“When I become UN Secretary General, I will introduce simple universal rules for those territories in the world who want independence,” writes the screenwriter and public figure on Facebook in connection with the events unfolding around Catalonia. "1.

Opera singer Dmitry Hvorostsky died at the age of 54, said Komsomolskaya Pravda on the night of Wednesday. According to KP, the singer died in his apartment in London. The news was not confirmed by other sources, and later, surrounded by the artist, this information was refuted with anger.

A national standard with requirements for charging stations for electric vehicles has been approved in Russia, Kommersant reports with reference to the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart). GOST allows the use of V2G (Vehicle-to-grid) technology, which allows you to either charge an electric vehicle or transfer the energy of its batteries back to the electrical network, the department said.

Porn actress from St. Petersburg Ekaterina Makarova, better known under the pseudonym Macy Ssens, on the day of a meeting on cryptocurrencies, at which Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the creation of a system for regulating their circulation in the country, decided to promote herself on the topic of cryptocurrencies.

Leonid Volkov “The information that I have is very fragmentary, but even it is enough to see: in the last few days there has been the largest wave of detentions and arrests of our regional coordinators in the entire 10 months of the campaign in support of the admission of Alexei Navalny to the presidential elections,” - writes the head of the oppositionist's election headquarters in his blog .

The producer Harvey Weinstein, who was in the center of the sex scandal after the revealing publication in The New York Times, believes that he was framed by his younger brother Bob. According to the senior co -founder of the Producer film company Weinstein Company, the younger co -owner wished to squeeze him out of the business and "merged" the compromise of the press.

Up to six million Russian motorists can drive without compulsory motor liability insurance policies and up to a million more with counterfeit forms of such policies. Such figures were announced by Sergei Efremov, Deputy Executive Director of the Russian Union of Auto Insurers (RUA), the Prime agency reports. “In recent years, insurers have been suffering losses in the sale of MTPL policies,” Efimov said at a press conference in Chelyabinsk on October 11.

State Duma deputies from the LDPR faction, who in early October visited the DPRK, asked to support the intention of the country's leader Kim Jong -un to be repulsed by the United States. This is stated in the report of parliamentarians about the trip. The delegation of the three deputies - Anton Morozov, Alexei Didenko and Pavel Sperov - visited Pyongyang on October 2-6, where, according to parliamentarians, they were accepted at a high level.

The German company Partisan Motors presented an original SUV model called One and announced its readiness to give it a 100-year guarantee, Auto Express reports. The developer of this car, reminiscent of the world-famous army Hummer, is Russian-born engineer Yuri Postnikov, who lives in Germany, the publication notes. The One was designed with the military in mind, and its makers are clearly looking to challenge heavy military SUVs.

On October 11, the Court of the Greek city of Salonika granted Russia's request to extradite a citizen of the Russian Federation Alexander Vinnik , a suspect of washing at least $ 4 billion using bitcoins, TASS reports with reference to the lawyer Ilias of Speryadis. Earlier, the court allowed to extradite a Russian in the United States. “The court decided to extradite Alexander (Vinnik) to the territory of the Russian Federation after receiving his consent,” the lawyer said.

The co-owner and main shareholder of one of the largest online retailers of Yulmart Dmitry Kostygin was charged with a fraud with Sberbank’s loan for 1 billion rubles, the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports. He is accused of part 4 of Article 159.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud in the field of lending").

The high court of London recognized the former senator and the owner of the bankrupt Interprombank (MPB) by Sergei Pugachev by the beneficiary of New Zealand trusts, who own assets of tens of millions of dollars. The court’s decision is reported by The Lawyer portal. “The meaning of Trustov was to hide control over assets, make visibility ...

The first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, announced a large-scale personnel competition, the purpose of which is to “identify, development and support of the most promising leaders of leaders from all over the country” with management skills.

In five regions of Russia, Rospotrebnadzor registered a slight excess of weekly epidemic thresholds of the incidence of influenza and SARS, the website of the department reports. According to the European Regional Bureau of the World Health Organization (ERB WHO), in all countries of the European region, influenza activity remains at low levels, the sporadic detection of influenza viruses is noted.

“As I understand, there has been a delay in independence in Catalonia. The declaration has been signed, but they are already talking about negotiations with Madrid. This confirms my post from a week ago. Without forceful support there will be no independence,” writes a journalist and political scientist from Yekaterinburg on his page in Facebook .