White House The government postponed an increase in the minimum wage from January 1, 2017 to July 1. This is reported by Interfax. Then the minimum wage will be raised by 4 percent - from the current 7,500 rubles to 7800. As the head of the Ministry of Labor Maxim Topilin explained, 4 percent is the forecast level of inflation in the next year. As RBC noted , the last four years have been raised from January 1, and by a larger value.

Soviet military base in Cuba. Photo: Dela.ru Moscow does not negotiate with Gavana to restore the Russian military base on the territory of Cuba. As Interfax reports, a source in the Foreign Ministry said this. "We do not have military bases in Latin America, we do not open them and do not negotiate on this subject, including with Cuba. We will not open new bases, but our fleet requires offspring," the agency’s interlocutor said. “We don’t have our own point in Cuba, there is a port there.

Zhanna Tsirikhova and Ella Kesaeva. Photo from FB page Elena Kostyuchenko The Supreme Court of North Ossetia replaced the chairman of the Beslan Voice Committee Ella Kesaeva 20 hours of compulsory work, appointed to her for the anniversary of the Beslan tragedy, a fine of 10 thousand rubles. It is reported by the "Caucasian Knot".

One hundred years ago, on October 20, 1916, the flagship dreadnought "Empress Maria" exploded in Sevastopol. 225 people were killed, another 85 sailors were seriously injured. The most likely cause of the disaster, the commission of inquiry called spontaneous combustion of gunpowder or careless handling of fire, which caused a fire in the bow cellar and an explosion of gunpowder and shells in it. The possibility of sabotage was not ruled out.

Angel Merkel. Photo: www.sooddeutsche.de The Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel did not exclude the introduction of new EU sanctions against Russia. According to the German Wave, she stated this at the end of a tripartite meeting with the participation of the presidents of France and Russia in Berlin. According to Merkel, Russia is of great responsibility for actions in Syria.

OSCE observers in eastern Ukraine. Photo: Pravda.com.ua Russia agreed to the presence of the OSCE armed mission in the Donbass. According to RIA Novosti, this was based on the results of the meeting of the Norman Four by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. "We will now try to introduce the armed, we call it a police officer, the OSCE mission, which will ensure security both during the electoral process and in the transitional period," Poroshenko said.

Management of the Investigative Committee of Tataria. Photo: "Yandex.Maters" In Tataria, eight people were detained in the case of the Organization of Tables Jamaat prohibited in Russia. This was reported by the regional headquarters of the TFR. The department will insist on the arrest of the detainees. According to Interfax-Volga region with reference to the FSB in Tataria, the case was opened on October 13 by the Naberezhnye City Gorothel of the TFR.

Jan Petrovsky in Ukraine. Source: nrk.no In the Norwegian city of Tensberg, the administrative center Fyulka Westfall, was detained by 29-year-old Russian citizen Jan Petrovsky, who participated in the war in eastern Ukraine on the side of the militants. This was reported on Wednesday by NRK. Armed police officers detained the Russian in his house on Tuesday evening. He did not show resistance.

The Norman four at negotiations in Berlin, 10/19/2016. Photo: @dimsmirnov175 In Berlin, negotiations in the Norman format with the participation of the leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia ended. It is reported by Ukrinform. The meeting began at about 19:30 Moscow time and continued with a break of about five hours.

Umaral Nazarov. Photo from the site aif.ru The St. Petersburg head of the Investigative Committee closed "Due to the lack of an event of the crime" The case of the death of the five -month son of the Tajik migrants Umarali Nazarov last year. This was reported on the website of the department. The case was open exactly a year ago, on October 20, 2015.

The Berlin negotiations of European leaders with Putin were accompanied by protests of the Syrians. In Paris, where Putin never reached, Ukrainian and Syrian activists held a joint picket near the Foreign Ministry. Syrians and Ukrainians: "Putin - killer"

Regiment in a Russian bookstore. Photo: 112.international The Verkhovna Rada intends to introduce a permits for the import of books printed in Russia, as well as imported from the territory of temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. According to "112 Ukraine", the corresponding government bill was adopted by deputies in the first reading. Publishing products can be imported into the customs territory of Ukraine only with the appropriate permission.

Lenur Islyamov. Photo: krymr.com The Peresvet bank, the largest shareholder of which is the Russian Orthodox Church, financed the structures of businessman Lenur Islyamov, one of the organizers of the energy blockade of Crimea. Forbes writes about this, referring to his own sources and data from the SPARK database. According to one of the interlocutors of the publication, it is with the financial problems of the bank that, from Monday, has limited the issuance of money to customers, from Monday.

Russian Embassy in Washington. Photo: Loc.gov The US State Department refused Russian diplomats to observe the progress of the presidential election. As Izvestia writes , this was reported in the Central Election Commission. The initiative was shown by the Russian Embassy in Washington, proposing to send their diplomats to polling stations.

The Logo of the Khaker Group Fancy Bear The hacker group of Fancy Bear, allegedly related to the GRU, previously attacked the accounts of the participants of the "Anonymous International" - a community publishing the correspondence of Russian officials on the Shaltai -Boltai blog. This was reported in the investigation of experts of the Slovak company ESET - developer of programs to protect information, including NOD32 antivirus.