The Russian government has submitted a bill to the State Duma proposing to quadruple the amount of the fine for non-payment under the Platon system. The document was published on the website of the Parliament. They want to increase the fine from 5 thousand to 20 thousand rubles. The bill also proposes to bring violators to justice within six months, and not two months, as it is now. The explanatory note says that the amount of the fine is less than 20 thousand rubles.

An accident in Kharkov, due to which six people were killed, occurred as a result of street races, Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, said on his Facebook . Pedestrians became victims of “the stupid desire of a young girl to obscure,” herashchenko wrote. According to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who shot down passers -by the driver Lexus did not even try to slow down at the time of the collision.

Ksenia Sobchak, in an interview with The Guardian newspaper , called the rumors that she is a Kremlin project a conspiracy aimed at discrediting her. “The authorities decided to strangle me with association with themselves - this is a very smart tactic,” said the TV presenter. Sobchak stated that no political party supports her. “I have no political weight, and I have not earned the right to launch any political program or be nominated as a candidate,” the TV presenter said.

Journalist Bozhena Rynska on Friday, October 20, on the air of the Cactus show on the Navalny Live youtube channel, announced that she was emigrating from Russia. According to Rynska, she "has run out of patience" to live under Russian President Vladimir Putin. She called Putin's rule "twice stagnation" and added that she would have stayed at home if Alexei Navalny had become the leader of the country.

In Poland, in the city of Stalowa Wola, Carpathian Voivodeship, a man stabbed nine people with a knife, reports on Friday, October 20, radio station RFM FM . The attacker is 27 years old. The incident took place in a shopping mall. One person died and eight others were injured. The condition of some of them is assessed as serious. The police arrested the attacker. The motives of the perpetrator are now being investigated.

Political technologist Alexei Sitnikov, who worked in the 1996 presidential election and during the "orange revolution" in Ukraine in 2004, may head the campaign headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak, the Dozhd TV channel reports on October 20, citing the words of two anonymous sources surrounded by a TV presenter and an unnamed interlocutor close to the Kremlin. Two sources of the channel said that Sitnikov was invited to Sobchak's campaign headquarters.

An apartment in the center of St. Petersburg, which belongs to the daughter of the mayor of Moscow, Anna Sobyanina, was arrested by bailiffs, follows from the Open Russia investigation , which was published on Friday, October 20. The property was arrested, according to the Federal Tax Service, in July 2017 on the basis of a court order dated November 25, 2016 for the collection of taxes and fees. However, a month later, the arrest was lifted, as the authorities could not find the debtor.

Putin spoke at Valdai in the familiar yard logic: my yard controls the neighboring yard, and there is nothing to climb there The Valdai Forum 2017 was marked by the strange name “Creative Destruction: Will a New World Order Arise from Conflicts?”, possibly referring to the post-war agenda of 1945, although the destruction was neither then nor now “creative”, old Schumpeter (Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, the author of the term "creative destruction" - NT) had something completely

Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Natalya Poklonskaya denies having Ukrainian citizenship, RBC reports on Friday, October 20 . Poklonskaya explained that the decree on the deprivation of her citizenship in March 2014 was signed by Viktor Yanukovych. “He was in Rostov at that time and was the legitimate president,” Poklonskaya said.

reports on Friday, October 20 The former head of the Novosibirsk region, Vasily Yurchenko, was sentenced to three years probation, TASS . Yurchenko was found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of official powers). The former governor used his official position to sell a plot of land in the center of Novosibirsk. The court also decided to recover from Yurchenko compensation in the amount of 135 thousand rubles.

Putin on Valdai -2017: we have bad America, with the economy-good, and let's do without questions about the election Vladimir Putin at a plenary meeting *of the Valdai International Discussion Club, Sochi, October 19, 2017. *Photo: kremlin.ru Vladimir Putin was late at the plenary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi for only 40 minutes, which, by his standards, is the embodiment of punctuality.

State men and ladies in Russia are not only wise and beautiful, but also brave to incredity. The exploits of outstanding thinkers and leaders collected The New Times *Head of the CEC of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova.

Why did you need a big terror Memorial "Mask of Sorrow" in Magadan, dedicated to the memory of victims of political repression. Photo: Rasula Mengutov Lecture * , read as part of a joint project of the Museum of the History of the Gulag, Memory Fund and the Moscow House of Books on the occasion of the opening of October 30, 2017 in Moscow, on Sakharov Avenue, and a national memorial to the victims of mass repressions "Wall of sorrow".

On the evening air of October 19, Ivan Urgant, host of the Evening Urgant program on Channel One, presented a parody video of the election video of TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, who announced her candidacy for the presidency. “Ksenia Sobchak announced that she was going to participate in the presidential elections in 2018 and published her election video. Ivan Urgant decided to keep up - and showed his video for the nomination for the presidency of Russia!

The Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission opposed the deprivation of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky of a scientific degree, Interfax reports on Friday, October 20 . The decision was made at a meeting of the commission, which was held behind closed doors from the press. Medinsky was present at the meeting. 14 people were in favor of leaving Medinsky a degree, 6 more people were against it.