Forty-five countries that are members of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have officially sent questions to Russia about the poisoning of politician Alexei Navalny in August 2020. The transfer of questions is timed to coincide with the opening of the 98th session of the OPCW Executive Council. The essence of the questions is not specified. In accordance with the Chemical Weapons Convention, Russia must provide a response within ten days.

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for research on how the climate is changing, and chaos is streamlined Denise AppleWhite / EPA / Scanpix / Leta; Georg Wendt / DPA / AP / Scanpix / Leta; Cecilia Fabiano / Lapresse / Zuma / Scanpix / Leta The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021 was divided between the three scientists who made "innovative contribution to our understanding of complex physical systems." The first half of the bonus was divided equally by climatologists Syukuro Manaba and Klaus

"Komsomolskaya Pravda" is closing its representative office in Belarus. This is stated in a statement by the editorial board of "KP". As the statement emphasizes, this decision was made after analyzing “the events of the last year and especially the last week.” Komsomolskaya Pravda reported that all employees of the Belarusian editorial office will be paid compensation or offered work in other positions in the holding.

Maxim Ivankin, a prisoner in the “Network” terrorism case, has been charged in connection with the 2017 murders of Ekaterina Levchenko and Artyom Dorofeyev, Novaya Gazeta reported on Tuesday, October 5. Three weeks ago, on September 5, Ivankin was transferred from a prison in Russia’s Chuvash Republic. Ivankin’s parents weren’t informed of his whereabouts, but they surmised that prison officials were trying to intimidate him in order to extract a confession.

A group of 17 senators, including representatives from both the Democratic and Republican parties, called on US President Joe Biden to expel about 300 Russian diplomats if Russia refuses to increase the staff of the US embassy in Moscow.

The head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Saratov Region, Colonel of the Internal Service Alexei Fedotov, resigned after the publication of a video of prisoners being raped in a prison hospital. This was reported by Interfax with reference to an informed source. According to the interlocutor of the agency, now Fedotov is on vacation, "from which, perhaps, he will not return to work." There is no official confirmation of this information yet.

Human rights group obtains massive video leak evidencing widespread torture in Russian prisons Sergey Bobylev / TASS The human rights project Gulagu.net (No to the Gulag) reported on Tuesday that it had obtained more than 40 gigabytes of recordings evidencing the physical and sexual abuse of inmates in Russian prisons. The group also published three video clips that allegedly show security officials abusing inmates at a prison hospital in the Saratov region.

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The defendant in the "Network" case, Maxim Ivankin, has been charged in the case of the murder of Ekaterina Levchenko and Artem Dorofeev near Ryazan in 2017. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta. On September 5, Ivankin was transferred to an unknown location from Chuvashia IK-9, where he is serving his sentence in the "Network" case. His relatives were not informed of his whereabouts - they assumed that they were trying to intimidate Ivankin into making a confession.

They are unhappy that the body of the grandmother used without them and her consent Anna Watson / Camera Press / Vida Press photography of Henrietta Lax and a test tube, which stored a sample of its tissues, in the exposition of the London Museum of Medicine Relatives of Henrietta Lax - African American, whose "immortal" cancer cells served as a material for creating the HELA cellular culture, which has been used in medical research for many years, demanded from pharmaceutical companies and

United Russia nominated Vyacheslav Volodin for the post of speaker of the State Duma of the eighth convocation. This decision was made following a meeting of the Bureau of the Supreme Council and the General Council of the party. Alexander Zhukov was nominated for the post of first vice-speaker from the party, and Vladimir Vasiliev was nominated for the post of head of the United Russia faction.

‘Elle Russia’ October issue features 25 covers photographed across the former Soviet Union For its October issue, the fashion magazine Elle Russia published 25 covers with the headlines “Friendship of Peoples” and “Elle Without Borders.” The project was shot in various locations across Russia and the former Soviet Union, using local models and photographers.

The Nizhny Novgorod Prosecutor’s Office filed a lawsuit with the regional court seeking to ban the far-right hate group “Male State” ( Muzhskoe Gosudarstvo in Russian). This was reported by Mediazona, citing a case listing on the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court’s website. The defendants in the case are Male State founder Vladislav Pozdnyakov, as well as Igor Nosov and Dmitry Gubanov.

For the first time in 25 years, the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, was not included in the list of the 400 richest Americans, annually compiled by Forbes magazine. Trump's fortune was estimated by the magazine at $2.5 billion, during the pandemic it decreased by $600 million. Before hitting the bottom rung of the current rating, Trump lacked 400 million.

The number of coronavirus cases in Russia this fall is three times higher than during the same period last year, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday October 5. “The increase in cases of the new coronavirus infection since the beginning of September 2021 has reached almost 31 percent. The seven-day average for [the last] five weeks reached 96.9 cases per 100,000 people.