Natalia Magnitskaya. Photo by Elena Sannikova The mother of Sergei Magnitsky appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, the press service of the Open Society fund reports . A detailed complaint filed on Wednesday to the legal initiative “Open Society Justice Intelligence) claims that the Russian law enforcement agencies manipulated the criminal process in order to force her son to be silent.

Nikolai Petrov The elections held on Sunday should have an answer to a number of questions important for the political regime, and above all, to the question of whether it is possible to live on without serious changes in the electoral and wider, political system - without large -scale political modernization. The Duma elections that have passed less than a year ago and the political protests that began after them demonstrated a crisis of confidence in power by society.

Sergey Magnitsky. Photo from the site www.russian-untouchables.com The psychiatrist Vitaly Kornilov, who came on call in the Sailor Sailure pre-trial detention center for examining Sergei Magnitsky, at a court meeting excluded the presence of a psychosis of the deceased lawyer before his death and convicted Alexander Gauss, in a lie. This was reported by RAPSI.

Sylvia Kristel. Poster Fragment "Emmanuel-2" The Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel died in Utrecht at the 61st year of her life, RIA Novosti reports. In recent years, the actress had serious health problems. For many years she suffered from laryngeal cancer, she also found metastases in the liver. In June, after the next course of chemotherapy, the actress suffered a stroke. Cristel began his career as a model.

On October 18 at 18:00, another rally "Occupy the Investigative Committee" will be held near the building of the Investigative Committee under the slogan "Freedom for political prisoners! Stop persecuting the opposition!" The action will be held at the address: Technical lane, 2 in the format of a picket or a meeting with a deputy. Promotion page on Facebook Actions "Occupy SK" are held on the initiative of Sergei Udaltsov in support of the accused in the "Bolotnaya case".

Smoker. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The government approved the anti -tobacco bill, RIA Novosti reports. There were no objections from government members. In the near future it will be entered into the State Duma. “Decisions need to be made, we need to move in a civilized direction as the whole world does,” said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, summing up the results of the discussion. On Tuesday, Medvedev placed a video dedicated to the bill in his video blog.

Konstantin Lebedev. Photo from a personal page on Facebook The activist of the Russian socialist movement Konstantin Lebedev was charged as part of a criminal case of preparation for the organization of riots, reports the TFR. Lebedev was charged with committing a crime under paragraph 1 of Article 30, part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code.

On October 18, 1977, members of the West German Levoradical Terrorist Organization “Red Army faction” Andreas Baader, Yan-Karl Razpe and Gudrun Enslin committed suicide in the Staghim Stuttgart prison in protest against the harsh conditions of detention, ensuring the complete isolation of the concluded from each other. The leader Raf Ulrika Minhof committed suicide earlier, on May 8, 1976, hanging in the same prison.

Alexey Navalny and Nikita Belykh on the hunt. Photo from Navalny blog The Department of Economic Security of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central District conducted a check of the possible the Governor of the Kirov Region by Nikita White means of the Union of Right Forces through Navalny in 2007. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to a source in the police. In 2007, the White was the leader of the party.

Frame from the film "Anatomy of Protest-2" on NTV NTV journalists received a video of the meeting of Sergei Udaltsov and his associates, which was used in the film "Anatomy of Protest-2", from "Unknown Georgian" on the street. According to Gazeta.ru, this was stated by the head of the NTV program "Investigation" Alexei Malkov, who witnessed a witness to consider a preventive measure for the activist of the Left Front Konstantin Lebedev.

Vitautas Landsbergis. Photo: vtv.lt 80 years ago, on October 18, 1932, Vitautas Landsbergis was born in the family of the famous architect Vitautas Landsbergis Zhiamkalnis. Landsbergis is the leader of the Popular Front of Lithuania “Sayudis”, the last chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania and the first chairman of the restored Sejm of the Republic of Lithuania, now a deputy of the European Parliament.

Check for $ 7,200,000 145 years ago, on October 18, 1867, Alaska was officially transferred to the United States after paying $ 7.2 million. Until now, there are many critics of buying Alaska in America, since today this is the second in the degree of subsidiary US staff after Nevada. In Russia, the belief is still widespread that Alaska was not sold, but only leased to the United States and therefore it must be returned.

The judge of the Basmann district court of Moscow Irina Skuridina arrested an activist of the Russian socialist movement of Konstantin Lebedev until December 16, RIA Novosti reports. Lebedev was charged with committing a crime under paragraph 1 of Article 30, part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code as part of a criminal case on the preparation for the organization of riots. The accused may hide from the investigation or bring the criminal intent to the end, the investigator said.

Sergey Krivov in Bolotnaya Square. NEVEXTV shooting frame used on the SKR website In the "Swamp case" the 18th suspect was detained - political activist Sergei Krivov. As reported on the website of the Investigative Committee, he will be charged under Part 2 of Art. 212 and Part 1 of Art. 318 of the Criminal Code (participation in the riots and the application of violence to a representative of the authorities).

The building of the Khamovnichesky Court. Frame NTV The Khamovnican Court of Moscow will not consider the defense of the defense of the sentence to the participants of the Pussy Riot punk group Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, sentenced to two years in prison for punk-graben in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, RIA Novosti reports. "The petition of lawyers for the provision of deferrals was returned in connection with the inability," the courts said in court.