The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry of 2018 became Francis H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter. Arnold received a prize from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences for the directed evolution of enzymes, Smith and Winter - for the phage display of peptides and antibodies.

Former Deputy Prime Minister, member of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Chess Federation, Arkady Dvorkovich, won the election of the President of the International Chess Federation, RIA Novosti reports. In the election of President FIDE, representatives of the chess federations of 185 countries vote, each of which manages one vote. Four more countries - Antigua and Barbud, Haiti, Bulgaria and Serbia - do not have votes.

President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko and appointed the acting head of the city of his envoy to the NWFO Alexander Beglov. Poltavchenko will now lead the united shipbuilding corporation. The next personnel permits The Insider was commented by the head of the Political Expert Group Konstantin Kalachev .

The former owner of Uralkalia, a possible defendant in the case of Russia's interference in the American elections, Dmitry Rybolovlev filed a lawsuit against New York to the Sotheby= auction house, accusing him of "substantial assistance of the largest artillery in history." This was reported by Bloomberg. According to the billionaire, the auction house helped the Swiss art dealer Iv Buvier sell works of art at an inflated price to the Russian billionaire.

About 1 thousand people are evacuated from the building of Moscow State University due to a small fire. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the source. “There was a sunbathing in the basement, garbage burned, a fire was eliminated,” he said. According to him, about 1 thousand people were evacuated from the building after the alarm.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia opened a criminal case against the tour operator "Natalie Tours". This was told by the official representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Alexander Kurennaya, on the air of the Radio “Says Moscow”. “Based on the materials of the prosecutor’s audit today, our colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under the article fraud,” he said.

Scientists from the All-Indian Institute of Medical Sciences have found that over the past six years, at least 259 people have died in the world over the past six years. It is reported by Washington Post. Researchers studied the statistics of the death of people during a selfie from October 2011 to November 2017.

The British grandmaster Nigel Short announced the withdrawal of his candidacy from the elections of the President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE). With such a statement, Short spoke at the FIDE Congress in Batumi. In his election speech, Short expressed support to another candidate for the post of head of FIDE and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Chess Federation Arkady Dvorkovich.

The United States will terminate the friendship agreement with Iran from 1955. According to the Associated Press, this was stated by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Thus, Washington reacted to the decision of the International Court of the UN, which obliged the United States to remove from Iran part of the sanctions related to the supply of humanitarian aid and spare parts for civil aviation.

The Moscow CSKA defeated Madrid's Real Madrid in the second match of the Champions League group stage. The account in the second minute of the match was opened by the Croatian midfielder Nikola Vlasich. After the missed ball, Real Madrid had the initiative until the end of the match, but he could not recoup. Twice the gates of CSKA after the blows of the Spanish football players were saved by the bar.

The Armenian parliament refused to hold early elections this year. It is reported by Interfax. Three of the four fractions spoke for an extraordinary vote in April 2019. Thus, the Republican Party, the party "Dashnaktsutyun" and "prosperous Armenia" opposed the proposal of Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan to hold extraordinary elections to December. Party representatives suggested appointing them for May next year.

The court in Karelia sent the historian Sergei Koltyrin under the arrest of the historian. He is accused of a pedophilia case. Koltyrin brought official charges of depraved actions committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. The arrest was authorized until November 27, 2018. Sergey Koltyrin is the director of the Museum of Local Lore in Medvezhyegorsk, who is responsible for the state of the Sandarmokh forest, where mass burials of the mid -20th century are located.

The Crimean enterprise “Friendship of Peoples”, which appeared in the investigation of the Corruption Fund on the supply of food supplies of the Russian Guard, sued Alexei Navalny, Interfax reports . The investigation stated that the meat processing plant, which received the exclusive right to supply products for the Russian Guard, overstates purchase prices.

The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan dismissed ministers-representatives of the Parties Dashnaktsutyun and Prosperous Armenia, Aizer reports. The Dashnaktsutyun party has two ministers and two governors in the Pashinyan government, the “prosperous Armenia” has four ministers and two governors. Earlier, Pashinyan said that the forces that voted for the bill on amendments to the law on parliament announced a counter -revolution.

The December Brent oil futures on the London Exchange exceeded $ 86 per barrel, RBC reports with reference to trading data on the ICE exchange. The last time the threshold of $ 86 per barrel Brent overcame on November 3, 2014. Analysts associate an increase in oil prices with the prospect of introducing US sanctions against Iran’s energy sector.