A series of linings, promises and their refutations usually turned out to be a boring APEC summit Photo: Reuters The meeting at the top took place on November 10-11 in the Vietnamese city of Danang. Once this port was one of the key points of the bloody war between local communists, American troops and their allies, but now it is forgotten about the former enmity.

The question of the return of direct elections of mayors split the mos blub Photo: Photoxpress On November 9, the Moscow Regional Duma considered the petition of the initiative group of residents of the region (the group included representatives of Yabloko, Parnassus, “Open Russia”, municipal deputies) who propose to submit to the regional referendum the draft law on the return of direct elections of the mayors of cities, heads of districts and regional deputies.

Photos The earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred on the border of Iran and Iraq on the evening of Sunday November 12. More than 450 people were killed in Iran, about 7.1 thousand people were injured. The settlements of the Sare-Polet-Zohzab and Kasre-Shiri are most affectedly affected. The city of Sarah-Pol-Zohzab. Photo: POURIA PAKIZEH / AP The city of Sarah-Pol-Zohzab. Photo: POURIA PAKIZEH / AP The city of Sarah-Pol-Zohzab. Photo: Reuters The city of Sarah-Pol-Zohzab.

Social orphanage in Russia: what happens to children from families in difficult life circumstances Photo: Anastasia Egorova / "New Gazeta" We are used to thinking that an orphanage is a child who has died parents and there are no relatives, so he got into a state institution. In reality, this is not at all the case. Eighty percent of children in orphanages - social orphans. They have parents. They are alive.

But Witness No. 1 Anyway, "did not receive a summons" and did not appear in court Photo: RIA Novosti Fearing not to get on the possible interrogation of Igor Sechin, journalists, although they doubted the probability of his arrival, took the line on the street from 8.30 in the morning. Cameras, tripods, microphones ... Everything was ready. “What if ...” was heard in line.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has filed two-time Olympic biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva with charges of manipulating doping samples during the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. It is reported by "Sport Express". As the publication clarifies, in the process of a total recheck of the samples, the IOC experts found a Zaitsev scratch on the samples.

A protocol was drawn up against the coordinator of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Izhevsk, Sergei Urban, on holding an unapproved event, although the meeting with the politician took place on the territory of a private house and did not require approval. about this . Urban told Mediazone According to the activist, during a meeting with Navalny, which took place on November 11, he misspoke from the stage and uttered the word "rally", but immediately corrected himself.

Experts from the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology found cocaine in the blood of former senator Umar Dzhabrailov, who fired at the Four Seasons Hotel, reports . Kommersant According to experts, Dzhabrailov used cocaine without a doctor's prescription. The investigation insists that the ex-senator took a banned substance in a hotel room, and then started shooting at the ceiling. Earlier, the magistrate of court district No.

Two people were killed and two injured in a shooting at a concert at the Underground Atlanta club in Atlanta, Georgia, reports Associated Press. During the quarrel, one of the visitors opened fire. One person died on the spot, the other in the hospital. Local media reports that the perpetrator managed to escape. The police are looking for him.

The West Baikal environmental prosecutor's office has named the reasons for the mass death of seals on Lake Baikal, Interfax reports . According to the results of the study, 11 animals had an enteritis antigen, and two had an antigen of parvovirus hepatitis. It is reported that there were no signs of chemical pollution of the Baikal water area.

The Department of Project Activities suggested that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev use artificial intelligence to solve problems in the field of Russian law. It is reported by "Kommersant". The department has already developed a plan that involves three steps. First, to find all outdated, non-working, ineffective and ambiguous norms in legal acts in order to correct them.

CONTINUATION & The court repeatedly summoned Sechin to the process in the case of Ulyukaev The judge of the Zamoskvoretsky court Larisa Semenova, who considers the criminal case against the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, today informed the parties that the court sent the agenda to the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin for a performance as a witness in three different ways. However, not one of the ways was successful.

The Russian military in Syria said that reports of the capture of the city of Abu Kemal on the border with Iraq under the control of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia are "unfounded propaganda." This is reported by Interfax with reference to a representative of the Russian military group in Syria. “All reports by ISIS and foreign resources citing them about the alleged abandonment of the city of Abu Kemal by Syrian troops are unfounded propaganda.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, again did not appear in the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow at a meeting in the case of the former Minister of Economic Development of Russia Alexei Ulyukaev, who, according to investigators, extorted a bribe of $ 2 million from him. In the morning before the meeting began, Rosneft spokesman Mikhail Leontyev told RNS that Sechin had not received a subpoena.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is not going to restore the rights of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), which will jeopardize Russia's participation in the Olympics and Paralympics in Pyeongchang. This is reported by the TV channel ARD. According to the publication, the decision will be made on November 16 due to the fact that the Russian authorities do not consider themselves responsible for the doping scandal.