The ruling party "Georgian Dream" wins the local elections in Georgia, ahead of the opposition "United National Movement" Mikheil Saakashvili. This is evidenced by the results of exit polls. A poll conducted by the Imedi TV channel, which is loyal to the government, shows that 47.6% of voters supported the candidates from the Georgian Dream, and 27.1% from the representatives of the United National Movement.

So far, because of the coronavirus, traveling around the world for many remain only dreams, in New York they came up with a new entertainment for tourists. This is an observation deck with a glass floor at an altitude of 1000 feet (almost 305 meters!) Located in the One Vanderbilt skyscraper - the highest building in Midtown, the central part of Manhattan. The first visitors were able to test the site (and themselves) this week. Officially, the attraction will work only on October 21.

KFOR contingent soldiers have arrived at the border between Serbia and Kosovo, where a conflict over car license plates escalated two weeks ago, Reuters reports. KFOR fighters will guard the border crossings for the next few weeks. This is envisaged by the de-escalation agreement that Belgrade and Pristina representatives concluded in Brussels on September 30 with the mediation of the EU.

ESA / Bepicolombo / MTM “Bepikolobo” probe of the joint European-Japanese mission on the study of Mercury on October 1 first flew past this planet. He transmitted the first pictures of its surface, on which part of the northern hemisphere of Mercury with the craters of Calvino and Lermontov and the plain of the onet fell.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. When will YouTube turn off in Russia? And why is the Kremlin now fighting with the Communists and with liberals? On September 28, YouTube blocked the German editorial office in Russia Today. The administration of the platform explained this by a violation of the conditions of use of the service.

A failure occurred in the work of VTB Bank, writes RBC. Bank users complained that they could not transfer money from card to card, withdraw cash from an ATM, and also pay in a store. According to DownDetector, the complaints started coming in around 3:30 p.m. Most often, residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Orel complain. VTB confirmed that "errors" were possible during transfers and operations.

The shortest retelling We in Belarus have never fired at point-blank range even at radicals. I only know of one case where a protester was killed, but he came to kill himself. And all the rest - someone died from covid, from asthma, from oncology. But in the US Congress they shot a girl - is that not a violation of human rights? And you are hushing it up. An atmosphere of fear in Minsk? Lies. Have you walked around Minsk yourself?

Valery Levitin / Kommersant On October 2, the court in the capital of Montenegro Podgoritsa decided to detain Telman Ismailov, a businessman and former director of the Cherkizov market. The day before, it became known about the detention of Ismailov on the warrant issued by Russia. “Local lawyers appealed the decision [on leaving Ismailov in custody]. I hope that next week it will be changed.

Russian Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko said that all barriers to the approval of Sputnik by the World Health Organization have been removed. It is reported by TASS. “The position of the Russian Federation on the promotion and registration of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine has been heard. As of today, we have completely removed all the questions,” Murashko said.

According to human rights activists, the journalist was detained in Moscow Viktor Drachev / Kommersant Isalator on the surroundings, Minsk On Saturday, October 2, the Belarusian human rights center “Vesna” announced the detention of the journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, Gennady Mozheiko, who wrote a few days ago about the accused of killing an KGB officer in Minsk. According to human rights activists, Mozheiko was detained on October 1 in Moscow.

Your browser does not support the audio element. The arrest of Russian cybersecurity titan Ilya Sachkov Our main story this week is the treason case against Ilya Sachkov, the 35-year-old CEO of the cybersecurity firm Group-IB. On Wednesday morning, September 29, hours after officials raided the company’s Moscow office, a local court jailed Sachkov for the next two months, pending trial. That will likely be extended several times, as the authorities collect more evidence.

Orenburg Region Governor Denis Pasler announced a reward for information about the criminal who killed three female students in the city of Gai. A reward of one million rubles was allocated from the regional budget reserve fund. "Today we must unite and help the investigation. A terrible, cynical crime must be solved, so anyone who has information about what happened can help," Pasler said. The murder of three female students in the city of Gai occurred on the night of September 30.

The Russian authorities released human rights activist Valentina Chupik from the special detention center after the ECHR banned her deportation to Uzbekistan. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to the assistant Chupik. On the morning of October 2, Chupik flew from Moscow to Yerevan. Her representatives have applied to the Ukrainian authorities for asylum for the human rights activist and her 84-year-old mother, who is still in Russia, but have not yet received a response.

Jake and Logan Paul are Yetuubers with millions of subscribers. They suddenly decided to become professional fighters - and now they win the UFC champions American Utuub bloggers Jake and Logan Paul storm a professional box. Logan had already fought with the main boxer of our time Floyd Mayweather, and Jake defeated the former UFC champion Tyron Woodley. Their battles have already become one of the most discussed events in sports.

Over the past 24 hours, 25,219 people have been infected with the coronavirus in Russia, according to the operational headquarters. 886 people died from coronavirus in the last 24 hours. In total, 7,560,767 cases of coronavirus have been recorded since the beginning of the pandemic. Died, according to the headquarters, 209,028 people. The number of cases detected per day in Russia was the highest since July 16.