"Medusa" asked director Yuri Bykov why he decided to "go into the shadow" after criticism addressed to his series "Sleepers" Sergey Bertov / Interpress / TASS Director Yuri Bykov On the evening of October 13, the VKontakte community dedicated to the director Yuri Bykov (the author of the numerous awards of the films “Fool” and “Major”) published an appeal to the audience on behalf of his behalf.

Director Yuri Bykov, who directed the series "Sleepers" about the confrontation between Russian and American intelligence services, announced a possible departure from the cinema. “I ask you to understand me correctly. The painting "The Plant" (since it is a project started and there are business obligations) will be completed, but it will probably be my last painting.

Mikhail Metzel / TASS On October 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the resignation of the Governor of the Pskov Region Andrei Turchak. His dismissal had been waiting for a long time; Journalist Oleg Kashin, based on these investigations and trial, believes that it was Turchak who ordered an attempt on him in 2010.

FSB General Oleg Feoktistov, who is called the initiator of the case of Alexei Ulyukaev, got a job at Peresvet Bank. Shares in this bank were previously owned by the Russian Orthodox Church. Now he is undergoing a reorganization procedure by the All-Russian Bank for Regional Development (RRDB), owned by Rosneft. RBC reports, citing unnamed sources, that Feoktistov has become a personnel adviser to the head of Peresvet, Mikhail Polunin.

October 13. "Acoustic attack" and Labrador-hero 🐶 Main The supporters of Alexei Navalny continue to pursue for a protest on October 7. In Ufa, the opposition headquarters coordinator was sentenced to 40 hours of compulsory work . In Novosibirsk, a rally participant was detained directly at a lecture at the university . Another student could not be detained, because he slept. The head of the Cosmonauts training center Yuri Lonchakov resigned .

Alexander Shcherbak / TASS Former Head of the Cosmonauts Training Center Yuri Lonchakov On the evening of October 12, it became known about the dismissal of the head of the Cosmonauts training center (CPC) Yuri Lonchakova. This information was confirmed in Roscosmos, explaining Lonchakov’s departure “the need for treatment”.

In Pakistan, an American, Canadian and three of their children were saved from militants Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Keitlene Kulowman, Joshua Boyle and two of their sons. Frame of the video published by Taliban in December 2016 Kaitne Koluman and Joshua Boyle in October 2012 traveled around Central Asia and were captured by the militants of the Hakkani group related to Taliban. The couple was kept hostage for exactly five years; During this time, they had three children.

Netflix streaming service has published the final trailer for the second season of “Very strange things”. The series will be released on October 27. Netflix Stranger Things | Season 2 Final Trailer [HD] | Netflix The trailer showed Will returning from the other world, as well as eleven, which disappeared at the end of the first season. Judging by the personnel, the inhabitants of the town of Hawkins will go to another dimension to overcome the monsters.

The ride-sharing service Gett has filed an antitrust lawsuit in Russia against competitor Yandex.Taxi, accusing the company of spying on other mobile apps installed on its customers’ phones. Earlier this month, a Russian publicist claimed that the Yandex.Taxi app searches for competing ride-sharing service apps installed on users’ phones. If it finds one, Yandex.Taxi supposedly lowers its rates, to be more competitive.

The Kremlin has objected to the United States’ refusal to grant visas to a Russian Defense Ministry delegation seeking to participate in an upcoming UN briefing where officials will discuss issues surrounding the deployment of U.S. missile-defense systems. Defense Ministry spokesman Alexander Emelyanov says the U.S.

Human Rights Ombudsman in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova said that she was approached by a resident of Chechnya who complained of persecution because of his homosexual orientation. According to the complaint of this person, Moskalkova said, she asked the investigating authorities to start a check, which has not yet been completed. Moskalkova noted that the appeal of this person confirms earlier reports of the persecution of gays in Chechnya.

Russia’s Interior Ministry has opened a criminal investigation into large-scale fraud involving rations deliveries to the Defense Ministry and National Guard. More than 10 individuals are reportedly named in the case, though sources have refused to reveal their names. The investigation centers on two fraudulent deliveries, apparently costing the government more than 220 million rubles ($3.8 million).

A military court in Moscow has sentenced Dmitry Pravikov, a deputy director in the Federal Security Service’s Information Security Center, to three years probation for abusing his authority. Pravikov has already filed an appeal with the Supreme Court. The details of the case have not been made public. In an unrelated case, Sergey Mikhailov (another Information Security Center deputy head) is currently charged with treason.

A court has released on her own recognizance a fourth suspect in the fraud case against officials from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal censor, according to the newspaper Kommersant . Anastasia Zvyagintseva, who heads one of Roskomnadzor’s private contractors, allegedly organized a criminal scheme wherein her company billed the government for fictitious staff, and then handed the money over to corrupt Roskomnadzor officials.

“Then I invite you to take up the vacant post of Investigative Committee branch chief in Chechnya. You can start tomorrow. Go ahead and put your ideas into practice. I’m ready to appoint you to work under Ramzan Akhmatovich [Kadyrov] tomorrow. We’ll see what you can do.” This was Russian Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin’s prickly response when asked at Moscow State University on Friday to explain his agency’s abuses of power and policing failures.