Blogger Natalia Zubareva, who has 2.5 million followers on Instagram, received the “Honorary Academician of VRAL” award, which is given for contributions to pseudoscience.

Israeli Prime Minister, leader of the Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, failed to form a coalition government and returned the mandate to President Reuven Rivlin. Rivlin announced this on Twitter. The President of Israel said that now the leader of the opposition Blue and White Party, Benny Gantz, will now receive the mandate to form a government. He will have 28 days to do so. In April 2019, elections to the parliament (Knesset) were held in Israel.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with NBC that Russia, Iran and China are trying to interfere in the 2020 US presidential election. “We see that Russia, Iran and China are using increasingly sophisticated tactics to interfere in elections. <...> [The network of accounts we discovered] signal that these states intend to be active during the upcoming elections, ”Zuckerberg said. Earlier on October 21, Facebook announced the blocking of fake accounts from Iran and Russia.

Former Judge of the Constitutional Court Tamara Morshchakova resigned from the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia (HRC). She reported this to BFM. According to Morshchakova, she decided to leave the HRC after changing its composition . “There is no previous advice. <...> If this is called the Human Rights Council, but some other tasks will be solved, then, as they say, I did not subscribe to this, ”said Morshchakova.

Following the passage of a 2019 law allowing Russian Internet traffic to be isolated from the World Wide Web in case of an emergency, the country’s government has arranged to hold exercises to prepare for such a scenario at least once a year. A new posting appeared October 21 on Russia’s official government website to announce the exercise plans.

Here are some foundations that need your support If you wanted to wish Meduza a happy birthday (we are five years old!), but did not know how to do it, then we have come up with a good option for you. More precisely, dozens of options: below you will see a list of charitable foundations and projects that Meduza employees like and that they offer you to support (not necessarily with money). Of course, this is a completely subjective list and does not claim to be complete.

The exercises envisaged by the law on the isolation of the RuNet will be held at least once a year. This is stated in a government decree published on the official portal of legal information.

October 21. Riots in Chile, new orders in the Human Rights Council ‼️ News of the day . Vladimir Putin appointed Valery Fadeev, former host of the Vremya program, head of the Human Rights Council .

Bangladeshi MP Tamanna Nusrat was expelled from the university where she was pursuing her Bachelor of Arts degree. It is reported by The Guardian with reference to AFP. It is assumed that Nusrat hired eight girls who looked like herself, who took exams instead of her. They managed to complete at least 13 tests on behalf of the deputy. The fraud became known after a Nagorik TV journalist came to the exam and ran into Nusrat's double there.

"Prochzgly" In Russian rental, the film French Selin Syamma “Portrait of a girl in fire” is released. The young artist comes to the house where they are preparing for the wedding - she needs to write a portrait of the future bride to send his groom as a business card. The girls have a novel. The film critic of Medusa Anton Dolin tells why this film became a sensation of the Cannes Film Festival and how feminism and love of art are combined in it.

The Moscow police almost doubled the amount of claims filed by the opposition due to protests in Moscow. This became known during the conversation of the plaintiffs and defendants in the Simonovsky court of Moscow, writes MBH Media. Also, one of the defendants in claims, an employee of the Corruption Fund, Georgy Alburov, wrote about this. In the first claim, where seven people act as defendants, the requirements are reduced from 8.5 to four million rubles.

The Sovetsky District Court of Ulan-Ude dropped a criminal case against 29-year-old local resident Dmitry Kharaev, who was accused of attacking a Russian Guard fighter during a protest. According to the press service of the court, Kharaev was released from criminal responsibility and a court fine was imposed in the amount of five thousand rubles.

Inmates of the Kresty-2 pre-trial detention center in St. Petersburg, accused of extortion, confessed to beating a cellmate. At the same time, they told TASS in the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the city, they categorically deny extortion. The investigation, the report emphasizes, also established that the employees of Krestov-2 were not involved in beating the prisoner.

Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has refused to put the Brexit agreement to a vote. The meeting is broadcast on YouTube. “Today's question is essentially the same as was considered on Saturday. The House of Commons has already ruled on it. Circumstances today are essentially the same as they were on Saturday. I decided that the issue will not be considered today, as this would be a repetition and a violation of the order of the meeting, ”Bercow said.

The American signer Azealia Banks has taken to Instagram to announce a new, geographically specific stage name: During tours in the former Soviet Union, Banks wrote, she will perform under the name Azilka (“it's pronounced "AH-ZeYL-Ka" !”). “I think its adorable!!!!!” the artist wrote. “‘Азелия Бэнкс’ [the full transliteration of Azealia Banks] just looks too complicated for my tastes.” Banks wrote that her boyfriend, who was born and raised in Russia, calls her Azilka at home.