Elizaveta Peskova, the daughter of Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the President of Russia, wrote a post on Instagram criticizing the legislation on “foreign agents”. I have studied an open letter from Russian media leaders with a proposal to amend the law and I want to support journalists in their desire to fight for freedom of speech and journalism.

Meduza talks to Sergey Savelyev, the former inmate who leaked an ‘archive’ of torture videos from inside Russia’s prison system Ursula Hyzy / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Sergey Savelyev It's been nearly a month since the human rights project Gulagu.net published a series of explosive video clips showing inmate abuse and torture in Russian prisons.

The pharmaceutical company Generium, the manufacturer of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, has created a nasal form of the drug. This was announced to TASS by the director of Generium Daniil Talyansky. “Based on the development of the N.F. Gamaleya Institute [where Sputnik V was created], we made an intranasal form of the vaccine, which is simply injected into the nose.

The heirs of businessman Dmitry Bosov, who died as a result of suicide, sold the Sibanthracite company that belonged to him. This was reported on the Sibanthracite website. The buyer was Siban Holding. 70% in it belongs to the owner of the A-Property investment company Albert Avdolyan, 30% belongs to the former director of Sibanthracite Maxim Barsky, writes RBC. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed. According to RBC and Kommersant sources , it amounted to about a billion dollars.

The Legendary film studio will produce the second part of the science-fiction film “Dune”. A message about this appeared on the studio's official Twitter. This is just the beginning... Thank you to those who have already seen Dune, and to those who plan to do so in the coming days and weeks. We are excited to continue our journey! Filming for the sequel was also confirmed by the director of the film, Denis Villeneuve.

Telegram channels will soon feature advertising messages that will be posted by the messenger's administration. This was reported by Telegram creator Pavel Durov. He said that the ads will not appear in chats or groups, only in large Telegram channels. They will be short texts without external links and photos, corresponding to the channel's theme. Users' personal data will not be used to display the ads, Durov said.

A chain of events Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS Morning October 25 ↓ On the channel “Caution: Sobchak” a three -hour interview with Raper Alisher Morgenstern comes out. In it, among other things, it comes to the celebration of Victory Day on May 9. The rapper says that he does not understand why large -scale events "millions are spent from year to year." “Probably [more] there is simply nothing more to be proud of,” says Morgenstern. Cool, well done, [that won in the Great Patriotic War].

What will happen to the economy after the pandemic (too early to relax). SC will check Morgenstern's words about Victory Day. How employees of Russian pre-trial detention centers force prisoners to torture each other 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 main events of the day.

Russia’s censorship agency (Roskomnadzor or RKN) has added the messaging app Telegram and the blogging platform LiveJournal to its registry of social networks. By law, these two platforms are now required to moderate and block content prohibited in Russia. RKN launched its registry of social networks in September 2021, adding eight platforms to the list: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Likee (a video creation and sharing app), VKontakte, and Odnoklassniki.

Residents of Sevastopol will be able to leave the city only if they have a certificate of vaccination against COVID-19. This is reported by TASS with reference to the governor Mikhail Razvozhaev. To leave Sevastopol, local residents can also present documents confirming that they have had a covid or a negative PCR test and a medical exemption from vaccination. The measure will come into effect on October 30.

Now Merkel is an acting Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the evening of October 26, handed the Chancellor Angel Merkel an official notification of the end of the office of the chancellor. Now, before a new government is officially formed following the results of recently past elections , Merkel will lead the country as a acting.

Roskomnadzor added the Telegram messenger and the LiveJournal website to the register of social networks. This was reported by Interfax, citing a statement from the agency. A month ago, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Likee, YouTube, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki were included in the register of social networks.

The release of air to the surface of the Moskva River in the area of ​​​​the tunnel of the new metro line is not associated with malfunctions. This was announced to TASS by Yuri Kravtsov, the head of the Mosinzhproekt enterprise, the operator of the Moscow metro development program.

The Ostankino Higher School of Cinema and Television expelled two students for “sabotaging anti-Covid measures,” not for liking comments on Instagram, the school’s artistic director Elena Letuchaya said. According to Letuchaya, the students “expressed dissatisfaction with the school’s unplanned weekend and spread false information on social networks.” The artistic director did not specify what information she was talking about.

In the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, investigators of the UK, police officers and the FSB detained the former chief controller-revisor of the local department of the Ministry of Finance Yuri Chekin, who is suspected of organizing the murder of the prosecutor. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia. According to investigators, in 1993, Chekin led a cooperative, through which he stole 15.6 million rubles from one of the oil and gas production enterprises.