The leader of the Alisa group, Konstantin Kinchev, spoke in support of Yuri Shevchuk, Boris Grebenshchikov and Andrei Makarevich, who suffered for their anti-war views. “Yulianych and I (Yury Shevchuk's patronymic - approx. “Cold”) were and remain old friends. Good friendship is the truth of life. And ideological differences cannot influence this truth in any way. I have deep respect and love for Makarevich, and for BG, and for Shevchuk.

On the morning of October 18, the Russian military attacked Kyiv. Energy infrastructure facilities were damaged, some areas were left without electricity. Three people were killed in the attack. Three hits on an infrastructure facility were recorded in Kyiv. The mayor of the city, Vitali Klitschko, specified that the blow fell on the Desnyansky district. Also, strikes were inflicted on Kharkov and on energy facilities in the Dnieper.

In Belarus, the court arrested Vyacheslav Bukas, a resident of Bobruisk, for 15 days. He was found guilty of holding an illegal protest. The reason for the detention and arrest were four lamps - two yellow and two blue, which the man left at the monument on August 24 near the "Monument to the Victims of Repression" in Bobruisk.

The Civil Freedoms Center received the Nobel Prize of the World. "Cold" spoke with his director Alexandra Romantsova This year, the Nobel Prize of the world was received by human rights activists from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus at the same time: the Ukrainian “Civil Freedoms Center”, the Russian Memorial and the Belarusian human rights activist Ales Belyatsky, the chairman of the Center “Vesna”.

The stories of "Sunday mothers" - women who left children to live with dad In Russia, after the divorce of parents, in most cases, children stay with mothers. According to Rosstat, about a third of Russian families are single mothers with children, but according to lawyers, the court makes a decision not in favor of fathers in about 90% of cases. But it happens differently.

Parents sent their gay son to the army. There he collided with bullying and violence. Here is his story Six years ago, Denis's parents learned that he was gay, and his father decided that the army was “re -ering” his son. So Denis spent a year in a military unit in Kaliningrad, where commanders and colleagues mocked him. "Cold" publishes his story about this experience - as well as how it changed his life.

Pavel Pishchulin, the head of the left-wing patriotic public organization All-Russian Social Unity, was arrested in Moscow under the article on “confidential cooperation” with a foreign state (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code). "The First Department" notes that this is the first known criminal case initiated under this paragraph of the article. The details of the case are unknown, since the materials contain the stamp "secret".

The Spanish holding Inditex, which owns the brands Zara and Zara Home, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Pull&Bear, Stradivarius and Oysho, plans to resume work in Russia. The company will transfer the local business to partners from a “friendly” country. Kommersant writes about this with reference to the ruling of the Arbitration Court of the Samara Region.

Russia-24 aired the first interview with the commander of the united group of troops in Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin. He said that the situation in the war is "tense". “We are not striving for a high rate of attack, we are methodically grinding the enemy and advancing, we are saving the lives of our soldiers and civilians,” the commander said. He confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue the counteroffensive in the Kherson direction.

Iranian athlete Elnaz Rekabi apologized on her Instagram story for performing without a hijab in the finals of the Asian Climbing Championships, which took place the day before in Seoul. The athlete explained that her turn to perform came unexpectedly, and she did not have time to put on a hijab. The climber apologized to everyone she “made worried.” Deutsche Welle noted that Rekabi was likely forced to apologize.

In Iran, security forces raided a school in the protest-ridden city of Ardabil. They tried to force high school students to sing a propaganda song praising Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The schoolgirls refused, then the security forces beat them. As a result, 10 girls ended up in the hospital, and 16-year-old Asra Panahi died from her injuries. After the news of the schoolgirl's death spread, protests in the city broke out with renewed vigor.

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The State Duma Council decided to limit online broadcasts from meetings of the lower house of parliament. As reported, the reason for refusing live broadcasts was the "legislative support of the special operation." “A significant part of the agenda of the meetings is related to the discussion of measures to support soldiers and officers performing the tasks of the NMD.

Blogger and designer Bikini Anastasia Ivanovskaya was invited to the State Duma to discuss family issues. We asked her what she did there Last week in the State Duma, a meeting of the All -Russian Union “Social Blogger” was held, which was organized by the Committee of the Duma on family, women and children. The attention of social networks was attracted by one of the participants in the event, 32-year-old Anastasia Ivanovskaya-Instagram blogger with 500 thousand subscribers, designer Bikini.

The Main Military Investigation Department of the ICR opened a criminal case on murder after the violent death of a man mobilized in the Novosibirsk Military Higher Command School. According to his relatives, he died as a result of a stab wound. The death of the person mobilized on October 7 was also confirmed by Nina Shalabaeva, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Novosibirsk Region. “The fact of the second death is confirmed. Investigators are working.