Member of the Minsk rally against the Russian air base in Belarus. Photo: nn.by In Minsk, a rally was held against the planned opening of the Russian air base in Belarus. It is reported by "Our Niva". About 500 people took part in an inconsistent campaign at the Town Hall on Freedom Square.

Oleg Kashin in the hospital. Frame of the Rain TV channel Oleg Kashin, in an open letter to Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, directly accused them of covering the Pskov governor Andrei Turchak, who, as allowed to conclude the materials of the investigation, is a customer of the attempt to kill a journalist.

Su-25 attack aircraft. Photo by Vitaly Kuzmina/Wikipedia Over the past day, Russian Su-24M and Su-34 bombers, as well as the Su-25 attack aircraft located at the Khmeimim air base south of Latakia, made 20 raids for 10 objects in Syria. This day on Sunday was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense. It is claimed that all the goals that were bombarded belonged to the Islamic State.

Vladimir Putin and Hyder al-Abadi. Photo: kremlin.ru The Iraqi government approved the intention of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to invite Russian aviation to strikes the objects of the Islamic State. According to the Iranian agency "Al-Alam", the prime minister made such a statement on Saturday at a press conference in Baghdad. Hyder also announced the readiness of Iraq to share intelligence information about the IG with Russia, Iran and Syria.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo with personal VK page The FSB aroused the second "extremist" case against the Kursk left activist Sergei Lavrov. This was reported on her page on VKontakte colleague Lavrov from Krasnodar Daria Polyudova. This case, like the first, is open under part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism), which provides for up to five years of the colony. This time, Lavrov is pursued for repost in VKontakte Polyudova’s recording Putin!

TCR. Photo: Sledcom.ru The TFR is trying to find the Kadyrovsets Ruslan Geremeyev and his driver Ruslan Mukhudinov in connection with their probable involvement in the murder of the co-chairman of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov. This was reported by Rosbalt with reference to a certain source in law enforcement agencies. In recent weeks, the investigating department sent more than 10 instructions to Chechnya.

The police cordon at the Moldova parliament, 10/04/2015. Photo: Newsmaker.md In Chisinau, on the Square of the Great National Assembly, participants in the protests organized by the civil platform Demnite și Adevăr (DA; Rum. "Dignity and truth") adopted a resolution with the only requirement at the next multi -thousandth rally. The requirement is addressed to the Constitutional Court of Moldova and consists in recognizing the current government illegitimate. It is reported by Newsmaker.

35 years ago, on October 4, 1980, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus Peter Mironovich Masherov died on the Minsk-Moscow highway as a result of a collision of his "Seagulls" with a GAZ-53 dump truck loaded with potatoes. The rumor claimed that this was a planned attempt: Masherov was considered as one of the possible successors of Brezhnev and could be eliminated by other applicants for the throne.

180 years ago, on October 4, 1835, Grigory Nikolaevich Potanin, geographer and writer, researcher of Central Asia were born. In the summer of 1865, he was arrested in the case of the "Society of Independence of Siberia", involved in the court on charges of striving to separate Siberia from Russia and sentenced to three -year hard labor. Potanin actively advocated the creation of the Siberian Regional Duma and considered Siberia a colony of European Russia.