The Ministry of Health has registered two drugs of remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19, the press service of the ministry reports. Registration certificates were issued for Russian and foreign drugs. On October 14, Pharmasyntez announced the registration of remdesivir and its readiness to produce the drug under the Remdeform trademark “subject to the removal of the current patent restriction.” The developer of the original drug is American Gilead Sciences.

Accounts Chamber Chairman Alexey Kudrin has revealed that there was a planned attempt on his life when he served as Russia’s deputy prime minister in the early 2000s.

A purple-blue gradient has been added to the Facebook messenger logo, writes Mashable. The old version is blue and white. According to a company press release, the new logo "reflects a shift towards a more dynamic, fun and integrated way to stay connected." We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Whether we are talking about a new logo or "dynamic and fun" messaging is not clear.

The American video service Netflix has launched a Russian-language version. If a user accesses the service’s website through a desktop browser and under a Russian IP, he will be automatically redirected to netflix.com/ru . To switch to the Russian version in the mobile application, you need to change the language settings in the desktop version. According to Interfax, payments to users of the Russian-language version will be carried out in rubles.

The death of a secret witness marks the latest twist in the trial of a Russian graduate student and anarchist activist Dmitry Lebedev / Kommersant Graduate student and anarchist activist Azat Miftakhov during a hearing at Moscow’s Golovinsky District Court. September 22, 2020. The trial of graduate student and anarchist activist Azat Miftakhov is ongoing at Moscow’s Golovinsky District Court. He stands accused of attacking a United Russia office in 2018.

Nine more declassified, revealing conversations between Vladimir Putin and Bill Clinton’s administration Meduza is reviewing the recently declassified transcripts of phone calls and meetings between President Bill Clinton and Vladimir Putin. Below, we have selected interesting excerpts from the two leaders’ conversations between 1999 and late 2000.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a draft law "On the State Council of the Russian Federation", the document was published in the database of the lower house of parliament. If the bill is adopted, the President of the Russian Federation will be the chairman of the State Council.

German experts believe that politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned by poison from the Novichok group at Tomsk airport before flying to Moscow. The New York Times writes about this, citing an anonymous high-ranking German security official. According to the source of the publication, "Novichok" in the form of a powder was poured into the liquid that Navalny drank. Most likely, German experts believe, it was tea that the politician ordered at the airport before the flight.

Karen Shainian released a film about the case of children from surrogate mothers Journalist Karen Shainyan, as part of the Straight Talk with Gay People cycle, has released a film about the persecution of gays who use the services of surrogate mothers and then adopt the children born, as well as about doctors who help in this process. Read more about the persecution In July 2020, a group of doctors was arrested in Moscow who helped surrogate mothers give birth to children for foreigners.

Negotiations between Oleg Tinkov and Yandex on the sale of Tinkoff Bank are “going hard,” The Bell reports, citing two people close to one of the parties to the deal under discussion. Both interlocutors of the publication do not exclude that there will be no deal. At the same time, Oleg Tinkov, according to The Bell, discussed a possible deal with MTS. The controlling shareholder of MTS is AFK Sistema by Vladimir Yevtushenkov.

Moscow high school students are again transferred to the remote. Flights to Serbia, Japan and Cuba will soon resume. Europe is trying to hold back the second wave Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here . If you read this on the site, share a link on social networks.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Due to the pandemic in Russia, there are fewer migrants-the country in the country's shortage. Who will work instead of them? The Moscow authorities said that because of the coronavirus, the city lacks labor migrants employed in the housing and communal services sector and at construction sites. The vice-governor of St. Petersburg Nikolai Bondarenko warned that in the event of a particularly snowy winter, the city would not have enough janitors.

The murder of rapper Andy Cartwright (real name Alexander Yushko) was planned in advance, reports the St. Petersburg Investigative Committee. The rapper's wife, Marina Kokhal, was charged with murder in August 2020. According to the Investigative Committee, she "purchased a medical drug from one of the city's pharmacies, which she later used to commit the crime." The Investigative Committee did not explain what drug was being discussed or provide any details.

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the lifting of the ban on the supply of products from three Ukrainian enterprises to Russia. It is reported by TASS. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin suggested lifting restrictions on Putin. The President stressed that he was not against it, since, according to the government, this "will not harm our producers." Let's consider that this is the first step and a gesture of good will on our part.

The British Iceland supermarket chain in honor of its 50th anniversary sent a chicken nugget to the stratosphere, attached to the meteorological probe. The launch took place on a farm in Wales, not far from the main office of the company. Nuggets gained a height of 33,528 meters - in terms of Nuggets, this is about 880 thousand naggets from the surface of the earth.