Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on a ceasefire effective October 18 at midnight. This was reported by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two countries . The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic announced its readiness to comply with the terms of the ceasefire. Earlier, Armenia and Azerbaijan had already agreed to observe a truce from noon on October 10.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, condemned the murder of a teacher in France, in which 18-year-old Chechen Abdullah Anzorov is suspected, but urged not to offend the religious feelings of believers. Kadyrov wrote about this in a telegram. This tragedy makes us think that the French society, speaking of democracy, often confuses it with permissiveness, demonstrating an impermissible attitude towards Islamic values. Such actions can only be called provocative.

A resident of Saratov threw her two daughters, 5 and 8 years old, out of the window of an apartment on the fourth floor. This was reported by the Department of the Investigative Committee for the Saratov region. Children are hospitalized. They are in critical condition, RIA Novosti was told in the regional Ministry of Health. Their mother was also taken to the hospital. According to the prosecutor's office of the Saratov region, she stabbed herself in the chest.

The Investigative Committee canceled the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case on the death of nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak). This was reported to TASS by lawyer Alexei Mikhalchik, representing the interests of the father of the deceased. According to Mikhalchik, the decision was canceled by the head of the IC department for the Chelyabinsk region.

The State Duma Committee on Legislation recommended for adoption an amendment that would prohibit judges of the Constitutional Court (CC) from publishing their dissenting opinions or publicly referring to it. Roman Bevzenko, partner of the Pepeliaev Group law firm, drew attention to this, Mediazona reported . We are talking about one of the amendments (.doc) to the second reading of the presidential bill amending the law on the Constitutional Court.

Jean-Francois Ricard, head of the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office of France, confirmed that the suspect in the murder of a teacher because of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was from Russia. It is reported by BFM TV. Ricard stated that he was a Russian citizen of Chechen nationality, who was born in Moscow in 2002 and had refugee status in France. According to Ricard, he did not come to the attention of the security services as an Islamic radical.

Wait though... On the morning of October 17, Banksy posted his new work on Instagram, thereby confirming his authorship. In the graffiti, a girl spins a bicycle tire like a hoop. Obviously, she took it off an old bicycle without a wheel, left by someone nearby. “Banksy’s next job could be repairing bicycles, he just doesn’t know about it yet,” the artist’s Instagram says. The work appeared in Nottingham at the intersection of Rothesay Avenue and Ilkston Road.

The United States is executing 52-year-old Lisa Montgomery, convicted of killing a pregnant woman and kidnapping her child. This was announced by the US Department of Justice. In 2004, Montgomery visited Missouri Bobbi Jo Stinnett on the pretext of buying a puppy. She strangled Stinnett, cut open her stomach and kidnapped her child. Montgomery pleaded guilty to the crime.

The creators of the film “Nishtyak, Brother” - about a frog that has become a symbol of the ultra -right in the United States. And about how illustrator Matt Fury fought for her Ready Fictions In 15 cities of Russia, the Beat Weekend festival is already taking place, in which documentary films about modern culture will be shown. One of the most interesting paintings of the program is Arthur Jones's film “Nishtyak, Brother” dedicated to the Frog Pepe.

On October 17, two protests were held in Minsk - the Youth March, in which students took part, and the women's march, Tut.by reports. About 150 people took part in the student march, according to Nasha Niva. The protesters started moving towards the center of Minsk around noon. Near the metro station "Ploschad Pobedy" they began to detain them. According to the human rights center "Viasna", a total of 30 people were detained.

Moscow residents who failed to provide COVID-19 testing data after returning from abroad were fined a total of over one million rubles, the Moscow Office of Rospotrebnadzor reported. According to the agency, about 2% of citizens who returned to Moscow from abroad since August 1 did not provide test results.

Evgeny Pereverzev / Kommersant on October 17 in Khabarovsk was the next Saturday action in support of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal, accused of organizing the murders of businessmen in the early 2000s. According to the authorities, 500 people took part in the action, according to the opposition, at least a thousand. The detentions were not reported. The protests in support of the van in Khabarovsk have been going on for 99 days.

Following the introduction of sanctions due to politician Alexei Navalny, relations between Russia and the European Union are "at their lowest point," Russia's Permanent Representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov told TASS. Frankly, I expect that my staff and I will find it more difficult to work in the near future, but we are prepared for this and in any case we will strive to improve Russian-EU relations.

One militant was killed in a special operation in Nazran, a TASS source in Ingushetia's law enforcement agencies reported . Interfax and RIA Novosti sources also reported this. On the evening of October 16, security forces in Nazran stopped a car for inspection. Fire was opened on them from there. As a result of the shootout, an explosion occurred in the car.

Kiran Ridley / Getty Images Police at the site of the teacher’s murder in France On October 16, teachers were beheaded in France . The alleged killer was shot. The crime occurred in the city of Conflane-Sent-Onorin 27 kilometers from Paris. The body was found on the territory of the local college , where the dead taught. An unknown man was nearby. He tried to hide in a car and threatened the police gun, shouting "Allahu Akbar!" He was shot. They found a big knife with him.