The Young Guard solemnly opened a staircase in the building of the Center for the Extracurricular Work of the Frunze District of St. Petersburg. According to Fontanka.ru, the young Guards emphasize the active part in the repair of the stairs of their leader Mikhail Cherepanov. He helped to look for means to pay for steps and railing. As reported on the page of the VKontakte extracurricular work center, after the opening ceremony, the “large -scale dance marathon” took place.

Everything you need to know about the latest controversial criminal charges against a supporter of Alexey Navalny Photo: Evgeny Kurskov / TASS / Scanpix The Novosibirsk District Attorney has confirmed indictments in the so-called "Microphone Case" and asked to transfer the case to a regional court. The accused is Leonid Volkov, the campaign manager for an opposition group this past fall and one of the closest associates of opposition politician Alexey Navalny.

Police officers found the body of businessman Amiran Georgadze, accused of four murders in Krasnogorsk. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Elena Alekseeva. His body was found in the village of Timoshkino, where Georgadze had a house. However, the body was found in another house in the village.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill providing for large fines for violating the law on the "right to be forgotten." According to the bill, Internet search engines will face a fine of 100 thousand rubles for refusing to comply with the requirement of a citizen who seeks the removal of links to information about himself. If the search engine refuses to remove the links after the relevant court decision, the amount of the fine will increase to three million rubles.

In Chisinau, the mayor of the Moldovan city of Balti, opposition politician Renato Usatii was detained. Law enforcement officers detained him immediately upon his return from Moscow. According to NewsMaker, earlier the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case in connection with the fact that Usatii published wiretapping materials, presumably, of the former Prime Minister, deputy Vladimir Filat and businessman Ilan Shor. Usatii flew to Moscow on October 20.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill prohibiting the recognition of classical religious texts as extremist. We are talking about the Bible, the Koran, Gajur and the Tanakh. The bill was introduced on October 14 by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prior to this, the same document was submitted by the deputy Shamsail Saraliyev from United Russia, but eventually withdrew it.

The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow satisfied the civil suit of Kirovles to recover 16 million rubles from Alexei Navalny, Pyotr Ofitserov and Vyacheslav Opalev. Defendants will be jointly and severally required to pay this amount. In addition, the court collected 20,000 rubles of state duty from each of them. Representatives of Kirovles, as well as Opalev or his representatives, were not present at the court session. Navalny was represented by lawyer Vadim Kobzev.

A Russian Orthodox bishop, Arkady Shatov, declared at a government commission on healthcare today that the country must battle an ongoing AIDS epidemic by promoting "healthy moral values." Speaking about AIDS, the Russian Orthodox Church's representative said, "This disease, unlike any other, has social and moral—or rather immoral—causes." The bishop called for abstinence and declared that a person in life "must show love to their family and work, show patriotism, faith, and intellectual

One of the founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, decided to give away a third of his shares in the company to employees. Thus, employees will receive 1 percent of all Twitter shares. According to Dorsey, he is going to "invest directly in our people." “As for me, I would rather own a small part of something big than a large part of something small. I'm sure we can make Twitter big!" Dorsey added.

Zaur Dadaev, who is accused of killing Boris Nemtsov, wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to be sent to Syria. Excerpts from the letter were published by the Moskva agency; it has not yet appeared in other sources. In the letter, Dadaev repeats that he is innocent, and his confession, which he gave in the first days after his arrest, is a forced self-incrimination. According to him, participation in hostilities in Syria would prove his innocence.

Hillary Clinton defeated the Republicans at the hearing in parliament Photo: Riccardo Savi / Sipa USA / Scanpix On October 22, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to a meeting of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the Bengham Terrorist Representatives and spent almost 11 hours on it, answering the Republican questions about the attack on the American embassy in Libya in 2012.

What is said in the political thriller about the conquest of Norway Russia Photo: TV 2 In Norway, “occupation” has been shown for a month now - the most expensive series in the history of the country.

In 1957, British diplomats described the USSR's policy of opposing regime change in Syria, which turned out to be almost identical to Russia's current actions. This is reported by The Financial Times. According to a declassified October 23 report to the Prime Minister, in order to prevent a coup in Syria, the Soviet authorities will begin large-scale shipments of weapons, send aircraft there and arrange a “war of nerves” with Turkey.

A group of Duma deputies from the Russian Communist Party has prepared legislation that would criminalize "public recognitions of nontraditional sexual orientation." The initiative, which hasn't yet been introduced to the parliament, would penalize anyone convicted of coming out as LGBT with a fine as high as 5,000 rubles ($80) or arrest for a period up 15 days.

Russia and Jordan will coordinate the actions of their military in Syria. This was announced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following a meeting in Vienna with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Joda.