"Admiral Kuznetsov." Photo: mil.ru The Ministry of Defense plans to halve the financing of the repair and modernization of the heavy aircraft -carcass cruiser Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union of the Kuznetsov. This is reported by Interfax with reference a source familiar with the situation. "Instead of previously planned about 50 billion rubles for work, it is planned to allocate approximately half of the previously declared amount," the source said.

120 years ago, on October 7, 1897, the Bund was created in Vilna (Vilnius) - the All-Russian Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia. This Marxist organization advocated the socialization of the means of production, the democratization of the Russian Empire, national and cultural autonomy for Eastern European Jewry, the creation of a secular education system, the development of culture in the Yiddish language, and was against the emigration of Jews to Palestine.

Forty years ago, on October 7, 1977, the constitution of the USSR was adopted, replacing the Stalinist constitution of 1936. It had the same pseudo-democratic character and emphasized even more the leading role of the Communist Party. The changes were purely cosmetic. So, labor collectives were recognized as public organizations with the formal right to nominate candidates for government bodies, and the councils of workers' deputies were renamed councils of people's deputies.

Vyacheslav Ivanov. Photo: tvkultura.ru An outstanding Russian encyclopedist scientist, linguist, academician Vyacheslav Ivanov died. He was 88 years old. Ivanova was reported about the death of Journalist Masha Slonim.

An inconsistent action in support of Alexei Navalny in the center of Moscow ended without mass detentions. About 18:00 Moscow time, the headquarters of the politician announced the end of protest in the capital. According to the correspondent of the "faces", about two thousand demonstrators entered the action. It is known about two detainees. According to the ATS-Info, Karim Ebutalybov hit Pushkinskaya Square in Avtozak.

Vasily Gritsak. SCU video frame The Security Service of Ukraine managed to establish the individuals of 1570 militants of the private military company Wagner, who fought in the Donbass on the side of pro -Russian separatists. This was stated by the head of the special services Vasily Gritsak, according to the website of the department. According to him, more than 5 thousand mercenaries consist of PMCs in total.

Alexander Skobov. Courtesy Photo "Now the Power is the Kremlin, Putin - no matter how you call it, they accustom us to the fact that the very fact of participation in the elections" without coordination and preliminary permission "is a strange, exotic, irrational action," says Navalny’s headquarters . More precisely, I accustomed it. I accustomed to the fact that without its preliminary approval and permission, one cannot participate in the elections.

Protest on Tverskaya 07/07/2017. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru On October 7, people took to the streets on the call of Alexei Navalny. The opposition candidate for president and the head of his headquarters Leonid Volkov himself is sitting under arrest. In Moscow, a walk in Tverskaya was peacefully ( Video ), a large group of activists decided to stay at night with the Kremlin. In St. Petersburg - hard acceleration, there are wounded. Throughout the country - detention, fines, searches, threats.