Irkutsk State University (ISU) student Artem Yakovlev said that employees of one of the Russian special services threatened him and tried to recruit him. Yakovlev recorded a video message and told OVD-Info about what happened. In particular, a student who calls himself an anarchist reported that he was summoned through the dean's office for a conversation with the rector's security adviser on October 9.

"Who did it?! Who glued the eyes to the Nathaniel Greene sculpture in Johnson Square? It may look funny, but damaging our historical monuments and state property is not a joke, it is a crime. We hope to find the culprits. If you saw something, please contact the Savannah police,” this post appeared on October 11 on the official Facebook page of the government of the city of Savannah, Georgia.

The European Union and the UK have agreed on preliminary parameters for Brexit, Politico reports , citing several sources. The agreement is also reported by TASS , citing a diplomatic source in Brussels. Under the terms of the agreement, writes Politico, the UK will be given a transitional period to leave the EU, which will allow the country to avoid economic shocks. Other details have not yet been announced.

In Samara, the traffic police detained the players of the Wings of the Soviets Yevgeny Bashkirov and Georgy Tigiev for driving while intoxicated. This is reported by TASS with reference to the activists of the Samara social movement "Night Patrol". On Sunday night, Krylia Sovetov midfielder Yevgeny Bashkirov was detained for drunk driving. Interfax, also citing Night Patrol , reports that the alcohol content in exhaled air exceeded Bashkirov's norm three times.

Physicist Stephen Hawking saw one of the new threats to humanity in the emergence of "superhumans" with altered DNA. Such a forecast is contained in the book "Short Answers to Serious Questions", on which Hawking worked shortly before his death. The scientist believed that in the near future, rich people will be able to modify their DNA and the DNA of their children, improving memory, intelligence, immunity and life expectancy.

Sergey Karpukhin / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Pavel Mamaev October 11, 2018 Valery Gazzaev Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs, Honored Coach of the Russian Federation Famous, and by the way, not without reason, football players Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev were in criminal reports . Of course, public people, and indeed anyone, is unacceptable to such behavior.

In Sergiev Posad, on the night of October 14, the car of Andrei Mardasov, deputy of the city council, burned down. The local publication Alternativnaya Gazeta Andrey Trofimov reports that the car was set on fire, noting that Mardasov opposed the placement of a landfill in the district. Mardasov, trying to put out the car, “breathed in smoke”, he needed the help of doctors.

The editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Alexei Venediktov, said on October 14 that he was urgently hospitalized and had a kidney operation. The operation was successful, Venediktov wrote on his Telegram channel, adding that he "will have to watch the world through the Internet and the window of a hospital room for a week." The editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy said that he was feeling “relatively well” and expressed his gratitude to the doctors and everyone who wished him a speedy recovery.

China has completed construction of its part of the first railway bridge across the Amur, which will link Nizhneleninskoye (Jewish Autonomous Region) and Tongjiang (Heilongjiang Province). The total length of the bridge is 2215 meters, of which 1886 meters are located in China. The Chinese side was responsible for the construction of 17 spans. Work began in February 2014. Almost completely the Chinese part of the bridge was completed in 2016.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has prepared a bill allowing the cultivation of narcotic plants in Russia for the production of potent drugs. This primarily concerns components for opioid painkillers. The document, the department’s press service told TASS, has been agreed upon with all interested departments and submitted to the government.

Director Vitaly Mansky - about what you can laugh at in a documentary movie artdoc.media "crossword" Medusa continues to present films from the competitive program of the Artdox Festival Festival, which will be held from October 19 to 23 in Riga and from December 6 to 12 in Moscow. The next two paintings are Sofia Danilina’s “Crossword” and Dina Barinova “Potato Potato” . They are shot in a rather unusual genre - documentary comedy.

The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy that he had received a recommendation from Russian President Vladimir Putin to refrain from using force in connection with protests in the republic.

Officers of the Chechen Interior Ministry Said Akhmaev and Lechi Bolatbaev, accused of extortion, were released from the pre-trial detention center, where they spent more than two years, Novaya Gazeta writes. In early October, the prosecutor's office did not file another petition to extend his arrest, and the defendants were released under the obligation to appear in court. At the meeting on October 10, according to the publication, they both came.

The Russian Orthodox Church has no canonical rights over the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said. The Kiev Metropolitanate, according to Poroshenko, was illegally annexed by Moscow at the end of the 17th century, which, according to the Ukrainian president, was confirmed by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Church of Constantinople. “Ukraine was not, is not and will not be a canonical territory of the Russian Church,” Poroshenko said.

UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov offered to fight American boxer Floyd Mayweather. The corresponding statement by Nurmagomedov was published on Instagram by boxing manager Dejuan Blake. “Two guys who never lost. Why not?” Nurmagomedov said. “There is only one king in this jungle and that, of course, is me,” he added. According to the rules of what sport, Nurmagomedov proposes to hold a duel - the video message does not specify.