Moscow "Spartak" in the match of the third round of the Champions League in Moscow beat the Spanish "Seville" with a score of 5:1. The first half ended with a score of 1:1 - Spartak scored the remaining four goals in the second half. Dutchman Quincy Promes scored twice - in the 18th and 90th minutes - and also provided two assists. Another match in Group E ended with an even bigger score - Liverpool beat Maribor 7-0.

American writer George Saunders received the Man Booker Prize for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which is awarded in the field of literature in the English language. The winner was announced at a ceremony in London on the evening of October 17. Saunders will receive a bonus of £50,000. In addition to Saunders, 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster, A Tale of Wolves by Emily Fridlund, Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, Elmet by Fiona Moseley and Autumn by Ali Smith were also nominated for the Booker Prize.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow granted the petition of the investigation to extend until January 19, 2018, the measure of restraint for the defendants in the Seventh Studio case, who are accused of organizing embezzlement. It is reported by Interfax. The artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, the former CEO of the Seventh Studio, Yuri Itin, and the former chief accountant of the company, Nina Maslyaeva, remained under house arrest.

State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya recorded a video message to the prosecutor general of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika with a request to withdraw a rental certificate from the film Matilda and recognize the film “Provocative, extremist material”.

Actress Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister in the TV series Game of Thrones, tweeted on October 17 about her two encounters with producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexual harassment. Headey said that Weinstein made a lewd suggestion to her at their first meeting in Venice, but she played it off as a joke; she never made any more films for his company, Miramax, after that (it's not clear from the text whether that was her decision or whether she was never approached again).

The artist Boris Berger, author of the “Kotya” art project, has died. Reports of his death appeared on his Facebook page. Posted by Boris Berger on January 12, 2014 He was 52 years old. The Lvov website Zahid.net writes that Berger died in Germany. Boris Berger, known as an artist and one of the founders of the publishing house “Emergency Exit/Emergency Exit,” created the community “Kotya” ( ru_kotya ) on LiveJournal in 2006.

The Basmanny Court refused to free Kirill Serebrennikov and other defendants in the case of the Seventh Studio. Reporting Eugene Berg Pavel Golovkin / AP / Scanpix / Leta On Tuesday, October 17, the Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the measure of restraint to the defendants in the case of the Seventh Studio.

Sergey Ilnitsky / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Former Gogol Center Director in the Basmann District Court, October 17, 2017 On October 17, a meeting in the Basmann District Court is being held on the extension of the deadline for house arrest to director Kirill Serebrennikov, the chief accountant of the Seventh Studio Nina Maslyaeva and the former general director of the Seventh Studio, Yuri Itina-as well as extending the term of maintenance in the pre-trial detention center of the former Gogol Center,

Director Kirill Serebrennikov, at a court hearing on the extension of his house arrest, asked to be released to shoot the film "Summer" about Viktor Tsoi, which stopped after his detention. “I also need five days to finish the film. You can, I don’t know, call machine gunners to follow me, ”Mediazona quotes Serebrennikov. Serebrennikov also asked the court to release all the defendants in the case.

The Federation Council Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty has drawn up a list of media whose activities in the Russian Federation, according to senators, may be limited. The list includes Radio Liberty, CNN and Voice of America, RBC reports citing sources. In total, according to the publication, "no more than five" media were included in the list. What other media are involved is not specified. Update.

Austrian Stefan Drashan is working on an unusual project : he photographs visitors to European museums, but only those who fit well with the picture they are looking at or even complement it. “In search of the right shot, I can disappear in museums for hours, and sometimes for days,” the photographer said . According to Drashan, in this project he tried to build a bridge between the past and the present.

Why did everyone be silent for so long? Who is to blame for harassment? Why arrange injuries? Guillaume Horcajuelo / EPA / Scanpix / Leta On October 5, the New York Times published an investigation about the famous Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein: according to the publication, he was accused of harassment of the actress and subordinates for decades (but he bought off from them).

October 17. Harassment, blockchain and superinTelelex The main thing in the day The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed punishing parents and schools for the fact that children go to rallies . In the regions, this practice already exists: for example, in Nizhny Novgorod, parents made protocols on non -fulfillment of education responsibilities. Russia was obliged to pay 76 thousand euros to Alexei and Oleg Navalny.

Facebook announced on October 16 on the purchase of TBH mobile application. This application exists a little more than two months, but has already attracted several million users - mostly American schoolchildren. "Medusa" tells what TBH is. The TBH application allows users to answer questions about their friends.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova lost to Slovak athlete Magdalena Rybarikova in the first round of the VTB Kremlin Cup tournament. It was Sharapova's first Kremlin Cup match since 2007. The match ended with the score 6:7 (3:7), 4:6. Maria Sharapova in April 2017 resumed performances after a year of disqualification imposed on her for the use of meldonium. After that, she reached the 1/8 finals of the US Open (one of the Grand Slam tournaments) and won the WTA tournament in Tianjin.