Meduza has a new quiz about Russia and the USA, Putin praises the GRU, and America says its cyber-defense could go on the offensive Friday, November 2, 2018 This day in history. On November 2, 1962, John F. Kennedy announced in a national address that the USSR had begun dismantling its missile bases on Cuba. Who's got more? It's Russia vs. America, baby.

Blizzard announced Warcraft 3: Reformged-an updated version of the classic computer strategy Warcraft 3, released in 2002 ( Dota once appeared from its modification!). In addition to the original game, the reprint will also include the complement of The Frozen Throne. The developer also presented three new trailers - two plot and one with the gameplay.

From October 9 to 29, Internet users in Novosibirsk were invited to share their thoughts about a proposal to build a monument in the city to the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In three weeks, 243 comments rolled in. According to a report by the mayor’s office about the feedback, the city got 85 responses against the monument and 155 comments in support of a Stalin monument, including 137 posts advocating that the new monument be erected near the city’s historic Officers’ Building.

Vladimir Putin gave a speech on Friday at an event honoring the 100th anniversary of Russia’s “legendary Main Intelligence Directorate” — the same organization that has humiliated Moscow internationally over the past several months, as evidence accumulates that this spy agency is responsible for the nerve agent attack in Salisbury, England, and numerous hacking efforts targeting Western institutions.

Law enforcement reportedly detained a 16-year-old boy in Moscow on Friday on charges of making a bomb. The news agency TASS says police found an explosive device and other bomb components at the suspect’s home during a search. Sources close to the investigation say the boy was in contact with the 17-year-old anarchist suicide bomber who killed himself and injured three officers in an attack on the FSB building in Arkhangelsk earlier in the week.

On November 2, a Moscow court reportedly locked up a military expert named Vladimir Neelov on treason charges. According to the news agency TASS , he works at the Center for Strategic Trend Studies, focusing on private military companies . Neelov has provided comments to the Federal News Agency and other pro-Kremlin media outlets , and he apparently lives in St. Petersburg, according to his Facebook page .

US President Donald Trump announced the introduction of new sanctions that will begin to operate on November 5. He did this by publishing on Twitter a poster in the style of the series “Game of Thrones”. “The sanctions are close,” says the inscription on the poster (this is a reference to the saying from the series and the original books of George Martin - “Winter is close”). @realdonaldtrump Trump did not specify against whom the sanctions will be imposed.

HBO has released a new trailer for the third season of True Detective. In the story, detectives Wayne Hayes (Mahershala Ali) and his partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff) investigate the mysterious disappearances of children in the Ozarks, Missouri. The first episode will air on January 13th. HBO The action of the series will develop in several timelines at once (an aged Hayes is shown in the trailer).

The victory at the All -Russian Creative Competition of the FSIN (its goal is to encourage works aimed at preventing drug addiction) won a cartoon about Swan. The video was shot by the prisoners of the Kamchatka correctional colony number 5. At the beginning of the video, the audience is warned about the danger of drugs.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow has arrested military expert Vladimir Neyelov on suspicion of treason, TASS writes, citing a source close to the investigation. The interlocutor of the agency did not specify the term of arrest, saying only that the suspect is in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. A TASS source said that we are talking about an expert from the research organization "Center for Strategic Conjuncture".

Law enforcement officers detained a teenager from Moscow, suspected of making an explosive device. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The 16-year-old teenager has not been named. According to TASS, a search was conducted at his home, during which they found an explosive device and components for its manufacture. The teenager lives in the Moscow region of Tushino, Interfax writes .

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has developed rules for testing unmanned vehicles in Russia. The draft of the relevant government decree is published on the official portal of legal information. Testing of unmanned vehicles on public roads is expected to be carried out in Moscow and Tatarstan from March 1, 2019 to March 1, 2022.

Dmitry Dukhanin / Kommersant The Akado Internet provider posts the personal information of its customers-both individuals and legal entities in the public database of Whois . In general access, you can see their names, addresses and phones. This was written by the IT consultant of the Foundation for the fight against corruption Vladislav Zdolnikov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to return the name of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). Now military intelligence is officially called the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. “It’s not clear where the word ‘intelligence’ has disappeared – the Main Intelligence Directorate should be restored,” Putin said, congratulating military intelligence officers on their professional holiday, which is celebrated on November 5.

Petr Kovalev / Interpress / PhotoxPress Journalist and writer Denis Dragunsk, who became the prototype of the protagonist of the Deniskin Stories , learned that he was "not existing." He quickly corrected this misunderstanding. Dragunsky told Facebook that during a trip to Sapsan he heard a woman to read the story “What I Love” from Deniskin's Stories. Before that, the mother explained to the children that “in fact there was no Deniska” and he was invented.