In Kotovsk, Tambov region, on Wednesday a fire occurred in one of the production shops of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Tambov Powder Plant, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Tambov Region told Interfax. According to preliminary information, there are no dead or injured. “At 13:00 a signal was received about a fire in one of the plant’s workshops. Seven fire brigades and a ladder truck went to the scene.

I was at the post office today. I sent a registered letter. So, when I go into my long-loved branch in the very center of the city, I see well-known, dejected and hunched postal workers almost under the ceiling. Postal workers put up New Year's tinsel and create a festive atmosphere. Tinsel is an important matter. Yes, and I, who long ago grasped the main principle of communication with Russian Post employees - “don’t anger, lest you be sent,” stand quietly and wait for me to be noticed.

“After some time, people will become nostalgic for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. They will not remember that they lived well then because oil and gas were expensive then. They will say, “That’s what life was like under Putin...” - writer Boris Akunin argues about the art of leaving on time, the inability to use the Internet in the 21st century, chatting, and also looking at the country through the TV screen. http://youtu.be/Kb7GRqHmd2U Original

The editors have a habit of listening to the RSN radio station in the morning. First the program of Roman Shchukin, and then the program of Dorenko. Today, both Shchukin and Dorenko held a telephone vote regarding the justice or injustice of Mirzaev’s sentence. The result turned out to be the same, despite the fact that the number of people who took part in the voting for Dorenko was several times greater than for Shchukin.

As soon as the protest wave in the regions subsided a little, the authorities decided to quietly deal with political activists! Lipetsk political activist Ognev Alexander was summoned to the Investigative Committee on Monday, November 26, after which he did not appear at home for 2 days. Concerned about his absence, the mother called the local police officer, who assured her that her son had been released and he would soon be home.

Foreign Policy magazine has compiled a list of 100 largest political thinkers of the year. Each year, the index publishes the top of the most authoritative person in the world of politics, economics and art. The first list was compiled by an American political science magazine in 2005.

After Lukashenko’s revelations, it turned out to Reuters that Vladimir Putin’s sports injury was much more serious. If his spine is truly damaged, surgery is most likely impossible. In the meantime, purely visually, he is limited in his movements - he tries to sit more, and this is a gigantic coat-wardrobe, when he laid flowers at the monument in Moscow. What was there underneath - a corset, a cast or some other stabilizer?

Photo: ITAR-TASS RNA-based antiviral vaccines are being developed in Germany. They can become a universal means of combating any strains of influenza - existing and future. Man vs. Flu: This protracted standoff is like a war on schedule. Every winter we are bombarded with hordes of another strain. Few people take care of defense in advance and get vaccinated; most run the risk of meeting the enemy face to face and simply getting sick. If no complications occur, the flu becomes harmless.

Access to the social network Facebook in Tajikistan was blocked at the request of the population, reports the local editorial office of Radio Liberty . The head of the Communications Service under the Government of Tajikistan, Beg Zukhurov, said that access to the social network Facebook across the country was blocked at the request of the population.

This video is dedicated to the march of Viktor Yanukovych and Vladimir Putin towards European values ​​and democracy. The video was created for the song Go West by Pet Shop Boys.

A new film based on the novel “Angelica, Marquise of Angels” will be released in September 2013, reports Lenta.ru . The director of the new film adaptation of "Angelique" is Ariel Zaitoun, the main role is played by the French actress Nora Arnezeder ("Cape Town Access Code", "Maniac"). The historical and adventurous novel by Anne and Serge Golon about the beautiful Angelica, the literary basis of the new film, was published in 1957.

A people who have forgotten the death of their children is not a people... This is a crowd of scoundrels! In Moscow and Buinaksk, residential high-rise buildings with sleeping people were blown up. The investigation was a complete fiasco, i.e. "blown away". The customer is clear to everyone, but... not caught - not a thief! And the performer?... After all, someone set a timer on the bags of hexogen! And the timer began to count down the remaining moments of the lives of many people...

Siberian gallery owner, head of the Center for Contemporary Art "ART-Propaganda" Oleg Novikov went on a hunger strike in connection with the closure of the site by the administration of the city of Yurga. He announced this on November 26 in his blog. “As a sign of protest at the barbaric destruction of cultural civil initiative, I am going on an indefinite hunger strike!” — Novikov wrote.

The archive of film director Andrei Tarkovsky was sold at Sotheby's auction for 1 million 300 thousand pounds sterling (a little more than two million dollars), the auction house told Interfax on Wednesday. The starting price of the archive, which was determined by experts at the auction house, was about 100 thousand pounds. The archive was sold to Russia. It is not yet known who the buyer is. The Andrei Tarkovsky archive includes his letters, drafts, audio recordings and photographs.

Detention of P. Shekhtman. Photo: Elena Rostunova Moscow pickets against torture in Kopeisk, which took place on Zhitnaya, near the buildings of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Ministry of Justice, ended in arrests. 16 activists were “loaded” into a paddy wagon. One of the detainees, an elderly woman, became ill with her heart and was taken away in an ambulance. The arrests took place with numerous violations, as can be seen by watching the video from Politsvestnik.