A march took place in London demanding a referendum on the final terms of Brexit, reports the BBC. The public campaign Peopleʼs Vote, which organized the march, estimated that about 700,000 people took part in it. Scotland Yard was unable to estimate the number of participants in the action, writes the BBC.

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has recognized Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople as a schismatic. This was announced on the air of the Russia 24 channel by the head of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. "By the fact that the Patriarch of Constantinople recognized the schismatics, he himself joined the schism. This is how church canons work. Accordingly, for us now the Patriarch of Constantinople is a schismatic.

The Moscow Mayor's Office agreed that the "Return of Names" action, which takes place annually at the Solovetsky Stone, took place at the same place. A day earlier, she withdrew the approval of the action , arguing that construction work was underway next to the stone.

The head of the personnel department of the traffic police of Russia was detained and sent under house arrest on suspicion of refueling a personal car using an official fuel card. This is reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not indicate the name of the employee in the message. According to Interfax, we are talking about Dmitry Skryabin.

Apple CEO Tim Cook called on Bloomberg to publish a retraction of an article about Chinese spy chips on Apple servers. Cook told BuzzFeed about this. According to him, Apple conducted an internal investigation, “turning the company upside down”, and found no evidence of the information published in the Bloomberg article. “They should do the right thing and withdraw the material,” Cook said. As noted by BuzzFeed, this is an unprecedented announcement from Apple.

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP) included in the full title of its primate Filaret the Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev Lavra, which are under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). On October 20, the Holy Synod of the UOC-KP introduced the full and short forms of the title Filaret.

Bots allegedly linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency used tools from American startups to spread messages, Bloomberg reported, citing data from the troll factory's tweet archive . We are talking about the American services IFTTT, RoundTeam and Dlvr.it, which allow you to automatically publish and repost messages on various platforms, in particular, on Twitter. These tools were used by hundreds of bots of the "troll factory", writes Bloomberg.

The National Guard proposed to amend the rules for the circulation of civilian and service weapons. The document was published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts. According to the amendments, weapon owners, citizens of Russia or foreigners, must notify the department “by any available means” about their movements with weapons within no more than three days.

Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta man with a portrait of a repressed father near Solovetsky Stone October 29, 2014. Update from the evening of October 20 . The memorial said they called them from the city hall and assured that the action would be held at Solovetsky stone. The Moscow City Hall withdrew the coordination of the action in memory of the victims of repression “Return of the Names” , which the “Memorial” holds every year on October 29 at the Solovetsky stone on Lubyanka.

Moscow police detained two men who threw chicken eggs at the FSB building on Bolshaya Lubyanka, Interfax reports, citing an informed source. According to the agency's interlocutor, the detainees, citizens born in 1986 and 1981, claim that they do not work anywhere. On October 15, it became known that the police had opened a criminal case against unidentified participants in the action near the FSB reception in Moscow, who threw chicken eggs at the building.

Excerpt from the book of Tamara Eidelman "How Propaganda works" Biscan / Bundesarchiv / Wikimedia Commons (CC-By-SA 3.0) Pioneers from the GDR collect Colorado beetles, 1952 In the publishing house Individuum, the book of historian Tamara Eidelman “How Propaganda works” is published. In it, the author describes how the distribution of fake information is arranged, and analyzes several examples in detail - from historical (“Bailis’s Case”) to very recent (“crucified boy”).

On October 25, the second novel of the Indian writer Arundati Roy “The Ministry of the highest happiness” is released in Russian. During her first book-the novel “God of the Logs” published in 1997-she received the Buker Prize, but since then she has not written anything, focusing on socio-political activity. The Literary critic of Medusa Galina Yuzefovich tells why - and what - the long -awaited Roman Roy very much loses to her first work. Arundati Roy. The Ministry of the highest happiness.

TNT-Premier On October 20, the series “TNT-PREMIR” is released in the Internet “TNT-PREMIR” series “Call DiCaprio!”. It was shot by the director of the films "Bitter!" And the “Best Day” Zhora of Cherzhnikov. The main roles were played by Alexander Petrov and Andrei Burkovsky.

The head of the National Guard, Viktor Zolotov, said that he would like to "pass through the polygraph" the opposition leader Alexei Navalny. It is reported by "Kommersant". “He must answer for his lies! To be honest, I would have put him through a polygraph for a start ... ”the Zolotov newspaper quotes with reference to its special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov. Kommersant does not specify which statements of Navalny Zolotov wants to check with a lie detector.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov reported that on the evening of October 19 he went to Ingushetia to talk with elder Mukhazhir Nalgiev, who “made disrespectful statements” about him at a rally against the Chechen-Ingush border agreement in Magas. Kadyrov did not specify what statements by Nalgiev were in question. Some publications, including Kavkaz-Realii and RIA Derbent , write that Nalgiev called the head of Chechnya a shepherd.