November 25 at 18:00 Golden Hall as part of the Festival of Modern Art “The World of Sound II. Total integration ”and the Gender research programs will be a lecture by Tatyana Markovich. (Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Music and Fulfilling Arts, Vienna; University of Music, Belgrade) This lecture is about new feminist theories and trends in the field of gender research.

The UN officially announced that the peace conference on the situation in Syria was scheduled for January 22, 2014. This was announced by the representative of the Secretary General of the organization Pan Hi Muna on Twitter.

It seems that the protest is either Dmitry Medvedev, or the Ministry of Economic Development, or public organizations, or maybe all at once reached the presidential heart. In any case, Vladimir Putin today unexpectedly proposed a compromise version of a new procedure for initiating criminal cases of tax crimes. The compromise is this: the TFR will still receive the right to initiate tax affairs on its own, but the necessary materials will be required to request from the Federal Tax Service.

“I know that back in 2005, Papal Nunius met with representatives of the Russian government. This was immediately after the first attempt to conduct a gay parade in Moscow. Then a small demonstration was dispersed by riot police.

On Friday, the State Duma adopted a bill in the first reading, which would forbid officials to buy cars more than 3 million rubles. Seeing this, the deputies from the LDPR started and made amendments to the not -adopted short story: they offer to limit the cost of cars with an even more incredible figure - 1.5 million rubles. The initiative proposed at one time Alexei Navalny was introduced by Yaroslav Nilov and Igor Lebedev.

“Scientific Monday” is a scientific and cognitive educational project of the Polytechnic Museum and RIA Novosti, aimed at popularizing modern science. As part of the project, the best documentary films are shown on scientific topics. The purpose of the project is to unite people of different generations that share the ideas of continuous self -education and enlightenment. The project is also designed to promote the development of scientific journalism.

- In Kyiv, a protest continues against the cessation of European integration of Ukraine. The participants of the Euro-Maidan, who broke the tent town in the square, fight off the police, she uses batons and tear gas . The protest was continuing from Thursday - then the country's authorities announced that they had paused integration with the EU for relations with Russia.

The App Heroes, using photographs, tells the story of the transformation of prostheses from primitive metal structures into complex mechanisms that can be controlled by the power of thought. The process of cyborgization has begun. Wooden prosthesis The most ancient of the famous prostheses is the three thousand -year -old “Cairo finger” , which belonged to an elderly Egyptian woman, suffering from complications of diabetes.

The fact that the country's main channels-“first” and “Russia-1”-are a little cunning when they form a agenda from the viewer is no secret. But, as it turns out, the media rule reality even when they try to impress uncowned. So, both channels recently fearlessly showed a fragment of the meeting of Vladimir Putin with writers.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma prohibiting the adoption of Russian children by citizens of those countries with which Russia did not sign an agreement on cooperation in the field of adoption, with the exception of the CIS countries. If the law is adopted, more than a thousand orphans will remain in orphanages annually in orphanages. This is almost twice as much as it was after the adoption of the "law of Dima Yakovlev" prohibiting American adoption.

Photo: Reuters / Konstantin Chernichkin in Kiev and other cities of Ukraine continues the mass protest rally: hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians do not agree with the decision of the Ukrainian authorities to refuse to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union. In Kyiv, the most important thing is on European square, where supporters of European integration defeated the tent camp. Special forces were already trying to free the square, but the protesters restrained the assault.

“Rostelecom” again shifted. The next victim of erroneous blocking was the Group-Ib site. The company specializes in Internet security and received the Runet Prize on November 21 in the safe Runet category. The general director of the company Ilya Sachkov wrote about his sensations from blocking on his Facebook page. "Great! We sue, ”said Sachkov. The thing is that the IP address, on which the Group-IB website and the Drugspace.info drug forum are located in the register of prohibited sites.

Co-founder of the investment company Y Combinator, author of exemplary essays on technology business and startups, Paul Graham said in a recent interview with Inc. Magazine, that he might like to collect all his ideas into a single list of one hundred points - as has now become fashionable in modern media - but he values ​​the magic of long text too much: “A thought that is not disclosed in detail is not a thought.” .

At the end of October, in the reader’s cafe, the religious scholar, historian, specialist on the problems of modern Orthodoxy Konstantin Mikhailov gave a lecture “Church: from perestroika to the third term”. Slon publishes lectures in reduction, and today we bring to your attention the second part. The first part . The first big conflict, which questioned the moral authority of the Russian Orthodox Church in society, is the 1996 tobacco and vodka scandals.

The Dutch director Thomas Julien took off a ridiculous short film that clearly demonstrates that most of the photos you have taken on Instagram are not particularly original. The film is mounted from 852 pictures of ordinary users of the social network. The message is very simple: we all photograph the same scenes in the same angles. Watch, however, is still nice.