In the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, four Russian correspondents and five servicemen were injured in the explosion of a land mine set up by terrorists. This was reported on November 6 by the RF Ministry of Defense. The explosion occurred when correspondents from NTV and Zvezda were working in a residential area of ​​the city. Ilya Ushenin and Timur Voronov from NTV and Konstantin Khudoleev and Dmitry Starobrodsky, who work at Zvezda, were injured.

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey went to a clinic in Arizona after allegations of sexual harassment, where producer Harvey Weinstein is currently undergoing treatment. This is reported by the Daily Mail with reference to unnamed sources. Spacey, according to the Daily Mail, arrived at the clinic at the end of the first week of November. Weinstein was also reportedly spotted in Phoenix, in the suburbs of which the facility is located.

In honor of the centenary of the October Revolution, federal channels released two new series about its heroes "Channel One" "Trotsky" Two major projects dedicated to the centenary of the October Revolution are simultaneously released on Russian television. On November 5, the series “Demon of the Revolution” with Fedor Bondarchuk in the role of revolutionary Alexander Parvus and Evgeny Mironov in the role of Vladimir Lenin started on the channel “Russia”.

Not far from his hotel room in St. Petersburg, Vyacheslav “MC Gnoiny” Karelin was attacked by unknown persons on Monday, November 5, according to the artist's manager, Andrey Zamai. Karelin was reportedly en route to a concert at the club “Aurora.” “They beat him and yelled that he should apologize for his work,” Zamai said, calling the beating “an attack on free speech.” Karelin has already filed a police report.

In St. Petersburg, an attack was made on the rapper Purulent (Vyacheslav Mashnov). This is reported by 78.ru, REN and Channel Five with reference to the manager of Purulent Andrey Zamay . According to Zamai, seven people attacked Purulent near the St. Petersburg Hotel when he was on his way to a concert at the Aurora Club. “They beat him and shouted that he should apologize for his creativity, for the punches he said.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained 23 activists of the unregistered Other Russia party who wanted to celebrate the centenary of the October Revolution. The activists planned to march along Nevsky Prospekt. They were detained near the Oktyabrsky concert hall, when the police appeared, the activists took out flags and tried to start the procession. In addition, a banner was hung in front of the hall: “Ilyich, wake up, they ****** [have become impudent]”.

Prosecutors in Tatarstan are expanding their investigation of torture allegedly committed by local police officers. On November 2, a court in Nizhnekamsk arrested three officers for two months on charges of suspected abuse of authority. The policemen reportedly abducted a hospital orderly named Ilnaz Pirkin on October 19, brought him to the forest and beat him, and then booked him at the station, where they tortured him further, demanding that he confess to stealing items from parked cars.

Moscow police detained 302 people on Sunday, November 5. According to the Interior Ministry, the individuals were in possession of cutting instruments, air guns, brass knuckles, masks, helmets, goggles, and aerosol cans containing flammable liquids. Several of the detained people also carried the symbols of “Artpodgotovka,” a group founded by exiled Russian Vyacheslav Maltsev that has been banned in Russia.

Just two days after Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor asked Google to explain why its news aggregator stopped indexing stories from the Federal News Agency ( FAN ) — a media outlet with ties to the infamous “troll factory” — Google News suddenly restored coverage of FAN content, the outlet reported on November 5. Without any explanation, Google News dropped FAN on October 27, leading the publication to accuse Google of censorship designed to benefit the U.S.

The Svyatoshinsky District Court of Kyiv allowed the trial of the plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the North Caucasus Federal District Oleg Belaventsev. This was announced on November 6 by military prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko. Belaventsev is suspected of encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine and high treason, as well as waging an aggressive war. The crime, according to investigators, was committed in February-March 2014, when Crimea became part of Russia.

Wireless chip maker Broadcom has offered to buy out competitor Qualcomm for $130 billion. It was announced on November 6th. The price is calculated from the value of Qualcomm shares on November 2 (when the possible deal was published) with a premium of about 28%. Part of the deal is proposed to be backed by shares in Broadcom. As noted by Reuters, if Qualcomm accepts the offer and the deal is approved, it will become the largest in the history of technology companies.

State Duma deputy from United Russia Alexey Ezubov signed documents in 2013 as the head of the offshore company Air Cloud Services Limited, registered in Bermuda. This is evidenced by documents that became available as part of the "Paradise Islands Archive". Novaya Gazeta journalist Olesya Shmagun, who worked on the investigation, published Ezubov's signature as the company's director on Facebook.

Dennis Cox / Alamy / Vida Press Bay of Georgetown, the capital of the Cayman Islands On November 5, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published its second major project on offshore companies. Titled “ Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite ,” the new report contains data pulled from state registries on dozens of exotic islands. Meduza summarizes what we learned about Russians from the ICIJ’s new work.

In Moscow, a fire broke out in a change house, where there were people. As a result, six people died, another received burns of 30% of the body surface. According to a TASS source in law enforcement agencies, a kindled barbecue could have been the cause of the fire. The interlocutor of the agency added that two of the dead were Muscovites, and the rest were citizens of the CIS countries, including one citizen of Belarus.

What journalists found in the Archive of the Paradise Islands - the largest leak of offshore data since the time of the Panama Archive Dennis COX / ALAMY / VIDA Press Georgetown Bay, Cayman Islands On November 5, the International Consortium of Journalists-Industors (ICIJ) published a second large-scale project dedicated to offshore companies. It was called the “Archive of the Paradise Islands”, as it contains data from the state register of one and a half dozen exotic islands.