A court in the Moscow region town of Kolomna found local activist Vyacheslav Egorov guilty under the "Dadin" article and sentenced him to one year and three months in prison. This was reported by lawyer Maria Eismont. The prosecution demanded that Yegorov be sentenced to three years in prison. After the verdict was announced, the activist was taken into custody in the courtroom. He will serve his sentence in a general regime penal colony.

In Moscow, 10 apartments will be raffled among those who will be vaccinated. This was stated by the mayor of the city Sergei Sobyanin in an interview with TV-Center. A fragment of the interview was published by the telegram channel of the Moscow operational headquarters. “Starting next week, we are starting to give away 10 apartments over a five-week period for everyone who gets vaccinated. That is, this is another incentive, ”Sobyanin said.

A partially shredded painting, "Girl with Balloon," by Banksy was sold at Sotheby's for £18.6 million (about $25.4 million), the auction house's website reported. The painting was estimated to fetch between four and six million pounds. "Girl with Balloon" has become the most expensive Banksy work ever sold at auction. Previously, his most expensive work was a painting about a superhero nurse , which sold for £16.8 million at auction in March 2021.

Several dozen unknown masked men broke into the Memorial office in Moscow, the organization's press secretary Yulia Orlova told Mediazona . Memorial hosted a screening of the film Gareth Jones by Polish director Agnieszka Holland. This is the story of the first Western journalist to write about the Holodomor, the mass famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933.

Updated . At about two in the morning on October 15, the police began to leave the Memorial office by seizing a fire alarm. Memorial employees were allowed to go out. The detentions were not reported. The police closed at the Memorial office 20 employees of the organization and citizen of Poland, who brought to the office a film about the Holodomor Gareth Jones Polish director Agnieshki Holland. This was reported to Medusa by the lawyer of the Memorial Natalya Morozova.

How Russia’s Communist Party achieved unprecedented electoral success in Russia’s Far East — previously a stronghold for the far-right Liberal Democrats Tatyana Mil / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The KPRF put up relatively few campaign posters in Vladivostok, but the party managed to win regional assembly elections in every single one of the city’s single-mandate constituencies.

Nine Moscow restaurants have received Michelin stars. This was announced at the presentation of the first Michelin restaurant guide for the Russian capital, writes RBC. Seven establishments received one Michelin star each: "Selfie", chef Anatoly Kazakov; "Beluga", chef Evgeny Vikentyev; "Grand Cru", Chef David Emmerle; "White Rabbit", chef Vladimir Mukhin; “Biologie”, chef Ekaterina Alekhina; “Sakhalin”, chef Alexey Kogay; “Savva”, chef Andrey Shmakov.

Such a forecast is given by the government, the journalists of The Bell learned. But he might be too optimistic According to the government’s forecast, the population of Russia will decrease by 535.5 thousand people by the end of 2021, and by another 533.4 thousand people by the end of 2022. about it .

State Duma deputies from United Russia have blocked an initiative from the Communist Party (KPRF) to launch a parliamentary investigation into the rape and torture of inmates in Russia, following public outcry in response to the release of a large video archive containing scenes of violence at a prison hospital in the Saratov region.

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Russia’s federal censor has flagged a violation of “foreign agent” disclosure requirements supposedly committed by the independent television network Dozhd.

Vano Shlamov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on the evening of October 14 on Freedom Square in the center of Tbilisi, a multi-thousandth rally was held for the liberation of the ex-president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, who was detained after returning to the country. The action was organized by the Opposition Party "Unified National Movement" founded by the politician.

The United Russia faction in the State Duma has blocked the Communist Party of the Russian Federation's initiative to conduct a parliamentary investigation into torture and rape of prisoners in Russia. This was stated on Facebook by State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Alexei Kurinny, who was one of the initiators of the investigation.

Members of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation Eva Merkacheva and Leonid Nikitinsky proposed not to consider international awards and prizes as a reason for inclusion in the register of "foreign agents." This was reported by Interfax, citing Merkacheva.

11 former and current employees of the student publication Doxa were summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee. The investigator told one of them that he was looking for the phone numbers of 10 more Doxa editors. This was reported by the publication itself. All of them are allegedly witnesses in the case of slander against an investigator against Doxa editor Vladimir Metelkin.