Photo: Vladislav Gultakyev / VKontakte Krasnoyarsk artist Vladislav Goltaev erected the “monument” to Ivan the Terrible in the form of a wooden stake on the banks of the Kan River in the city of Kansk - thus reacting to the opening of the first Russian official monument to the tsar in Orel (he looks like this ). Gultyev explained in detail the meaning of his gesture.

State energy companies kept more than 16 billion rubles in the bank "Peresvet", which faced the threat of bankruptcy. In the event of a bank failure, they may become the most affected clients. As Meduza found out, having studied the reporting of companies, RusHydro kept 6.280 billion rubles on deposits in Peresvet, another 1.405 billion were placed on the company's current account. RAO "Energy Systems of the East" kept on deposit in "Peresvet" 5.901 billion rubles.

Manchester United, whose head coach was José Mourinho in 2016, lost to Chelsea London, the former team of the Portuguese specialist. The match of the next round of the championship of England ended with a devastating score of 4:0. Chelsea took the lead already in the first minute of the meeting - Pedro scored a goal. In the middle of the first half, Gary Cahill made the score 2-0. After the break, goals were scored by Eden Hazard and N'Golo Kante.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Omsk region denied the information about the mass brawl of police officers in the dining room in the city of Kalachinsk. “The audit shows that the information provided by the local media is not confirmed: there was no pogrom in the cafe, the police were not called, the squad did not come,” said Aleksey Kamandykov, head of the department’s press service.

The Ryazan website RZN.info published a video of a gas explosion in a multi-storey building, which killed three people. The moment of the explosion was recorded by a surveillance camera installed in the courtyard of the house. The footage shows a bright flash and falling debris from a building. Editorial office of the city website Explosion at home Another video shows the aftermath of the explosion.

The official website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been hacked. According to CNN, the site was hacked by a hacker who calls himself Jester. He published a message addressed to Russia: “You can push around the countries that are next to you, but this is America. Nobody is impressed." Jester told CNN that he decided to hack the Russian Foreign Ministry's website after a massive October 21 attack on Dyn's DNS servers.

WikiLeaks director Gavin McFadyen has died. This announcement was posted on the organization's twitter. It is signed with the initials of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Gavin McFadyen was an investigative journalist who worked closely with Julian Assange. In particular, he created a committee that raised money for the legal defense of the founder of WikiLeaks and other employees of the organization. WikiLeaks specializes in publishing classified information leaks.

During the operation of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nizhny Novgorod, two terrorist suspects were killed. This is reported by the local agency "Nizhny Novgorod" with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. news agency According to the Interfax , which refers to a law enforcement source, another person has been detained. The operation took place in the microdistrict "Flowers".

In the city of Kalachinsk, Omsk region, policemen staged a mass brawl at the anniversary of one of the employees of the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The holiday was held in the dining room, where about 60 policemen gathered. Between them a conflict began, which turned into a fight. In the dining room furniture was broken and dishes were broken. The police had to be called to stop the fight.

The film "In the Center of Cyclone" from the program "Artdokfest" 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.

Russian goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky became the first goaltender in the history of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets to win 100 league games. On October 23, Columbus defeated Dallas 3-0. Bobrovsky repelled 32 shots on goal. Sergei Bobrovsky has been playing in the NHL since 2010, when he joined the Philadelphia Flyers from Metallurg Novokuznetsk. The goalkeeper signed a contract with Columbus in 2012. Bobrovsky is the only Russian goalkeeper to win the NHL regular season's best goaltender award.

Readers "Medusa" talk about the strangest birthday gifts Photo: Last week, Reddit users shared stories about the most offensive gifts that they gave them for their birthday and Christmas. People received toothpicks, discount coupons and even a trimmer for removing hair in the nose (for the 10th anniversary). "Medusa" asked readers to tell what unsuccessful gifts they gave them and chose the worst. Trammer again! Pavel Alekseev Colleagues presented an electric slicer for 5000 rubles.

In the Japanese city of Utsunomiya on the morning of October 23, two explosions occurred. As a result, one person died. According to various sources, two or three people were injured. There is no information about the causes of the explosions. One eyewitness told reporters that there was a smell of gunpowder in the air.

Elections in the Prison observation commission were compared with the "special operation" Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS The new composition of the Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) for places of imprisonment, published in the evening of October 21, did not include its most famous participants - human rights activists Zoya Svetov, Anna Karetnikova, Elena Masyuk and Andrei Babushkin.

The Russian organization "National Council for Homeopathy" sued the magazine "Vokrug Sveta", where in February 2016 Asya Kazantseva's article about homeopathy "Dissolved Magic" was published. This was announced on Facebook by the former deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Yegor Bykovsky.