught fire, five people died. The incident on the night of Saturday is reported by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the region. The collision occurred at about 2:40 Moscow time. On the 485th km of the Kola highway. VAZ-2110, Volga and Renault Sandero collided. The foreign car caught fire after the collision, Interfax reports.

On Saturday night, employees of the metropolitan police prevented three fights between fans of the Spartak football clubs and CSKA in the Moscow Metro, Interfax reports with reference to a law enforcement source. The clashes nearly occurred at the Novokuznetskaya, Taganskaya and Kuznetskiy bridge metro stations, and on the "Taganskaya" law enforcement officers had to get up with a wall between two groups of fans in order to prevent a large -scale brawl, the agency’s interlocutor said.

Olympic champion Rio de Janeiro Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova defeated Switzarka Martin Hingis and Sanya Mirza from India in the semifinal of a paired category at the final tournament of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in Singapore. In the semifinal meeting, the Russians defeated Martin Hingis (Switzerland) and Sanya Mirza (India) with a score of 3: 6, 6: 2, 10: 6. The match lasted 1 hour 31 minutes.