Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government Dmitry Rogozin responded to Alexei Navalny’s post about the purchase of Austrian pistols for army special forces at an inflated price. Rogozin published a detailed answer on Facebook.

In the Moscow metro on the evening of October 19, the body of a driver was found, who allegedly fell from the cab of a moving train. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The incident occurred on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. The train without a driver arrived at the Ryazansky Prospekt station, performing automatic braking. It is not specified whether there were any casualties among the passengers.

The Russian pair Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov are in the lead after the short program at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating stage in the United States, the Associated Press reports on Saturday, October 19. Current world champions Volosozhar and Trankov won the short program with a world record, receiving 83.05 points.

In the south-east of Moscow, the Sadovod market, located at the 14th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road, caught fire. This was reported on the website of the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The area of ​​the fire, as of 18:15, was 100 square meters. The fire occurs in one of the shopping pavilions. People in the pavilions were evacuated before firefighters arrived. There have been no reports of casualties yet.

Killers in clown costumes during a children's party shot and killed one of the members of the Arellano Felix family, which led the Mexican drug cartel Tijuana, Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday, October 20, citing a statement by local authorities. Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, 63, was killed on Friday, October 18, during a family children's party in the popular resort of Cabo San Lucas in the state of Baja California Sur.

A suicide bomber driving a car filled with explosives carried out an explosion in a cafe in Baghdad. reported this on October 20 Reuters . According to the agency, at least 30 people were killed in the explosion. Agence France-Presse , in turn, provides data on 26 dead and 39 injured as a result of the explosion. Responsibility for the terrorist attack, which occurred in a Shiite-populated quarter, has not yet been claimed by any of the radical groups.

One of the issues of The Guardian with an article based on Snowden's materials. Photo: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters The British newspaper The Guardian has won two prestigious awards awarded annually by the Online News Association. The list of ONA award recipients for 2013 was released on Saturday, October 19th. The Guardian won awards for a series of articles on the working methods of American intelligence agencies, based on materials provided by former CIA and NSA employee Edward Snowden.

The participation of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the Moscow mayoral elections was agreed upon with President Vladimir Putin. The head of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, stated this in an interview with Kommersant-Vlast magazine, which will be published on October 21. Fragments of the interview became available to RIA Novosti .

Due to a heavy downpour that lasted for several hours, accompanied by a thunderstorm and squally winds, several streets were flooded in Rostov-on-Don, Interfax reported on the morning of Sunday, October 20, with reference to the city department for civil defense and emergency situations.

At least 31 people were killed in a terrorist attack in the Syrian city of Hama. This was reported by Agence France-Presse , citing sources in human rights organizations. Eyewitnesses said the death toll could rise as dozens more people were injured, some of them in critical condition. Syrian state television reported “numerous casualties” as a result of the explosion, but did not provide specific figures.

The march of nationalists in St. Petersburg was stopped by riot police. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The nationalist action began as a rally coordinated with the authorities on the Champ de Mars, which in St.

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov called high oil prices the main reason for the lack of innovative development in Russia. As reported by RIA Novosti on October 20 , he stated this at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “The main demand for innovation will be when there is no hope for high prices for our traditional exports. If this (expensive oil - note from Lenta.ru) continues for a long time, we will have serious problems with innovative development,” said the Deputy Prime Minister.

Soldiers liberating a shopping center in Nairobi, seized by terrorists in September 2013, stole items from stores located there, the Associated Press reports , citing CCTV footage reviewed by the agency. The pictures show people in military uniforms taking items from store shelves and then carrying them out of the building. Earlier, the owners of retail outlets accused the military of thefts at the scene of the terrorist attack. However, according to businessmen, they had no evidence.

Microsoft on Saturday, October 19, withdrew an update to Windows 8.1 intended for users of the Windows RT operating system. WinBeta reports this. The update was removed from the Windows Store after users who installed it complained of problems with their computer. Some of those who downloaded the update and installed it saw a blue screen with an error message after rebooting the machine. The error is related to the Boot Configuration Data file.

French tennis player Richard Gasquet beat Mikhail Kukushkin from Kazakhstan in the Kremlin Cup final on October 20. The match ended with the score 4:6, 6:4, 6:4. This is reported on the tournament website. The women's final was won by Romanian Simone Halep, who beat Australian Samantha Stosur. Their game ended with a score of 7:6, 6:2.