Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Taxi to Salisbury! What is behind the loud dumps of the GRU Evgeny Berg and Alexei Ponomarev are discussing possible participants in Sergei Skripal’s poisoning in Salisbury (presumably, this was done by the employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation), and also disassemble the fresh history with four GRU employees who were expelled from the Netherlands.

The newspaper Kommersant reported on October 5 that former FSB Information Security Center agent Sergey Mikhailov and his three accomplices allegedly received $10 million for giving the FBI classified data about Pavel Vrublevsky, the former head of the payment services company Chronopay. Mikhailov is charged with copying confidential files from a felony case in 2013 against Vrublevsky onto a compact disc.

Vladimir Smirnov / TASS / Vida Press For two days, demonstrators have gathered in Magas, the administrative center of the Republic of Ingushetia, to protest against a border agreement that trades a contested region to Chechnya. The rally only grew after members of the Ingush parliament claimed that the legislature's endorsement of the land deal was falsified.

Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The Government does not plan to prohibit the walking of the dollar The Russian government has prepared a plan for the deadllarization of the Russian economy. Why did not the dollar please him? Does the economy really depend on foreign currency? And will citizens who store savings in dollars suffer? If there is "deadllarization", is there also "dollarization"? What does it mean? The Russian economy depends on the dollar too much?

October 5. Being a spy is dangerous, the president is even more dangerous Sentsov ends the hunger strike. It lasted 145 days. According to Sentsov, this is a forced step : he learned that in the near future he would be fed forcibly "as part of resuscitation measures to save the patient's life." The director expressed regret that he did not achieve his goals to release political prisoners.

SHUTTERSTOCK A group of scientists of an article for Science magazine was accused by the Agency for promising defense research projects of the US Department of Defense (DARPA) of financing a program, the results of which can be used as biological weapons. We are talking about the Insect Allies program ("insect-union"). Its essence is to learn how to edit adult plants using insects infected with a special virus.

Oleg Sentsov’s lawyer Dmitry Dinze explains why the director stopped the hunger strike Valery Matitsyn / TASS / Vida Press On October 5, Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov said that he was forced to stop the hunger strike - otherwise he would be transferred to forced feeding. Sentsov reported this in his appeal , transferred through the lawyer Dmitry Dinze.

Vladimir Smirnov / TASS / Vida Press In Magas, the administrative center of Ingushetia, the mass protest protest against the border with Chechnya, which involves the exchange of territories, continues. The participants of the action gathered in the center of Magas on October 4, before the regional parliament voted by agreement. The parliament ratified the document, but later some deputies said that the voting results were falsified.

In the US Senate, a procedural vote was held, as a result of which it was decided to end the debate on the candidacy of Brett Kavanaugh for the post of judge of the Supreme Court. There were 51 senators in favor and 49 against. The final vote on the approval of Kavanaugh, who is accused of harassment, will take place on October 6. At it, Kavanaugh's candidacy must also be supported by at least 51 deputies.

Thousands in Ingushetia are staging the boldest protest Russia has seen in decades Sasha Sulim / Meduza Yunus-bek Yevkurov, the head of Ingushetia, is facing a major crisis, following a controversial territorial-exchange agreement with Chechnya that was meant to resolve a decades-long border dispute in the Sunzhensky District. Meduza summarizes the past two days' dramatic events.

The minimum retail price (MRP) for vodka in Russia is planned to be increased from 205 rubles to 215 rubles per 0.5 liter. The corresponding draft order was developed by the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Finance also proposes to raise the minimum retail price for cognac - from 371 rubles to 388 rubles per 0.5 liter. The document provides that the new MRPs will come into force at the end of 2018.

Wong Maye-E / AP / Scanpix / Leta On October 5, the France police began an official investigation of the disappearance of President Interpol Meng Hongwei. His wife applied to law enforcement agencies: according to her, Maine went to China at the end of September and has not gotten in touch since then. Probably Maine was arrested by the Chinese authorities. According to sources of South China Morning Post, the head of Interpol was taken away for interrogation as soon as he landed in China.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the creator of the public "Men's State". According to investigators, a 27-year-old resident of the Saratov region posted in public photographs and videos containing "signs of inciting hostility, hatred (discord) towards women." The case was opened under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Now the issue of the arrest of the suspect is being decided.

In September, Sberbank's private clients withdrew 130 billion rubles from Sberbank's foreign currency deposits, and another 70 billion rubles from ruble accounts, Reuters reports citing bank data. In general, 12.19 trillion rubles remained on the ruble and foreign currency accounts of individuals with Sberbank. Sberbank said that the outflow from foreign currency deposits began in August and continued until mid-September.

FSIN of Russia / AP / Scanpix / Leta Oleg Sentsov in the Labytnang city hospital. September 28, 2018 Everyone who is still interested! Due to the critical state of my health, as well as the began pathological changes in the internal organs, in the very near future, the use of forced nutrition is planned to me. My opinion is no longer taken into account. Allegedly, I am no longer able to adequately evaluate the level of health and danger to him threatening.