In the Ukrainian capital, police officers conducted an operation to detain an armed man who opened fire and threatened to blow up the bridge over the Dnieper. The attacker was dissatisfied with the political situation in the east of Ukraine. "An unknown citizen threatens to undermine the bridge. He made several shots ... Movement (cars and trains) is not carried out, " Interfax told the National Police of Ukraine Yaroslav Trakalo.

The Russian women's volleyball team defeated the South Korean team in the fourth round of the World Cup , which takes place in Japan. The meeting in Yokohama ended with a score of 3-0 (25:18, 29:27, 25:12) in favor of the Russians, in which Natalia Goncharova was the most productive - 14 points, Ksenia Parubets scored 13 points, Irina Voronkova - 12. For Sergio Busato's team, this victory was the third in four matches, with eight points they moved into fourth place in the standings .

Lawyer Anatoly Kucheren said that he would defend actor Pavel Ustinov. The young man became a defendant in the repressive "Moscow case" and was convicted by 3.5 years for the fact that during his detention one of the security forces dislocated his shoulder. This happened on August 3 in the center of Moscow, where Ustinov accidentally became a witness to the protest unauthorized by the authorities.

The social network Facebook has reported details about the creation of an independent supervisory authority, which will become a kind of supreme court of the social network and will consider user complaints about the illegal removal of content. It is expected that he will begin work at the beginning of 2020. Facebook released the charter , which contains detailed information about the work of this advice on contrast.

The Basmann District Court of Moscow arrested for two months (until November 16), lawyer Dagira Khasavov, who defended the defendants in cases of terrorism and extremism. The lawyer was also engaged in a criminal case, the defendants of which were officials from Dagestan. The meeting was held closed at the request of the investigation, MBH Media reports.

Russian doctors wrote an appeal in support of those who were brought to justice in the framework of the repressive so -called "Moscow case". It mainly takes place participants in protest against non -alternative elections and the arbitrariness of security forces. The text of the open letter was published on the Facebook page by journalist Katerina Gordeeva.

In Moscow, at the Presidential Administration building, pickets began in support of actor Pavel Ustinov, who was sentenced to 3.5 years in colony. This was reported by the correspondent of "Rain" . With a picket to the AP building, in particular, actor Alexander Pal came out. He has in his hands the poster "Freedom to Pavel Ustinov." Director Alexander Molochnikov, actor Nikita Kukushkin and other actors also came to the presidential administration.

77 public figures, including the scriptwriters of the series "Game of Thrones" David Benioff and Daniel Wayss, writer Steven Fry, Nobel Prize Laureate Gerth Müller, former presidents of Ireland, Lithuania and Bulgaria signed an open letter against political repressions in Russia.

“ The Russian Orthodox Church was dissolved from the priests . There are already internal investigations, calls from Moscow -“ How dare? ”But if Orthodoxy has a future in Russian society, then because there are such priests,” the historian Ivan Kurill notes on Facebook . "Separately surprising, of course, the opposition of the condemned actions of these priests" correct "the case of collecting money.

The transition to a four -day working week without reducing wages is possible only in the distant future with an increase in labor productivity and stabilizing the number of labor in Russia. This is written by the economists of the RANEPA who have monitored the socio-economic situation and well-being of the population that RBC refers to. Experts state that the Russian economy demonstrates low growth rates: over the first half of 2019, GDP has increased only 0.7%.

Roskomnadzor blocked the site of the largest English -speaking forum in Olympiad mathematics Art of Problem Solving , trying to limit access to the Telegram messenger. The first for the lack of access was drawn to the forum user Sergey Markelov in his Facebook . When trying to enter the Art of Problem Solving site, there is no information about blocking information, however, the IP address (45.56.124.84) ​​is contained in the register of prohibited sites that Roskomnadzor maintains.

The authorities of Saudi Arabia sold the Consulate General in Istanbul, where the opposition Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally killed in the fall of 2018. This was announced on September 18 by the Turkish television channel Haberturk . According to him, the building in the prestigious area of ​​the city of Lens was sold to an unknown buyer more than a month ago for a third of its market value.

Almost four weeks after the murder in the center of Berlin, the former Chechen rebel Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, the editorial office of the German International Broadcasting Company Deutsche Welle analyzed the publication of the Russian media about this murder and found a number of unreasonable statements.

The American inflatable module Genesis-2 and the Soviet Cosmos-1300 military satellite may collide in near-Earth orbit on September 18, 2019. The probability of such a catastrophe that can occur in the coming hours is estimated by the US military very highly - almost six percent. According to the Bigelow Aerospace, Genesis-2 module, the Genesis-2 module was taken to orbit in 2007 in a folded state and then filled with air. The module worked in space for two and a half years.

The new assistant to the President of the United States on National Security, Robert O'Brien, will adhere to the US leadership in the international arena from the perspective of power. Confidence in this was expressed on Wednesday by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. “In order to guarantee America’s safety, we must [ensure] leadership [US] from the standpoint of strength,” Pompeo wrote in his Twitter microblog .