Informant of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) Grigory Rodchenkov is ready to provide data on doping in Russian football. About this with reference to Jim Walden, lawyer Rodchenkov, reports The Daily Mail. The evidence that Rodchenkov is ready to provide the International Football Federation (FIFA) allegedly confirm that dozens of Russian players, including players of the national team, were participants in the state doping program.

Writer Lev Kopelev, 1996 The Lev Kopelev Award for Merit in the struggle for peace and human rights this year was awarded to the director of the Levada Center Lev Gudkov. The solemn ceremony was held on November 26 in Cologne. The organizers noted Gudkov’s desire "not to serve the autocratic interests of the authorities." Along with the Russian sociologist, the former editor -in -chief of the Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, Jan Dundar, was also awarded awards this year.

Public support of historian Yuri Dmitriev in a court of fabricated charges Blessed and eccentric or a major researcher of communist terror, who hit the interests of the KGB and the FSB? On November 29, in Petrozavodsk, a court session in the case of Yuri Dmitriev, the head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial Society, the founder of the international memorial cemeter of the victims of the Stalinist repressions of Sandormokh and the two more largest burials of those shot in the Russian North.

The city of Astara on the border of Iran and Azerbaijan turned out to be divided in 1828, when the Russian Empire and Persia signed a peace treaty that laid the end of the two -year war. Now two cities with the same name on different sides of the border are shared by the river of the same name. During the years of the existence of the USSR, relatives, who turned out to be on opposite sides, could not visit each other.

Conversation with Professor Ivan Yesaulov Ivan Tolstoy: Recently in Moscow, I recorded a conversation with the doctor of philological sciences Professor Ivan Yesaulov. His new book is called "Russian Classics: New Understanding", it was published by the Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy. Ivan Andreevich is distinguished by the polemic nature of the works. He calls Russian critics of the past interpreters and analysts, himself as an understanding of the writer's personality.

Muhammad bin Salman al Saud The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad Ben Salman Al Saud on Sunday, November 26, announced the beginning of the work of the new Islamic anti -terrorist coalition, which officially includes 41 state. This military union will become a clear warning for terrorist organizations that actively operated in the countries of the region, the prince in Riyadh said. The meeting was attended by defense ministers and security experts on coalition countries.

One of the important differences between the state of democratic and authoritarian state is strict observance of the law in the first case and the attitude to the law as a means of implementing a dictatorship - in the second. In the first case, the law is the same for everyone, in the second there are celestials that are higher than any law, and for everyone else there is a whole bouquet of articles of the Criminal Code.

Paul Manafort leaves the court Businessman Paul Manafort, who for several months who managed the election headquarters of the US presidential candidate Donald Trump, visited Russia and Ukraine much more often than previously considered. The relevant data received from airlines was provided by the McClatchy broadcasting corporation Source in the Government of Ukraine. Manafort flew to Moscow at least 18 times before heading Trump's headquarters in May 2016.

So sees the interstellar asteroid artist Martin Cornmeser (ESO) The future is already here, it is simply unevenly distributed. William Gibson 1. It was time to say that all week the large media did not dare to pronounce aloud: the object flying through the solar system ( the first object in the history of observations that fell into the solar system from the outside ) is most similar to an alien starship.

Ksenia Sobchak in the position of Salamba Shirshasan. The sculpture of Alexander Donskoy, the former mayor of Arkhangelsk, and now the artist-activist, was presented at an exhibition in Moscow on November 21. The exhibition was waiting for the applicant for the post of president of Russia, but did not wait. The film by Andrei Kiselev. Mobile application Radio Liberty. Subscribe! It's not too late A documentary about Russia on the eve of the 2018 election - in the project "Signs of Life".

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Crimea. Ayu-Dag Pupils of the Artek International Children's Camp in the Crimea annexed by Russia, together with historians and jurists, will create a historical reconstruction of one of the fragments of the Nuremberg process - the trial of the former leaders of Nazi Germany. This was reported on the site "Artek".

Dmitry Bykov and Sergey Yursky at the next action in support of political prisoners

On November 26-27, 2017, the All-Russian Congress in Defense of Human Rights was held in Moscow. It was a violation of the rights guaranteed to citizens by the Russian Constitution

Photo of the OSCE mission during a trip to Lugansk The OSCE mission in the Donbass recorded an increase in the number of violations of the "silence" regime. This is stated in the report report as of November 24, which is posted on the organization’s website. It is reported that late in the evening of the 23rd and night of November 24, the SMM camera at the Donetsk filter station recorded fire activity: only about 20 explosions (11 of which are estimated as shots).