The date of the announcement of Ukrainian autocephaly is postponed, and it itself is becoming more and more limited Photo: RIA Novosti Truly Byzantine history with the provision of the Constantinople patriarch of autocephaly of the Ukrainian church continues. The Constantinople Synod, sitting on November 27–29 - the last time this year, did not give an exact answer when long -suffering autocephaly was proclaimed. “The Greeks are trading” - so they perceived the next uncertainty in Kyiv ...

Lev Ponomarev, a human rights activist and director of the movement For Human Rights, was charged with a repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Oleg Elanchik, an expert from the For Human Rights movement, told Novaya Gazeta about this.

Russian airports will not be called the names of "alien" philosophers and rock musicians. Why asked? Photo: RIA Novosti For almost two months, residents of Russia chose the names of people for airports in their cities suitable for perpetuating in the name of the air harbor. True, in fact, it turns out that they chose only formally.

Russian President Vladimir Putin clarified the incident in the Kerch Strait during a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron as part of the G20 summit. According to presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Putin clearly demonstrated the situation by drawing a diagram. The media later reported that Merkel expressed a desire to help resolve the conflict. However, as Peskov said, we are not talking about any mediation by Germany.

Why the Kremlin will not introduce a mirror ban on the entry of Ukrainians Ukrainian border. Photo: RIA Novosti On Friday, Ukraine introduced a ban on entering the country of male Russian citizens aged 16 to 60 years. So far, border guards are making decisions individually: people are passing if they can clearly explain the goals of the trip, says Grigory Chizhov, head of the Ukrainian Bureau of the Center for Political Technology Foundation.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk fined Valery Sheptukhin, a member of the unregistered Other Russia party, 200,000 rubles for an action against the construction of landfills. According to OVD-Info, he was found guilty of repeated violation of holding a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). A day earlier, Sheptukhin chained himself with a bicycle cable to a traffic light outside the city administration building.

How We Lost the Anti-War Movement The propaganda cliché “Russia is rising from its knees” does not mean economic success or the discovery of new methods of cancer treatment, but something completely different. Russia turned out to be able to be a participant in several conflicts at once in different parts of the world at the same time, Russia now has new models of weapons that can destroy external enemies and deal with internal enemies no less effectively.

Bosphorus with Dardanelles will not be blocked. But Russian men will not be allowed to Ukraine Photo: Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS The morning of Friday, November 30, began with an invitation to President Poroshenko, the leaders of the structures responsible for the implementation of the military law plan in life.

The Russian rock band "Aquarium" has postponed a concert tour in Ukraine for an indefinite period. “Unfortunately, due to force majeure, our tour of Ukraine cannot take place now. We hope that force majeure will sink into oblivion, and we will return to you. Therefore, concerts are not canceled, but postponed - to a more reasonable time. We hope for June. Peace to all!" — stated in the message on the website of the group.

The Barnaul City Hall has begun the process of transferring the building of the former Holy Cross Church, in which the only planetarium in the city has been operating for almost 70 years, to the disposal of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). According to Altapress, the planetarium should move out before the end of December, and in March the building will be handed over to the church. The publication notes that there is no new premises for the planetarium yet.

Signatures that did not exist, copies of the unknown and the disappeared materials of the “Seventh Studio” Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" The Meshchansky court of Moscow continues to consider on the merits the case of the Seventh Studio. Outside the court, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky allowed himself to speak out in an interview with the accused, including Kirill Serebrennikov, “respected and pretty people”, whom the court, as he hopes, will pass “extremely soft sentence”.

Mass protests in France will benefit Marin Le Pen? Vests in Paris. Photo: EPA The adventures of yellow vests on the roads and streets of France continue. The vests overlap the tracks, block oil storages and refueling, and on Saturday, December 1, they again entered the Champs Elysees.

UPDATE 21:20 The number of detainees during a protest in Paris has reached 225 people. Another 95 were injured, including 14 law enforcement officers, according to Le Figaro. At least 140 people were detained in Paris during the dispersal of protesters against rising fuel prices. This is reported by BFMTV with reference to the representative of the Ministry of the Interior Joanna Primver. The media write about 20 victims, six of whom are law enforcement officers.

A rally was held in Moscow against the demolition of the Nightingale cinema center on Krasnaya Presnya. According to the radio station "Echo of Moscow", it was attended by about 200 people. Among the speakers were Anastasia Udaltsova, the wife of the Left Front coordinator Sergei Udaltsov, Moscow City Duma deputy from the Communist Party Nikolai Zubrilin and the former head of the Moscow Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin.

Russia has become a permanent donor to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), reports with reference to a representative in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Kommersant The Russian government will annually transfer 1 million Swiss francs (about 67.2 million rubles) to the budget of the organization on a voluntary basis. The aim of the financial aid, the paper was told, is to support the ICRC's work with civilians in areas affected by armed conflicts.