“You know how to distinguish a real expert on urbanism from impostor and sales skin? Very simple,” writes the economist and politician on his Facebook page. "None of the cities of Europe, America or Asia, which often refer to discussions about the urban environment, are not of such scale of destruction of wildlife, as now in Moscow and other cities of Russia.

The American writer James Frey received the London magazine Literary Review for the worst description of the sexual scene in the literature in English. The jury considered that the number of protracted and dubious erotic passages in his novel "Katerina" is so great that there would be a few more anti -aircraft, writes Guardian . Frey’s book tells about the journey of a novice writer in France in the 1990s and a stormy novel with the Norwegian model Katerina.

Madrid midfielder of Real Madrid and the Croatian national football team Luke Modric became the owner of the Golden Ball, the annual prize to the best football player in the world according to France Football magazine. According to the results of the journalists, Modric scored 753 points, the Portuguese forward of the Italian Juventus Cristiano Ronaldo (476) took second place in the struggle for the Golden Ball, Antoine Griezmann (414), French striker of Atletico Spanish.

In Minsk, during the speech of the Permanent Representative of Ukraine Yevgeny Marchuk, the Russian Federation Plenipotentiary Representative in the contact group Boris Gryzlov left the meeting. The OSCE Special Representative in the contact group, Martin Sajdik, spoke about this. “I can say that at the plenary meeting, Mr. Marchuk took the floor, and Mr. Gryzlov left the meeting room,” Sajdik explained on Tuesday in Minsk following a meeting of the Tripartite Contact Group (TCG).

The Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) at a meeting in Monte Carlo decided to extend the removal of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA). “The recommendation is approved not to restore WFLA until two conditions are met,” Interfax quotes the statement of the head of the IAAF working group in the Russian Federation, which he made on Tuesday to journalists after a meeting of the Council of the Association.

On December 4, the State Duma adopted in the third, final, reading the law on extra-court blocking of sites that are dangerous for the life and health of minors, introduced by the vice speaker Irina Yarova in May of this year. The message about this was published on the State Duma website . According to Kommersant , the approved bill allows Roskomnadzor to block the so-called "columbine community" and "death groups" without a court decision.

In the Perm Territory, on the one hand, a joyful event occurred - the hunters found two schoolchildren lost in the forest during the day. On the other hand, the end of this story came out curious - local officials decided to give the brave saviors strange gift packages, including a pedicure set in a case. On the morning of November 25, two boys 10 and 13 years old disappeared during an excursion to the military point for the wild burning of the Perm Territory.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation introduced the collective of the new acting general director of the State Museum and Exhibition Center Rosiso, which became the deputy director of the Department of Museums of the Ministry of Culture of Russia Sofya Gracheva, Interfax reports. According to the head of the Department of Museums of the Ministry of Vladislav Kononov, Grachev leaves the department he headed, since by law it cannot combine two positions.

The headquarters of the Russian national hockey team has named the composition of the national team for the second stage of the Eurotour - the Channel One Cup, the main part of the matches of which will take place from December 13 to 16 in the Ice Palace of the Park of Legends. The game between the national teams of Russia and Finland on December 16 will take place at the Krestovsky football stadium in St. Petersburg, whose capacity at the time of the 2018 World Cup was 64 thousand spectators.

The interdepartmental commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation discussed issues of counteracting poaching fish resources. "It is noted that the scale of poaching and smuggling the aquatic biological resources to foreign states cause significant economic and environmental damage to Russia," the Axibiza press service quotes.

The head of the Ingush human rights organization Magomed Mutsolgov appealed to the Republican Administration of the Investigative Committee due to the fact that local officials began to collect the personal data of relatives of opponents of the agreement on changing the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia. Mutsolgov’s statement published on his blog on the website of the Caucasian Knot.

Apple has traditionally prepared an annual rating of the most popular applications in the App Store store among Russian iPhone users. The top ten most popular programs included messengers, applications of social networks, banks and other services, RBC reports. Like a year ago, the WhatsApp messenger headed the popularity rating. In second place is the Instagram photo service, and the application of the Russian social network "VKontakte" closes the top three.

On December 1, Russia, previously signed by the head of government, Dmitry Medvedev, a decree on the conduct of a three -year experiment to test in Moscow and Tatarstan of unmanned vehicles on public roads. A number of companies are already preparing to take part in this experiment, and experts have developed a list of rules for interaction with drones for other participants in the movement.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is the basis for the abolition of the sentence in relation to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, convicted of hooliganism after punk action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in 2012.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) completed the investigation of the high-profile case of an armed attack by a teenager on a school in the Buryat city of Ulan-Ude at the beginning of the year. About this, according to Interfax , said the official representative of the department Svetlana Petrenko. "The main investigative department of the SK was completed the investigation of the criminal case against one of the students of the secondary school N 5 Ulan -Ude.