Alexander Bastrykin. Photo of the press service of the TFR The moratorium on the death penalty can be canceled in Russia only following the results of the referendum. This was stated by the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, answering questions after a lecture at the Moscow State Law University, the press service of the TFR reports .

Picket in the Crimea. Photo from the FB page "Crimean solidarity" Single pickets were held in the annexed Crimea in support of the Muslim Hizb Ut-Tahrir arrested in the new case. This was reported by the Crimean Tatar activist Zair Smedlyaev. "In many regions of Crimea, single pickets under the slogans" Crimean Tatars are not terrorists "," stop the persecution of the Crimean Tatars "," to free all illegally arrested political prisoners.

Twitter logo The Twitter Microblogs service transferred the US Senate Committee on the 2016 account of 2016 to influence the 2016 presidential election. It is reported by Fox News. According to the TV channel, the company activated its efforts to cooperate with investigators after the reproaches of the poverty of the information provided. At the same time, records made from these accounts could be deleted, reports Politico.

Hookers. Helper video Roskomnadzor sent the Administrations of VKontakte and YouTube requirements for the removal of pages with information about “hooking” (traveling outside the trains) and Rufing (ascent to the roof of high buildings). This was reported by the press service of the department.

55 years ago, on October 14, 1962, an American U-2 spy plane spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba. On October 15, CIA analysts found that the photographs showed Soviet R-12 medium-range ballistic missiles (NATO classification - SS-4). On the morning of October 16, the photographs were shown to US President John F. Kennedy. On October 18, the US President was visited by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin.

Vyacheslav Volodin. Photo: duma.gov.ru Russia will refuse to execute the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights if the country does not participate in the choice of judges. This was stated by the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, RBC reports . "If we do not participate in the elections of the judges of the ECHR, the court decisions will not apply to us, since there is no legitimacy of the court, based on the fact that we were not allowed to form this court," said Volodin.

Vladimir Medinsky. Photo: Medinskiy.ru Experts of the Council of the Higher Certificate Commission on History stated by the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky "the absence of basic professional skills of the historian, primarily a scientific source analysis of the sources attracted by him." So the Council commented on his recommendation to deprive the Minister of the Scientific degree of the Doctor of Historical Sciences, the Trinity Option reports .

Mikhail Ulyanov. Frame Russia Today Russia is increasingly inclined to the fact that the incident on April 4 in the Syrian city of Khan-Sheikhun with the use of chemical weapons was staged. This was stated by the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry for non -proliferation and control of weapons Mikhail Ulyanov at a briefing at the UN for the Syrian Chemical Dossier, TASS reports .