Russian President Vladimir Putin made a speech on the occasion of the National Unity Day. In his opinion, the holiday marks the devotion of the Russian people to their country, reports Interfax . The President said that “patriotism and love for the homeland for centuries have fastened our multinational country. " Putin also turned to the history of the holiday.

Actor Christian Bale abandoned the role of Apple's founder Steve Jobs, reports The Hollywood Reporter with reference to sources surrounded by Bale. According to the interlocutors of the publication, Bale made such a decision after long thoughts. The reason for the refusal of the role is not specified. Earlier it was reported that Leonardo DiCaprio will not play the founder of Apple Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle's film.

A year and a half ago, we wrote about the beginning of clinical tests of combined genetic cell therapy of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and the first patient with stable remission- Emily Whitehead . Now 25 children (up to 22 years old) and 5 adults have already taken part in the tests. Doctors reported the results in an article that New England Journal of Medicine recently published.

A fire occurred at Grozny Airport on the morning of November 4. This was stated by the representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia for Chechnya Timur Tysumov, TASS reports. “There was a fire on the 2nd floor of the main building of the airport. At 6:30 Moscow time, the fire was completely eliminated, ”Taysumov explained. According to him, 28 people and 7 units of equipment were involved in the liquidation of the fire.

The Ukrainian government allowed Naftogaz to start payments to Gazprom. For this, it is supposed to use 3.1 billion dollars reserved in the account in the National Bank of Ukraine. This was reported on the government website . Funds will be paid under agreements signed in Brussels on October 30. On October 31, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk instructed to begin the process of paying for the supply of Russian gas.

Dynamo’s Moscow hockey club on its ice defeated Salavat Yulaev as part of the KHL regular championship. The meeting of the teams ended with a score of 6: 0. As part of Dynamo, two goals were scored by the Canadian defender Mat Robinson. After the score reached 3-0, Salavat Yulaev replaced the goalkeeper Vladimir Sokhatsky with Loland Irving, however, when the score was 6-0, Sohal returned to the goal.

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (National Security and Defense Council) supported the proposal of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on submitting the Law on the Special Status of certain regions of Donbass on the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada, reports UNN with reference to the statement of the Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexander Litvinenko.

A group of Dutch experts arrived in Donetsk, which will prepare for the export of the wreckage of the Malaysian Boeing, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Deputy Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Andrei Purgin. Purgin specified that three experts have already visited the place of the fall of the aircraft, the fragments of which are under the city of Torez.

The power units of the Rostov NPP were disconnected due to the operation of the protection of one of the electrical substations, TASS reports with reference to the head of the station and public relations of the station. The interlocutor of the news agency explained that the disconnection of power units from the network occurred during work on the South line: "Nothing that could scare the inhabitants." Adygea, Krasnodar Territory and the Rostov Region are frightened along the reserve line.

The Egyptian extremist group "Ansar Beit al-Makdis" swore allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, "reports Reuters . In the north of the Sinai Peninsula, where Ansar Beit al-Makdis acts, attacks on army patrols, the locations of the armed forces and law enforcement officers are almost daily.

The head of the Georgian government, Irakli Garibashvili, changed the Minister of Defense, reports Georgia Online . Garibashvili dismissed the former head of the defense department Irakli Alasania and appointed Mindia Dzhanelidze as the new Minister of Defense of the Head of the Council of Security and Crises.

In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, a bill is registered, which provides for the abolition of the special status of Donbass. It is reported by TASS . The author of the radical party Oleg Lyashko became the author. President Petro Poroshenko previously announced the intention to submit to the National Security and Defense of Ukraine the issue of canceling the law on the special status of the region. The head of Ukraine made this decision in connection with the election on November 2.

Venezuela Air Force shot down a plane that violated the state airspace, said Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Minister of Defense of the South American country on his Twitter . In the report, Lopez explained that the King 200 plane was shot down southeast of the city of Elors, Apur. There is no data on the fate of the crew.

Kirill Yeskov photo: Natasha Chetverikova/Polit.ru On Sunday, November 16, a festival of public lectures #nobility will continue at the Moscow Museum of Moscow on Zubovsky Boulevard . The organizers of the cycle are the information and analytical channel "Polit.ru" and the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of the Government of Moscow. The second day of the festival paleontologist Kirill Yeskov will open.

In Israel, in the 80th year of her life, the famous Soviet and Russian ballerina and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR Nina Timofeeva died, TASS reports with reference to the press secretary of the Bolshoi Theater Katerina Novikova. In the period from 1953 to 1956, Timofeeva worked in the Mariinsky (then Kirov) Theater in Leningrad, then moved to the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Timofeeva studied with Galina Ulanova and Maria Semenova.