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The United States authorities last autumn sent two employees of the Chinese embassy from the country, says The New York Times , citing sources. Neither the official Washington nor Beijing reported the expulsion. The newspaper claims that Chinese diplomats were detained on the territory of the military base in Virginia. Access there without special pass is prohibited. The US authorities suspected Chinese citizens in espionage and decided to expel them.

Evgeny Prigozhin The New Gazeta published an investigation about the organizers of the campaign against the opposition, which was deployed this summer before the elections to the Moscow City Duma. The text is based on the working documents of the campaign participants, as well as on the comments of one of the performers.

Director of the series "Epidemic" Pavel Kostomarov The Premier online cinema, belonging to Gazprom-Media, deleted the episode of the fantastic series "Epidemic" directed by Pavel Kostomarov, which talked about the riot of civilians and their execution by security forces. Service subscribers paid attention to this. They reported that the episode disappeared from the site of the online cinema theater two days after the appearance.

Mikhail Nenashev In Moscow, on Sunday, Mikhail Nenashev, a journalist, the head of the GOSTELDIO of the USSR and the Ministry of Press during the years of perestroika, under whose leadership there was liberalization in the media in the USSR. Nenashev’s death was reported in the Union of Journalists of Russia . He was 90 years old. Nenashev in the USSR received a historical education, made a party career as a specialist in Marxism-Leninism.

Turkish President Recep Erdogan threatened to close for the United States access to the Indjirlik air base in response to the possible introduction of US sanctions against Ankara for the purchase of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia and a military operation in the north of Syria. In an interview with A Haber, on Sunday, Erdogan also said that it is possible to close the Kudzhik base, where the elements of the European missile defense system are deployed.

On the state television channel Russia-1 drowned out the word "Protest" during the entry of the group "Kobein jackets"-a third-party project of the Bi-2 group. The rain channel drew attention to this. "Cobain jackets" performed at the presentation of the Russian National Musical Prize "Victoria". The ceremony was shown on the air of December 13. On Saturday, the recording of the concert was published in Yetube.

Director Alexander Sokurov continued the correspondence polemic with the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, answering in an interview with the Rain television channel to the reproaches of the latter that Sokurov made nationalist and provocative statements and “like a toy in the hands of the puppeteers”, doubting the correctness of Kadyrov’s title of the title of Hero of Russia. According to Sokurov, Kadyrov’s reaction is of little interest to him.

Based on the latest data, 16 people became victims of the volcano on the island of White in New Zealand. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the local police. According to the agency, the number of dead increased after one of the victims died in the hospital. On the eve of White island, the rescue team arrived, but it was not possible to find two missing people. The island is still unsafe due to the ongoing activity of the volcano. Therefore, rescuers worked there for only 75 minutes.

In London, the final of the contest "Miss World 2019" was held. The title was won by a 23-year-old graduate of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Florida, a representative of Jamaica Tony-Enn Singh. This is how it was:

The New Gazeta published an investigation about the organizers of the campaign against the opposition, which was deployed this summer before the elections to the Moscow City Duma. The text is based on the working documents of the campaign participants, as well as on the comments of one of the performers. Journalists came to the conclusion that behind a series of provocations is Evgeny Prigozhin, whom the media is called a close friend and "cook" of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Mikhail Efimov - about the emigrant years of the scientist Ivan Tolstoy: In two St. Petersburg publishers-Pushkinodom and Nestor-History-the book of Mikhail Efimov “DSM/ D.P. Svyatopolk-Mirsky: years of emigration” was published jointly. Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky, despite the thirty years of the research and typographic freemen, the figure is little read and poorly studied. Already if only because half of his heritage exists in English and French.

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We are at the Artdokfest festival in the cinema October in Moscow. In the first part of the program, the directors of Ksenia Okhapkina (the film "Immortal") and Maxim Swede, the film "Pure Art", Belarus. The commented by the producer Richo Vyastrik and the head of Artdokfest Vitaly Mansky. In the second part of the program, the directors Elena Laskari (the film “Where is Matryona?”) And Stasya Granovskaya (“How Dina and I went to Naberezhnye Chelny”).

In Moscow, on Sunday, Mikhail Nenashev, a journalist, the head of the GOSTELDIO of the USSR and the Ministry of Press during the years of perestroika, under whose leadership there was liberalization in the media in the USSR. Nenashev’s death was reported in the Union of Journalists of Russia . He was 90 years old. Nenashev in the USSR received a historical education, made a party career as a specialist in Marxism-Leninism.