On October 19, VDNKh in Moscow hosted the opening ceremony of the Cinema Museum in Pavilion No. 36 (Water Management Pavilion). The event was attended by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky. The museum will open to visitors on October 20. The new museum building has six exhibition areas and three cinema halls (screenings there will begin on October 20). The museum depository is also located in the pavilion at VDNKh.

Roskino CEO, TV presenter Ekaterina Mtsituridze told The Hollywood Reporter about harassment by American producer Harvey Weinstein. According to Mtsituridze, the first time she met Weinstein at the Berlin Film Festival in 2003 was in a hotel where she was interviewing George Clooney. After the interview, Weinstein invited her to dine in his suite; he added that he loves Russian culture and that his ancestors lived in Russia.

The Central Bank, in the course of measures to reorganize Binbank, wrote off money from the accounts of top managers and beneficiaries of this institution, RBC reports with reference to the press service of the Central Bank. The money was debited from the accounts of about 70 people, including the main owners of the bank, Mikael Shishkhanov and Mikhail Gutsiriev. The amount of funds written off is not disclosed. This measure is applied for the second time, RBC notes.

The founder of SpaceX and Tesla, Ilon Musk, gave a link to the store of The Boring Company on October 18, which he created for digging automobile tunnels under the city streets. The store sells a black cap with the name of the company. “The most boring cap in the world,” as Musk called her, costs $ 20. The next day, the businessman announced that there were already four thousand caps. He promised a gift to five thousandth - another cap! And really the winner was handed the second cap!

On October 20, at 11 o’clock in Moscow, a meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme Certification Commission should begin. It is assumed that it will give the final recommendation to the Ministry of Education and Science for one of the main issues of the last weeks: whether the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky is worthy of the degree of the doctor of historical sciences. Medusa briefly tells what you need to know about this case and how the meeting will take place.

19 October. In Siberia, there is nothing to make tombstones from - all granite was spent on tiles in Moscow Main Spain has decided to introduce external control in Catalonia - this morning the deadline for which Madrid demanded that the autonomous region abandon the declaration of independence expired. The authorities of Catalonia, who could not clearly say whether there was a separation from Spain or not, are now promising to declare independence for real.

Sergey Avduevsky / IDR-Format / TASS Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) in Moscow The Supreme Court of Russia published a cassation ruling on the complaint of the founder of the Foundation for the fight against corruption (FBK) of Alexei Navalny to Rosreestr. This agency provided a policy of extracting the property of the sons of the Prosecutor General of Russia, replacing their real names Artem and Igor at LSDU3 and YFYAU9.

In early October, Swedish archaeologists said they discovered the inscriptions of Allah and Ali on the burial clothes of the 10th century Vikings. During the preparation of robes for the exhibition, an employee of the University of Upsal, Annika Larsson, noted that the patterns resemble a kufic letter, but made in a mirror reflection.

For the first time ever, Playboy magazine has named French transgender girl of the month Inès Rau, who underwent sex reassignment surgery at the age of 15. Ines Rau's photographs will be published in the November-December 2017 issue of Playboy. The November-December issue of Playboy will feature a photo of Hugh Hefner, who died in September 2017, on the cover of Playboy. Until now, men have appeared on the cover of Playboy only in the company of women.

Ilya Buyanovsky House Yanka Diagileva on Yadrintsevskaya Street in Novosibirsk In October 2017, a guide from Novosibirsk Andrei Pozdnyakov and a writer from Vladivostok Vasily Avchenko began a public campaign against the demolition of a house in Novosibirsk, where the singer Yanka Diaghilev lived all her life. The building is in extremely poor condition, the authorities have long included it in the list of dilapidated and emergency housing.

A brief history of the Russian vocab that has confounded the American brain of Meduza's English-language senior editor over the years Kevin Rothrock, the senior editor of Meduza 's English-language edition, is hopelessly addicted to Twitter, where he has more than 14,000 followers. Kevin mostly tweets about Russia for a Western audience, but he also interacts frequently with Russian speakers.

Visitors to the Open Innovations Forum, which takes place in the Skolkovo Innovation Center, found bins for separate waste collection. However, when the author of the video tried to open the urn, nothing happened: the pedal did not work. Lifting the lid, the man found that it was an ordinary trash can - there was one bag inside, and there was no partition separating the trash.

Tverskaya Street from December 31, 2017 to January 2, 2018 will be pedestrian, announced the head of the department of trade and services of the Moscow City Hall Alexei Nemeryuk. “During these three days we will walk brightly,” he said. Tverskaya Street is one of the main venues for the annual Journey to Christmas festival, which will take place from December 22 to January 14. In previous years, traffic along Tverskaya Street was blocked directly on New Year's Eve.

The editor of the English "Medusa" Kevin Rotrok - about Russian words and expressions that introduce the American stupor The editor of the Anglo -speaking Medusa, American Kevin Rotrok is a master's degree in Soviet history and an active Twitter user with 14 thousand subscribers. There, Kevin writes about Russia for Western readers in English, but also communicates with Russian -speaking users.

Political tweets of the new presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak Vyacheslav Prokofiev / Kommersant TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak announced participation in the elections of the President of Russia in 2018. It was seriously in politics that she became interested in the wake of protests, which began in 2011 with mass rallies in pure ponds and Bolotnaya Square in Moscow.