NATO and Russia should avoid excessive exacerbation, despite opposite positions, especially in Syria, in the Baltic countries and on the Black Sea, said Alexander Vershbow, Deputy General of NATO Secretary General. He called on the alliance to adjust politics. Vershbow spoke at the opening of the conference "NATO and a new round of crisis" in Madrid. "In our interests, to have relations with Russia, if only we can achieve the tension without necessity.

Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya announced the initiation of a number of criminal cases on the facts of illegal activities on the border with Ukraine under the general conditional name "Blockade of Crimea".

In the capital of Germany, the police are checking in relation to its employee who came into conflict with two tourists from the UK. Foreigners walked on the road at night, which caused the discontent of the guard of order. As a result, one of the British was stabbed in the file part of the body. The incident occurred on Monday night in the Berlin district of Neukeln, writes The Local .

The Swedish VOLVO Auto Concert began testing a new technology for cars supplied to Australia, which avoids collisions with a kangaroo on the roads. This is stated in the company on Facebook. Volvo specialists used observations of the behavior of a kangaroo in the reserve near Kanberra to collect data to create a mechanism for preventing accidents.

One of the most unusual exhibits of the 44th Tokyo car dealership of the Toyota Kikai, which passes these days with flaps set by knots and assemblies. This is a pure water experiment, the idea of ​​which is to show modern motorists, how the machine works. According to Wrom.ru , the design of the concept is based on the aluminum frame, in the "capsule" of the salon made of composite materials, three places: the driver sits in the center, and two passengers - along the edges from the back.

The famous pianist Denis Matsuev commented on reports that during his charity concert given on Wednesday at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater as part of the Siberian tour, Steinway was supposedly broke. Earlier, one of the spectators told TASS that the instrument chosen by the musician himself for the performance could not stand his pressure - during the performance of Matsuev, one of the works of the piano fell off the part of the pedal attachment.

By the day of the memory of the victims of political repression, which is celebrated on October 30, in Moscow, the “Return of Names” is held in Moscow, on which anyone can read the names of the executed during the years of Soviet power, thereby reminding of the dead. Also, about 100 memorial signs appeared in Russia in Russia. In addition, the site "Immortal Barak" was opened, at which information about the repressed is collected.

The Union of Museums of Russia proposes to introduce a temporary moratorium on the transfer of the church of former cult buildings, in which museums are now located. Such an initiative was voiced on Thursday at a meeting of the Presidium of the Union by its leader, general director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, TASS reports.

The Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea sentenced Kim Khan Khan Sick, the Executive Director of the Chonghaejin Marine, which was the operator of the Sevol ferry in April 2014, to seven years in prison and a fine of Kim Khan Sick. Kim Khan Sik was accused of criminal negligence and embezzlement on an especially large scale.

The Japanese concern Yamaha Corporation, specializing in the release of musical instruments and motor vehicles, developed a humanoid robot capable of moving on a motorcycle, reports N+1 . The presentation of the robot was held as part of the 44th International Motor Show in Tokyo. The robot, called Motobot, moves on the YZF-R1M motorcycle equipped with a auxiliary frame with small side wheels.

Problems with Syrian refugees are preserved not only on the borders of European countries, which are already starting to fence off from the flow of migrants with walls, but also on the Russian-Norwegian border. According to Flashnord , in the Murmansk region more than 500 people are waiting for permission to get to Norway. On the eve of the Borisoglebsk checkpoint there were about 100 people who complained about border guards who did not let them into a neighboring country.

Activists of the "Ecological Watch in the North Caucasus" conducted the public inspection of construction work, which is conducted in the Sochi National Park on the southern slopes of the AIBG ridge, Rosa Khutor, billionaire Vladimir Potanin, who owns a ski resort in Krasnaya Polyana. According to their estimates, thousands of centuries -old trees have already been cut down as a result of this activity and extensive territories of wildlife in the Aibgin forestry are mutilated.

Investigators of Bashkiria opened a criminal case on the fact of shooting that occurred on the basis of a road quarrel in the city of Salavat. As a result, seven representatives of the Armenian diaspora were taken to the hospital with injuries, one of whom died. The Caucasians aged 22 to 48 years suffered from the hands of the attackers.

In Shanghai, 511 people took part in the simultaneous power of pizza dough. In the process, they managed to set a new world record, which was officially entered in the Guinness Book of Records, China News reports. The record was set on October 28. The event was held at the Shangri-LA hotel. Initially, 525 people planned to participate in it, but 14 of them were refused, reports Reuters. Thus, the number of participants decreased to 511.

The mysterious subscribers from Russia called thousands of military personnel of the Poland army, NASZ DZINNIK reports. According to him, the Polish military counterintelligence service and the prosecutor’s office are investigating this fact. “This is a very difficult matter. We are now conducting an audit,” Colonel Yatsek Song, spokesman for the country's Ministry of Defense, told reporters. Calls entered the service phone numbers of several thousand Polish officers.