The Russian national football team in the last match of the Euro 2016 qualifying tournament beat Montenegro with a score of 2:0. This allowed the team to take second place in Group G and advance to the final part of the tournament. If the Russians had lost, they would have taken third place and would have had to play play-offs. Both goals were scored in the first half. First, Oleg Kuzmin scored, and then Alexander Kokorin from the penalty spot.

A Kazan court sentenced Eduard Salakhutdinov, an activist of the Young Guard of United Russia, to seven and a half years of probation. In addition, he will have to pay a fine of 500 thousand rubles. The politician is released from custody in the courtroom. Salakhutdinov oversaw a project in Kazan to combat underground casinos. According to investigators, in reality, he extorted money from the owners of gaming clubs.

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Roskomnadzor issued a warning to Znak.com for publishing a photo of the trampled Russian flag. The department referred to Article 10 of the Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection”, which prohibits the publication of information for which criminal punishment is provided.

The Federal Security Service showed a video of the detention of men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in Moscow. Ruptly TVRussia: Three detained on suspicion of planning Moscow bombing On October 11, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee announced that a terrorist attack had been prevented. Several people were detained in the apartment of a house in Strelbischensky Lane (how many, exactly, is not officially specified).

What is known to the Nobel Prize Laureate Engus Diton: Vox Photo: Princeton University / EPA / Leta The Nobel Prize for Economics for 2015 was awarded to the Scotsman Engus Diton from Princeton University.

How the Russian team reached the European Championship: Online The Russian team on October 12 holds the last match of the group stage of the Euro 2016 qualifying tournament. If the Russians do not lose to the Montenegrins (and this is the team, generally speaking, more than more than power), then they will go to the championship in France directly, without any additional matches. If they lose, they will have to (most likely) play the butt fights. We follow the online mode.

A scientific company will be formed in the armed forces of the Russian Federation, which will deal with the fight against the falsification of history. According to the Interfax agency, citing a source in the army, the company is planned to be created in early 2016 at the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense. The servicemen, first of all, will study the history of the Second World War and the contribution of the USSR to the victory.

The State Aviation Administration of Ukraine has decided to completely stop air communication with Russia from October 25, 2015. The ban will apply to all airlines, including UTair, the only Russian company that did not fall under the sanctions imposed by Ukraine.

The London police have removed constant round-the-clock surveillance from the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is hiding. Scotland Yard said in a statement that its resources are limited, and the constant presence of police officers at the embassy no longer seems to be an adequate measure. The police will try to arrest Assange using other "overt and covert methods" - which ones are not specified. “It has been quite a while since Julian Assange entered the embassy.

The European Union expressed concern over the Russian military operation in Syria and demanded an immediate halt to strikes on the positions of the so-called "moderate opposition". The joint statement of the foreign ministers of the EU states that Russia's actions go beyond the operation against the "Islamic State" (the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization in the Russian Federation and banned) and other terrorist groups.

Some categories of officials, as well as the military, will be able to accept foreign awards and titles only with the permission of the president. The corresponding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The Russian Ministry of Defense is planning to launch a special task force in 2016 that will conduct research exposing so-called "falsifications of military history," according to Interfax 's sources in the Ministry. "We're talking about the creation of a small research unit, which is now being worked out in the Ministry's Central Archive," an official told Interfax . The unit is expected to begin work in early 2016.

The hopes of the OSCE for a significant democratic transformation of the electoral process in Belarus did not come true. So, according to Reuters, the head of the observer mission Kent Hasted commented on the October 11 presidential elections in Belarus. At the same time, Hasted called “positive changes” the decision of the Belarusian authorities to release political prisoners and invite international observers to the elections.

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation stated that a terrorist attack was being prepared in Moscow on public transport. According to the department, it was prepared by people detained in an apartment in Strelbischensky Lane. Five kilograms of explosives were confiscated from them. Some of them, according to the FSB, were trained in the Islamic State camps. The department noted that Russian citizens arrived from Syria long before the start of the Russian operation.