Press Service of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, Karelia Branch Correctional Colony No. 9 in Petrozavodsk At the end of September 2019, Alla Konstantinova wrote an article for the legal news source Mediazona that described a regular practice of torturing prisoners at Correctional Colony No. 9 (IK-9) in the journalist’s hometown of Petrozavodsk, Karelia.

October 18. Simeless Spaniard, dangerous Mexicans and inquisitive Americans 📚 What is the common Primer and the Kerch bridge? The answer is Arkady Rotenberg. Structures close to a businessman bought for six billion rubles a group of publishers “Russian Textbook” - one of the largest publishers of educational literature in Russia.

Nagel PhotoGraphy / Shutterstock.com Stephen King will allow novice writers to visit in his old Victorian mansion, in which he no longer lives. It was here that King created his best works and, together with his wife Tabita (also a writer), raised children (two of them also became writers). King’s estate is located in the city of Bangor in the state of Maine - the writer bought this mansion about 40 years ago. The King section consists of the main mansion and another small house.

Joan Mateu / AP / Scanpix / Leta in Barcelona on October 18 arranged a march against the sentences to the heads of Catalonia, who organized a referendum on its independence in 2017. The convicts received up to 13 years in prison. More than 500 thousand people took part in the march.

At least 62 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in an explosion at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. According to Reuters, the explosive device was inside the mosque. The explosion occurred during Friday prayers. Al Jazeera reports a series of explosions. The mosque was destroyed. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the explosion, but the Afghan authorities have blamed the Taliban for the incident.

The London Borough of Southwark Crown Court sentenced the grandson of Kazakhstan's first president Nursultan Nazarbayev , 29, to a suspended sentence with a probationary period of one and a half years. He was found guilty of assaulting a police officer in London in June, RFE/RL reported. The court ordered Aisultan Nazarbayev to continue drug treatment, do 140 hours of community service, pay a fine of 1,000 pounds sterling, and pay 5,000 pounds in damages.

The Marvel film star Paul Radd starred in the new issue of the Hot ONES UTUB show, in which the American leading Sean Evans takes interviews with celebrities-and at the same time torments them with spicy food. In the middle of the release, Evans asked the guest to demonstrate an unusual skill, which he learned from an interview with director Jadd Apatou ("Forty -year -old virgin"). He said that the Radd takes incriminating pictures of celebrities using a cunning stunt with his fingers.

On October 17, at the next meeting of the State Duma Commission to investigate the facts of foreign interference in the internal affairs of Russia, it was announced that foreign publications, including Medusa, had violated the election legislation. In addition, as the head of the commission said , Vasily Piskarev, the deputies will ask law enforcement agencies to verify the materials of the journalistic investigations of the State Agency Russia Today, NTV and the Federal News Agency .

Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Vida Press Russia’s “Independent Press Complaints Council” has sided with Central Election Commissioner Ella Pamfilova against the American news agency The Associated Press in a dispute over an article published in late August about Moscow’s City Duma elections. According to the complaints council, AP ’s reporting was biased. Here’s what happened.

Benoit Tessier / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Marine Le Pen during parliamentary debate. October 7, 2019 Until recently, the extreme right parties were almost not interested in environmental topics, and conversations about climate changes were considered a way to distract society from threats to migration and global capitalism.

One was a zealous believer, the second considered himself the Messiah Vincent Jannink / EPA / Scanpix / Leta What happened? On October 15, the Dutch media reported that the police found a group of people who lived locked up for nine years on an isolated farm. Their lifestyle became known from the story of one of the inhabitants of the farm, a 25-year-old man. He came to the bar in the neighboring village of Roynerart, ordered five beer mugs and asked for help.

In the Moscow district of Pokrovskoe-Streshnevo, they are planning to build a 72-story building 255 meters high on the site of four five-story buildings that will be demolished under the renovation program . This was reported by The Village, citing the Moscow Committee for Architecture. Residents of the demolished buildings will not move to the high-rise building, they will be resettled in lower buildings, the Moscow Committee for Architecture said.

The losses of the Russian economy due to the thawing of permafrost range from 50 billion to 150 billion rubles a year. This was stated in an interview with Bloomberg by Deputy Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic Alexander Krutikov. “The scale is very serious. Pipes burst, piles collapse,” Krutikov said, stressing that the study of permafrost should become one of the priority tasks of the state.

TV channels operating in the Krasnoyarsk Territory warned of interruptions in broadcasting due to the failure of the Express-AM33 satellite. "Yenisei" announced that it had stopped broadcasting in the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (with the exception of Krasnoyarsk) in the early morning of Friday. On cable networks, the channel is still available.

Chinese authorities have indefinitely postponed the release of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , The Hollywood Reporter and Variety reported, citing sources. The film's release, scheduled for October 25, was temporarily delayed after the daughter of actor Bruce Lee, revered in China, filed a complaint with the country's National Radio and Television Administration over a scene depicting her father. What was in the scene?