AFP / Scanpix / Leta in Minsk on October 11 strictly detained the participants in the next protest march. The security forces used waterflows with tinted water, light -school grenades and, possibly, tear gas (the Ministry of Internal Affairs denies the use of gas). In response, the protesters, according to eyewitnesses, referred to by Interfax, threw the police with “flower flowerpots and street furniture” and beat off the detainees.

Because of a water cannon that broke down in Minsk on October 4, allegedly due to the actions of protesters, a police officer was charged with violence. this on the air of the STV channel . announced Oleg Lavrukhin, the prosecutor of Minsk, The case was opened under this article, “because an employee [of the internal affairs bodies] was driving this special vehicle,” explained Lavrukhin, quoted by Onliner.

Businessman Yuri Voskresensky and director of the IT company PandaDoc Dmitry Rabtsevich were released from the KGB pretrial detention center, Tut.by reports. Rabtsevich, Voskresensky and nine other arrested opposition members met with Alexander Lukashenko on October 10.

Aziz Karimov / AP / Scanpix / Leta Rescuers work at the site of the rocket explosion in Ganja, October 11, 2020 On October 9, Armenia and Azerbaijan, through the mediation of Russia, agreed on a “humanitarian” ceasefire: it was assumed that the parties during the ceasefire would be able to take out the bodies of their soldiers from the battlefield, and then try to start more serious negotiations. The bodies were taken (at least in some areas), but the negotiations did not work.

The head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, Sergei Neverov, switched to a remote mode of work, Interfax reports. “I work remotely. Alas, the coronavirus epidemic has not bypassed my house either. There are sick people in my family, ”the agency quotes the words of the deputy, transmitted by the apparatus of the United Russia faction (the spelling and punctuation from the Interfax note are preserved).

The podcast The Naked Pravda - about the war in Nagorno -Karabakh The chief editor of the international version of Medusa Kevin Rotrok talked with Western experts about the longest war in the post-Soviet space. In the podcast The Naked Pravda, an exacerbation of the conflict in Nagorno -Karabakh is commented on by the British analyst Thomas de Vaal, the American scientist Jeffrey Mankoff, the journalist Arzu Gaybullaeva and the researcher Kevork Oscanyan from the University of Birmingham.

"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: a beautiful clip “Naadi”, promising duo “sisters” and very diverse, but all in their own way interesting rock ticks from buckwheat, “source”, “Come on” and “On knives”. Subscribe to our updated playlists in Apple Music , Yandex.Musica and Spotify .

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. "Someone in prison, some in exile, who cannot issue a bank card." What happened to Tesak's associates over the years after the defeat of the “Restructure” (mainly nothing good) The special correspondent of Medusa Lilia Yapparov in the Podcast “Text of the Week” tells the story of supporters of the neo -Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich, known for the nickname Tesac. What happened to its associates after the defeat of the Restructure movement?

"Medusa" tells the story of Kenzo Takada, a famous designer who was not afraid of bright colors and wild prints. He died of complications after Covid Joel Saget / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, the founder of the Kenzo fashion house, died on October 4 at the age of 81 from the complications caused by the Covid-19.

Updated. By 18:00, the human rights center "Vesna" was aware of 180 detainees at protests in Belarus. Most of the detainees are in Minsk. In Minsk, several dozen people were detained during the Pride March, Interfax reports with reference to the Minsk police. According to Interfax, 50 people were detained near the stele “Minsk is a city of a hero”. MBKh media reports that a “fight broke out” at the stele between protesters, police and “masked men”.

The premiere of the cartoon "Let's talk?" - About a girl who tells the family about her bisexuality "Let's talk?" -The first episode of the animated documentary mini-series about the life of LGBT people. Polina decides to tell her parents about her bisexuality and that he was going to move to the girl. Her relatives react differently to this, but in the end they accept her position.

In Russia, 13,634 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected over the past day, according to the operational headquarters. “The number of new cases of the disease in 13 thousand in the Russian Federation was not recorded for the entire period [of the epidemic],” writes Interfax. In Moscow, the daily increase in the number of cases by October 11 was a record since mid-May - 4,501 people. “During the day, 994 patients with COVID-19 were hospitalized.

Carlos Barria / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On October 6, 2020, Facebook announced that it would begin to delete users, groups and Instagram accounts belonging to the followers of the Qanon movement-one of the latest conspiracy theories-even if they do not call for violence.

A coronavirus infection “pandemic” is coming to Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Russia-1. “Hospitals are more and more filled with patients, the number of very seriously ill patients is increasing - in intensive care, on mechanical ventilation. Even the death rate is starting to rise again! This suggests that a pandemic is coming, ”the website vesti.ru quotes Sobyanin as saying.

Excerpt of the book "Hyperbola and a half" Ellie Board. Sarah Henderson / Livibuk At the end of October 2020, the book “Hyperbole and A half” (translation by Daria Ivanovskaya) was published at the Livebuk publishing house. This is a collection of artist Helly Broch, the author of illustrations for the popular meme “Who are we? What do we want? ” Medusa publishes the second of the two chapters of the book on depression.