Ekho Moskvy : Have you seen the report that includes a video from Syria taken in 2017 where a group of people — one of whom, as Novaya Gazeta found, is a Russian citizen — brutally kill and then dismember the body of a Syrian servicemember? Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov: No, I haven’t seen it. I can’t say anything on that count.

In Moscow, the Enlightener Prize was awarded for the best popular science books in Russian. The award in the nomination "Humanities" was received by Elena Osokina with the book "The Alchemy of Soviet Industrialization. Time of Torgsin. In the nomination "Natural and exact sciences" the author of the book "0.05. Evidence-based medicine from magic to the search for immortality" Petr Talantov. The Grand Prix in the Enlightener.Digital nomination went to the creators of the Ostarbeiters podcast.

The director of the National Scientific Center for Narcology, a branch of the Serbsky Center, Tatyana Klimenko, wrote a letter of resignation of her own free will. Klimenko told Interfax that she "would not like to comment" on the reasons for her departure. Earlier, the Baza edition reported that Klymenko was fired by order of the Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, since it was she who gave a positive review of the new medical examination procedure for drivers.

Mikhail Dzhaparidze / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Maria Butina arrives at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after serving her sentence in the United States. October 26, 2019 The claim Russia’s State Duma has passed a law enabling ordinary people to be labeled “foreign agents” in the proposal’s third and final reading.

Piron Guillaume / Unsplash The editors of the New Scientist magazine reported the first patient whom the doctors placed in a deep cooling state during the intensive care unit. The purpose of the procedure is to win the time for surgical intervention and prevent damage to the vital organs as a result of cardiac arrest.

Valve officially announced the new game of the Half-Life series, which was called Half-Life: Alyx, and showed a gameplay trailer for the game. Valve Half-Life: Alyx Announceement Trailer The game will unfold between the events of the first and second Half-Life, and Alix Vance will become its main character. According to the plot, she, along with her father, leads resistance against the forces of the alliance. The game will be intended only for virtual reality helmets - any supporting Steamvr.

A court in New York has sentenced Russian programmer Stanislav Lisov to 48 months in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit hacker attacks. Lisov pleaded guilty during the process. The judge credited him with a term that he had already served, so the Russian is expected to be released in four to five months. Stanislav Lisov was detained in 2017 in Spain at the request of the United States. A few months later he was extradited.

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced the decision to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in three criminal cases. Netanyahu will be accused of fraud, bribery and breach of trust, officially this will be done later. As noted by Reuters, Netanyahu is not required to step down as prime minister after the indictments. So far in Israel's history, no prime minister has been formally accused of any crime while in office. Netanyahu has been Israel's prime minister since 2009.

Pobeda complained to the Ministry of Transport about damage to the landing gear of the aircraft due to inefficient, according to the airline, cleaning of airfields. This is reported by RBC with reference to a letter from the General Director of Pobeda Andrey Kalmykov to the Minister of Transport Yevgeny Dietrich. According to Kalmykov, the approach to inspecting the runways is formal.

This month, Meduza ’s Russian-language website is using its MeduzaCare project to shed light on the lives and needs of Russia’s disabled communities. Together with the To Be Exact project, we’ve collected a cluster of statistics on the topic in both Russian and English. To see more infographics and a list of nonprofits working on disability and accessibility issues in Russia, click here and navigate to the “НКО по проблеме” tab.

Update: The Tverskoy Court has declined to hear Navalny’s suit on constitutional grounds. The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), a Russian investigative organization led by opposition politician Alexey Navalny, has submitted a lawsuit against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Tverskoy Court. The lawsuit is a response to money laundering charges brought against multiple FBK employees.

Moscow Central Diameters (MCD) have started operating in Moscow. In essence, these are updated suburban routes, on which Ivolga trains have been launched. MCD is also called the ground metro. Two of the five routes have been launched so far: D1 (Lobnya - Odintsovo) and D2 (Nakhabino - Podolsk). Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the first diameter. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Russian Railways CEO Oleg Belozerov, and Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov rode the Ivolga with him.

Russia’s State Duma has cast a final round of voting in favor of a new law that prohibits the sale of personal devices unless those devices have Russian-made software pre-installed. The Russian executive branch will determine the exact list of products that will be subject to the new law. The bill’s sponsors have previously said it is intended to cover smartphones, computers, and smart TV systems.

Deputy of the Moscow district of Begovoy Zoya Andrianova sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin because of the planned creation of a shelter for the homeless in Begovoy. Andrianova announced this in the Facebook group Begovoi.Self-management. The shelter is planned to be opened by the St. Petersburg charitable organization Nochlezhka.

Mikhail Dzhaparidze / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Russian Maria Butina, extradited from the United States after serving the term of imprisonment in an American prison, at Sheremetyevo Airport. October 26, 2019 Quote The State Duma adopted in the third reading a law that allows us to recognize ordinary people as “foreign agents”.