US President Donald Trump has fired Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. He wrote about this on his Twitter. Trump named Matthew Whitaker, who previously served as Sessions Chief of Staff at the US Department of Justice, as acting Attorney General. Trump wrote that he would announce who would take the permanent position of Attorney General later. According to Reuters, Sessions wrote in his resignation letter that he left office at Trump's request.

Former captain of the Russian national team Andrey Arshavin is not going to move to another football club after leaving the Kazakh "Kairat". this He stated in an interview with the press service of the football club. “I would like to stay in football as a coach, but I have said many times that it will be difficult for me to work as a coach,” Arshavin said, when asked if he would return to Kazakhstan as a coach.

CSKA Moscow lost to the Italian "Roma" in the match of the fourth round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. The meeting, held in Moscow, ended with the score 2:1. The score in the match was already opened in the fourth minute: CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev came out to intercept after a corner, but Kostas Manolas won the fight and scored with a header.

In the Meshchansky court, the process in the “theater affairs” began - one of the most high -profiles in modern Russia Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" The process in the case of Sophia Apfelbaum, Yuri Itin, Alexei Malobrodsky and Kirill Serebrennikov began today in the philistine court. The conditions in which he passes, in a literal and figurative sense, airless. There is nothing to breathe in the tightly closed hall.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Dagestan Radzhab Abdulatipov, brother of the former head of the republic Ramazan Abdulatipov, was charged with participation in a criminal community (part 2 of article 210 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee (IC) in the region.

On November 8, in St. Petersburg, a presentation of the new album of the famous ballet and theater photographer Nina Alvert “Portrait of the theater era. Leningrad Drama Scene of the 1960–70s " Photo: Pavel Markin / TASS It is printed in the most famous ballet publications Dance Magazine, Ballet Review, and books about Mikhail Baryshnikov and Boris Eifman are considered exemplary publications.

In Voronezh, an 89-year-old pensioner amputated her left leg instead of her right. This was reported on the website of the regional Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee (IC). The department said that the son of the victim turned to law enforcement agencies, who wrote in his statement that on November 4, his mother in the city hospital No. 3 had an amputation of the left leg, and not the right, although there was no medical indication for this.

With the idea that in Russia it is necessary to deprive parents of the right to raise a child due to the fact that he participates in unauthorized actions, one must be “very careful”. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the press service of Anna Kuznetsova, Commissioner for Children's Rights in Russia. “The Family Code clearly spells out the grounds for depriving or restricting parental rights, and they are a last resort,” the press service recalled.

The Russian government has allowed insurance companies not to disclose information about their shareholders and persons controlling the organization or exercising significant influence over it if they are under the sanctions of foreign states. The decision was published on the government website and dated November 3.

How slanders and fake news are used by political elites. And not only in Russia At the end of September, a few days before the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the post of judge of the US Supreme Court, a scandal of incredible force erupted in America. Psychology professor Christina Blasey Ford accused Judge Kavanaugh of nearly raping her at a party 36 years ago when she was 15. Dr.

One of the best books about Soviet hockey was published HC "Crystal" (Saratov), ​​1976. Photo: Yuri Nabatov / TASS “Crystal people. Notes about Soviet hockey, made with love, a Saratov boy who dreamed of becoming a goalkeeper and playing like Tretyak or Myshkin ”Stanislav Gridasov (1947–2017. M.: Fifth Rome, 2018) - one of the best books about Soviet hockey. And for sure - the most unusual book about hockey as such.

In St. Petersburg, the Toponymic Commission rejected a proposal to rename the metro station under construction from Mining Institute to Anatoly Sobchak Square. about this on Facebook . wrote Aleksey Tsivilev, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, He told Fontanka that such a decision was due to the fact that, according to the Toponymic Commission, the name "Mining Institute" is more "strong".

During the check of the archives of SIZO-1 in the Kursk region, a record was found of how the colony officers beat one of the prisoners. This was reported to TASS by the press bureau of the Federal Penitentiary Service. An employee of the press bureau noted that the materials of the check were transferred to the investigating authorities, where a criminal case was opened under the article on abuse of power (part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code).

How and what is “processed” at the faculty of political science of Moscow State University Expert Councils of the Higher Attestation Commission serve as a kind of "appeal" in the system of scientific certification. Therefore, it is in their powers that to stop plagiarism or, conversely, let it grow.

The Investigative Committee stopped the criminal prosecution of Ismail Ramazanov, a resident of Crimea, under the article on the illegal acquisition and storage of ammunition (Article 222 of the Criminal Code). However, another case remains against him, for statements “inciting hatred” through the Zello Internet walkie-talkie (Article 282 of the Criminal Code).