Director Andrei Nekrasov, arrested in August, left Russia. This was reported on his Facebook page. The report says that the day before the bailiffs brought Nekrasov to Moscow, from where he flew “to a third country.” He himself will get in touch “when it is possible and convenient,” the authors of the message added. Nekrasov, a German citizen, was detained in the Smolensk region on August 24 during the filming of his new film.

Fashion house Prada and private space company Axiom Space at the International Astronautics Congress in Milan for the first time showed a spacesuit that will be used during the lunar landing. The suits, created from innovative materials, are able to withstand both extreme temperatures at the illuminated south pole of the Moon and low temperatures in regions that are always in the shadow. In outer space, astronauts can stay in these spacesuits for at least eight hours.

The United States will allocate $425 million in military aid to Ukraine, the White House reports. As noted in the statement, President Joe Biden officially informed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky about the allocation of funds during a telephone conversation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has no health problems, his press secretary Dmitry Peskov told TASS. Peskov was asked a corresponding question after Putin, during a meeting with the government in the context of discussing flu vaccination, mentioned that he regularly undergoes medical examinations at the Central Clinical Hospital. As Peskov emphasized, Putin’s visits to the Central Clinical Hospital are “ordinary medical examinations” that are carried out for preventive purposes.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested the Deputy Governor of the Bryansk Region, Alexander Petrochenko. A message about this was published on October 16 by the press service of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction, without disclosing the article under which Petrochenko was charged, Mediazona drew attention. Two 30-second videos of Petrochenko without sound were attached to the post, which makes it impossible to hear any details of the case in the videos, the publication notes.

The former prisoner spoke about the conditions for the content of Viktor Babariko in the colony. Since November 2023, no one saw him Ramil Nasibulin / BelTA / AP / Scanpix / Leta Viktor Babariko on the day of the sentence, July 6, 2021 Former head of Belgazprombank Viktor Babariko, who planned to run for president in 2020 and was considered the main rival of Alexander Lukashenko, in July 2021 received 14 years of a colony of reinforced regime on charges of bribes and laundering of money.

Former head coach of the Russian national football team Stanislav Cherchesov, who now heads the Kazakh team, was fined 738,400 tenge (about 147 thousand rubles) for a joke about the Kazakh language. This was reported by Tengri Sport and TASS with reference to the Kazakhstan Football Federation. At a press conference after the Nations League match on October 13, in which Kazakhstan lost to Slovenia with a score of 0:1, Cherchesov was asked a question in Kazakh.

Users reported problems in the operation of several Apple Services on October 16, follows from Downdetector data. Judging by the comments on the site, problems are observed with users in the USA. Also, residents of Russia reported a malfunction. Downloadetector.com Users complain about the problems with the App Store, the Apple Music Streaming Service, the ITUNES media player, the Apple Pay payment system, the ICLOUD cloud service, the Apple Store store and the Apple support service.

At a residential building in the North Chertanovo microdistrict in the south of Moscow, a commemorative board was installed in honor of the writer Viktor Pelevin. One of the first about this on October 16 was reported to the Chertanovo telegram channel.

They were in a chat, where they discussed the support of colleagues-confused and collected signatures under the demand to investigate the death of Navalny Evgeny Feldman In Moscow, Izhevsk and Ryazan on October 16, searches were held with doctors who signed an open letter to the Russian investigation committee in August 2024 with a request to investigate the death of Alexei Navalny in a colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a supporter of the deceased politician, director of the FBK Ivan

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the annual event in memory of victims of political repression “Return of Names,” Roskomsvoboda reported on October 16. “Access is limited by “mask,” that is, to all domains and subdomains of the site at once,” the organization reported. According to Roskomsvoboda materials , the decision to block on October 14 was made by a certain government body. The organization assumed that the decision was made by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.

In the Solnechnogorsk urban district of the Moscow region, a participant in the war in Ukraine, who was sitting behind the wheel of his car, was killed with several shots. The Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region stated that on October 16 at about 9 a.m. in the village of Melenki, Solnechnogorsk urban district, an unknown person, who was in his car, shot at least three times through the driver's door window of the car of a local resident, who died on the spot.

The head of the state bank VTB, Andrei Kostin, said that he allows the key rate to rise to 25% next year, citing the fact that the Central Bank is headed by a woman. Speaking about raising the rate, Kostin, in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel, suggested that it could reach 21% by the end of this year, but advised checking this with the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina. “You ask Elvira Sakhipzadovna. Ask her, I don’t rule the bets,” he said.

Russian racing driver Nikita Mazepin said that he will no longer try to return to Formula 1, and also hinted at a possible end to his motorsport career as a whole. He posted a corresponding post on Instagram. “It was painful to watch everyone in Formula 1 move on and not be part of this process... It was time to write a new act of my life as an adult, and where my dreams would no longer be about speed and trophies.

Rafail Shepelev, a member of the Artpodgotovka movement, who was found in a Russian pre-trial detention center after disappearing in Georgia, said that before his arrest he was deceived into coming to South Ossetia by fake “SBU agents.” Shepelev spoke about this during a hearing in the Central District Military Court, reports Itʼs My City. Shepelev has lived in Georgia since 2021, fearing persecution for participating in protests in Russia.