The American space agency NASA launched the automatic interplanetary station Europa Clipper, designed to study Jupiter's satellite Europa. The launch was broadcast on the NASA website . The Europa Clipper was launched into space by the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, launched from the spaceport in Florida. The launch was originally scheduled for October 10, but was delayed due to Hurricane Milton .

The prosecutor's office asked to sentence the former chairman of the board of directors of the BKF bank and the founder of the Russian Product company Olga Mirimskaya to 20 years in a general regime colony with a fine of 500 million rubles, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Izmailovsky Court of Moscow. Another person involved in the case, former investigator Yuri Nosov, was asked by the prosecution to be sentenced to 13 years in prison with a fine of 111 million rubles.

The Russian Embassy in Norway is reducing its diplomatic staff at the request of the Norwegian side. According to the Russian diplomatic mission, only two diplomats will remain in the consular department. At the same time, one diplomat will work at the Consulate General on Spitsbergen. The embassy did not say why Norway demanded to reduce the diplomatic composition of the Russian mission. It is noted that this must be done by October 17.

The director of the film “I, Robot,” Alex Proyas, criticized Elon Musk, comparing the appearance of the robots in the film with the Optimus androids created by Tesla. In his post on the social network Mask X, the director also compared the car and bus from “I, Robot” and the autonomous Cyberсab robotaxi and Robovan van, shown at the Tesla presentation on October 10. “Hey Elon, can you give me my design back please?” — wrote Proyas.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Irkutsk partially satisfied the demands of the relatives of prisoner Anatoly Zubarev, who was released from the colony due to illness and soon died at home. Human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov announced the court’s decision. Zubarev's family demanded to recover one and a half million rubles from the Federal Penitentiary Service as compensation for moral damage. The court ruled that the department must pay 100 thousand rubles.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a bill on ratification of the treaty on a comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and North Korea. It was published in the Duma's legislative activity database on October 14. The package of documents accompanying the draft law also contains the text of the agreement.

Navalny's team published fragments from his book "Patriot" Evgeny Feldman The team of Alexei Navalny, who was killed in a Russian prison, published several fragments from the Patriot policy preparing for the press of autobiography on October 14. The first fragments from the book on October 11-12 appeared on the websites of the New Yorker, Der Spiegel, El Pais and The Times. The release of the book is scheduled for October 22 in 36 countries.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. “Talking about the important” for preschoolers and the fight against quadrors - is this a new youth policy? We discuss how the authorities want to instill patriotism from the kindergarten The Russian authorities strengthen the ideological work with youth. Putin supported the introduction of "talk about the important" from the kindergarten. The “Movement of the First” was headed by a war member in Ukraine.

Users of social networks discovered the domain discord.ru, which uses the name of the messenger of the same name, but redirects to a site calling for a contract with the Russian army. “Groza” and “Paper” drew attention to reports about this. The publications note that discord.ru never belonged to Discord. At the same time, previously the link allegedly redirected to the pages of the official website of the messenger, and then began to send users to the website of its competitor Guilded.

The authorities of Dagestan awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of Dagestan No. 1” to Senator from the republic, businessman Suleiman Kerimov, RIA Dagestan reported on October 14. According to the agency, Kerimov also received the "Higher Golden Order of Public Recognition" Honorary Citizen of Dagestan.

More than 60 foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine received anonymous reports about mining of buildings. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reports this. “This number continues to grow. Structural units of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine also received similar letters,” the message says. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andriy Sibiga ordered to strengthen security measures in Ukrainian diplomatic institutions.

This book is published by Medusa Publishing House Until 2022, Ukrainian Zhenya Berezhnaya taught writing skills, led the podcast about literature and wrote fairy tales for adults. Her fantasy-disk “Ternone Witch”-under the name of Evgeny Spashchenko-was published in the Russian publishing house AST. On February 24, 2022, Zhenya woke up from the call of her relatives from Kharkov, gathered an alarming backpack, put two cats in carrying and went down to the first bomb shelter in her life.

The family of one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, Maria Kolesnikova, has not received letters from her from Gomel colony No. 4 for more than a year and a half, since February 2023. Her father Alexander Kolesnikov tried several times to get a meeting with his daughter, but he was unable to see the prisoner, the article says Associated Press.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Laurent Vinatier, a French citizen, political scientist and expert at the Swiss Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, to three years in prison in the case of collecting military data without registering a “foreign agent” (Part 3 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), Mediazona reports .

Opossums, foxes, beaver, grizzly and other animals find support in Robitz with the voice of Lupita Niongo. It turns out wonderful Universal Pictures At the world box office there is a “wild robot” - a full -length cartoon Chris Sanders. The author was nominated three times for Oscar (Lilo and Stich, Kruds family, “how to tame a dragon”), one of the central topics in his work is the relationship of animals with a person.