Facebook released a report on content removal in the second and third quarters of 2019. It includes data about Instagram (owned by Facebook) for the first time. In total, in April-September, at least 3.3 million posts were removed from Instagram that violated the policy of the social network.

A court in Rostov-on-Don arrested the head of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Muslim Dakhkhaev, who is suspected of disclosing state secrets. The meeting was held behind closed doors. The case is classified, lawyer Alexander Zamansky told TASS. He added that his client is not charged with any corruption crimes. According to TASS and Interfax , after the meeting, Dakhkhaev left in an ordinary car. He was without handcuffs and without an escort.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) was dissatisfied with the new Adidas uniform for the Russian national team, Kommersant reports, citing sources in the RFU. The form was submitted on November 7th. In it, the Russian team was supposed to finish the qualifying round of the European Championship 2020. But on November 12, the press service of the RFU told TASS that the players would finish the remaining matches against Belgium and San Marino in the form of the old model.

Following the release of Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov , who was arrested in June on fabricated drug charges, law enforcement officials began to investigate potential wrongdoing on the part of the officers involved in Golunov’s arrest. Now, investigators have announced that the case materials being used in those proceedings have been made completely confidential.

The head of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President, Valery Fadeyev, believes that the charges brought against the three defendants in the "Moscow case" are disproportionate to their actions. This was reported on the HRC website. We are talking about Samarridin Radzhabov , Sergei Fomin and Yegor Zhukov . "I am taking these three cases under my personal control.

The Committee for Intelligence of the House of Representatives of the US Congress began open hearings about the impeachment of Donald Trump, the procedure of which was launched on September 24. Prior to this, within a month, witnesses were testified in closed mode. The change in the format is caused by the desire of the democrats to attract more attention to the impeachment procedure, the support of which in society has stabilized and does not grow.

Police officers seized six posters from the annual exhibition of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists (SPb SH). Among them were works dedicated to Vladimir Putin, corruption, pension reform and employees of the National Guard. As Yuri Orlov, the author of two of the six seized posters, told Fontanka, on November 9 (two days after the opening of the exhibition), the leadership of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists removed the posters, and later law enforcement officers took them for examination.

Five years ago, Russians realized that their country was sinking into yet another economic crisis. On November 5, 2014, the Central Bank announced that it would no longer underwrite the value of the ruble. That fall, as Russian residents followed their currency’s downward slide with rapt attention, they still didn’t know that this crisis, unlike its predecessors in 1998 and 2008, would stretch on for many years.

Alexander Posnuyev, the lawyer of the historian Oleg Sokolov, accused of the murder of a graduate student at St. Petersburg State University Anastasia Eshchenko, considers it incorrect that his client was "publicly linked" before the verdict was sentenced.

IVAN Alvarado / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta participants in anti -government rallies in the capital of Chile of Santiago used special forces lasers. Protest shares are held in the country for almost a month, the police disperse them, including with the use of tear gas. During the unrest in Chile, including as a result of fires and robberies, at least 23 people were killed .

VKontakte users will be able to put dislikes on comments. Representatives of the social network announced this at the VK Content Day event. The vc.ru edition writes that the new feature will appear in early 2020. In addition, VKontakte will introduce a new way to monetize VK Donut content. It will allow subscribers to financially support authors and media projects they are interested in.

Natalia Yerpyleva, Chairman of the Academic Ethics Committee of the Academic Council of the Higher School of Economics (HSE), apologized to Professor Gasan Huseynov. The reason for the apology was that Huseynov was not directly informed about the recommendation to apologize for the words about the “cesspool” Russian language. “In normal practice, employees whose issues are considered by the commission are necessarily notified of its decisions.

Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS is one of the authors of the bill, head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction Andrei Klishas The law that allows us to recognize foreign media “foreign agents” works in Russia for a month, the list is already nine editions. Now the State Duma decided to expand the provisions of this law: a “foreign agent” can be recognized not only by the company, but also by an individual.

Disney+ is here, but not (legally) for Russians. ‘Meduza’ looks at the premiere of the service's flagship show. Disney has finally released the first episode of “The Mandalorian,” a space Western set in the Star Wars universe that’s meant to rope in even more subscribers for the company’s new service, Disney+. Not so long ago, in a galaxy all around us, Netflix was the undisputed king of video on-demand. But turmoil has engulfed the Internet, and streaming services are in dispute.

Apple Apple on November 13 introduced its “most powerful MacBook Pro in History,” the manufacturer who received the Medusa editor said in a statement. The laptop received a Retina display with a diagonal of 16 inches and a resolution of 3072 × 1920. Previously, MacBook with a diagonal of up to 15 inches were produced. According to TechCrunch, in the new MacBook Pro, the company corrected, if not all, then most of the shortcomings that users complained about.