A team of astronomers led by Scott Sheppard of the American Carnegie Institution have discovered 20 new moons of Saturn. Thus, their total number reached 82. All satellites have a diameter of about five kilometers. 17 of them move in a retrograde orbit - that is, the direction of their movement is opposite to the direction of Saturn's rotation around its axis. The satellites have not yet been named. submit their proposal on the Carnegie Institution website Anyone can by December 6.

The Georgian airline Georgian Airways intends to file a lawsuit with the European Court against the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation due to the ban on flying to Russia. According to General Director Roman Bokeria, the airline has no debts for navigation services to Russia, therefore, Georgian Airways considers the ban of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, which was explained by the debt of Georgian airlines, to be unreasonable.

The Meshchansky District Court rejected the copyright lawsuit of rapper LʼOne (real name Levan Gorozia) against the Black Star label, as well as against its co-owner Timur Yunusov (Timati) and CEO Pavel Kuryanov. Gorozia, who left Black Star in March 2019, wanted the rights to the LʼOne name and 157 of his songs. The plaintiff's lawyers insisted that all the musician's tracks were made at his expense.

We are trying to understand that it was Staff SGT. Andrew GOEDL / US ARMY Turkish and American military patrol the border areas of Syrian Kurdistan, October 4, 2019 US President Donald Trump on October 8 decided to support the Syrian Kurds, which he had called terrorists the day earlier. In the New Twites series, he warned Turkey against an “unnecessary and unprovided” attack on Kurdish territories, promising that in the event of an attack, the Turkish economy would suffer.

In the physical nomination of the Nobel Prize, astronomers won Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The Nobel Physics Prize in 2019 became the most space and the most diverse of those that have been awarded in recent years. It was received by the theoretician James Pibls for “research in physical cosmology” and astronomer Michelle Major and Didier Kelo - “for opening exoplanets in the orbit of the sun -like star”.

The Moscow City Court banned Pobeda Airlines from charging a fee for registering passengers at foreign airports. The court satisfied the demand of the transport prosecutor's office, which considered that the paid registration was contrary to the Federal Aviation Rules. The press service of Pobeda reported that the company would challenge the decision. “There are no free services - there are included in the default tariff for everyone.

On the evening of October 8, a car with a multiple excess of background radiation arrived at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow in a passenger train en route from Berlin. As a source in the environmental and technological services for radioactive waste management told Interfax, the excess was recorded during the inspection of the car on the border of Poland and Belarus.

Johan Nilsson / TT / Scanpix / Leta in the city of Malmoy in the south of Sweden officially opened a monument to football player Zlatan Ibragimovich. A statue weighing 500 kilograms and 2.7 meters high was made two years ago, but for a long time to install it could not find a suitable place. “When you come to New York, you have a statue of freedom when you come to Sweden, you have a statue of gold,” the football player himself commented on the opening of his monument.

id Software has announced that the release of the shooter Doom Eternal has been delayed by 4 months. The game, which was supposed to be released on November 22, will not be available until March 20, 2020. The developers explained the postponement of the release by the desire to spend more time on improving the project - so that in the end the game would exceed the “wildest expectations” of the players.

At one of the meetings of the Denmark parliament in October, it was very fun-because of circus elephants and one camel. No, the animals did not speak to the deputies. Laughter caused the story of the new Prime Minister Mette Fredericksen about the redemption of the last four elephants performing in the Danish circuses. Last year, Denmark forbade the use of wild animals in circuses, including elephants. Now the government redeems such animals to provide them with a decent old age.

German midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger has announced his retirement from football. The 35-year-old football player thanked the fans and all the teams for which he played - Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Chicago Fire and the German national team. Bastian Schweinsteiger won the German championship eight times with Bayern and won the national cup seven times. He played 121 matches for the German national team and in 2014 became the world champion.

We knew in advance that the West had chosen the Russian elections, specifically the Moscow City Duma elections, as its target. The goal: to discredit the Russian authorities and provoke unrest. The RAND Corporation is behind this. They used “mosaic technologies” against us: individual episodes do not indicate Western interference, but the overall picture is obvious - this is an attack on Russian sovereignty. And it worked! Polls have shown that Russians do not believe in Western interference.

"Medusa" publishes the comments of the publishers and some lost passages On October 8, the Gorky publication published an interview with writer Jonathan Littlela, in which he spoke about the difficulties related to the release of his novel “Good -Rebeline” in Russia in 2011 at the AD Marginem Publishing House. According to Littlel, after the intervention of editor Maria Tomashevskaya, about 600 fragments of the book (a total of 20 pages of the text) disappeared from the Russian edition).

Moscow’s lead prosecutor has submitted a five-million-ruble ($76,550) lawsuit against Alexei Navalny, Lyubov Sobol, and other prominent opposition activists. While the lawsuit’s existence was already publicly known, neither its amount nor its purpose had previously been reported. MBK Media wrote from the Cheremushkinsky Court that the state is seeking five million rubles to cover salary costs for the Russian National Guard troops who were deployed to arrest opposition protesters over the summer.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague has received the Order of Courage following a command from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin issued the prestigious state award to Hague for “the courage and high professionalism he demonstrated while fulfilling his duties in high-risk, life-threatening conditions during an emergency situation at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.” In October of 2018, Hague took off for the International Space Station with Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin.