In Israel, in mid-October, police detained a Palestinian on suspicion of incitement based on a mistranslation of his Facebook post, which translated "Good morning to you all" as "Attack them." The incorrect translation was made by Facebook's built-in algorithm. The recording was reported to the police of the district of Judea and Samaria (West Bank of the Jordan), after which the man was detained. When it became clear that a mistake had occurred, he was released.

Evgeny Feldman for the Navalny campaign Alexei Navalny held a meeting with supporters in Astrakhan on October 22. On the morning of this day, he left the special receiver in Moscow, where he spent 20 days under arrest for re -violation of the rules of rallies. The case was connected with calls to come to a rally in Nizhny Novgorod , which the city authorities were canceled at the last moment.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny, answering a question about Ksenia Sobchak's plans to run for president at a meeting with supporters in Astrakhan, said that "everyone has the right to go to the polls." “Everyone has the right to vote. Some I like more, some less. Zyuganov, Yavlinsky, Sobchak, Navalny - everyone can go to the polls, ”Rain quoted him as saying. Earlier, Navalny refused to comment on Sobchak's plans to participate in the elections.

The Syrian Democratic Forces Alliance (SDF), the main force in which is the Kurdish armed forces, announced the seizure of the Al-Omar oil field in the province of Deir ez-Zor, which has been controlled by IS since 2014. Fighting continues in outbuildings near the field, reports the Associated Press. The capture of the Al Omar field was confirmed by an international coalition led by the United States, which supports the DSS.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, has canceled the decision to appoint Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. “I listened carefully to everyone who expressed concern, and heard about different problems. I have also consulted with the government of Zimbabwe and we have decided that it will be in the best interest of the WHO,” Ghebreyesus said in a statement.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Syrian city of Raqqa, liberated from Islamic State terrorists by US-backed militias, “has inherited the fate of Dresden in 1945, wiped off the ground by Anglo-American bombing.” The Ministry of Defense noted that Raqqa, about the release of which the United States makes “bravura statements”, is a “provincial city”, inferior in population to Deir ez-Zor, which was also controlled by terrorists.

In Murom, the concert of the punk band Pornofilmy, scheduled for October 21, was canceled. Tatyana Makurina, the owner of the Art Bar 111 club, told Radio Liberty that this was done under pressure from the prosecutor's office, the FSB and the city administration.

Coals and sofas on thin legs, chairs with curved backs and plastic chairs of streamlined shapes are now standing in every second fashionable bar or restaurant, and editions from Elle Decor to BuzzFeed write about the revival of the indestructible “modernism of the mid -20th century”.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny refused to comment to Interfax on Ksenia Sobchak's intention to run in the Russian presidential elections in 2018. “I don’t comment yet. Maybe later,” his agency quoted him as saying. Ksenia Sobchak announced her plans to participate in the presidential elections on October 18. Alexei Navalny, who announced his intention to run for president last December, was under administrative arrest at that moment.

In Moscow on the evening of October 21, the competitions of the first stage of the Grand Prix series in figure skating 2017/2018 ended. In pair skating, the Russians took the first three places - the winners of the last Grand Prix final and current European champions Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov were the first, Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov were the second, Kristina Astakhova and Alexei Rogonov were the third.

Interview with Seva Zhidkov-a 16-year-old developer who is engaged in machine learning on VKontakte German Prokopyev / "VKontakte" Until the evening of October 22, Hakaton , organized by VKontakte, is held in St. Petersburg-100 teams compete for a prize of a million rubles. Seva Zhidkov, a winner of one of the past Khakatons VKontakte, came to the event as a spectator, and now the youngest employee of the company.

In Moscow, on the Bolshoi Kamenny Bridge near the Kremlin, a banner was hung in support of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was released from the detention center on the morning of October 22. The banner reads: “Putin – it’s time to clean up. Navalny - it's time to choose." Photos and videos posted on the Protest Moscow twitter. The same tweet said that the banner hung for "about 13 minutes".

James Duncan Davidson / Ted (CC by-NC 2.0) The social psychologist Amy Gaddy is most known in his speech at the TED conference. In 2012, Gaddy, then working in a Harvard business school, spoke about the results of her scientific discovery: it turns out that there are some “strong poses” that can make a person more confident and influence his physiological indicators. Her performance was watched 43 million times, it became the second most popular in the history of all TED conferences.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from the special detention center after 20 days of arrest, which he served for repeated violation of the procedure for holding rallies. The politician wrote about his release on Instagram. “I read 20 books in 20 days, learned a few words in Kyrgyz, drank 80 liters of tea and listened to the song ‘Give me the word because I’m a master of ceremonies’ on the radio at least 60 times,” he wrote.

In Russian, a 20-year correspondence of Astrid Lindgren with the reader is released. Fragment Jonny Graan / Scanpix / Leta Astrid Lindgren in Stockholm, 1974 In November, the book “White Raven” published the book “Your Letters I keep under the mattress” - Astrid Lindgren correspondence with her reader Sarah Jungkrantz (Marriage Schwardt). The correspondence began when Sarah was twelve, and lasted twenty years. For all these years, Astrid Lindgren and Sarah have never met.