How eleven alleged members of a little-known Telegram network became the prime suspects in a criminal case for instigating ‘mass riots’ amid Russia’s 2021 elections On the eve of Russia’s 2021 parliamentary elections, the Investigative Committee launched a criminal case for “inducing mass riots” using Telegram. According to investigators, “at least eleven people from seven regions of Russia” are considered suspects.

In January-September 2021, the death rate among those infected with coronavirus in Russia amounted to 299 thousand people. For the whole of 2020, 163 thousand people infected with COVID died in the country. This is reported by RBC with reference to Rosstat data . In September 2021 (the latest month for which Rosstat data is available), 44.3 thousand patients with coronavirus died in Russia. In more than 33 thousand cases, COVID was recognized as the main cause of death.

A California court approved a settlement agreement between the US Department of Justice and Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov, whom the department accused of tax evasion. This is reported by TASS , RIA Novosti and RBC with reference to the court session, which was broadcast online. According to the court decision, Tinkov will spend a year under supervision outside the United States and will be required to pay a fine.

The school administration accused the children of "consisting of a gay sect" Dariga Dzhanabaeva In Almaty, students of a prestigious school staged a protest under the slogans “Clothing has no gender” and “You are important. Do not be silent. " Its participants - both girls and boys - put on skirts to school and handed out leaflets with the number of helpline.

The leaders of the "Winter Cherry" received from 11 to 14 years. The deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin was detained (with the carcass of an elk).

23-year-old Russian athlete Dina Averina became a 17-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics, RIA Novosti reports. At the World Championships in the Japanese city of Kitakyushu, Dina Averina competed in the individual all-around and won three gold medals – in exercises with a hoop, ball and clubs. The athlete received another gold medal, which was the 17th in her career, after the Russian team scored 304.575 points and took first place in the championship.

Microsoft has become the most valuable public company in the world, overtaking Apple. Shares of Microsoft at auction on October 29 rose by more than 1%, in connection with which the total capitalization of the company reached 2.46 trillion dollars. Apple shares, in turn, fell about 4%; the value of the company because of this fell to 2.41 trillion.

The Orekhovo-Zuevsky city court sentenced three former employees of the local police department to terms of seven to nine years in a strict regime colony in the case of beating to death a native of Dagestan. This was reported in the telegram channel of the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region. The court found that in April 2019, police beat a native of Dagestan on Gagarin Street in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Region. The victim died from his injuries in the hospital.

Streaming service Netflix has released a new trailer for the second season of The Witcher, which will be released on December 17th. Geralt (Henry Cavill), Ciri (Freya Allan), Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), as well as other familiar and new characters appear in the trailer. Plus new, very impressive monsters! In the second season, Ciri, who has matured, learns to wield a sword, the south continues the war with the north, and Geralt, as usual, tries to save people from monsters.

Memorial’s annual commemoration of Great Terror victims takes place despite pandemic and lockdown Since 2007, on October 29, the Memorial Human Rights Center has organized “Returning the Names” — an annual commemorative event dedicated to victims of Soviet-era repressions. In past years, participants read out the names of victims of Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror at the Solovetsky Stone in Moscow’s Lubyanka Square.

Evgeny Feldman From October 31 to November 12, the Glasgow's global conference in the UN climate will be held. The purpose of the meeting with thousands of participants from around the world is to approve the plan for the transition to the global economy with zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. Only its achievement will restrain global warming at the current level. The problem is that the obligations already adopted around the world to reduce emissions are categorically not enough.

Subscribe to our YouTube robots Boston Dynamics are able to have fun. But we did not even expect this from them. By the way, they also know how to work . However, this is a lot who can, but to dance so ...

Two thirds of Russians (66%) said that torture is unacceptable under any circumstances, according to the results of a Levada Center survey. 20% of respondents believe that torture is acceptable. 11% said that it is permissible to torture people in exceptional cases when it can save innocent lives, and another 9% allowed the use of torture only against those who have committed a serious violent crime.

On Friday, October 29, a Moscow court sentenced blogger Ruslan Bobiev and his girlfriend, model Anastasia Chistova, to 10 months in prison for “offending religious sentiment.” The couple was convicted over a photo they posed for, pantomiming oral sex against the backdrop of St. Basil’s Cathedral.

Rashkin claims that he found a “almost already cut” moose Evgeny Feldman / "Medusa" Valery Rashkin at the Private Promotion of the Communist Party against the results of "electronic voting" on September 20 The State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Valery Rashkin was detained with carcass of moose . The incident occurred in the Lysogorsky district of the Saratov region on the night of October 29.