Cover of Roman Timenchik’s book “View from Mount Scopus” We publish the introductory article by R.D. Timenchik to the book “The Last Poet. Akhmatova in the 60s." On November 24, 2014, the book comes out of print at the Gesharim\Bridges of Culture Publishing House and will be presented at the Non/fiction fair. This book examines the period between March 5, 1953, the day of Stalin's death, and March 5, 1966, the day of Akhmatova's death. I remember both days.

Polit.ru continues the cycle of the seminars of Alexei Muravyov “Is there God? The look of a modern person. " On Thursday, December 4, the fourth author's seminar will be held on the topic: “Is there God in works of art?” The event will begin at 19:00 in the building of the I.S. Turgenev (Bobrov Lane, 6, p. 1-2, metro station “Sretensky Boulevard”, “Turgenevskaya”, “Pure Ponds”).

On November 24, the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region announced the death of the wife of the regional governor Valery Shantsev, Tatyana. “The government of the Nizhny Novgorod region is shocked by the news of the passing of Tatyana Vladimirovna Shantseva. She was an amazing person, a very sympathetic, sincere, cheerful woman. This is how she will be remembered forever,” the government said in a statement. The cause of death has not been specified.

US President Barack Obama asked the country's Minister of Defense Chaka Hageel to resign, reports New York Times . According to the publication, Heigel will remain in his post until the White House is determined with the name of his successor. Earlier in Washington they confirmed that Barack Obama will announce on Monday about changes in the office of the head of state.

Kaliningrad may be deprived of the right to hold matches of the 2018 World Cup, if the approval of the concept of the city stadium is delayed. This was stated by the Minister of Sports of Russia, the chairman of the Russia-2018 organizing committee Vitaly Mutko, TASS reports. According to the minister, the point in this matter should be set in November.

The British journalist Graham Phillips, who received a fragmentation wound near the village of Peska near Donetsk, underwent a successful operation. “Graham Phillips, wounded near Donetsk, is successfully operated on,” the DPR Novorossia Twiter said. Recall that Phillips was wounded on Monday November 24 in the vicinity of the village of Peska, where he covered hostilities from the standpoint of pro -Russian forces.

A strong fire broke out on Monday afternoon in the east of Moscow, the press service of the metropolitan GU Ministry of Emergencies reports. A message about the fire at the address: st. Perovskaya, house 1 arrived at 14:32. After 6 minutes, fire brigades arrived at the scene and began to extinguish. At 14:48 the fire was assigned to the fire. According to updated data, 29 fire and rescue units work on the spot, with a total number of 90 people. The fire area is 800 square meters.

Russia does not intend to leave the incident with the expulsion from Latvia the director of the National Energy Security Fund Konstantin Simonov. This was stated on November 24 by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Lukashevich, Interfax reports.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said that the authorities would not allow re-privatization on the model of the 90s. As an example, he cited the Bashneft case, Interfax reports.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov proposed to save on social benefits and provide them only with minimal income, RIA Novosti reports. “We now pay benefits to everyone, regardless of whether you are a millionaire or get the minimum wage,” Siluanov explained. According to him, the whole world is already moving away from this and switches to a more point provision of assistance.

The shares of the French nuclear giant Areva fell 23% after the concern worsened its financial forecasts for the next two years. The reasons are a significant lag from the schedule of the construction of nuclear power units in France and abroad and “unfavorable market conditions,” the company said. Sergey Kondratyev , head of the sector of the Economic Department of the Institute of Energy and Finance Foundation: On the one hand, we all understand that someone always wins, and someone loses.

Recently appointed US ambassador to the Russian Federation, Michael Tefft said that the main task of NATO is to strengthen security, and therefore the North Atlantic Alliance is not a threat to Russia. This was written by Kommersant , to which Tefft gave a detailed interview. “I do not think that NATO poses any threat to Russia. I know that in Russia some people think differently, but the bottom line is that NATO is a defensive alliance, ”the ambassador said.

The famous hockey coach, three -time Olympic champion Viktor Tikhonov died on Monday night in one of the capital's clinics. This was reported by R-Sport with reference to the general director of the CSKA hockey club Igor Esmantovich. “Today, at one in the morning, Viktor Vasilievich Tikhonov was gone, who died in the hospital after a long illness. The CSKA hockey club expresses the deepest condolences and will assume all the issues related to the organization of the funeral.

The Russian armed forces did not introduce a ban on the use of mobile phones, especially the products of a particular manufacturer, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reports with reference to the official representative of the department Igor Konashenkov.

On December 1, a new strategic command in the Arctic should begin work on the basis of the Northern Fleet, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on the OPC, held in Sochi, Interfax reports. In addition, Putin noted the gradual formation of a group of troops on the Crimean peninsula, which is currently ongoing. The president and large -scale exercises affected the troops in 2014 touched.