The Moldovan state company Energocom and the Polish state company PGNiG have signed a contract to supply Moldova with one million cubic meters of gas. According to the Moldovan government, this is the first purchase of gas in the history of the country from sources alternative to Gazprom. What price Chisinau agreed on is not specified.

BBC journalist delves into heavily advertised development plan for Russia authored by a mystery man For several months, popular bloggers and major media outlets, including state-owned publications, have been talking about a plan titled “20 Ideas for the Development of Russia.” The program is authored by a certain “Dmitry Davydov” — but it's unclear who this person actually is. Indeed, some doubt he even exists.

The capitalization of the American manufacturer of electric vehicles Tesla has exceeded a trillion dollars. This is evidenced by data from the Nasdaq stock exchange, where the company's shares are traded. According to Forbes, Tesla shares rose more than 9% after the news that the world's oldest car rental company Hertz will buy 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla. This is the largest electric vehicle purchase in history. It will bring Tesla about 4.2 billion dollars, sources told Bloomberg.

Interview with Sergei Savelyev, who gave Gulagu.net an archive of torture in prisons. Natalia Oreiro became a citizen of Russia. The peak of the autumn covid wave has not yet been reached Good evening, THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the most important things that happened during the day.

She believes that Mark Zuckerberg thinks more about money than people Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP / Scanpix / Leta Cardboard figure of Mark Zuckerberg, who stands on a surfing board in a wake of money and holds the flag "I know that we are harmful to children, but I don't care." London, October 25, 2021 17 American media published materials on the basis of Facebook internal documents. This project was called Facebook Papers (Facebook Archive).

The public movement “Veterans of Russia” will appeal to the Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee with a request to check the statements of rapper Alisher Morgenstern about the Victory Festival on May 9. It is reported by the "rise".

Russian woman wins million-ruble lawsuit against hospital following her husband’s death from COVID-19 Vladimir Gerdo / TASS Lydia Medvedeva, who lives in Russia’s Astrakhan region, successfully sued a district hospital for one million rubles ($14,300) over the death of her husband from COVID-19. On October 18, the Astrakhan Regional Court ruled that by belatedly testing Medvedeva’s husband for the coronavirus, the hospital failed to provide him with adequate medical care.

Russia nominated for the Oscars the film "Unclenching Fists" by Kira Kovalenko. This is reported by TASS with reference to the chairman of the Russian Oscar Committee Pavel Chukhrai. Unclenching Fists premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The picture received the Grand Prix of the Un Certain Regard competition of author's films. The film tells the story of a girl from a small North Ossetian town who is trying to get out of her father's care and start an independent life.

An explosion occurred in a five-story building in Naberezhnye Chelny. As a result, eight apartments on the fourth and fifth floors were destroyed, RIA Novosti reports, citing emergency services. It is assumed that gas exploded in the house, a law enforcement source told RBC. According to preliminary data , at least five people were injured, including two brothers born in 2004 and 2010. A few more people remain under the rubble. They are alive, with them established a connection.

Uruguayan actress Natalia Oreiro received Russian citizenship. The corresponding decree was signed by President Vladimir Putin. Together with Oreiro, her nine-year-old son Merlin received Russian citizenship. Natalia Oreiro, 44, is also a citizen of Uruguay and Spain. For the first time, the fact that Oreiro was going to get a Russian passport became known in 2020 - then she herself said that she had submitted the documents.

During repair work on a gas pipeline in the Nizhny Novgorod region, owned by Gazprom, on October 5 there was a powerful release of methane, writes Bloomberg. The methane emission was first noticed by Kayrros SAS, a company involved in the analysis of data from satellite images.

Highlights from the BBC investigation Popular bloggers and major media, including state media, have been advertising “20 Ideas for the Development of Russia” for several months, authored by Dmitry Davydov. At the same time, it is unclear who this person is and whether this person exists at all, writes BBC Russian Service. The program, the author of which is Dmitry Davydov, is posted on a special website 20idei.ru - basically, these are proposals of an economic nature.

St. Petersburg to go into lockdown to bring down coronavirus cases and prevent influx of tourists Alexander Petrosyan / Kommersant Over the weekend, the St. Petersburg authorities announced plans for a renewed lockdown during the nationwide “non-working days” from October 30 to November 7.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. It seems that the “Yeltsin Center” is still possible that everyone else in Russia is already strictly prohibited. Will this “ideological offshore” be able to survive? On October 23, during the Ural Music Night festival, the singer Vadim Samoilov at the Yeltsin Center site delivered insults to the liberals, LGBT community and Yeltsin Center.

He also shot about Chechnya, grandfathers and terror - you will not see such films today Alexey Kudenko / Kommersant Director and screenwriter Alexander Rogozhkin died at the 73rd year of his life on October 24, after a long illness. All of Russia knows its “Features of national hunting” (1995) and “Features of national fishing” (1998), but Rogozhkin was an outstanding director, including copyright cinema.