In Donetsk, one of the commanders of the pro-Russian separatists Arsen Pavlov, known under the call sign Motorola, was killed, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. According to the agency, Motorola died in an explosion in an elevator. According to the agency, an improvised explosive device went off in the elevator.

In Perm, a nurse and an emergency room attendant were dismissed from medical unit No. 9, who did not begin to provide assistance to a patient with cancer. According to the message of the Ministry of Health of the Perm Territory, the women were fired because on the night of October 16 they were at the workplace in a state of intoxication.

Two EXOMARS mission devices - the descent device Schiaparelli and the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) orbital module - were separated from each other and continue to fly to Mars separately. The Schiaparelli department was planned at 14:42 in Greenwich (17:42 Moscow time). After about 20 minutes, the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that the division was successful. The signal about this went to the ground for 9 minutes 36 seconds.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Goa said that the introduction of counter-sanctions that limited the import of food from Western countries was beneficial to Russia. “We did it where it was beneficial for us to do it,” he said, adding that Russia does not plan to introduce new counter-sanctions. “We will not do anything just to punish someone and punish ourselves. Buying a ticket and not going - that's not how we do it, quoted Putin as saying.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Goa said that the US National Security Agency was listening to journalists from the Kremlin pool. “You are part of the presidential pool, and therefore you are carriers of certain information. You can see something, hear something, talk to someone. You freely chat on the phone, on open communications, broadcast everything that you think is necessary, everything that you think or only assume, ”Interfax quotes the president.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a possible buyout by Rosneft of its own shares from the state would be an "intermediate step" towards a "true" privatization of the company. “If this is done, then only as an intermediate step in order to take the next [step] towards true privatization, including with the involvement of strategic investors, maybe foreign ones, under the control of the state,” the president said.

The third season of one of the most successful British film series Photo: Helen Sloan / The Fall 3 Ltd At the end of September, BBC Two began to show the third season “The Fall” - one of the most popular British series of recent years. On October 29, the show will appear entirely in the Netflix online service available in Russia.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said his opponent, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, was “puffed up” with drugs during the October 9 debate, which he said affected her performance. Clinton was energetic at the beginning of the last debate, Trump said, but by the end she was tired and "barely made it to her car." “Athletes are forced to take doping tests. I think we, too, should be drug tested before the debate,” Trump said, speaking to supporters in New Hampshire.

In Moscow, the police closed an underground workshop for the manufacture and repair of firearms, which was located on Golovacheva Street in the Lyublino district. As follows from the message of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, earlier the enterprise had a license for the repair of weapons, but in 2002 it expired.

In northwestern Syria, the rebels captured the city of Dabiq, which since 2014 has been under the control of the militants of the terrorist "Islamic State". This was stated by a representative of the group, which operates with the support of Turkey. Information about the capture of Dabiq was confirmed by the human rights organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Fragment of the book of American physicist Luis Bloomfield "How everything works" Photo: NASA At the end of October, Corpus, with the support of the Polytechnic Museum and “Book Projects of Dmitry Zimin”, will publish the book Physicist Luis Bloomfield “How everything works. The laws of physics in our lives. " Professor of the University of Virgin simply and clearly explains why light bulbs burn and a bicycle rolls on how to water the garden correctly and how kitchen slabs work.

More than half (51 percent) of Russians do not trust the media. This is evidenced by the data of the poll of the Public Opinion Foundation, cited by Interfax. In August 2015, 41 percent of those surveyed admitted that they did not trust the media. The percentage of those who trust the media has since fallen from 47 to 41. 46 percent of survey participants said that the media cover the situation in the Russian economy biased.

On the night of October 16 on Borovitskaya Square in Moscow, the installation of the monument to Prince Vladimir began. The 16-meter figure without the right hand and the cross was delivered to the Kremlin from the workshop in Khimki. Initially, according to the idea of ​​the Russian Military Historical Society, the monument to Prince Vladimir was supposed to be erected on the observation deck of the Sparrow Mountains, but after public protests they decided to transfer him.

North Korea conducted an unsuccessful test of a ballistic missile on October 15, South Korean and US military officials said. According to the US military, the DPRK tested the Musudan medium-range missile. The launch was made at a test site near the city of Kuson. Musudan (also known as BM25) is North Korea's first medium-range ballistic missile. According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, the DPRK tested Musudan seven times, and only one launch is considered successful.

Russian border guards detained a North Korean fishing vessel "Dae Yang 10" in the Sea of ​​Japan, on board of which "illegally harvested aquatic biological resources" were found. During the detention, the border guards had to open fire, as a result of which one of the fishermen died, according to the FSB website. The ship, carrying 48 people, was stopped in the "exclusive economic zone" of the Russian Federation on the morning of October 15.