In the Chinese city of Zhuhai (Guangdun Province), a ceremony of opening the bridge connecting the mainland part of the country with Macau and Hong Kong was held. The head of China Xi Jinping took part in the launch ceremony of movement along the bridge, which became the longest sea bridge in the world. Of the 55 km of total length, 38 km is directly on the bridges.

The two previously not published stories of the American writer, the Nobel laureate of Ernst Hemingway will be published in the summer of 2019. Stories will be included in the reprinted book "For whom the bell calls." According to AP with reference to the manager of the classic literary heritage - Michael Katakis - these are the works of "The Monument" (The Monument) and "The Country of the Indians and the Army of the White" (Indian Country and the White Army), written in the mid -1950s.

The sensation ended with the next world championship in the classic Tetris in American Portland (Oregon). A permanent champion managed to replay a 16-year-old student, reports the Eurogamer portal. The tournament in the cult computer game, developed by the Soviet programmer Alexei Pazhitnov in the 80s of the last century, has been held in the United States since 2010.

The Great British government does not have evidence of the effective intervention of Russia in domestic political processes in the country. This is stated in the ongoing on Tuesday, October 23, the response of the Cabinet of Ministers to the request of the British Parliament Committee on Culture, Media, Sports and Digital Technologies. The Committee published a report on the threat of “fake news”, misinformation and foreign intervention on July 29.

October 2018 was rich in rare astronomical spectacles: On October 8, the Russians observed a meteor stream of dragonids, October 14 and 15 - rapprochement of the moon with Saturn, October 18 - rapprochement of the moon with Mars, October 21 - Star rain Orionids with a flow of up to 25 meteors per hour. And on October 24, in the sky it will be possible to observe how the moon comes closer to the planet Uranus. On this night, the earth will be at the most close distance from Uranus.

The Twitter microblog service for some time was blocked by the founder of the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Ilona Mask. This was announced by the entrepreneur himself after the resumption of access to the account. Before blocking, Musk managed to once again admit the love of anime, and in correspondence under this tweet, the businessman offered one of the readers to buy bitcoins - such tweets regularly publish fake accounts that copy the mask profile.

The police and the Investigative Committee are studying the testimony of the detainee who confessed to the series of murders in Transnistria. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda , the 29-year-old handyman from Transnistria was detained after a bicycle stood at the store on Leninsky Prospekt. And in the police department, he confessed to a number of other, much more serious crimes.

Kirill Shulik “In fact, the massacre in Kerch, organized by a loner, is the most dangerous thing because it is almost impossible to prevent it. Well, that is, you can’t intercept telephone negotiations there, you will not give you an accomplice, no one will climb into your mind,” writes a politician and a public figure on his Facebook page. “You can, of course, put five fighters of the Russian Guard in each school, but I’m afraid that this will not save.

A three-day weekend awaits residents of Russia in early November in connection with the celebration of National Unity Day, the press service of Rostrud reminded TASS. “Due to the fact that this year the national holiday Day of National Unity on November 4 falls on a Sunday, the following Monday, November 5, will be a non-working day. Thus, Russians will be able to relax for three days in a row - from November 3 to 5.” , - noted the department.

The Russian government has finally approved amendments to several resolutions that will allow housing and communal services tariffs to be increased twice in 2019. The corresponding decree , signed by the head of government Dmitry Medvedev, was published on the legal information portal. Previously, tariffs for housing and communal services increased once a year - on July 1. The new resolution provides for tariff increases on January 1 and July 1.

Fragments of the body of the murdered columnist The Washington Post Jamal Khashoggi were found in a well in the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. This was stated by the head of the Turkish opposition party "Rodina" to the Park Perinchki on October 23. "The authorities found parts of the Hashoggi body in a well in the Saudi Consulate General," Haberler quoted him as saying.

In Russia, criminal liability may be introduced for drivers who fled the scene of an accident in which there were victims. The newspaper Izvestia writes about this. According to the publication’s source, the corresponding bill was developed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and received approval from the government commission on legislative activities. He was also supported by the Ministry of Justice, the State Legal Department of the Presidential Administration and the Supreme Court.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decision on the direction of additional funds of the Kaliningrad region - the western region of the country bordering the European Union.

The administration of the Kerch Polytechnic College, in which on October 17, Vladislav Roslyakov arranged a massacre and explosion , as a result of which 20 people were killed, in an emergency operated correctly, the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksyonov told reporters on October 23 during a visit to the college. Aksenov also praised the actions of college teachers after the tragedy. “The teachers, despite the pain of the tragedy and loss, are still collected.

The State Duma has introduced a bill limiting the turnover of US dollars in the field of physical culture and sports in the Russian Federation. On October 22, the head of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs Mikhail Degtyarev (LDPR) made such an initiative, Interfax reports. The bill, which has not yet applied to individuals, has been placed on Monday in the database of the lower house of the parliament .