Day: December 3, 2021

In St. Petersburg, science fiction writer Andrei Izmailov died at the age of 68 In St. Petersburg, science fiction writer, journalist Andrei Izmailov died at the age of 68. This was announced by politician Boris Vishnevsky on his VKontakte page. “Friends, it’s a rainy day for Russian science fiction: Andrei Balabukha left yesterday, and today Andrei Izmailov. Two of my comrades, two long-term participants in the famous seminar of Boris Strugatsky. Blessed memory to both and my condolences to family and friends, ”wrote Vishnevsky. Andrey Narimanovich Izmailov was born in Baku in 1953. In 1981 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Leningrad State University. Since 1979, he has been a member of the Leningrad Science Fiction Writers Seminar led by Boris Strugatsky. He became widely known in the late 1980s as the author of intellectual thrillers. In 1986 he received the Sibkona Prize in the category “Most

UFC fighter Khamzat Chimaev responded to Nate Diaz, who called the Chechen a newbie Diaz in his address, who refused a potential fight with him. The post is available on Twitter. The 27-year-old native of Chechnya responded harshly to the American athlete. “You are a fake gangster. I don't care who I go up against. I have come for each of you. Where have all these gangsters and kings gone? ” – wrote Chimaev after Diaz's words in an interview with TMZ. 36-year-old Diaz previously rejected the opportunity to fight a Chechen in the framework of the Absolute Fighting Championship (UFC). The star of the promotion called Chimaev a rookie. Earlier, the head of the UFC, Dane White, expressed interest in the confrontation between Diaz and Chimaev. The Chechen fighter has four victories in the UFC. All of them were won ahead of schedule. Chimaev has repeatedly challenged the eminent

Director Scott sent critic Dolin in an interview in response to a comment about The Last Duel »Anton Dolin has published a new episode of the Radio Dolin program on YouTube. He dedicated the program to the work of British filmmaker Ridley Scott, who shot the first part of Alien, Gladiator, Blade Runner, Martian and other films. In the Dolin program he examined Scott's work through three roles – “Science fiction writer”, “historian” and “our contemporary”. In addition, the film critic revealed the principles of the director's work with the artists. Also for the release of Dales, he interviewed Scott himself. The film critic noted that the film “The Last Duel” has much more realism than the previous works of the director – “Robin Hood” and “Kingdom of Heaven.” In response to this comment, Scott swore at the interlocutor and sent him. “I went to ***”, – said the director.

Head of the Federal Republic of Germany Schwezig: US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 are absolutely unreasonable Prime Minister of the Federal State of Mecklenburg Manuela Schwezig, in an interview with Spiegel, considered it unreasonable to prepare new US sanctions against Nord Stream 2. In her opinion, the gas pipeline has nothing to do with foreign policy issues. The head of one of the regions of Germany added that she was confused by the newly raised topic of restrictions by Congress in light of the fact that the German government reached an agreement with the American authorities that there will be no new sanctions against German companies. “Permits for the pipeline were obtained through legal means. It cannot be that there were threats of sanctions between friends. This is absolutely unreasonable, and I really hope that these attempts to challenge the agreement between the federal government and the US government