US President Donald Trump said the United States is prepared and will build up its nuclear arsenal to put pressure on China and Russia "and anyone else who wants to play these games" until those countries "come to their senses," Reuters reports. As Interfax notes , Trump also stated the need for China to join the INF Treaty. Only the United States and Russia are obligated to comply with the INF Treaty. All other countries in the world are free to develop similar missiles.

A native of Tiraspol, who was detained in Moscow on suspicion of stealing a bicycle, confessed to a series of murders, Interfax reports citing an informed source. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the detention took place on October 19. According to the detainee, he committed the murders of six women in Tiraspol, and in Moscow in the summer of 2017 he killed a man.

Shortly before the closing of trading on the Moscow Exchange, the US dollar exchange rate briefly fell below 65 rubles. This has happened for the first time since October 1st. The euro exchange rate fell below 75 rubles during the day, for the first time since the beginning of August. According to Interfax, the sharp rise in the exchange rate of the Russian currency is taking place against the background of the preparation of exporting companies for the main tax payments in October.

In Vladikavkaz, several hundred people went to a spontaneous rally in front of the government building of North Ossetia. The protesters demand to close the Electrozinc plant. The activists also made a petition to hand it over to the authorities of the region. It was signed by more than ten thousand people. Electrozinc is one of the largest non-ferrous metallurgy enterprises in Russia. On the night of October 21, a major fire broke out at the plant .

October 22. Spartak - without Carrera, Sberbank - without Yandex, Salisbury - without tourists News (with comments) Putin instructed to impose sanctions against Ukraine (although he constantly says that it is pointless to speak the language of sanctions). The State Duma suggested taking away all the income from freelance taxes (I wonder how they technically imagine this?). Arkady Volozh said that he would not sell Yandex shares Sberbank (and these shares immediately began to grow in price).

On October 19, we asked our readers to participate in a flash mob - to tell about household things that most of them are obtained, but which at the same time cause difficulties with themselves. Among hundreds of messages, we chose the 20 most interesting and life. For the convenience of reading, we noted them slightly. SHUTTERSTOCK Determine the time by the wall clock Anna I don't understand how this is done. Especially without numbers or with four digits.

Konstantin Saltykov, an employee of Alexei Navalny's headquarters, was sentenced by the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow to ten months in prison. The court found him guilty of using violence against police officers. Since Saltykov had been in pretrial detention for almost eight months at the time of sentencing, he was released from custody in the courtroom.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 18 at a meeting of the Valdai discussion club stated that if a nuclear blow is inflicted on Russia, then “we will go to heaven as martyrs,” and the aggressors will “just die”. The presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov had to explain what Putin had in mind. Photo in the announcement: Sergey Guneev / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta

Since 2010, the United States has hosted the World Classic Tetris Championship. In recent years, the champion has almost always been the same man - Jonas Neubauer of Highland Park, Illinois, who has a total of seven victories. However, in 2018, he lost to 16-year-old Joseph Seeley from California. During the tournament, held in Portland, Oregon, Seeley defeated Neubauer 3-0. In the final game, he scored 19,000 points more than his opponent, and earned a total of 934,880 points.

After confessing to attacking and poisoning people on behalf of Evgeny Prigozhin, a newspaper source suddenly disappears Stringer / Anadolu Agency / Vida Press Evgeny Prigozhin Note to readers: Days before the article described below was published, someone left a severed goat’s head in a gift basket outside Novaya Gazeta ’s newsroom in Moscow. Not long beforehand, the newspaper also received a funeral wreath addressed to Denis Korotkov, the author of this investigative report.

How English Salisbashi copes with the consequences of the visit of Petrov and Boshirova. Report "Medusa" Martin Cook / Swns.com / Scanpix / Leta Cathedral in Salisbury, October 9, 2018 On March 4, 2018, the former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia were poisoned by the nerve substance “Novice” in the British city of Salisbury. Britain’s authorities said that poisoning was organized by Russian special services, the Russian side denies this.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma for consideration, proposing to ban foreigners from owning more than 20% in news aggregators. It is proposed to block access to news aggregators that violate this rule. The document was prepared by a group of deputies from the Liberal Democratic Party and United Russia, among the authors - Andrey Lugovoy.

The floating hemisphere installed on the Yekaterinburg city pond in 2014 turned out to be a secret residential building. All this time, none of the city officials and residents knew what was inside the building. Artyom Ustyuzhanin / E1.ru Initially, it was assumed that they would make a cafe from the hemisphere. Its construction was engaged in Lavang.

German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said the country was halting arms supplies to Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Altmaier noted that Riyadh's explanations regarding the incident in Berlin are considered insufficient and that supplies have been stopped "until we find out what happened [to the journalist]." Earlier this year, Germany and Saudi Arabia signed a $400 million arms deal. Saudi Arabia is the second-largest buyer of German weapons after Algeria.

Bauman Moscow State Technical University Vice-Rector for Economics and Innovation Yevgeny Starozhuk became a suspect in a criminal case of fraud on an especially large scale. This was reported to Interfax by the lawyer of the scientist Suren Avanesyan. According to him, in 2012 Starozhuk signed a state contract for 500 million rubles, which provided for the creation of a certain alloy. According to investigators, the alloy was never invented, and the money allocated for it was stolen.