The man who attacked the department of the Georgian Bank in the city of Zugdidi left the bank with money and three hostages. This was announced by the Rustavi 2 channel. According to the channel, the invader was handed over a bag of money. What amount we are talking about is not specified. The criminal demanded 500 thousand dollars. Having received the money, the invader released almost all the hostages except three. Together with them, he went to the helicopter by car.

In Brazil, one of the participants in the trial of a coronavirus vaccine developed by the Swedish-British company AstraZeneca together with the University of Oxford has died. This was reported by Globo, citing the Brazilian National Agency for Health Supervision. The volunteer, a 28-year-old Brazilian doctor, died on October 15. The cause of death was complications due to COVID-19, writes Globo.

Belarusian bodybuilding champion divorces husband identified as riot policeman in infamous protest snapshot Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Belarusian Internal Troops Officer Timur Grishko was captured in one of the most well-known photographs from the first night of post-election opposition protests in Belarus. Ever since his identity leaked online, his wife, fitness trainer and Belarusian bodybuilding champion Liliya Salimgareeva, has faced constant harassment.

Interview with Sergey Kapkov - why under Sergei Sobyanin, the Moscow City Hall forgot how to talk with people Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS Exactly 10 years ago, Sergei Sobyanin became the mayor of Moscow, replacing Yuri Luzhkov in this post, "having lost confidence" by President Dmitry Medvedev.

Denis Lavnikevich page on Facebook On October 16, 2020, the anonymous telegram channel “Belarusian Order” spoke about the Belarusian journalist Denis Lavnikevich, who writes for many Russian and Belarusian media under various pseudonyms. The authors of the channel accused Lavnikevich in large -scale deception; The reason was his note in “Open Media” that Alexander Lukashenko promised Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to release political prisoners in exchange for the termination of protests.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has included two songs by the Electric Partisans group, Left Terror and Zvezda i Avtomat (RAF), on the list of extremist materials. The Roskomsvoboda project drew attention to this. The compositions were included in the list of extremist materials by the decision of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Penza on August 6.

The authorities of the city of Tarusa in the Kaluga region decided to return the pre-revolutionary names to some streets. This was stated by the head of the Tarusa region Ruslan Smolensky. In total, it was decided to rename 16 streets, most of which now bear the names of communist ideologists. For example, the old names will be returned to the streets of Rosa Luxembourg (it will be called Posadskaya), Engels (Ivanovskaya), Karl Marx (Field), Oktyabrskaya (Voskresenskaya).

The Russian government isn’t planning to introduce severe restrictions due to the ongoing spread of the coronavirus in the country, said President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on Wednesday, October 21. “Regarding the possibility of severe, total, restrictive measures. We aren’t planning to do this. The government doesn’t have any such plans,” Putin confirmed.

From an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who fell into a well -known photo of the first night of protests in Belarus, his wife left. She was poisoned on the Internet Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The officer of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Timur Grishko, who fell into one of the most famous pictures of the first night of protests in Belarus, divorced his wife, fitness trainer and champion of Belarus in bodybuilding Lilia Salimgareeva.

The chief infectious disease specialist of the Russian Ministry of Health, Professor of Sechenov University Vladimir Chulanov called wearing gloves a less effective measure of protection against coronavirus than using an antiseptic. And later stated that the effectiveness of both methods is equivalent. On October 21, Interfax published Chulanov's statement that gloves were less effective than antiseptic.

What happens in villages and villages because of Covid. The Russian vaccine does not work well at a high level of stress. In Russia - a mortality record for a day 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.

Pope Francis has come out in support of the legalization of same-sex unions. He made the corresponding statement in the documentary "Francesco" about himself, which premiered on October 21 at the film festival in Rome. “Homosexuals have the right to a family. They are children of God. We need laws on civil unions in order to protect their rights in this way,” Francis said.

The Russian government has no plans to impose severe restrictions due to the spread of coronavirus in the country. This was announced by President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Regarding the possibility of tough, total restrictive measures. We don't plan to do this. The government has no such plans. The businessmen themselves at the meeting also asked Putin not to introduce a nationwide lockdown.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Vladislav Gorin sums up the results of the 10th anniversary of Sobyanin as the mayor of Moscow along with Ivan Kolunov-one of the main specialists in the Sobyaninsky capital Sergei Sobyanin has been holding the post of mayor of Moscow for 10 years. During this time, a large -scale improvement of the city has passed - since 2011, one and a half trillion rubles have been allocated from the city budget for this article from the city budget.

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