The World Health Organization (WHO) has resumed the previously interrupted process of requalifying the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V for emergency use. This follows from the WHO registry ( .pdf ) for the approval of drugs for the prevention of COVID-19. The procedure will be completed after the organization has received all the necessary data and subsequent inspections are completed. The exact date is not specified in the document.

The Russian Interior Ministry has put opposition politician and Navalny associate Lyubov Sobol on its wanted list, Interfax reports. An entry for Sobol appeared in the Interior Ministry’s wanted persons database on Wednesday, October 20. The entry, which includes a photo of Sobol, states that she is “wanted under an article of the criminal code,” but provides no further details. Lyubov Sobol “They took a photo from my 2019 hunger strike.

The Russian Interior Ministry put a supporter of Alexei Navalny Lyubov Sobol on the wanted list. The Sobol card appeared in the database of wanted persons of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Russian journalist and Dozhd TV presenter Dmitry Kaznin has died at the age of 47. His death was reported by Dozhd correspondent Vasily Polonsky. Dozhd reports that Kaznin died in hospital. In December 2015, Dmitry Kaznin was diagnosed with intestinal cancer. He underwent several courses of chemotherapy in Germany and several surgeries. Money for his treatment was collected , among other things, from viewers of the Dozhd TV channel.

Inflation in Russia for the week from October 12 to 18 accelerated to 0.26% against 0.22% a week earlier, follows from Rosstat data. Since the beginning of 2021, inflation was 5.98%, and in annual terms - 7.78% as of October 18. Annual inflation showed the maximum value since February 2016, when this figure was 8.1%, writes RBC. Prices for food products in annual terms increased by 10.34%, for non-food products - by 7.68%.

In Moscow, a spectator of the Europa League group stage match between Spartak and Leicester attacked RBC correspondent Alexander Shchegolev. According to RBC, the attacker left the VIP box of the Otkritie Bank Arena stadium. Judging by the video recording of the incident, the journalist filmed this man on camera.

The Chief Prosecutor's Office of Istanbul detained on October 8 four Russian citizens, as well as a citizen of Ukraine and a citizen of Uzbekistan, who are accused of preparing an armed attack on certain Chechen oppositionists, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported. The detainees are accused of political and military espionage, for which Turkey carries a sentence of 15 to 20 years in prison. The court arrested the accused. They are in prison in Maltepe in Istanbul province.

Google announced in a blog post that it had thwarted a phishing attack by hackers on YouTube bloggers that had been ongoing since late 2019. The company attributed the attack to people hired from an unnamed Russian-language forum. The hackers targeted bloggers by sending false messages about possible cooperation, which contained phishing links. The attackers used malware to steal cookies.

The oil spill that took place off Russia’s Black Sea coast in August caused 4.48 billion rubles ($63.3 million) in damage, Rosprirodnadzor executive Svetlana Rodionova reported on Wednesday, October 20. The spill happened at a Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) oil terminal near the port city of Novorossiysk on August 7.

Meduza marks six months as a ‘foreign agent’ with a special photo shoot October 20 marks exactly seven years since Meduza’s launch. And October 23 will mark six months since our newsroom was labeled a “foreign agent.” We at Meduza consider this status discriminatory and unlawful — and we’ve strived to draw our readers’ attention to the impact of ending up on Russia’s “foreign agent” registry. In this endeavor, we’ve had the help of many contemporary artists .

The GOD of War video game, released in 2018 for the PlayStation 4 gaming console, will be released on PC on January 14, 2022. This was reported in the PlayStation blog. PlayStation The game talks about the relationship between Father-Polubog Kratos and his mortal son Atreus. Unlike previous games of the series, where Greek mythology was based on, this game is based on Scandinavian myths. The GOD of War page on Steam shows the cost of the game for users from Russia - 3149 rubles.

Roskomnadzor issued a warning to Ekho Moskvy because of a video by publicist Alexander Nevzorov, in which the agency saw incitement of social hatred towards Christian priests. A copy of the warning was posted on his telegram channel by Ekho editor-in-chief Alexei Venediktov. The video was posted on the Ekho Moskvy website in the blog section. Venediktov said that it had already been removed, but stressed that the radio station did not agree with the claims.

Galina Yuzefovich and Anton Dolin - about the adaptations of Russian prose In Russia, cinema is regularly shot in modern prose, but critics rarely like it and often does not find a response from a mass viewer. Are our novels too complicated for the film adaptation? Or a problem in the Russian cinema system itself? The literary observer Galina Yuzefovich and film critic Anton Dolin argue in the next episode of the Book Bazaar.

Putin announced non -working days from October 30 to November 7. Why in once exemplary Latvia is now a catastrophe with a Covid. What changes and threats await media in the future Good evening, This message (material) was created and (or) widespread by a foreign media that performs the functions of a foreign agent, and (or) a Russian legal entity that performs the functions of a foreign agent This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about the main events of the day.

Let's ask these guys who they want to become when they grow up Ivan Kolunov, special corner At seven, I wanted to become a guide - to drive excursions in Moscow. It seemed to me [this] cool: you tell people stories about different nooks, share knowledge with them, and they are: “Wow, stunned!” I wanted to tell stories about the city, about the streets and about all sorts of unusual houses. I myself was interested in this. At that age I had many books about the city.