‘Proekt’ profiles Ksenia Sobchak, the socialite who’s made a fortune trading on her name and gaming Russian politics Kremlin Press Service Whatever you think about her, Ksenia Sobchak is one of the most recognizable women in Russian society today.

Entertainment events have been banned in the Moscow region from 00.00 to 08.00 since October 17, follows from the decree ( .pdf ) of Governor Andrei Vorobyov. “Entertainment events <…> mean collective dances, karaoke, public performance of a piece of music and other similar events,” the document says. This decision was made to combat the spread of coronavirus infection.

About a million people in Moscow switched to remote work, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on the air of Rossiya 1. His words are reported by TASS. According to Sobyanin, Muscovites also began to better comply with the requirement to wear masks and gloves: “The situation in terms of the reaction of Muscovites, it has become much better with us, compliance with the mask regime has radically changed to what it was a month ago, when there was complete nihilism” (quote by Interfax ).

Here’s how the EU explained its decision to sanction high-level Russian officials over Navalny’s poisoning Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant First Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office Sergey Kiriyenko (left) and Putin’s head of domestic policy Andrey Yarin (right). December 8, 2018.

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published an investigation about Hunter Bayden, the son of a former vice-president of the United States and a candidate for future presidential elections in Joe Biden. The article states that on a laptop that Biden Jr. handed over to the workshop in his native state of Delaware, there are compromising letters and other materials.

The Vreden Medical Research Center for Traumatology in St. Petersburg will spend 12.8 million rubles on human torsos, legs and arms, according to materials on the public procurement website. Interfax drew attention to the documents. Six frozen human hands and 12 legs with three joints up to the fingertips, as well as 24 torsos (six of them with heads) are needed by the Vreden Center as teaching aids.

Passengers without masks and gloves will not be allowed on public transport in Moscow from October 16. This was stated in the press service of the city Department of Transport. “We received an order from the chief sanitary doctor of Moscow on measures to prevent coronavirus. Now carriers are required not to let passengers into transport without personal protective equipment, even if the trip has already been paid for, ”the department said.

In Paris-a commandant hour, in Moscow-in clubs on QR codes. In Russia, a drug was registered that is treated with Covid in the USA and the EU. Elderly teachers were protected in Moscow - but they framed students 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 .

The National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting will conduct unscheduled inspections of three TV channels (NewsOne, 112 Ukraine and ZIK), which showed fragments of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Verkhovna Rada deputy Viktor Medvedchuk. This was reported on the website of the regulator. Putin met with Medvedchuk in Novo-Ogaryovo on 6 October.

The family of the chief person involved in the case of Golunov paid the defense of other defendants: "Open Media" Irina Buzhor / Kommersant Former policeman Igor Lyakhovets at a meeting of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, September 4, 2020 The family of the main accused in the case of Medusa journalist Ivan Golunov, the former deputy head of the department for the circulation of drugs of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Western Administrative District of Moscow, Igor Lyakhovts, paid for

A resident of Perm called the city polyclinic No. 5 771 times in one day to find out the result of a test for COVID-19, but did not get through. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the Ministry of Health of the Perm Territory. on attempts by a Permian named Sergey to contact the clinic. reported On October 13, Ura.ru Sergey, according to him, was tested for coronavirus on October 7. “First they said that the result will be on October 9, then - 12.

Mikhail Solunin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta a cordon around the stop in the village of Volorovskoye. October 12, 2020 On October 12, the 18-year-old student of the boarding school Danil Monakhov killed three people in the Nizhny Novgorod village of the Velorovskoye-and wounded three more. After that, he disappeared from the scene of the crime; The security forces abandoned in search found him only a day later - and already dead: according to the official version, suicide performed monks.

In an Australian shelter, a koala named Ivan was placed with a koala named George. George, who had been offended by his relatives in the past, was categorically not happy with such a neighborhood. So he started drooling and screaming loudly. And you need to hear this! Our gentle giant 'George' was not happy when he could smell our newest koala in care 'Ivan'. Posted by Koalas of Raymond Island Tuesday, October 13, 2020 The scream almost worked: Ivan was moved to the birds' aviary for one night.

Kyrgyz parliament speaker Kanatbek Isaev has resigned. This is reported by 24.kg. From the morning of October 15, Isaev, as speaker of parliament, was the acting president of Kyrgyzstan - he automatically received this position after President Sooronbai Jeenbekov announced his resignation. Now the duties of the head of state will be transferred to the current Prime Minister of the country Sadyr Japarov. His candidacy for this position will still have to be approved by Parliament.

Kyrgyzstan’s president resigns amid ongoing opposition protests Vyacheslav Oseledko / AFP / Scanpix / LETA President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov has announced his resignation. In a statement issued on the afternoon of Thursday, October 15, he said the main reason for his resignation was fear that the confrontation between protesters and law enforcement agencies could escalate to the point that the latter would use weapons. “I am not holding on to power.