The Alrosa diamond company held the first auction for the sale of diamonds from the Dynasty collection, where she managed to sell four pieces. However, the buyer for the largest (51.38 carats) stone of five included in the collection was not found, TASS reports. The diamond was made from the unique Romanov diamond weighing 179 carats found in 2015 in Yakutia. The "Strategy of ALROSA" on large stones is focused on maximizing the price, so this stone was withdrawn from sale, "the report said.

The American company Amazon received a patent for a system of controlled destruction of unmanned aerial vehicles in the air. The description of the application was published on the website of the Bureau of Patent and Trading Stamps of the United States. According to N+1 , in a critical situation, the system will consistently separate and discard parts of the drone to correct the course and protect the objects on the ground and transported cargo.

The police of the Indian district Una arrested a 27-year-old man who traveled by bus from the city of Dharamsala to Delhi. The reason for the arrest was stale socks, reports The Hindustan Times . The incident occurred on the night of November 27, when Prakash Kumar got on the bus and decided to take off shoes and socks. The fellow travelers quickly smelled an unpleasant smell and made Kumar a remark.

The Belgian Prince Laurent, the younger brother of the king of Belgium Philip, accused the government of infringing on his rights, after Prime Minister Charles Michelle cut his annual subsidies of 308 thousand euros from the state budget due to the photo with the Chinese military, reports The Guardian . In December 2016, the Prime Minister forbade the prince negotiations with senior foreign officials without notifying the Belgian government, threatening with cutting the content.

On Friday, the State Kremlin Palace was held by the draw of the group stage of the final part of the 2018 football championship, which for the first time in history will be held in Russia. 32 teams - the participants of the mundial, including Russia, were to recognize their rivals, as well as the cities to which they would go. According to the results of the draw, it became known that the Russians would play in group A with the teams of Uruguay, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

The Council of the Eurasian Development Bank (EABR) decided to appoint the Chairman of the Board on December 1, 2017, ex-head of the FCS Andrei Bellyaninov. The decision was made at the next meeting of the EBR Council, which took place in Astana on November 15, TASS reports. In October, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Finance to introduce the candidacy of Belyaninov for appointing the Chairman of the Board of the EABR.

Investigators of the Krasnoyarsk Territory opened a criminal case on the murder of a young child. According to preliminary data, he was killed by his father, who abused alcohol. After the reprisal against his son in front of his wife, the man committed suicide. The tragedy played in the village of Prokopyevka, Ilan district, where the 35-year-old villain drank alcohol for more than ten days.

“Of course, we are in vain rejoicing that sometimes journalists at meetings with the authorities no, and they will ask some kind of acute question, such as Mikhail Fishman Medvedev about the Navalny film,” writes the screenwriter and public figure on Facebook , commenting on the results of the interview of the Prime Minister. "Because the journalist is obliged not only to ask a question, but also to achieve an answer.

On December 1, Russian bombers struck the positions of the Islamic State* in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor. The departure was carried out from the airfield in the Russian Federation under the cover of Su-30SM fighters, based in Khmeimim. About the attack on the evening on Friday, December 1, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported. "On December 1, 2017, six distant Tu-22M3 bombers delivered a group blow to the objects of ISIS terrorists* in the province of Deir ez-zor.

The police of the Japanese prefecture Miyaga arrested two Russian citizens on suspicion of embezzlement of various details from workshops involved in the dismantling of cars. The detention of Russians is reported by TASS with reference to Japanese law enforcement agencies. The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Japan confirmed the fact of arrest. “We received a corresponding notice from the Japanese police,” the diplomats said.

Evgeny Levkovich "Trying on Putin’s initiative to pay ten thousand rubles a month for each newborn. I don’t know where Vladimir Vladimirovich is going to (if he is going to) take the extra 4 billion dollars a year - I will leave this simple calculation to the economists. For example, the organization of the World Cup for the federal budget (only the budget) in the amount of one and a half billion more," the journalist writes in the journalist in Facebook .

Tatarstan was in the first place in the ranking of Russian regions on the implementation of the priority project "Comfortable Urban Environment", RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation. The ministry appropriated the region of 68 points out of 75 possible, follows from the materials. In second place is the Kaluga region with 67 points, in the third - Chechnya. The rating of the Bryansk, Kostroma and Smolensk regions with 51 points is closed.

Pinhas Goldschmidt President of the Rabbi Council of Europe expressed the joy that the Russian Orthodox Church rejected the anti-Semitic interpretation of the version of the "ritual murder" of the royal family, reports "Interfax-religion" . "We are glad that the last statement of the Russian Orthodox Church made it possible to resolve the conflict that flared up this week," Goldshmidt said on December 1.

The lack of drugs for the treatment of HIV-infected patients, as well as interruptions and disadvantages with supplies, were observed in 2017 in 52 regions of Russia. “The first reports of interruptions in therapy began to be received back in December 2016.

Roscosmos experts came to the conclusion that neither the East Cosmodrome, nor the Soyuz-2.1 launch vehicle system have nothing to do with the fall of the Frigate acceleration unit with 19 satellites launched with the help of the Union on November 28.