Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to evaluate and strengthen the effectiveness of medical organizations in preventing abortions. This was reported on the Kremlin website. Among the proposed measures to improve efficiency is “increasing the financial interest of medical organizations in the results of work to prevent abortions.” In addition, Putin instructed to submit proposals for additional support for children whose parents evade paying child support.

The Internet encyclopedia "Wikipedia" has tightened the rules for editing the main article about the 2020 US presidential election. Wired reports. Under the new rules, effective October 21, only users who have been registered for more than 30 days and have made at least 500 edits to different articles can edit the main election article.

‘Yandex’ releases first-ever transparency report on requests for user data from the Russian authorities Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant For the first time ever, the Internet services giant Yandex has released statistics on the number of requests for user information it has received from Russian government agencies. In the first half of 2020, branches of the government sent the company more than 15,000 requests and Yandex fulfilled 84 percent of them.

Participants in protests against the ban on abortion in Poland temporarily blocked roads in different cities of the country. This was reported by the Polish publication Onet. In Warsaw, road blocking began shortly before the evening rush hour. Pedestrians, cyclists and motorists took part in it. As a result, traffic in the city center practically stopped for several hours.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow arrested Oleg Karchev, Vladislav Mangutov and Alexei Abramov, the owners of Merlion IT distributor and Realist Bank. Businessmen are involved in the case of murder and destruction of property. This was reported to the Moskva agency in the press service of the court. According to investigators, Karchev, Mangutov and Abramov were involved in the murder in 2015 in the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region.

TV presenter Ekaterina Andreeva wrote on Instagram that she believes the danger of coronavirus is exaggerated. She left such comments under a post by businessman Yan Yanovsky, who spoke about the lack of masked spectators at a concert at the Bolshoi Theater. “From the moment I entered the theater until I left, I never took off my mask, which cannot be said about other spectators...

Iain Masterton / Alamy / Vida Press International Hamad Airport Passengers of at least one flight forced to undergo a gynecological inspection at the Dochi airport after they found a newborn child. The Australian television channel Seven News told about this on October 25. The incident occurred on October 2 at Hamad International Airport in Doha, the capital of Katar. The airport employees found a baby in the toilet.

The investigation into the criminal case of the murder of businessman Alexander Petrov has been transferred to the central office of the Investigative Committee, the agency’s website reports. The Investigative Committee noted that items important for the investigation have already been seized from the scene of the incident and the necessary examinations have been ordered. Now investigators and detectives continue to establish the circumstances of the crime.

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed for the first time the presence of water on the surface of the Moon illuminated by the Sun, the US space agency reported at a press conference . The discovery made by SOFIA indicates that water may not only be found in shadowed areas of the Earth's satellite, but is distributed across the lunar surface.

Half of Russia’s doctors have taken a pay cut during the coronavirus pandemic, reports a new survey conducted by RNC Pharma and the website Medvestnik.

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Moscow introduced QR codes to track nightclub hipsters, but the system can also identify owners, including the prime minister’s sister In light of the coronavirus pandemic, those wishing to party in Moscow at night now need to register a phone number with the city’s contact tracing monitor by scanning a QR code or texting 7377 (from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m., specifically). As it turns out, these QR codes currently reveal the legal entities behind Moscow’s nightlife.

Due to the spread of the coronavirus, the Slovenian authorities have banned citizens from leaving their municipalities. You can travel outside the cities only for work or to care for elderly family members, as well as for medical reasons. The restrictions will come into force on October 27 and will be in effect for at least a week. In Slovenia, with a population of two million, 1,130 new cases of covid were registered on October 26, with the proportion of positive tests exceeding 30%.

Medical workers from four hospitals in Kurgan have written an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to send military doctors to the region to help treat COVID-19 patients, reports the BBC Russian Service, citing a copy of the letter. The website Ura.ru also published a copy of the letter to Putin, which was signed by “more than 100 residents of the region,” as well as the local medical workers.

The euro exchange rate at the auctions of the Moscow Exchange on the evening of October 26 fell below 90 rubles: by 17:58 Moscow time, the European currency was worth 89.96 rubles. The last time the euro cost less than 90 rubles was on September 25 (89.7 rubles). According to Vedomosti, the dollar at evening trading on October 26 fell to 76.06 rubles, the lowest value since September 22.