Director General of Development Corporation JSC Sergey Maslov was detained in the case of embezzlement of more than a billion rubles. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the Kommersant newspaper, this happened on October 19. Maslov's deputy Vladimir Karamanov was also detained.

In the eastern districts of Aleppo, militants of the Ahrar al-Sham group killed 14 people who called on local residents and members of armed groups to leave the city. This was reported in the Russian Center for the reconciliation of warring parties in Syria. The murder, according to the Russian military, was committed in public. The victims were "representatives of local governments." Other sources do not report the incident.

Photo: Valeriy Zaytsev / SCHSCHI for Meduza On October 18, 2016, the Krasnogvardeysky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced two members of the "gay-hunting" gang: one of them was given two years and three months in prison, while the other – a female – was given a two-year suspended sentence and released on probation right in the courtroom. The pair would approach gay men on the Internet, lure them out on fake dates, beat them and extort money from them.

The owner of the Novovyatsky ski plant (NLK), Yuri Zyudheimer, who in June 2016 handed over marked money to the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, told Reuters about the motives for his act.

The Slovak antivirus and information security company ESET has published the first part of its research on the hacker group known as Sednit, Fancy Bear, Apt 28, Sofacy and Pawn Storm. Sednit has been involved in hacking activities since 2004, according to ESET.

The Leningrad group released the clip "Sobchak points", in which Ksenia Sobchak starred. The TV presenter in the video plays herself - she gives money to a prostitute on the street. After that, the prostitute (she is played by the soloist of Leningrad Vasilisa Starshov), tired of poverty, persuades his friend to rob a stash. The clip turned out to be very bloody - everyone shoots at each other. Caution: in the video there is an obscene vocabulary.

Film of the Lithuanian classic Audryus Stonis In Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, in December 2016, the Artdokfest documentary festival will be held. Several films from the competitive program are shown on October 15–23 in Riga as part of the International Film Festival. Twice a week, the President of Artdokfest Vitaly Mansky tells at Medusa about all films participating in the competition.

Rockstar Games has released the first trailer for the Red Dead Redemption 2 game, which can be characterized as “GTA in the Wild West” (the same company publishes the same company). The minute video shows beautiful frames from the game, but not gameplay. Rockstargamesrf Trailer Red Dead Redemption 2 The game will be released in the fall of 2017.

Nintendo introduced the Switch game device, which works as a full -fledged console and as a gaming tablet (like PlayStation Portable with a large screen). The main part of the Nintendo Switch looks like a 6-inch tablet-it has a screen and ports for connecting. The basis can be inserted into a rack connected to the TV and play a wireless controller. Or connect parts of this controller to it and play on the road.

Media messages that do not have Roskomnadzor registration will disappear from the main page of Yandex, as well as from the main page of the Yandex.News service, from news stories, regional and thematic headings. Yandex.News offered partners to sign a new cooperation agreement in connection with the adoption of a law on news aggregators in Russia.

The writer Evgeny Chebalin interviewed the artistic director of the Maly Theater Yuri Solomin. And this is a very strange interview. In the first question, Chebalin wanted to know what the childhood of his interlocutor was. But instead of just asking “What was your childhood?”, The interviewer said 156 words - about the Western war against Russia, “body porn myism” and “spiritual calls to true art”.

Writer Sergei Minaev has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Esquire magazine, Vedomosti reports. Sergei Minaev confirmed the appointment to Meduza. According to Minaev, negotiations on his appointment lasted three weeks. "Now the process of forming a team will be underway, and after it reaches some stage, we will be able to talk about what I am going to do," he told Meduza.

In St. Petersburg, the court dismissed the case of Fontanka correspondent Denis Korotkov, who, after the exposure of the “carousel” at one of the polling stations on September 18, drew up a report on “illegal receipt of a ballot” (5.22 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). According to Fontanka, after examining the evidence, among which was a videotape made by Korotkov at the station, the judge decided to dismiss the case due to the lack of corpus delicti.

The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's Parliament, has approved a document called the Declaration of Memory and Solidarity of the Parliaments of Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania, in which, amongst other things, it states that the USSR was responsible for the outbreak of World War II. A total of 243 deputies voted in favor.

The police of the British city of Northgempton published footage from the surveillance camera, which depicts the alleged kidnapper of the blinds. Photo: Northants Police On October 16, at about two o’clock in the afternoon, the man came to the Dunelm furniture store. After some time, he went out. Under his clothes, two -meter blinds were hidden - the cornice passed through the leg and jacket and rested against the hood.