Russia Today accounts will be closed, Hitler's house will be demolished

Everything you need to know early in the morning of October 18

Good morning!

The details of the murder of the field commander of the Donetsk separatists Arsen Pavlov AKA Motorola became known. In the elevator in which the explosion occurred, Motorola was not alone, but with his guard Teimuraz (“Goga”) Gogiashvili, he also died. What Motorola is known, we read here .

• The leader of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko called the murder of Motorola "declaration of war" by the Ukrainian side.
• The SBU does not exclude that the field commander could liquidate the Russian special services.
• Motorol's comrade -in -arms Mikhail Tolstoy AKA Givi promised to take revenge.
• The former military commandant of Donetsk, and now the head of the modest Russian movement "Novorossiya", Igor Strelkov complained about a sharp reduction in donations from Russia. A three -day mourning was declared in the DPR.
• Deputy Milonov proposed to name one of the patriotic schools of St. Petersburg by the name Motorola.

The public organization Congress of Russian communities of Crimea announced the beginning of the collection of funds for the installation of the monument to Putin . The Russian president will be depicted by the captain over the helm of the ship. The initiators of the project do not believe that the monument will look like a “political deflection” or “lyzobate”.

In Omsk, the production of rock opera "Jesus Christ-Superstar" was canceled . The reason was the complaint of the public movement "Family, Love, Fatherland", whose activists consider the rock opera "continuous blasphemy and violation of sacred meanings."

If you are not signed at 7:40, now it's time to do it - and read more.

News of high -profile trials:

• The case of Gelendvagen races ended with a conviction. The son of President "Lukoil" Ruslan Shamsuarov and his friend Viktor Uskov received 300 hours of compulsory work. The car, on which in May 2016, the company of young people was hiding for several hours from the police pursuit is confiscated in favor of the state.
• The accused of fraud is 2.6 billion rubles. Businessman Sergei Polonsky complained of extortion from colleagues of the former Colonel of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko: "(Dmitry) Zakharchenko is one of the copies that worked on economic issues and held the common fund, one of the common funds." It did not help, Polonsky was left in custody.

Margarita Simonyan said the editor -in -chief of the Russian Today channel that Natwest stopped serving the accounts of the TV channel. The Russian Foreign Ministry immediately accused Britain of violating freedom of speech, since the closure of accounts entails "insurmountable obstacles" for the work of the channel in the country. The representative of the Prime Minister of Great Britain said that the decision to block the accounts of the Russia Today television channel is in the competence of the bank.

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation predicts that GDP will decline. But the secret budget expenditures feel good and this year increased by 800 billion rubles. The Minister of Finance explained that the money would go to the needs of the Ministry of Defense. That is, including Syria.

The actions of diplomats around the situation in Syria yesterday developed mainly in the epistolary genre. The European Union directly accused the Syrian government forces and the Russian Air Force of "sights" in schools and hospitals in Aleppo, which can be regarded as war crimes. The head of the EU foreign policy, Federica Mogherini, called on Russia and the Syrian government to stop the shelling of Aleppo. The Russian General Staff announced the so -called "humanitarian pause" in Aleppo on October 20. The Russian Ambassador to the UK wrote an open letter to parliamentarians on the Syrian issue. In it, Yakovenko responded to London's accusations of deliberate strike at the civilian population in Syria. Briefly: you have no evidence, we will continue in the same spirit.

The deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Ryabkov, preceding the possible introduction of sanctions against Russia in connection with the war in Syria, threatened that the response of Moscow would not be "not mirror", but "asymmetric". The inhabitants of Voronezh shuddered again.

Culture news:

• The house in the Austrian city of Brownow-on-Inna, where Adolf Hitler was born, will be demolished .
• The famous multiplier Mikhail Aldashin was fired from the post of Soyuzmultfilm .

Three links about art and politics:

• Mikhail Aldashin about what is happening with the Soyuzmultfilm .
• The story of how the great novels of the twentieth century were censored . In the United States, Remarc’s novel “On the Western Front without Changes” gracefully edited before the publication, deleting several strong expressions and two episodes entirely (in one it was about the sex of the hero and his wife, in the other about the features of the camps of the camps for soldiers). Publishers bashfully explained that "some words and expressions are too rude to our American reader."
• Interview with the laureate of the Pulitzer Prize David Hoffman for the book about the last stage of the Cold War "Dead Hand".

Sincerely yours,

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