An investigator of the FSB Investigation Department, in response to a request from journalist Ivan Safronov about a call to his mother on her birthday, said that "negotiations with the indicated person can be used for a covert exchange of information." A scan of the decision to consider Safronov's petition was published on Facebook by lawyer Ivan Pavlov. Recently accused of treason and detained in Lefortovo, journalist Ivan Safronov was told... Posted by Ivan Pavlov a> Friday, October 23, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic in Moscow is "slowing down," Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in an interview with Russia 1 TV channel. “According to the dynamics of the disease <...> for a number of other indicators, we see that this dynamics is declining from week to week,” Sobyanin said. “This means that the epidemic is slowing down, growth is on, but at a slower pace, there is no such explosive growth.” New restrictions in Moscow due to the epidemic, according to Sobyanin, are not needed.

‘Meduza’ correspondent Andrey Pertsev reviews Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu’s new book Sergey Karpukhin / TASS In mid-October, the Russian publishing house AST released a new book titled “About Yesterday,” written by Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu. As it turns out, the book isn’t about the army at all: among other things, Shoygu recalls the creation of the Emergency Situations Ministry, which he headed for many years, as well as his clashes with the politicians of the 1990s.

Russia’s COVID-19 outbreak isn’t limited to big cities — it’s spread to rural areas, where a lack of doctors and quality healthcare makes it harder to survive Anton Klimov The village of Shuluta A second wave of coronavirus infections is currently hammering Russia. On October 20, more than 16,000 new cases were registered in a single day for the first time. Most of the cases are in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other large cities, but the disease is spreading throughout rural Russia, as well.

The United States imposed sanctions against the Russian Central Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (TsNIIKhM), according to the US Treasury Department. Restrictions are introduced under the Countering Americaʼs Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA). As the Ministry of Finance explained , the institute was on the sanctions list in connection with a hacker attack on a petrochemical plant in the Middle East in 2017.

Why Nizhny Novgorod’s most independent journalist, Irina Slavina, burned herself alive in front of the local police station Mikhail Solunin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Vyacheslav and Margarita, the children of Irina Slavina, editor-in-chief of the online publication “KozaPress,” at their mother’s burial. Their signs reads, “Live on!” Nizhny Novgorod. October 6, 2020.

The main thing from the investigation Bellingcat, The Insider, Der Spiegel and Radio Liberty Google Scientific Research Institute of Military Medicine of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg Two Russian scientific centers, starting in 2010, allegedly participated in the development of poisonous substances from the Novice group, and also closely cooperated with Russian GRU officers, including in preparation for attempt on Sergey and Julia Skripal in 2018.

In September 2020, COVID-19 was the main or concomitant cause of death of 1,569 people in Moscow, according to the Moscow Department of Health. “543 people died from covid as the main cause of death in September. This is 21% more than in August (431), but at the same time almost 3 times less than in June (1605),” the Department said in a statement.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Poland practically banned abortion. We tell how the conservatives took power in this country - and the courts and media crushed under themselves The Constitutional Court of Poland recognized the woman’s right to abortion unlawful in case of a serious disability or an incurable disease in the fetus.

In Novosibirsk, ex-police officer Denis Kalinin has been officially charged with the murder of transgender woman Viktoria Basakovskaya, the human rights organization Zona Prava told Meduza. Kalinin was charged under article five, section one of the Russian Criminal Code (murder without aggravating circumstances), which is punishable by between six and fifteen years in prison. He will remain in custody until December 13.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow arrested the former vice-president of Euroset Boris Levin in a murder case. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press service of the court. As follows from the file of the court, the hearing on the measure of restraint to Levin took place on October 22. Levin is accused of killing two or more people, other details of the case have not yet been disclosed.

Pyaterochka has opened in New Moscow with a fully automated shopping system, X5 Retail Group said in a statement. This is the first supermarket without staff. Before going to the store, you need to download the application (available for iOS and Android users ). It will allow you to get to the store, through it it will be possible to pay for purchases. The store "represents about 900 different products," X5 Retail said.

Where in Russia the most strange statistics on Covid. Remesivir and other drugs did not justify hopes. Elderly people are more dangerous for children, and not vice versa 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 Moscow club "Adrenaline Stadium" was sealed "for violations of anti-coronavirus measures", according to the operational headquarters of Moscow. As the representative of Rospotrebnadzor in Moscow, Kirill Maksimkin, told TASS, during one of the concerts, club visitors were without masks and gloves, and also did not observe social distance.

The Central Bank has worsened its forecast for the net outflow of capital from Russia in 2020 from $25 billion to $53 billion. Vedomosti writes about this with reference to the medium-term forecast ( .pdf ) of the regulator following the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank on October 23. According to the newspaper, the forecast indicator approached the record of 2018, when the net outflow of capital from Russia amounted to $67.5 billion.