The government and parliament of Catalonia are dissolved by decision of the Spanish cabinet. This was announced on the evening of October 27 by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. He added that early parliamentary elections will be held on December 21, after which the deputies will appoint a new regional government. In addition to the dissolution of the entire government of Catalonia, the head of the local police (Mossos), Josep Luis Trapero, was removed from his post.

Alexander Shishlov, Ombudsman for Human Rights in St. Petersburg, said the Investigative Committee found no connection between the October 7 protest and the ambulance being late for the patient, who subsequently died. “As far as I know, the Investigative Committee conducted an appropriate check and did not reveal such a connection,” Shishlov said at a hearing in the city’s legislative assembly.

In Syria, from January to September 2017, at least 131 citizens of the Russian Federation died, none of them were active servicemen of the Russian army. This is reported by Reuters. The agency obtained a certificate of death of Russian citizen Sergei Poddubny, issued by the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Syria on October 4. Reference number - 131. The numbering of death certificates, as confirmed to the agency at the consulate, is updated annually.

Massimo Paolone / Lapresse / Scanpix / Leta players Lazio in T -shirts with Photo by Anna Frank before the match with Bologna on October 25, 2017 In Italy, a scandal continues due to the anti-Semitic trick of the fans of the Roman football club Lazio, who pasted the roma fans with Anna Frank, a Jewish girl who died in the Nazi concentration camp in 1945. “Lazio” and his President Claudio Lotito are threatened with sanctions, and fragments of “Anna Frank's Diary” are read out in Italian stadiums.

October 27. Catalonia declared independence, declassified the archive about the murder of Kennedy Main The Parliament of Catalonia voted for independence from Spain . In response, Madrid introduced direct control in the region . Most likely, the metropolitan authorities will demand from Catalonia to hold new elections to the parliament.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Who to blame in the attack on Tanya Felgenhauer? Medusa journalists Alexei Ponomarev, Ilya Zhegulev and Alexander Borzenko are discussing the attack on the deputy head of the Echo of Moscow Tatyana Felgenhauer and the reaction of the journalistic community to him: how it happened, which could happen, whether it was possible to prevent and what measures to protect journalists themselves should be taken, including the journalists themselves.

A court in Sochi overturned the sentence of a local resident, Viktor Nochevnov, who was fined 50,000 rubles under a criminal article on insulting the feelings of believers. Aleksandr Popkov, a lawyer for the Agora human rights group, told Meduza about this. The case has been remanded for retrial.

Stanislav Belkovsky, the chief political expert for Ksenia Sobchak’s presidential campaign, said in a recent interview that his candidate won’t purposefully criticize Russia’s acting head of state, Vladimir Putin. In Belkovsky’s opinion, this strategy will “de-Putinize” the minds of voters and raise the “moral quality” of Sobchak’s candidacy.

Ekho Moskvy chief editor Alexey Venediktov announced on Friday that one of the radio station’s anchors, Ksenia Larina, will leave Russia for at least six months, in response to security concerns. Venediktov revealed the news on Dozhd television, explaining that Larina will continue some of her broadcasts remotely.

David Frenkel students and graduates of the European University in St. Petersburg arranged an action against the recall of a license from a university. They went through the city center in the costumes of ghosts, chanting the demand to return the license. The European University in St. Petersburg is one of the best non-state universities in Russia. Due to the review of the license, he was forced to expel students.

Said Tsarnaev / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta children and parents returned from Syria at Grozny Airport, October 21, 2017 The campaign to return from Syria to wives and children of militants is supervised by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov The representative of Chechnya in the countries of the Middle East Ziyad Sabsabi is responsible directly for the export of people from the war zone.

The chief political expert of the headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak Stanislav Belkovsky said that the TV presenter would not purposefully criticize the current head of state Vladimir Putin. According to Belkovsky, this “deputy” of the voter’s brain and will raise the moral level of Sobchak as a candidate. Sobchak herself previously stated that he was going to the elections primarily as a candidate “against all”. Photo in the announcement: Andrey Epikhin / TASS

The editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Alexei Venediktov, said that radio station host Ksenia Larina would leave Russia for at least six months for security reasons. He made this statement on the air of Dozhd. According to him, Larina will continue to conduct "some of her programs remotely." Venediktov explained the need to “evacuate Ksenia Larina” by statements about her in Vladimir Solovyov’s program on Vesti FM radio, made the day after the attack on Tatyana Felgenhauer.

On October 27, the news appeared on the website of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court that the head of the election headquarters Alexei Navalny Leonid Volkov did not appear at the meeting. But in this news there is not a single name! The title of the message sounds like this: "The chief of staff of a well -known politician did not appear in the court of Nizhny Novgorod." In the text of Volkov is called the “organizer of the unauthorized public event” and “V.”.

The court sent Sophia Apfelbaum, a new person involved in the case of the Seventh Studio. Reporting Sasha Sulim Dmitry Lebedev / Kommersant On October 27, the Russian Basmanny Court sent the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT) Sofya Apfelbaum for house arrest for two months. She was detained the day earlier after interrogation in the Investigative Committee as part of the Seventh Studio case .