The US government announced on October 23 that it was imposing sanctions on 13 companies and organizations from different countries for violating the US Act to Prevent the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction to Iran, Syria and North Korea. Among them is the Russian Rosoboronexport. Now US government organizations will not buy anything from Rosoboronexport for five years or guarantee its loans.

The owner of the opposition website Ingushetiya.Ru, Magomed Evloev, died as a result of an unintentional shot committed through negligence - this is the conclusion the investigation came to. The investigation has officially been completed, charges have been brought against Ibragim Yevloev, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic (namesake), and the case has been transferred to court.

No, we are not talking about a gold chain with a medallion of St. Anne, which was awarded to noble dignitaries, but about the church award “Order of Glory and Honor.” The transfer of this insignia that just took place in Havana from the hands of His Grace Metropolitan Kirill, “Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church,” to four hands, elbow-deep in the blood of the Castro brothers, is like a consolation from the grave to the late V.A.

Honestly, I was extremely surprised when the Kremlin Newsmakers reported the desire of Dmitry Medvedev to speak on October 23 with the annual message to the Federal Assembly. The annual message is a conceptual document, it is prepared for more than one month, amendments and changes to it are made for a long time and painfully. It is clear that Mr. Medvedev would look somewhat strange if these days I read the text that was based on its basis at the end of summer or at the beginning of autumn.

Typically the information flow consists of news. News is like biological organisms. News is born, matures, grows old and dies. But in Russia there is a special kind of news - news that jumps out of nowhere and goes nowhere. Therefore, the reality of Russia for its description requires not only the news that is available. But also the news that is not there. For example, a month ago, stunning news swept across Moscow: a private prison for Ingush was discovered in Serebryany Bor.

On October 24, the Khamovnichesky District Court rejected a complaint against the refusal of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office to consider the issue of rehabilitation of Polish officers.

More than 57 thousand signatures had been collected in support of Svetlana Bakhmina as of October 22. Is this a lot? Few? In any case, it is enough for the action to be talked about, to be discussed, for it to become a social phenomenon from some kind of Internet initiative. I don't like collective letters at all. I always tried to somehow avoid participating in such events, so as not to succumb to the herd instinct, not to disappear into the crowd. Even if the goal seems good.