Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin expressed his condolences in connection with the death of the editor-in-chief of KozaPress Irina Slavina, who on October 2 committed self-immolation near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nizhny Novgorod. “I decided for myself that I simply can’t remain silent and not express a human attitude to what happened.

AP / Scanpix / Leta in Minsk on October 4, a thousands of protest was held - a march of release of political prisoners. The march participants went through the city center and reached the isolator on the surroundings, where they contain detainees on protest. During the march against the participants, waterflies were used - both with ordinary water and with orange paint . In the city center, access to mobile Internet was limited, some metro stations on the march route were closed.

GU FSIN / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On September 22, 2020, six prisoners - four Dagestanis and two Tajik citizens fled from a line of maximum regime No. 2 in the village of Shamkhal near Makhachkala. They were searched for by security forces from Dagestan and neighboring Kalmykia, the republican special forces of the Russian Guard, employees of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSIN.

The Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada-the founder of the Kenzo fashion house-died at the age of 81 from the complications caused by the Covid-19. Joel Saget / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The death of Takada was reported by the K3 press service, a new brand of a designer, presented in early 2020.

Lawyer Konstantin Svitnev is the main person involved in the case of the trade in children from surrogate mothers. We talked with him Emin Dzhafarov / Kommersant arrested defendants about the trade in children from surrogate mothers in the Basmanny court. From left to right: gynecologists Lilia Panaioti, Julianna Ivanova, embiologist Taras Ashitkov and general director of the Center for Surrogate Motherhood Vladislav Melnikov.

Since mid-March, due to the cancellation of concerts in Moscow due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers of performances have lost 5.2 billion rubles , ticket sales aggregator Eticket4 calculated for RBC. In total, according to Eticket4, 388 concerts at 69 venues were cancelled in Moscow, including the Luzhniki Grand Sports Arena (capacity: 81,000 people), VTB Arena (33,000 people), and the Adrenaline Stadium club (7,000 people).

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that the Azerbaijani military had taken control of the city of Jabrayil (Mekhakavan) and several villages in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Armenian Ministry of Defense, in turn, claims that "this statement (by Aliyeva - note by Meduza) is disinformation and does not correspond to reality," TASS reports .

Presidential elections were held in Belarus in August. The CEC announced that Alexander Lukashenko won once again. Not everyone agreed with this both in Belarus itself, where protests have not stopped for almost two months now, and beyond its borders. Many countries have refused to recognize Lukashenka as a legitimate president.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. "Sensations after an injection is the effect of a vaccine or my mobile psyche?" Special Corps Svetlana Reuters - about how she experiences a vaccine from coronavirus The special correspondent of Medusa Svetlana Reuters in the Podcast “Text of the Week” talks about how she volunteered in the study of the Russian vaccine from coronavirus. Russia announced the registration of the world's first vaccine from coronavirus on August 11.

How much did it cost? And did it work well? Olga Alekseenko for "Medusa" In early September, the restored Northern River Station opened in Moscow-a large building, similar to a ship, which in the 1930s was one of the symbols of the city, in the 1990s came into desolation, and by the 2010th began to turn around. The authors of the project retained its original appearance - from the color of the walls to the cryphones inside.

The governor of the Kamchatka Territory, Vladimir Solodov, said that the situation in Avacha Bay, where water was contaminated with oil products, is "favourable." “People are relaxing on the seashore, and in general the situation is normalizing due to the unique ability of the ocean to heal itself,” Solodov says in a video posted on his Instagram.

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips, and then briefly talk about the best or at least the most noticeable of them. In this issue: Coin albums and “Give a tank (!)”, Without which the final tops of the 2020 will not cost, unexpected duets from the leaders “Mumiy Troll” and Sigur Ros, as well as an audiobook from Vera Polozkova. Subscribe to our updated playlists in Apple Music , Yandex.Musica and Spotify .

Update: About 10 people were detained on Pobediteley Avenue in the center of Minsk. Some of them, according to Interfax, were holding white-red-white flags and other symbols of protest actions. Another protest action began in Minsk on Sunday afternoon. The participants gathered in the center of the city - on Nemiga. According to Tut.by and Interfax , at least one person has already been detained.

Meduzacare says that in this system you need to change Dmitry Lebedev / Kommersant According to Rosstat , in 2018 there were almost half a million orphans in Russia (if exactly-481,824, of which 42 006 were in orphanages ). The vast majority of these children are social orphan.

Over the past day, 10,499 new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Russia, the Federal Operational Headquarters for Coronavirus infection said. A day earlier, 9859 sick were reported. In total, from the beginning of the spread of the Covid-19 in Russia, 1,215 001 people fell ill. More than 10 thousand new Covid-19 cases in Russia were the previous time recorded on May 15. The largest number of cases per day recorded in Moscow - 3327 people.