As a result of the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter in Yamal, three people were injured. This was reported by the crew commander, who got in touch with the dispatchers. According to him, the helicopter lies on its side. Rosaviatsiya reported that there were 25 people on board the helicopter - 22 passengers and three crew members. Information about the helicopter accident was confirmed by the press service of the Ural Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Leading English magazines made the President of Russia the main character of the week Russia has recently been regularly appearing in the headings of the foreign press-then in connection with the elections in the United States (the outcome of which the Kremlin, according to some reports, is trying to influence with the help of hacker attacks), then due to the conflict in Syria, where especially the bloody battles for Aleppo were in October.

The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft photographed the alleged place of the Skiaparelli module. As stated on the website of the European Space Agency, when compared with a photograph of the same place made in May, differences are visible. It is assumed that a black spot in the picture is Schiaparelli himself, which fell from a height of 2-4 kilometers at a speed of about 300 kilometers per hour. A light spot is a parachute. Photo: ESA high -resolution picture is available here .

A Mi-8 helicopter with 20 passengers, flying from Vankor to Novy Urengoy, crashed in Yamal. This was reported by Interfax, citing a source in emergency services. According to TASS, there were 22 people on board. An agency source says the helicopter made a "hard landing". “The extent of its destruction and the fate of passengers and crew members is being established,” he said.

How is the investigation and which version is the main one? Photo: Dmitro Larin / "Ukrainian Truth" / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On October 20, it turned three months since the death of journalist Pavel Sheremet - an attempt was made on him in the very center of Kyiv. Over the past time, the investigation has been interrogated by more than 600 people, but there are still no suspects in the case.

In the Canadian city of Sadbury, the statue of young Jesus, sitting in the arms of the Virgin, established a new head-the previous one stole someone a year ago. Now the statue looks like this: Photo: Gino Donato / The Canadian Press / Pa / Scanpix / Leta The priest Gerard Lazhezess said that the head of the statue standing at the church disappeared in October 2015. According to him, earlier vandals also broke off their heads, but usually she was found nearby.

US President Barack Obama released a joke about exploding Galaxy Note 7 phones when he talked about the reform of healthcare in the USA (Obamacare) to students of the University of Miami-Did-College. He compared the reform with the production of phones: “If one of the companies releases a new smartphone with bugs, what does it do? She corrects them.

The city of Atchinson, Kansas experienced a chemical leak, causing a cloud to cover the city. Local authorities urged all residents to take shelter indoors. The leak occurred at about 8:30 am local time (16:30 Moscow time) at the MGP Ingredients enterprise, which is engaged, in particular, in the production of alcoholic beverages. According to KSHB, in February 2016, an explosion occurred at the enterprise.

The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, called “Friday stupidity” the statement of Polish Defense Minister Antony Matserevich that Egypt resold the Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia for a symbolic sum of one dollar. Egyptian Ambassador to Russia Mohammed El-Badri said he could not confirm the information about the resale of ships. “Such statements, like many other pearls, are made by Macerevich for the sake of self-promotion.

Ukraine has built its own storage facility for processing used nuclear fuel and will cease sending the product to Russia for disposal starting in 2017, announced the country's Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Igor Nasalik during a session of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament. Nasalik also said that Ukraine intends to transition to using America's Westinghouse nuclear fuel for at least 40 percent of its supply of the product in the near future.

The organizer of the "Russian march" was sent under house arrest Photo: Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant On October 21, one of the leaders of Russian nationalists Dmitry Demushkin was sent under house arrest for two months - in a criminal case of extremism, a defendant of which is a politician. The detention and the court occurred a few hours after Demushkin submitted an application for the next “Russian march” on November 4 in Moscow.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation entered the Association of Medical Workers of the City of Chapaevsk into the register of "foreign agents".

Write speeds to the iPhone 7 SSD were significantly faster for the expensive 128GB and 256GB models than the cheaper 32GB models. If data is written to an SSD drive in a 128-gigabyte model at a speed of 341 megabytes per second, then on an iPhone with 32 gigabytes - at a speed of 42 megabytes per second. The difference in time when transferring a movie to a 4.2 gigabyte phone will be more than a minute. This is shown by the Unbox Therapy study .

Polish Defense Minister Anthony Macierewicz said that Egypt had resold two French Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia for a symbolic sum of one dollar. He made such a statement at a meeting of parliament. Macierewicz later told reporters that he received this information "from good sources" but did not provide any proof. A source in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a commentary to the Interfax agency , called the words of the Polish minister stupidity.

Terrible clowns, frightening inhabitants of the cities of the United States and Europe, reached Russia. The St. Petersburg driver encountered one of them on the night road. The clown, armed with a vantuz, attacked a car in the Kupchino area. True, the driver was not afraid: he got out of the car, tumbled down a clown to the ground and finished it off with a vantuz.