145 years ago, on October 12, 1871, U.S. President Ulysses Grant signed a law passed by Congress to ban the Ku Klux Klan, a racist organization that terrorized blacks and local authorities in the South. The law gave the president the power to revoke the right of personal immunity and resort to arms to uphold the laws, as "members of the Klan break into black homes to rob, rape, and kill law-abiding citizens." Nine counties in North and South Carolina were placed under state of siege.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo It seems that the Komsomol members are behind time. They got lost and lost somewhere at the beginning of the damned nineties, if not at the end of the eighties of the twentieth century. Then one could still worry that "the theme of the political repressions of the past ...

Fasting coal miners of Primorye. Photo: Vestiprim.ru Employees of the Luchegorsk coal section in Primorye stopped the hunger strike after the meeting of the conciliation commission with the management of the enterprise. According to Interfax, this was stated by the chairman of the Coordinating Council of organizations of the trade union of the Pozharsky district Sergey Belyakov. "The commission participants signed a protocol in which all the requirements of the workers are spelled out," he said.

Yukos logo The Ministry of Justice appealed to the Constitutional Court with a request for the possibility of enforcing the decision of the ECHR in the Yukos case. This was reported on the website of the department. The request was prepared on the basis of the withdrawal of the Ministry of Justice on the impossibility of executing the decision of the ECHR, as well as the conclusions of the Federal Bailiff Service and the Federal Tax Service.

After a search in the house of Rustem Ismailov. Photo by Gulsum Aliyeva In the village of Stroganovka under Simferopol and the Simferopolsky microdistrict Kamenka, five defendants in the new, fourth, the affairs of the Crimean Muslims were detained. This was reported by the Crimean human rights group with reference to the lawyer Emil Kurbedinov. All detainees are charged with participation in the activities of Hizb Ut-Tahrir.

Vitaly Mutko. Photo: Sport.kazanfirst.ru The Ministry of Sports will receive new powers during the reform. This was stated by Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko, Interfax reports . "In general, we proceed from the fact that the president determines the structure and management of the federal authorities. In our history it has already been: from 2008 to 2012 there was a Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy. Two agencies worked as part of it.

Varvara Karaulova in the Lefortovo District Court, 10/28/2015. Photo of the press service of the court The Moscow District Military Court refused to release from the arrest a student of Moscow State University Alexander Ivanov (Barbar Karaulov), accused of trying to join the Islamic State terrorist organization. This is reported by Interfax. The judicial board rejected the petition of the lawyer of the defendant Sergei Badamshin.

Ruslan Shamsuarov. Photo: Instagrammi.ru The state prosecution asked to be sentenced to 2 years to 2 years 7 months in prison of the liberty of three young people who arranged a race with police on the streets of Moscow on Gelendvagen in May. According to Interfax, according to the prosecution, one of the participants in the race, the son of the Vice President of Lukoil Ruslan Shamsuarov, deserves two years and one month prison for insulting a police officer and a threat of violence.

Date Center. Photo: ktelecom.by In Russia, the possibility of creating a register of domestic telecommunications and IT equipment is considered, the Vedomosti reports . Such a proposal is included in the draft roadmap "Providing sovereignty in the field of information technology and telecommunications." The register, according to calculations in the roadmap, will be formed until the end of 2017.

Vladimir Putin. Photo of the Kremlin press service Dialogue C with the administration of US President Barack Obama is difficult to lead, because he is more like an attempt by the American side to impose his conditions. This was stated by Vladimir Putin at the Forum of VTB "Russia Calls", TASS reports . “You know, it is very difficult to conduct a dialogue with the current administration. After all, there is practically no dialogue. What does it look like?

Dmitry Demushkin. Photo by Evgenia Mikheeva/Brani.ru Employees of the Investigative Committee, investigating the case against the former leader of the prohibited ethnopolitical association "Russian" Dmitry Demushkin, decided to appoint him a psychological and psychiatric examination. Demushkin reported this by Gazeta.ru.

Khmeimim air base. Photo: mil.ru The Federation Council ratified the Russian-Syrian agreement on the unlimited deployment of the Russian Air groups in Syria. According to Interfax, 158 members of the upper house voted for such a decision, one refrained. The document regulates the conditions of the unlimited location of the Russian air group in Syria.

Anton Siluanov. Photo: minfin.ru The government will reduce expenses and occupy more in the domestic market in order to maintain a reserve fund. This was announced at the Forum "Russia Calls" Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov, reports TASS. Russia must save its reserves in the next three years, the minister emphasized. “We cannot endlessly spend our reserves. The structure of sources of financing: two -thirds are a reserve fund, one third is internal borrowing and privatization.

John Podest. Photo: AmericanProgress.org The FBI will investigate the facts of hacking the e -mail of John Podesta, the head of the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton. It is reported by the Voice of America. According to the pancreatic, the actions of the FBI will become part of a wider investigation of hacks of computer systems of the Democratic Party, which is suspected of Russia.

Launch of the MBR "Sineva". Photo: mil.ru The Russian Ministry of Defense reported three launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles made on Wednesday. This is reported by Interfax. The first launch was made from the water area of ​​the Sea of ​​Okhotsk by the atomic underwater rocket launcher of the Pacific Fleet "George the Victorious" as part of the final measures of combat training for the Chije training ground in the north of Russia. "The launch was made from the underwater position.