The US Senate voted to appoint 53-year-old Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual harassment, to the Supreme Court. 50 senators voted in favor, 48 against. During the meeting, a protest against the appointment of a judge continued outside the Capitol building. Three women accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual harassment and assault during college parties in the 1980s. One of them, psychology professor Christine Ford, testified before the Senate.

Artist Banksy posted a video on Instagram of his painting being destroyed at a Sotheby's auction in London on October 5. "I secretly built a shredder into a painting a few years ago. In case it ever went up for auction," the caption reads. The video shows footage of a shredder being installed in a painting frame and shows how the mechanism was activated after the painting was sold for £860,000 (over a million pounds with additional payments) and cut up the canvas.

Ingushetian parliament deputy Set-Salim Akhilgov said that on Monday, October 8, the deputies would vote again on the border treaty with Chechnya. According to Interfax, Akhilgov announced this at a rally in the center of Magas. “We will discuss this agreement again, and we will vote again on Monday,” he said.

The Govorit Moskva radio station reported, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, that pilot Stanislav Mikhnov, who was driving a helicopter that crashed in the Kostroma region, was “probably” killed by two shots in the back from a carbine before the crash. There is no confirmation of this information from other sources. Moscow Says does not provide any other details or details to support the version of the pilot's murder. Update.

In the Penza region, the UK opened a criminal case against a 49-year-old swimming coach for sexual assault against children. It is reported by Interfax. On the night of August 14, a man who worked as an educator in a children's camp, while drunk, "committed acts of a sexual nature against nine children aged 10 to 11 years," the UK said. As the investigation found out, a year earlier he committed a similar crime against a 10-year-old child in the same camp.

That the film "Our Africa" ​​can tell about the future of "Our Crimea" Artdocfest Medusa continues to present films from the competitive program of the Artdox Festival Festival - it will be held from October 19 to 23 in Riga and from December 6 to 12 in Moscow.

The Latvian social network draugiem.lv was hacked on the day of the parliamentary elections in Latvia on October 6. On the main page, the hackers posted photos of Russian military personnel and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Putin's statements about the "Russian world", preceded by the address "comrade Latvians, this concerns you." When the site was opened, the Russian anthem began to play. A representative of Draugiem Group confirmed the cyberattack.

Fragment of the comic book on "Medusa" The comic book “Tanos: Revelation of Infinity”, written and drawn by Jim Starlin, is published in the publishing house “Parallel”. Starlin is a creator of a crazy titanium named Tanos (it was with him that the Avengers fought in the film “Infinity War”) and one of the most important scriptwriters and Marvel artists. His stories determined how space and his inhabitants in the comic books of the publishing house look.

Interpol requested information from China through official channels about the status of the organization's president, Meng Hongwei, who disappeared after a trip to that country at the end of September. “The Interpol General Secretariat is waiting for an official response from the Chinese authorities, which will answer questions about the well-being of the president,” said the organization’s secretary general Jurgen Stock.

In Chuvashia, blogger Konstantin Ishutov was detained on suspicion of rehabilitating Nazism because of a Facebook post. The UK announced the initiation of the case on October 5. On October 6, the Moskovsky District Court of Cheboksary extended Ishutov's detention until October 9. As his lawyer Yuri Ivanov told Mediazone, the reason for the case was the publication on Facebook of a photograph of a Nazi leaflet addressed to Soviet soldiers.

Update. Magomed Mutsolgov, a member of the organizing committee, told Meduza that the authorities have approved a week-long protest. The Ingush government has published a document approving the protest from October 8 to 15 for five thousand people. The government has indicated that the protest should not begin before 7 a.m. or end after 10 p.m. (protesters are currently on the streets around the clock).

Director/Writer Jon Favreau (Iron Man, The Jungle Book) Reveals First Details of His Star Wars TV Series The show was called Star Wars: The Mandalorian. Its events take place after the sixth episode: Darth Vader is dead, the Empire is defeated, former rebels are building the New Republic The series follows the adventures of a Mandalorian warrior. He lives in a remote corner of the galaxy, where lawlessness still reigns. The character's name has yet to be revealed.

The Literary critic of Medusa Galina Yuzefovich talks about two American novels about the war in Vietnam. The first-“sympathetic” Viet Than Nguen-was written and translated recently, and talks about the conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese refereal officer. The second-partly the autobiographical “what they carried with them” Tim O` Brain-was written back in 1990, and in Russian was released only in 2018; In it, the war is shown through the eyes of young American soldiers.

In Belgorod, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on negligence due to the death of 22 children in the city perinatal center since the beginning of the year. It is reported by Kommersant, citing a source. There are no suspects or defendants in the case yet, an official representative of the regional department of the Investigative Committee said. According to him, investigators intend to find out whether violations in the work of the center led to the death of children.

On Saturday, October 6, in Las Vegas (early Sunday morning Moscow time), a fight for the UFC lightweight title between Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov and Irishman Conor McGregor will take place. You can read more about the fight, which the UFC calls the most anticipated in the history of the promotion, here .