Forbes magazine published an annual ranking of 13 dead celebrities whose work brings income to heirs and copyright holders even after their death. In first place in the ranking was Michael Jackson, whose income from creativity amounted to $60 million. Forbes notes that the number of listens to his songs increased from 1.8 to 2.1 billion, despite the scandal associated with the release of a film about child harassment.

Political ads will be completely banned on Twitter. This was announced by the founder of the social network Jack Dorsey. “We believe that political influence should be earned, not bought,” Dorsey wrote. The ban will take effect on November 1. In August, Twitter banned public media ads to "protect healthy discourse and open communication." The Facebook administration, despite numerous calls, decided not to ban political ads - even knowingly false ones.

In Mozambique, as a result of an attack by rebels, five fighters of the Russian PMC "Wagner" were killed. About this writes the publication Carta de Mocambique, citing unnamed sources. The incident occurred on October 27 in the province of Cabo Delgado. The rebels ambushed a car in which Wagner PMC mercenaries and Mozambique law enforcement officers were driving: they set up barricades on the road, and when the car stopped, they opened fire.

On October 30, celebrity media figure and former presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak released an interview with RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan. RT is a Russian government-run news outlet with branches that target international audiences. The following is a paraphrased summary of what Simonyan said during the interview with direct quotes marked accordingly.

Humane animal welfare, Putin's ‘systemic challenge,’ and a phony rebuke at Valdai Wednesday, October 30, 2019 This day in history: 114 years ago, on October 30, 1905, Czar Nicholas II issued the “October Manifesto,” granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a parliament. (It didn't last.) A humane animal welfare law is about to take effect in Russia. A new report found that most regions are still killing stray dogs and cats indiscriminately anyway.

The US Federal Reserve has cut the base rate by 25 basis points, to 1.5% - 1.75%. In the relevant statement of the regulator, it is noted that decisions on the future movement of the rate will be made based on the level of employment and inflation, as well as the current and expected economic situation. The Fed did not, as before, promise that its actions would be aimed at supporting economic growth, which experts took as a signal for a possible pause in rate cuts.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent under two months the new defendant in Moscow Pavel Novikov. Novikov charges of the use of violence that is not dangerous to life and health against a representative of the authorities. He was detained on October 29. According to investigators, Novikov hit a plastic bottle of water on the helmet of a police officer and on the forearm, because of which the police officer felt physical pain.

A humane animal welfare law is about to take effect in Russia. A new report found that most regions are still killing stray dogs and cats indiscriminately anyway. Sergey Konkov / TASS In December of 2018, the Russian government approved a new law titled “On the responsible treatment of animals” that is scheduled to take effect at the beginning of 2020. Among other things, the law prohibits catching stray dogs for the purpose of killing them.

October 30. HBO is dropping a series about the North, Greta Thunberg is dropping a Nordic Council Award 🌎 What is there in the world? The US has recognized the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire as genocide , and this will further worsen its relations with Turkey. The APEC summit in Chile was canceled because the authorities cannot cope with the protests. 🐶 Animal law is good but doesn't work .

The Norwegian TV channel NRK, citing intelligence sources, said that Russian submarines are conducting an operation in the Atlantic, the purpose of which is to work out a covert approach to the US East Coast. According to sources, ten submarines are involved in the operation. Their goal was to go as far as possible into the Atlantic Ocean without being detected.

Activision / Infinity Ward On October 25, the sixteenth part of the Call of Duty shooter was released. The new game has become a recovery of the Modern Warfare subaceria, dedicated to modern military conflicts. Announcing the game, the developers promised that in it, “as in the modern war”, there would be no right and guilty - instead, players were going to tell about “gray morality”, where the boundaries of good and evil were blurred.

Facebook announced the blocking of three networks of accounts through which, according to the social network, attempts were made to interfere in the internal affairs of African countries. The networks united a total of about 200 accounts with a total audience of more than 1 million people in eight African countries. It was possible to establish, Facebook said, that all three networks were associated with organizations related to businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin.

San Francisco marketing agency owner and political activist Adriel Hampton has registered to run for California governor in 2022, not so much to run for state but to be able to post false political ads on Facebook, CNN reports . Hampton is thus aiming to combat Facebook’s long-standing refusal to fact-check posts and ads from politicians and candidates for public office.

Updated . Kolachevsky himself said that he was suspected of complicity in the smuggling of optical elements. In Moscow, the director of the Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN) Nikolai Kolachevsky was detained on suspicion of embezzlement. Interfax and RBC write about this with reference to unnamed sources . The interlocutor of RBC, close to the Federal Security Service, said that the investigative actions are related to the overpricing of government contracts.

We talk about the series Apple TV+ "See" Apple TV On November 1, an Apple TV+stream service will start around the world, including in Russia. On the same day, his flagship projects will be available, with which the company expects to conquer the market from Netflix and other streaming. Film critic Egor Moskvitin talks about one of the first (and incredibly expensive) Apple TV+ show - the post -apocalyptic drama “See” the star of “Game of Thrones” Jason Momoa.