Bashar Assad and Vladimir Putin. Kremlin, 10/20/2015. Photo: kremlin.ru Russia convinces the Syrian dictator Bashar al -Assad to hold early presidential elections. This was reported by Bloomberg with reference to a large Russian official who wished to remain unnamed. As the interlocutor of the publication explained, Assad will confirm his legitimacy with a victory in the extraordinary elections and will receive more reason to ignore the United States and their allies who require his resignation.

Amiran Georgadze. Photo from the site mvd.ru The Grandmother's court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Shot Elizbarashvili, Interfax reports . He is suspected of complicity to the entrepreneur Amiran Georgadze, who is wanted for four killings in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. Elizbarashvili, who worked with Georgadze as a driver and guard, said he was not hiding from the investigation, but voluntarily appeared to the police .

Nadezhda Savchenko in court, 09/29/2015. Photo by Igor Khoroshilova/Grani.ru The collegium of the Donetsk district court of the Rostov region as part of Leonid Stepanenko (chairman), Ali Khaibulaev and Evgenia Chernysh refused to defend Nadezhda Savchenko in the request to interrogate seven witnesses in the case of two militants of the LPR battalion of the Lunar and five Lugansk doctors. It is reported by the "Caucasian Knot".

Vladimir Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru The rating of approval of the activities of President Vladimir Putin set a new record - 89.9 percent, the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion reports . This is at eight tenths of percent higher than the previous maximum recorded in July. VTsIOM sociologists associate a new record with the Russian air operation in Syria. This event was called the main 26 percent of respondents over the past week.

Petro Poroshenko. Photo: President.gov.ua Ukraine will appeal to the International Court to achieve from Russia the return of gas deposits in the Black Sea off the coast of the annexed Crimea. This was stated by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, speaking at the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, the press service of the head of state reports . "We must restore the Ukrainian oil and gas industry.

Former headquarters of Yukos. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The punishment of Russia in connection with the failure to fulfill the decision of the ECHR in the Yukos case has not yet been going on. This was stated by the Director of the General Directorate for Human Rights and the Supreme of the Rights of the Council of Europe, Philip Buay, Interfax reports.

European Commission. Photo: ec.europa.eu Banks and other financial companies of the European Union are prohibited from conducting analytical research of Russian credit organizations that have fallen under the sanctions. This is stated in explanations of the European Commission on issues of sanctions in the banking sector. Despite the fact that the publication of analytical reviews is not formally considered a consulting service, such reports give indirect tips.

October 22 at 19:00 Sakharov Center and the Information and Analytical Center "Sova" invite you to a panel discussion "Xenophobic and nationalist moods of Russians in 2015. Presentation and discussion of the research results of the Levada Center”.

Golden mask. Photo from the site www.goldenmask.ru In connection with the acute situation around the Golden Mask, the initiative group announced the creation of an independent Association of Theater Critics, the press release published on the Theater release said on the website. Signatures under the document are more than a hundred critics from different cities of Russia.

145 years ago, on October 22, 1870, the Russian writer Ivan Alekseevich Bunin was born, the Nobel Laureate in the 1933 Literature Prize "For strict skills with which he develops the traditions of Russian classical prose." During the Second World War, Bunin and his wife Vera Nikolaevna covered at least three Jews in her house in the south of France. In the spring of this year, it was proposed to them to award the title of "righteous of the peoples of the world."

Istanbul. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The Istanbul police during two operations that were not interconnected detained the Chechen and 11 Dagestanis suspected of involvement in the activities of the Islamic State. It is reported by Hürriyet Daily News. The first of the operations took place on October 20 in the area of ​​Buyukkekmed. In the course of it, someone was detained by Mohamed al-Khazh S., whom the security forces call one of the leaders of the IG in Chechnya.

The construction of the road for "night wolves". Photo: krylatskoe.com In Moscow, the civil activist Andrei Seregin, who was the first to discover the illegal road in the Moskvoretsky Park built for the Prochrevsky bike club. This was reported by the chairman of the Yabloko party Sergey Mitrokhin. Two unknown people attacked Seregin near his house when he returned from a meeting with the head of the Krylatskoye district council. At the same time, the activist was not robbed.

Office of the Investigative Committee of Moscow. Photo: "Yandex-Panorama" The court in Moscow sentenced Maxim Yaryshkin, one of the defendants in the case of the Nationalist Movement "Attack", by two years conditionally. This was reported on the website of the capital's head of the TFR.

Emblem "Hizb Ut-Tahrir" (fragment) In the Moscow region, the CPE, together with the FSB, detained a certain native of Tajikistan, who is allegedly headed by one of the capital's cells Hizb Ut-Tahrir. This was reported by TASS with reference to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Elena Alekseev. The official did not specify the name of the suspect, noting only that he was 25 years old.

The Gromadske TB channel began broadcasting shortly before Euromaidan. Actually, Euromaidan himself began with the Facebook post of the then leading "Gromadsky", and today the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Mustafa Nayim. All the events of the revolution and war, the journalists of the "Gromadsky" lived with their viewers, through personal experience. One of the creators of the Gromadsky TB Roman Skrypin told about journalistic work with volunteers and the formation of civil society in Ukraine.