The Investigative Chamber of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for financial control of clubs decided to remove the Kazan Rubin from participation in European competitions for one season due to violation of the terms of the global agreements in the field of financial Fair Play. Rubin is excluded from the next UEFA tournament, which will break through the results in the internal arena over the next two seasons.

The administration of the Church of the Holy Family (Sagrada Familia) in Barcelona announced the achievement of an agreement with the city administration due to the fact that for more than 130 years the construction of this religious structure was carried out without the necessary permission, TASS reports. We are talking about compensation in the amount of $ 41 million. Payments to the city treasury will be made for 10 years.

In the city of Borovsk, located in the Kaluga region, a conflict broke out between activists and city authorities who decided to demolish a number of historical buildings in the city center. "In Borovsk, the Kaluga region has been going on for several days a war against architectural monuments.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law that introduces criminal liability for the illegal crossing of the state border of the country by representatives of the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation. 243 people's deputies voted for the adoption of the law with the necessary 226 votes.

At the end of September, car sales in the European Union fell by 23.5%, Vedomosti writes, citing data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA). The reason for this noticeable drop in sales was the introduction of a new emission and fuel consumption certification standard for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (WLTP). At the same time, the reduction in sales was expected - before the standard came into force, August car sales immediately increased by 31.2%.

Secret and top secret expenses in the federal budget for 2019 exceeded 3 trillion rubles, which is 16.9% of all expenses for the next year, or 2.9% of GDP. This is stated in the conclusion on the project drawn up by experts from the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) and the Gaidar Institute.

Wet snow can fall in Moscow on Monday, October 22, but it will quickly melt. This was announced by TASS by the head of the Laboratory of the Hydrometeorological Center Lyudmila Parshin. "On October 22, on Monday, at night and morning hours, precipitation is possible, even a small wet snow that will not remain on the ground, because so far warm soil," Parshina said.

The head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, called for continuing the fight against the problem of "banking slavery" in the country that remains, despite the measures taken by the authorities. “We once said that the government is refusing“ mobile slavery ”, but“ banking slavery ”exists,” TASS quoted her statements as part of the FINOPOLIS-2018 forum in Sochi on October 18. The point is that some Russians still cannot independently choose a bank for transferring wages to them.

Specialists of the "Roskachestvo" conducted a study of the 40 most popular in the Russian market of brands of light pasteurized beer, evaluating in more than 30 indicators its quality, taste, color, aroma, foam resistance, etc. The professional tasting commission checked the ratio between the amount of malt and the taste of beer. The drink was placed for taste, color, aroma, foaming. Alas, not one of the samples was awarded the highest rating of 5.5 points.

Unknown for two days in a row, Novaya Gazeta journalists unequivocally intelligibly intimidate.

“Well, just like in the USSR - everything must be truly understood, reading between the lines and drawing conclusions that are not in the printed material,” writes an orientalist and oil and gas market specialist on Facebook . “They are giving out a sensation: the Poles have signed a 20-year contract for the supply of American liquefied gas, which, according to them, is cheaper than Russian.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his opinion about the reasons for the massacre at the Kerch Polytechnic College, as a result of which 21 people died and about 50 were injured. “This, apparently, is the result of globalization, ” Interfax quotes his statements at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club on October 18. - on social networks, on the Internet we see that entire communities have been created.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the trading problems between the United States and the PRC give Russia new opportunities to enter the Chinese market, and Moscow intends to occupy the opened niches. As an example, he made SOI supplies to China from the United States.

Deputies of the Saratov Regional Duma at a meeting of the Committee on Social Policy on Wednesday, October 17, supported the bill on an increase in the subsistence level in 2019 by 288 rubles. Earlier, this proposal was made by the resigned last week for scandalous statements about the opportunity to easily live on the "pasta" and kefir the regional Minister of Labor and Employment Natalya Sokolova.

The United States again drew attention to the fact that Russia significantly modernized its storage facilities of nuclear weapons in the Kaliningrad region. Three months ago, in the Federation of American Scientists (Federal Scientists, FAS), on the basis of data from satellite shots, they concluded that since 2016 at the secret facility near the village of Kulikovo (40 km from Kaliningrad) a capital reconstruction was carried out.