The MiG-29 fell into the Mediterranean Sea from the Russian cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov during an attempt to sit on the deck, both engines refused, told Gazeta.ru a source familiar with the organization of flights on an aircraft carrier. According to the interlocutor of the publication, the aircraft had to go to the second round due to problems with the cables of the aerofinisher.

The cost of January Brent oil futures in the second half of the auction on November 21 increased by almost 3% to 48.2 per barrel. Above $ 48, the price of North Sea oil rose for the first time since the beginning of November. The quotes of the North American WTI increased by 2.8% to $ 47.7 per barrel. Against the background of the rise in oil prices, the ruble has strengthened.

Roskomnadzor began negotiations with the Norwegian Opera Software about the voluntary filtering of Internet resources in Russia, Kommersant told two interlocutors in the company and confirmed the representative of the department Vadim Ampelonsky. The meeting took place in early autumn, said Ampelonsky. With the company, Roskomnadzor experts discussed the technical possibility of filtering resources, access to which is blocked in Russia by law, when opera opera browser in Turbo mode.

The team of researchers from Singapore received blood and immune cells from mouse skin cells. Technology can allow creating “perfect” blood for patients who are required. The description of the work is published in the journal Nature Communications . Scientists from the Singapore Institute of the Genoma (GIS) and the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IMCB) determined the combination of four transcription factors that allow you to turn the skin cells into several types of blood cells.

Apple disbanded a unit that develops wireless routers. This is written by Bloomberg with reference to sources. The company redirected the unit to other departments, including Apple TV, the agency reports. The representative of Apple refused to comment. The company has not updated the line of routers since 2013, notes Bloomberg. In the 2016 financial year, routers, along with products such as Apple Watch and Apple TV, brought $ 11.1 billion companies, which amounted to about 5% of all sales.

The coming year will become the year of the century of the Russian revolution, more precisely, two revolutions, the February and October. The first project dedicated to this year has already appeared - built as a correspondence in social networks of real characters, composed of real quotes of politicians, writers, artists and even previously not known to anyone, almost anonymous residents of Russia.

The chamber conference hall of the office of the Stockholm School of Economics, located in the old mansion in the center of Moscow, was clearly small for the assembled crowd. About a hundred graduates of the school, who came here in terrible weather, hardly squeezed through the ranks of chairs, set at a minimum distance. The late stood.

Photo: Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters At the end of October, Vladimir Putin approved the development of the Russian nation. Changes in the rhetoric of power can be noted: in the 1990s, she did not say anything about the nation; In the latest “state national policy strategy until 2025” this concept has already been used, and now our tops have decided to codify it at the level of the law.

The Russian government works under a special poverty reduction program, and measures laid down in the program are planned for 2017. This was told by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets, Interfax reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a short conversation on the fields of the APEC summit with the current US President Barack Obama thanked him over the years of collaboration and invited him to visit Russia, TASS reports . “I thanked him over the years of joint work and said that at any time, if he considers it possible and there will be necessity and desire, we will be glad to see him in Russia,” Putin emphasized. The leaders of the countries discussed the situation in Syria and Ukraine.

In France, seven people were detained in the framework of the anti -terrorist raid on suspicion of preparing the attack. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France Bernard Pod, BFMTV reports. “The new attack was prevented. The scale of the terrorist threat is huge, we cannot provide a zero risk of danger, despite everything that we are doing, ”admitted execution. Among the detainees were the French, as well as immigrants from Morocco and Afghanistan.

The structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs prepare a revision of the current GOSTs of automobile and motorcycle numbers. It is reported by Kommersant. For motor vehicles, it is planned to reduce the size of the license plates. Owners of American and Japanese cars can give out numbers of a new format that resemble motorcycle. Retro and sports machines can get their own state digits.

The states of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) reached an agreement on the extension of antiprotectionist measures until 2020 at the summit, Interfax reports. “We again emphasize our determination to maintain the openness of our markets and counteract any forms of protectionism, confirming our commitment to the fight against protectionism by introducing a moratorium on protectionist measures,” the declaration adopted by the heads of APEC countries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the difficulties of concluding a peace treaty with Japan and readiness to discuss various options for solving the problem of controversial Kuril Islands, Interfax reports. Russia and Japan “want to conclude a peace treaty” and are looking for ways to solve this problem, Putin noted. “I would really not want to run ahead on the issue of the main problem we are involved in preparing and signing a peace treaty.

The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova, was included in the list of “inspirational and influential” women of 2016, compiled by the BBC. “The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry is the first woman in the history of the department to take this post. She impresses her aggressive and vivid style, ”says Zakharova’s profile from the radio station rating.