Meduza answers the questions about the INF Treaty that you're too afraid to ask Russian Defense Ministry / AP / Scanpix / LETA Launch of an Iskander-K cruise missile during exercises in the Leningrad region in 2017 On October 20, President Donald Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which prohibits Russia and the U.S. from developing or deploying missiles with short or intermediate ranges.

Earlier this week, police arrested Ivan Zhdanov, the lawyer for Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, and on October 26 a court fined him 250,000 rubles ($3,800) for organizing nationwide political protests on September 9 (many of them unpermitted) against the government’s plans to raise the retirement age. Zhdanov managed this feat despite being outside the country on September 9. Officials say his appearance on a live-streaming YouTube channel qualifies as illegal incitement.

On October 26, Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court fined the independent magazine The New Times and its chief editor, Evgeniya Albats, 22 million rubles ($335,000) for failing to report the outlet’s funding in a timely manner to federal media regulators.

Seven years of work, maximum assessments of critics and amazing detail (the hero has a beard in real time!) On October 26, Western Red Dead Redemption 2 was released on PS4 and Xbox One - the main and most innovative game of 2018. For her, they take a vacation and buy home consoles. She is given maximum grades and seek success, accompanying the GTA 5, the previous game of Rockstar studio. Most likely, it is she who will determine in which direction video games will develop in the coming years.

Lawyer Vadim Prokhorov on a fine that can lead to the closure of The New Times On October 26, the Tver District Court was fined by The New Times and its editor -in -chief Yevgeny Albats for 22 million rubles. The court found that the publication violated Article 13.15.1 of the Administrative Code, requiring the media to provide information on receipt of funds in Roskomnadzor in a timely manner.

The Magas Times Former Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia Akhmed Pogorov at a rally in Magas, October 25, 2018 Chechnya and Ingushetia divided the border. Ingush activists opposed the Chechen leadership From October 4 to 17, in the center of Magas, a street protest was held against an administrative border agreement between Ingushetia and Chechnya-on September 26 it was signed by the heads of the republics Yunus Bek Yevkurov and Ramzan Kadyrov.

A Moscow court has fined the Andrei Rylkov Foundation , which provides assistance to drug addicts, 800,000 rubles. This was reported by Mediazona, citing the organization's president, Anna Sarang. The foundation was fined for publishing a newspaper for drug addicts, "Hat and Accordion," on its website. An expert examination found "information about methods of illegal use of narcotics" in one of the articles.

Anton Dolin - memory of Nikolai Karachentsov Oleg Korolev / Photoxpress On October 26, actor Nikolai Karachentsov died. He was 73 years old; For almost 40 years he served in the Moscow Theater "Lenkom", simultaneously starring in the movies and releasing musical albums. In 2005, the artist was in a car accident and received a serious traumatic brain injury, after which he could not completely recover and return to the stage. The film critic of "Medusa" Anton Dolin recalls an outstanding artist.

Video footage of the accident on the escalator in the Rome metro, in which more than 20 people were injured on October 23 , does not confirm the version that CSKA fans jumped on the steps, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reports. The fact that the fans could have provoked the accident with their behavior was previously reported by the Italian media, citing eyewitnesses.

MIT In 2016, the Massachusetts Technological Institute (MIT) published a special test, which was supposed to help creators of self -governing cars formulate the basic ethical principles for artificial intelligence. During the study, scientists tried to find out how an unmanned car should behave during an accident and whose lives should be a priority for him: women or men, young or elderly, pedestrians crossing the road according to the rules - or violators.

A suspect has been arrested in Florida as part of an investigation into sending bomb letters to politicians, CNN reports. According to NBC, the man was taken in for questioning. According to a CNN source, the suspect is a man in his 50s who has previously been on the radar of law enforcement. NY1 journalist Miles Miller published the name and photo of the detainee - according to him, this is 56-year-old Cesar Sayok.

The Tverskoy District Court fined The New Times magazine and its editor-in-chief Yevgenia Albats 22 million rubles. The court considered that the publication violated Article 13.15.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which requires the media to timely provide information about the receipt of funds to Roskomnadzor. About what amount the publication, according to Roskomnadzor, did not report, Albats did not specify in an interview with Mediazone.

The Federal Security Service reported on the suppression of the activities of a cell of the Islamic State terrorist group in the Moscow region. According to the FSB, the members of the cell intended to carry out "resonant terrorist attacks in Moscow using both firearms and improvised explosive devices." Six suspects have been detained.

The Russian Security Council has refused to reform the Federal Penitentiary Service and transfer the service's powers to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Novaya Gazeta reports, citing sources in the FSB and the Kremlin. The reform of the FSIN was discussed at the last meeting of the Security Council in October. The participants of the meeting decided to preserve the current structure and tighten supervision of the service employees.

The American Catholic organization Fundación Ramón Pan produced Follow JC GO - a mobile game in augmented reality. This is an analogue of Pokémon GO, in which instead of Pokemon on the streets of real cities you need to catch Catholic saints. Cristonautas FRP game trailer In Follow JC GO, users have to test their knowledge of the Bible. For example, Moses may ask the player who owns the quote “My God, my God! Why did you leave me? " (these are the words of Jesus).