Roskomnadzor spokesman Vadim Ampelonsky called the message that in the spring of 2015 an experiment was conducted during which the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications and Roskomnadzor tried to simulate Russia's disconnection from the foreign segment of the Internet, was nonsense. I do not want to refute someone else's nonsense. I don't know who screwed who. I'll just call a spade a spade. This "news" is nonsense.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on awarding Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class. Medvedev was awarded "for outstanding services to the state, a great contribution to the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation." The decree is posted on the official Internet portal of legal information. It was signed on September 14, but was published only a month later.

Alexander Meshkov, a former subordinate of Alexander Gorbunov, the alleged organizer of the attack on journalist Oleg Kashin, in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper spoke about the preparation of the crime and its investigation. According to Meshkov, in 2010, when he worked as deputy general director of the St. Petersburg Mechanical Plant, Gorbunov instructed him and another employee named Mikhail Kalinin to find out Kashin’s place of residence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a draft amendment to the State Duma that prohibits the main sacred texts of Christians, Muslims, Jews and Buddhists from being recognized as extremist. “The Bible, Koran, Tanakh and Kanjur, their content and quotes from them cannot be recognized as extremist materials,” the draft amendments to the law on combating extremist activity say.

Andrey Semerikov, CEO of the ER-Telecom provider, said that the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications and Roskomnadzor conducted an experiment in the spring of 2015, during which they tried to simulate Russia's disconnection from the foreign segment of the Internet. According to Semerikov, during the experiment, instructions were sent to large telecom operators to block traffic that goes through certain trunk channels.

The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to prevent the closure of the city newspapers “Evening Petersburg”, “Smena” and “Nevskoe Vremya”. These publications are part of the Baltic Media Group, which in 2015 came under the control of the head of the News Media holding, Aram Gabrelyanov. The new management decided to close the printed versions of newspapers due to their unprofitability. The website of the St.

In the United States, an interview with a Soviet pilot who escaped to America through Iran was declassified in the United States Photo: Yuri Abramochkin / RIA Novosti / Scanpix In October, the Cryptome website published a video of the conversation of the US Air Force officer Captain Kilikauskas with a defector from the USSR. The hero’s hero-the Soviet instructor, who is called the “Victor”-escaped from the USSR to Iran, and from there to the United States, stated.

Frame: NASA / YouTube NASA Goddard NASA | Jupiter in 4k Ultra HD NASA made a video of Jupiter from photos of the Hubble telescope over the years. A comparison of photographs made it possible to create a new map of the planet, as well as to follow changes in Jupiter. In particular, it turned out that the large red spot of Jupiter is changing in size: over the earth year, its size along a long axis decreased by 240 kilometers.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that gives the detainee the right to make one phone call within two hours after the arrest. This document also allows suspects to demand the presence of a lawyer when drawing up a detention protocol. According to the bill, the investigator is obliged to provide the detainee with the opportunity to make a phone call. At the same time, the suspect is forbidden to talk about the circumstances of the case in a conversation.

A Russian fighter jet approached an American aircraft last Saturday over Syrian airspace in order to identify the airplane, not to intimidate it, according to Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov. The incident took place on October 10, when a squadron of Russian planes was carrying out a bombing mission in Syria under the cover of a Sukhoi Su-30 Russian fighter jet.

Interview of the Depeche Mode vocalist Dave Gaana "Medusa" Photo: Edv / Splash News / Vida Press On October 23, Angels & Ghosts is released - the new album of the Depeche Mode vocalist Dave Gaana. This is the second record of the musician, created in conjunction with the production duo of Soulsavers. Angels & Ghosts is not like the work of DM, this is an album of acoustic rock and blues, plus to everything inspired by the state -owned gospel.

A wave of street violence led to dozens of victims and talking about the third intifada Photo: Mohammed Abed / AFP / Scanpix In Israel, street attacks on Jews have been taking place for several weeks, as a result of which eight people died. Local media are increasingly talking about a new intifada, and the government strengthens security measures in the country and expands the rights of police officers. Medusa briefly tells what is happening in Israel.

The Moscow City Court issued the first decision on the "perpetual blocking" of sites with unlicensed content. “For the first time in Russia, access to sites has been permanently terminated due to a copyright lawsuit,” said Ulyana Solopova, head of the press service of the court. The RAPSI news agency reported that the court ordered the blocking of 13 sites. At the same time, Solopova named only 11 of them. Among them was the rutor.org torrent tracker.

Most Russians do not want to live or work abroad, according to a new survey by the Levada Center polling institute. The survey also showed that just 14 percent of Russians say they speak a foreign language fluently. According to the new Levada poll, conducted in mid-September, just 11 percent of Russians say they wish to relocate to a foreign country. Only 16 percent say they're interested in studying abroad, and 21 percent say they'd like to work in a foreign country.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow granted Alexei Navalny an installment plan to pay off the debt under the civil suit of the Diversified Processing Company. According to FBK press secretary Kira Yarmysh, the installments were granted for two months instead of five, which Navalny asked for. According to the civil suit of the Diversified Processing Company, Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg must pay 4.5 million rubles. Three million of this amount has already been paid.