A man armed with a bow and arrow attacked people in the city center of Kongsberg in southern Norway. This is reported by the Norwegian television and radio company NRK with reference to the police. The attacker has been arrested. He moved around the city center and managed to kill and injure several people. Police have not yet released the exact number of victims. According to NRK and Drammens Tidende , at least four people were killed. Updated .

Russia has become the third largest Bitcoin mining country in the world, according to data from the University of Cambridge, which was brought to the attention of Reuters. Russia's share in the global Bitcoin hashrate has reached 11.2%. For comparison, in August 2020 it was 8.2%. The United States came in first place in terms of Bitcoin mining volumes (35.4% share), and Kazakhstan came in second (18.1% share).

Facebook temporarily blocked a post by Russian cosmonautics popularizer Vitaly Egorov that Roscosmos painted a Soyuz rocket with Khokhloma in honor of the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod. Egorov posted a screenshot of a notification from Facebook, which said that his post was blocked as violating the social network’s rules on hostile speech and insults.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow placed under house arrest the rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) Sergei Zuev, who was detained the day before on suspicion of embezzling 21 million rubles. This was reported in the press service of the court. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the petition of the investigation, which requested that Zuev be taken into custody.

At the age of 84, the first director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Viktor Bryukhanov died. This was reported on Facebook by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which is engaged in the damping of the station power units. Chuck Nacke / Shutterstock / Vida Press Bryukhanov became the director of the future Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1970 and at first led its construction, and then operation. After the accident in 1986, he was removed from work and detained a few months later.

Committee Against Torture chairman Igor Kalyapin answers Meduza’s questions about the rampant abuse in Russian prisons Sergey Fadeichev / TASS In early October, the human rights group Gulagu.net (Not to the Gulag) released several video clips that show incidents of physical and sexual abuse in Russian prisons.

Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) proposed amendments to several laws in order to “counter the financing of terrorism and (or) other illegal acts.” In particular, the agency suggested freezing the bank accounts of organizations and individuals who spend money on organizing and holding unsanctioned public events (this includes meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches, and pickets). What’s more, this won’t require a court order.

FSIN employees explain why they are torture people. As the case of the rector Shanka Sergey Zuev concerns each of us.

Subscribe to our YouTube 90-year-old William Sertner, who played Captain Kirk in the series "Star Way", visited space. Yes, on a real spaceship! True, I never met the clinings, but a pity. Shetner became a participant in the flight organized by Jeff Bezos Blue Origin. The actor is now the most elderly person who was flying into space. Real legend.

Galina Yuzefovich and Anton Dolin - about Don Quixote in the cinema The new episode of the show “Book Bazaar”, which is published by the Studio “Technique of Speech”, is about the strangest, unusual, iconic and even rushed films on Don Quixote. The podcast comes out not only in the audio version , but also in the video format on Yetube.

The brand is fighting with a “male state” because of an advertising campaign involving black models In early July, the manufacturer of Vyatka Kvass launched an advertising campaign with a dark -skinned model on Instagram. In response, some users began to write offensive and racist comments. There are also threats to refuse to buy a drink and boycott the company. In mid -September, in response to the negative reaction, Vyatka Kvass released the special project “Racism online”.

We answer - relatively short Ubisoft October 7 - on the birthday of Vladimir Putin! - The French company Ubisoft has released a sixth part of the Far Cry shooter series. You have to lead the resistance and overthrow the dictator who seized power on the local version of Cuba (it is also played by Dzhancarlo Esposito from “All-Great” and “Mandalor”). We tell you relatively briefly who may like the Far Cry 6 - and how it can disappoint.

Alexey Navalny addresses his supporters in a new message from prison Alexey Navalny’s dramatic return to Moscow and immediate imprisonment was more than eight months ago. The anti-Kremlin opposition leader currently occupies a cell at a penitentiary in the Vladimir region. From here, he’s watched the authorities systematically outlaw and dismantle his nationwide network of political campaign offices and the domestic infrastructure of the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

The fraud case against Marina Rakova and Sergey Zuyev was based on analysis conducted by the Russian Academy of Education — an institution run by her former boss Marina Rakova (far left), Olga Vasilieva (second from the left), and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin (far right) at a “Quantorium” children’s technopark on September 29, 2016. Before joining the Education Ministry, Rakova worked on children’s technopark projects.

The space company Blue Origin, created by Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, sent the New Shepard spacecraft with four space tourists on board for the second time. One of them is 90-year-old Canadian actor William Shatner, who played the role of Captain James Kirk in the original Star Trek series as well as the 1979 film of the same name and its sequels. In addition to him, the crew included Blue Origin Vice President Audrey Powers, former NASA engineer Chris Boshausen and entrepreneur Glen de Vries.