On October 11, the Russian Embassy in the United States announced that Russian flags had been torn down from the consulate in San Francisco, which was closed in September. In connection with the incident, "a strong protest has been sent to the American side," the embassy said. “We demand to immediately return the Russian state symbols to their place and prevent what has happened in the future,” the message on the official Facebook of the representative office said.

Astronomers have discovered rings around the dwarf planet Haumea, which orbits the sun in the Kuiper Belt . The study was published Oct. 11 in the journal Nature. The discovery was made as a result of the study of Haumea by 12 European telescopes as it passed across the star's disk on January 21. According to scientists' calculations, the width of the rings is about 70 kilometers, the radius is 2,287 kilometers.

Actor Ben Affleck apologized to the actress and TV presenter Hilary Berton for grabbing her chest on the air of MTV in 2003. The episode was remembered after Affleck published a statement criticized by producer Harvey Weinstein, who is accused of sexual harassment. We are talking about one of the issues of the Total Request Live program, which was led by Burton.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy demanded that Catalan President Carles Puigdemont report on the restoration of constitutional order in the region by the morning of October 19. A copy of the demand was published by La Vanguardia. In the document, Rajoy demands from Puigdemont, by 10 am on Monday, October 16, to unequivocally answer whether Catalonia declared independence on October 10.

Employees of the New York restaurant Lucy's Cantina Royale Daria Pauto and Tamara Ilizarova were fired after a video about "Putinburger", which was allegedly served at the institution on the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is reported by "Rain". Pauto told the TV channel that she was "told not to show up at the restaurant" and that she was "as a matter of principle" not considering working there.

The criminal case against the press secretary of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky and two other employees of the department is connected with the withdrawal of money through one of the federal state unitary enterprises (FSUEs) controlled by Roskomnadzor. This was reported to Interfax by an informed source. What kind of FGUPe we are talking about is not specified.

Anatoly Zhdanov / Komsomolskaya Pravda / Photoxpress Vadim Ampelonsky What is known The press secretary of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky opened a criminal case. He passes the accused in the fraud case (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The representative of Roskomnadzor is not the only person involved in the case. The second accused is the head of the legal department of the same department Boris Nidin .

AP / Scanpix / Leta Russian military at the Dire-EZ-Zaur Syrian Airport, September 2017 On Tuesday, October 10, Moscow Komsomolets published an interview with a person who calls himself an employee of an unnamed private military company (PMC), fighting in Syria. In a conversation, he mentioned the “PMC“ Turan ”,” calling it the largest PMC in Russia, along with Wagner's units .

Update: On October 12, a court placed Ampelonsky under house arrest . Sources tell the news agency RBC that he is potentially suspected of involvement with fictitiously registering Roskomnadzor employees. Russian officials have not commented on the case, and Ampelonsky’s lawyer says his client denies the charges.

October 11. Roskomnadzor officials accused of fraud Main topic of the day Roskomnadzor press secretary Vadim Ampelonsky was accused in a fraud case . His name is listed in the case file on the official website of the Moscow City Court. It is also reported there that on October 5 a suppression hearing was held - the court did not arrest Ampelonsky.

Roskomnadzor spokesman Vadim Ampelonsky became a defendant in a fraud case (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), reports vc.ru, citing a source familiar with the situation. The press service of the Chertanovsky District Court confirmed this information to Interfax . According to the card on the website of the court, on October 5, the petition for the arrest of Ampelonsky was considered and rejected.

In the work of the social network Facebook on the afternoon of October 11, a failure occurred - users in different countries cannot access the site from a computer. In some cases, the site loaded, but not completely. The CNET publication reports that there are "many" reports of the inability to enter the site. It is also reported that a number of users do not open the Instagram website (owned by Facebook). There is no information about the reasons for the failure.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) of Alexei Navalny has launched an application that, on behalf of Twitter users, sends TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov questions about his property. The fund explained this project by the fact that Solovyov "banned on Twitter everyone who asked questions about Moscow apartments and an Italian villa." “To help FBK get answers, click the “Login” button and allow our Twitter bot to ask Rudolfich on your behalf,” the message on the FBK website says .

Eminem read Freestyle against Donald Trump. His performance was shown during the broadcast of the Bet Awards - the Black Entertainment Television Awards of the American Channel. In his speech, the musician listed everything for which the president is most often criticized by: racism, militarism, migration policy, incontinence in Twitter and even orange skin color. In the final, he turned to his fans and called on those who did not decide who they love more, Trump or Eminem, go to ***.

An inconspicuous masterpiece is released - a Hungarian film that received a "Golden Bear" in Berlin "Russian report" On October 12, the Hungarian film “On the Body and Soul” Ildiko Endedy is released - a love story of two people who dream of the same dreams. Endedy received the main prize of the Berlin Film Festival. Anton Dolin says about the film, nominated from Hungary and the Award of the European Film Academy, and Oscar. The deer is simple. A male and a female met in a winter forest.