TV presenter, CEO of MIA "Russia Today" Dmitry Kiselev was elected Chairman of the Union of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Russia . This decision was unanimously adopted at the annual meeting of the organization, RIA Novosti writes. "In the context of creating an industry on new principles, this is a very important matter for me.

The Grand Prix of the festival of author's documentary films "Artdocfest" was awarded to "Immortal" by Ksenia Okhapkina. This was reported to Meduza by the organizers of the festival. The film tells about the inhabitants of the city of Apatity in the Murmansk region. Maxim Shved, creator of Pure Art, received the Artdocfest award for best director.

Briton Morrison Robinson, the driver of the truck in which 39 bodies were found, has been charged with manslaughter. He is also accused of conspiracy to commit human trafficking, facilitate illegal immigration and money laundering. According to the Essex County Police, which is investigating the crime, on October 28, the court will choose a measure of restraint for Morrison. In addition to Morrison, three more people were detained: two men and one woman.

Dennis van tine / sipa / vida press On October 31 - on the day when the Brexit was once again transferred to take place - the London publishing house Coronet Books will release a collection of short stories of famous writers (and not only - the list is the artist Traishi Emin and the leader of The Who Pete Towned) under the general name “love letter to Europe”. Among them are Michelle Feiber , Neil Heyman and other loud names. The Guardian newspaper has published a selection of these letters.

The soloist of the folk group from Udmurtia "Buranovskiye Babushki" Natalya Pugacheva has died at the age of 83. This was tweeted by the head of Udmurtia Alexander Brechalov. The Buranovskiye Babushki Ensemble has existed since the 1970s. Since 2008, the soloists began to rehash the hits of Russian and foreign performers in the Udmurt language. In 2012, the team represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest, where they took second place.

Here's what she said - in as few words as possible When I was released from prison, I didn’t know what was happening. I only felt relief when they took me to the plane and I saw the Russian flag and recognized Aeroflot. In the US, I spent 117 days in solitary confinement. It was a terrible experience. Maybe they were trying to break my will. But I don’t know any secrets, I’m just a student who believed in peaceful relations between Russia and the US. I was never a spy.

Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS What's happened? The text appeared on the website of Roskomnadzor (now it has already been deleted and remained only in the archive ) of the examination of the work of singer Yegor Creed, conducted by the National Council of Social Information. The examination was dated September 27, 2019, but journalists drew attention to it only a month later.

Players of the youth teams of Grozny "Akhmat" and Tula "Arsenal" staged a brawl on the field during the match. Arsenal announced this on Twitter. The meeting took place on October 26 as part of the 14th round of the youth championship of the Russian Premier League. At the 39th minute of the match, after a collision between two rivals, a scuffle ensued on the field. Reserve players and team coaches ran onto the field to separate the players. The brawl ended with three removals.

Private soldier from the Trans-Baikal military unit Ramil Shamsutdinov, according to preliminary data, opened fire on his colleagues due to hazing. Kommersant writes that such a version appears in the report of the leadership of the military unit to the higher command. the consideration of this version The source of RIA Novosti also announced .

The investment company Alfa Capital announced the departure of the deputy director, member of the board Evgeny Zhivov. The company noted that it “shares family values ​​and considers violence unacceptable in any of its manifestations.” Whether Zhivov was fired or left of his own accord is not specified. The top manager left after his ex-wife Irina Zhivova accused him of domestic violence on October 20. She posted a screenshot of two beating protocols drawn up against her ex-husband.

Tatyana Makeeva / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta convicted in the United States Russian woman Maria Butina returned to Russia. The American authorities arrested her in July 2018 on charges of conspiracy in favor of Russia and conducting lobbying activities without registration. Butina partially pleaded guilty. In April 2019, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the United States.

Claudio Santana / Getty Images on October 25 at a rally in Santiago - the capital of Chile - 1.2 million people came out . This action has become the most massive for the country since 1988, when a million Chileans joined the rally against the then ruler Augusto Pinochet. The current protests began on October 6, after a slight increase in public transport prices, but their real reason was the structural problems of the Chilean economy.

17 years ago, the operation to free the hostages of the theater center on Dubrovka ended. On October 23, 2002, a group of terrorists from Chechnya, led by Movsar Baraev, captured the theater in which the Nord-Ost musical shown-and for three days held 916 people from among the audience, actors and employees of the center.

About 50 Russian women with children stopped communicating after they left the Syrian camp of Ain Issa, intended for the families of Islamic State militants. Relatives of the two missing women anonymously told the BBC Russian Service about this. The Ain Issa camp was guarded by the Kurdish militia. One of the interlocutors of the BBC Russian Service, referring to her daughter-in-law who was in the camp, said that after the start of the Turkish invasion, the Kurds set fire to the camp and left.

Student Andrei Barshai, accused in the "Moscow case" , will be sent for an inpatient psychiatric examination. Barshai's lawyer Mansur Gilmanov told Mediazona about this. The examination will begin next week and will last a month. It will take place at Moscow's Alekseyev Psychiatric Hospital No. 1. Barshai already underwent an outpatient examination there on October 25.