In St. Petersburg, at the age of 74, the children's writer, poet and translator Mikhail Yasnov died. This was reported by his wife Asya Petrova. Yasnov was known for his collections of poems for children. His first book, The Cure for Yawning, was published in 1979. It published the famous poem "Scarecrow-Meow". A few years later, a cartoon with the same name was filmed in the USSR.

Victims recount 10 years of forced sterilizations at an assisted living facility in Yekaterinburg Sverdlovsk Regional Ministry of Social Policy The Uktussky Assisted Living Facility On October 17, the news outlet “Lampa Yekaterinburg” published a video message from Lyudmila Guseva, a resident at the Uktussky Assisted Living Facility on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg. In the video, Guseva explains that the care center’s staff had forced her to undergo sterilization.

The Moscow prosecutor's office began checking the decree of Sergei Sobyanin on the collection of data from employees working remotely. Mikhail Timonov, Moscow City Duma deputy from Just Russia, announced this on Facebook. The Moscow prosecutor's office organized an audit in response to an appeal by Timonov and several deputies of the Moscow City Duma from the Communist Party faction.

Advertising posters were torn off the New Balance store in Makhachkala, damaging the light boxes. This was reported in the Instagram account of the store. “At night, some vandals damaged our boxes, tore off our advertising, signboard. They just acted, to put it mildly, not humanely, ”said the author of the video on the store’s Instagram.

The release of the video game Cyberpunk 2077 has been postponed to December 10th. This was reported in the official Twitter account of the project. The developers of Cyberpunk 2077 have stated that they need more time to test the game on various platforms. This is the third postponement of the release of the game since the beginning of the year. Cyberpunk 2077 was originally supposed to release in April.

Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta In Omsk, ambulance vehicles were brought to patients with COVID-19 to the building of the regional Ministry of Health, since in hospitals they refused to take places due to lack of places. After the protest of doctors, there were places for patients. The first ambulance came to the Ministry of Health after nine in the evening and brought a 70-year-old patient with coronavirus.

Athit PerewongMetha / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Since 2014, there has been a political regime in Thailand, which has developed after the coup, which was made by a group of military, led by General Prayut Chan Och. A new constitution was adopted in the country, which secured the leading role of the military in many state affairs, and the general himself became the Prime Minister.

Artem Kostylev, one of the former comrades of nationalist Maksim "Tesak" Martsinkevich, who died in a pretrial detention center, was found dead in the Moscow region. A source in law enforcement agencies told TASS about this. Kostylev's body was found under a tree in a forest near Krasnogorsk, a TASS source said. According to him, the Investigative Committee has launched an investigation into the man's death.

The District Court of The Hague lifted the arrest of Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya vodka brands in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The decision is published on the website of the Dutch Judicial System. Brands owned by Soyuzplodoimport were arrested in May 2020 at the suit of former Yukos shareholders - Hulley Enterprises, Yukos Universal and Veteran Petroleum.

Well-known political consultant Vitaly Shklyarov, who was jailed in Belarus following his arrest there on July 29, has left the country, reports the Belarusian news outlet Tut.by.

Ivan Secretarev / AP / Scanpix / Leta The Russian authorities, in particular, are presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, have been participating in Chellenge for many years now: who will come up with more synonyms for the name and surname of Alexei Navalny. As soon as it is called: a “blogger of Lesha”, and “political rogue”, and “Berlin patient”. If only not by name. True, in September 2020, Peskov broke and still uttered the name of Navalny.

In Russia - a record of daily mortality. Freight mode is now everywhere. We talked with doctors who could not stand it and quit state clinics 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.

A teacher from the city of Yeysk in the Krasnodar Territory apologized to the family of a tenth grader, under whose essay she left a remark that “no one asked his opinion.” This was reported to TASS by the head of the education department of the Yeysk district, Lydia Brown. This morning we already had a meeting with the school administration and the teacher, who fully admitted her wrong, the comment she left under the essay, of course, was very incorrect <…> The family was apologized.

Political strategist Vitaly Shklyarov left Belarus. This was reported by Tut.by, without specifying the details of Shklyarov's release. RIA Novosti, citing Shklyarov's lawyer , reports that the political strategist was allowed to temporarily leave Belarus, "including to improve his health." The investigation against Shklyarov has not been terminated, the lawyer said, adding that his client will return to Belarus “in the near future”.

St. Petersburg’s COVID-19 statistics change after Meduza reports suspicious, reoccuring ratio between daily recoveries and new cases On October 23, Meduza highlighted a statistical anomaly in St. Petersburg, where local officials reported for roughly a month that the daily number of patients recovering from COVID-19 was almost exactly half the number of new cases identified. The next day, the 1:2 ratio suddenly ended, as reported daily recoveries jumped to 55 and 56 percent of new infections.