Gandrick Gondius I. Carnival jesters The Federal Headquarters of the President of the Russian Federation Ksenia Sobchak reports on successes. “Recall,” the staff release writes in a press release, and however, it’s not a sin to recall, we all knew, of course, we just forgot a little bit-that the opening of 7 headquarters and 43 representative offices of Ksenia Sobchak in Russian cities was expected. In all cities, a competition is now being held for the post of head of the headquarters.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia does not have evidence of the conspiracy of the United States and the Islamic State. It is reported by Interfax . “We have no evidence that there was some kind of conspiracy here,” he said. On November 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense wrote on Twitter that the department has an “undeniable confirmation” that the United States covers ISIS units.

In Zimbabwe, on the night of November 15 there was a revolution: the military took custody of the president of the country Robert Mugaba. They themselves refuse to call what happened a coup, emphasizing that this is only an attempt to achieve a peaceful departure of Mugaba from power. Republic briefly describes the situation by this hour. Mugaba refuses to resign. The politician emphasizes that he is the only legitimate ruler of Zimbabwe.

In Japan, the operator managing the TSUKUBA Express railway line apologized for the suburban train went from one of the stations 20 seconds earlier than indicated in the schedule. This is written by BBC News. The high-speed train was supposed to go from the Minom-Nagareyama station at 9:44:40 local time, but instead left at 9:44:20. As the driver later stated, closing the doors, in violation of the instructions he forgot to look at the time score.

I was in Beijing. Photo: Liu Chang / Reuters An hour's drive north of Vancouver once was a landfill of toxic waste. Now there, in a long, similar to the barn, which was used to purify water, is the company Carbon Engineering. It is funded by government grants and private investors, including Bill Gates.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Vada) refused to restore the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) in rights to the 2018 Winter Olympics. This is stated on the Twitter of the organization. The agency considered that the Russian side did not fulfill two criteria for restoration: it did not publicly recognize the conclusions of the investigation of Richard McLaren on the existence of the state doping system and did not open Vada's access to doping industries.

Kaspersky Lab published the final results of the internal investigation conducted after accusations of downloading secret information from the US NSA employee. The company repeated its preliminary conclusions that the files were downloaded by chance, and also stated that there was a series of various viruses on the computer. Secret Anb files were stored in the archive with suspicious software.

The Supreme Court reduced the punishment for a resident of Sochi Inge Tutisani, convicted of SMS to Georgia on the eve of the Russian-Georgian conflict in 2008. It is reported by Interfax . “The Supreme Court changed the verdict by reducing Tutisani punishment from six years of imprisonment to four years and one month of the colony,” the press service of the court said. Tutisani’s lawyer said that she had left almost the entire term and will be released in ten days.

Vladimir Putin and Robert Mugaba, 2015. Photo: Ria Novosti / Reuters Contrary to the widespread opinion, partly inspired by the alarming tonality of the Russian media, we live in a relatively stable political environment. The rulers - both democratic and authoritarian - are quite rare. It is not surprised that when this is still happening in some corner of the world, then many try to try on what is happening on themselves: is this possible in our country?

The newspaper New York Times had to give official explanations after the circulation of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry regarding the map on which Crimea was marked as a disputed territory. The position of the publication is given by RBC. On November 11, in the publication, the material “On Putin’s bridge to Crimea will be more symbolism than movements”. It told about the history of the construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait and analyzed the economic meaning of its construction.

A year after blocking the LinkedIn social network, the number of its users was reduced by 40%, RBC reports with reference to the research of Mediascope and Similarweb. According to MediaScope, the attendance of LinkedIn in September 2016 amounted to 2.3 million people, and in September 2017 it fell by 39% to 1.4 million users. At the same level, traffic was immediately after blocking in December 2016, then 1.5 million people visited the site in a month (2.6 million in November).

The London Theater "Old Vick" conducted its own investigation and learned about 20 cases of harassment by Kevin Spacey, who was the artistic director from 2004 to 2015. This is written by the Guardian newspaper. Cases of harassment were until 2013, most of them took place until 2009. “This is extremely unacceptable,“ Old Vick ”apologizes for not being able to create an atmosphere or culture in which people could speak freely,” the newspaper quotes the theater’s statement quoted.

The economy, according to the official estimates of the Kremlin and the government, is on the rise today. But reality continues to contrast with the victorious relations of the authorities about the country's exit from the crisis. Another reminder, as things really are, is a fresh assessment of the well -being of the corporate sector.

Italy for the first time since 1946 had its own official anthem - “Italians' Song,” reports the Italian news agency ANSA. Previously, the same composition was used, but as a temporary and under a different name - “the brothers of Italy”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfrnis8ak2q In 1847, the words to the "song of Italians" were written by 20-year-old Goffred Mameli, music-Michele Navaro.

In the United States, journalist Masha Hessen received the National Book Award for the book “The Future is History. How totalitarianism again won Russia ”(The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia). This was reported on the Prize website. Hesse won the non-fiction category.