How a scheme to produce religious food labels reflects Russia's divorce from the free market Photo: Sergey Fadeichev / TASS / Scanpix In late October, the chairman of the Russian Civic Chamber's commission on social policy, labor relations, and quality of life proposed introducing a voluntary seal on food denoting a "Russian Orthodox Standard," analogous to halal and kosher foods in Islam and Judaism.

Shot: Swns TV / YouTube A resident of the British city of Preston Chris Walton, together with a girlfriend and daughter every year, transform his own home, turning him into a fabulous “House of Horror”. The family makes out the rooms differently, planting witches in them, Frankenstein, zombies and a doll from the "saw". The money earned from such entertainment is directed to the fight against cancer. Swns TV Family Transform Home Into Haunted House for Huge Public Party

Russian planes are transporting weapons from Iran to Syria, Fox reports. According to his sources, over the past 10 days, Russian aircraft have made 20 such flights. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, according to the channel, are aware of the transportation of Iranian weapons. From the Iranian side, the supplies are controlled by Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Qods special forces unit as part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

has been submitted to the State Duma A draft law , the authors of which proposed to ban "the public expression of non-traditional sexual relations." The Communists want to amend the administrative code and fine or arrest Russian citizens for "publicly displaying their distorted sexual preferences." The amount of the fine varies from four to five thousand rubles.

The film of Russian documentaryists, reminiscent of the "white tape" Haneke Short: "Salamanka" The Artdokfest documentary festival in December 2015 will be held in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Three times a week, the President of the festival Vitaly Mansky tells at Medusa about the paintings participating in the competition. This time, the director represents the film "Salamanka" Alexandra Kulak and Ruslan Fedotov (Russia, 2015). Going into the ArtdoxFest competition is not an easy task.

Photo: Dan Callister / Alamy / Vida Press The Nobel Laureates in the economy Robert Schiller and George Acerlof published the book “Phinging for Phools”, which talk about how the market uses people's vulnerability for benefit. The authors argue that if there is an opportunity to earn on someone’s weaknesses, then someone will certainly do it. The book mentioned that the scientist ate different types of “cool” cat food to find out if they are different from each other.

Former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov became the industrial director of the aviation complex of the Rostec state corporation. The positions of industrial directors responsible for various areas in the work of the state corporation appeared in Rostec in June 2015. At first, Aleksey Fedorov was responsible for aviation.

Four F-18 fighters were lifted off the American aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan as Russian Tu-142 bombers approached the ship. The incident took place on October 27 in neutral waters off the Korean coast. Two Russian anti-submarine aircraft were flying at an altitude of 150 meters. They approached within about two kilometers. The Americans tried to get in touch, but the Russian pilots did not answer them. Information about the incident was officially confirmed by the command of the US Navy.

Employees of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology wrote a letter to the rector of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Nikolai Kudryavtsev, in which they demanded to stop the fraud with accounting reports, which are being done in order to fulfill the May decrees of President Vladimir Putin. The letter is signed by 84 MIPT employees.

Former Minister of Agriculture of Russia Elena Skrynnik was expelled from United Russia. According to the secretary of the general council of the party, Skrynnik has been living abroad for a long time and has lost contact with the party. According to him, her exclusion is not related to the Swiss investigation into the former official and her relatives. At the same time, Neverov mentioned that Skrynnik was expelled not only for losing contact with the party, but also for discrediting it.

Joint game "Medusa" and The Furnish It is believed that in Russia there is almost no beautiful furniture - this is not true. There is - and you can buy it on the Internet. Medusa, along with the store The Furnish, offers to answer a couple of simple questions and see which furniture is most suitable for you. And order it in the online store of beautiful furniture The Furnish .

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation proposed to amend the law on education, which would prohibit teachers from propagandizing the "ideology of violence" and imposing on students "value norms alien to Russian society." This was stated by the director of the department of state policy in the field of education of children and youth Alexander Stradze.

The library officer of Ukrainian literature told Medusa about the search Photo: Artem Korotaev / TASS / Scanpix On Thursday, October 29, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation brought a criminal case on the director of the library of Ukrainian literature in Moscow Natalia Sharin under an article on extremism. SK claims that in 2011-2015, Sharina distributed books by Ukrainian nationalist Dmitry Korchinsky, which in Russia are recognized as extremist materials.

He said he wouldn't submit it to the parliament, unless he got approval from his superiors in the Russian Communist Party. Apparently, the Communist brass presented no resistance to his proposal, given that deputy Ivan Nikitchuk has introduced to the Duma new legislation that would make it a misdemeanor for gays to disclose their sexuality publicly.

A criminal case has been initiated against Syrian citizens who are in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport, said the head of the Russian Federal Migration Service, Konstantin Romodanovsky. The case, explained Romodanovsky, is being investigated on the fact of the Syrians illegally crossing the state border of Russia on forged documents.