TV channel "Friday!" received 12 TEFI figurines, Interfax reports. The best information program was Pyatnitsa! News, the best socio-political prime-time talk show was 60 Minutes (Russia 1), the best comedy program was Evening Urgant (Channel One), the best prime-time talk show -time - "Agent Show" ("Friday!"). Ivan Urgant ("Evening Urgant") and video blogger Anastasia Ivleeva ("Agent Show") received statuettes as the best presenters.

Between 10 and 35 Russian mercenaries have been killed in the Libyan Civil War. We identified several of them. AFP / Scanpix / LETA Fighters supporting Khalifa Haftar stand with their equipment near Tripoli. May 2019 Last week, the bodies of the first Russians killed in Libya’s civil war started arriving back home for burial. Officially, Russia isn’t part of the fighting in North Africa, which has been ongoing for several years now.

The Flying Squad, a unit of paratroopers of the Chechen special forces, has been operating in the Norwegian part of the Arctic since 2016, in particular, in the Svalbard archipelago. Novaya Gazeta writes about this with reference to data from the instagram of the alleged special forces. The publication cites several pictures of the user akhaev_07_95. In one of them, a man is photographed in front of an aircraft tanker with the inscription "Svalbard lufthavn" ("Svalbard Airport").

In Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine, protests were held against the adoption of the “Steinmeier formula” - a set of measures to resolve the conflict in Donbass. The rally in Kiev was the largest, writes Radio Liberty. According to various sources, from one and a half to two thousand people took part in it. Protesters gathered on Maidan (Independence Square) and then moved to the Presidential Office.

Russian actors recorded a video in support of the defendants in Moskovsky. Freedom to all Moscow business: “Direct speech” (Pal, Derevyanko, Transverse, Ilyin, etc.) The video is called "direct speech." Its heroes tell the stories of 11 defendants in the “Moscow business” in the first person. The text for the video is compiled on the basis of transcript of court hearings on the Moscow Case and an interview with the accused.

ISABEL infantes / PA / Scanpix / Leta British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his proposals on the conditions of the country's exit from the European Union, which should take place on October 31. They relate, in particular, the boundaries between Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, and the rest of the Ireland, which is part of the EU. Settlement of relations between them is the most debatable topic in the debate about Brexit.

be blocked The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg demanded that the Russian LGBT Network and the Russian LGBT Community on the VKontakte social network. This was reported by the United press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.

American Mary Grover turned 100 on October 1st. her on her birthday Her favorite actor, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, congratulated . Mary Grover received such a gift thanks to her granddaughter's best friend Jamie Klinger. She knew that Grover had been a fan of Johnson for over 20 years and that she would be pleased to receive congratulations from her favorite actor. Klinger decided to contact Johnson through mutual contacts. In late September, she tweeted that her plan might work.

Press Service of the President of Ukraine / EPA / Scanpix / Leta The Ukrainian authorities agreed to sign the “Steinmeier Formula”-a set of measures to resolve the conflict in the Donbass, named after the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany and the current president of this country Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Optional political forces of Ukraine opposed such a decision of Vladimir Zelensky opposed Vladimir Zelensky, protests began immediately.

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation at a presentation in New York introduced a Surface Neo tablet with two screens. The size of each screen is nine inches, and in folded form it looks like a large Moleskine metal notebook, notes The Verge. Neo works on Windows 10x, a special operating system for devices of the future - for example, equipped with a folding screen.

The Verge published the text and audio recordings of two meetings of the head of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg with employees, during which he extremely frankly answered questions. The meetings were held in July 2019.

In recent years, the British director Gai Richie, who shot the criminal comedies “Maps, Money, Two Babers” and “Big Kush”, was mainly engaged in blockbusters like “Sherlock Holmes”, “Agents A.N.K.L.” Or recent Aladdin. But it seems that Richie still returned to the origins. The trailer for his new film "Gentlemen" recalls the director's early works. This is a criminal comedy about the American expansion of Mickey Pirson (Matthew McConahi), who got rich on the sale of marijuana in London.

Subscribe to our YouTube speaker of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vyacheslav Makarov criticized Maxim Reznik deputy for participating in a rally against political repressions in Moscow and stated that in St. Petersburg the opposition was “podded and feed from spoon”. Makarov also explained that Vladimir Putin saved Russia. And all this in one speech. Photo in the announcement: Roman Pimenov / Interpress / PhotoxPress

Vermont Senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has been hospitalized with a blocked artery, The New York Times reported, citing a statement from the politician's aide, Jeff Weaver. Sanders felt discomfort in his chest on the evening of October 1 in Las Vegas, where he had flown to attend a conference on gun control. The politician was taken to the hospital. He was diagnosed with a blockage in one of his arteries and underwent a procedure to install two stents .

Updated . The court arrested Vladimir Alexandrov and other defendants in the case. Aeroflot Deputy General Director Vladimir Alexandrov has been charged with large-scale fraud committed by a group of people. The investigation asks to arrest Alexandrov, the press service of the Basmanny Court, which received a petition to select a measure of restraint, told the Moskva news agency.