The Investigative Committee detained the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater Sofya Apfelbaum. Previously, she headed the Department of State Support for Art and Folk Art of the Ministry of Culture. According to Izvestia , the former official is suspected of falsifying documents, thanks to which Kirill Serebrennikov's Seventh Studio ANO received a state contract for 214 million rubles, of which at least 68 million were stolen.

The host of Ekho Moskvy, Tatyana Felgenhauer, who was attacked, was interrogated by investigators in the hospital. She is officially recognized as a victim. “Tatyana Felgenhauer was transferred from the postoperative intensive care unit to the general ward. She can speak, but weakly. The interrogation by the investigator lasted 5 minutes, the rest after being discharged from the hospital, ”said Alexei Venediktov, editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, on Telegram .

Stavropol police officers detained a man who, along with his acquaintance, fired at two policemen in Essentuki on the evening of October 25, Interfax reports . “During the operational-search activities, the Stavropol police officers in hot pursuit detained an attacker who opened fire on police officers in the city of Essentuki. At present, the suspect has been detained and taken to the city police department, ”said Irina Volk, spokeswoman for the Russian Interior Ministry.

State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya recorded a video message in which she accused Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika of trying to protect her children to the detriment of her professional activities. Poklonskaya's video message is dedicated to the release of the film "Matilda". The deputy criticized the position of the prosecutor's office, which ignored Poklonskaya's complaints about the film.

The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, said on the air of Ekho Moskvy that he was forced to provide his journalists with traumatic weapons for self-defense. “We will formally conclude an agreement with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. We will prescribe and buy traumatic weapons, take exams for it. And we will also supply journalists with other security equipment, which I don’t want to talk about,” Muratov said.

The Krasnoyarsk Regional Court recognized the Artpodgotovka movement as an extremist organization, Dozhd reports on Thursday, October 26 . The TV channel was informed about the decision by the press service of the court. Thus the court granted the statement of claim and.about. Prosecutor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, registered on September 28.

Appleby, a consulting and legal company that serves Bermuda offshore clients, has warned of a possible large-scale leak of confidential information, reports The Telegraph . The leak concerns the richest people in the UK. About what specific data and people in question, not reported. At the same time, according to The Telegraph, the leak affected a number of the richest people in the UK.

A Russian helicopter with eight passengers has crashed in Norway, according to the Dozhd TV channel on Thursday, October 26. The helicopter crashed off Svalbard into the sea, said the Norwegian rescue service . According to FlasNord , all eight people died. The helicopter was heading from the village of Piramida to the Russian village of Barentsburg, located on the Svalbard archipelago.

Russia is using American businessmen to steal US military technology, writes The Daily Beast . The publication tells about the verdict of two women in Brooklyn Federal Court who helped their boss Alexander Fishenko smuggle military technology to Russia. Fishenko owned Arc Electronics, a Texas-based company. Officially, Arc Electronics was engaged in the production of traffic lights. However, according to the verdict, Fishenko used the company as a cover for the export of technology.

The Investigative Committee (IC) detained the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater Sophia Apfelbaum. Previously, she headed the Department of State Support for Art and Folk Art of the Ministry of Culture. According to Izvestia , the former official is suspected of falsifying documents, thanks to which Kirill Serebrennikov's Seventh Studio ANO received a state contract for 214 million rubles, of which at least 68 million were stolen.

Moscow spectators talked about the first impressions on the day of Matilda’s release on the screens of the capital Frame from the film "Matilda ". Photo: kinopoisk.ru ** On October 26, in Moscow, the film “Matilda” by Alexei Teacher was released on the screens of cinemas.

Politicians and political scientists answered the New Times, who defeated and lost at the end of the fight around the teacher of the teacher Photo: kinovolna.tv Political scientist Konstantin Kalachev: “All sides of the conflict” won in the situation around Matilda won all aspects of the conflict. The radical fundamentalists won, who, thanks to the film, found each other and consolidated.

The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Medinsky, at a speech before the presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission on October 20, said that he admits the presence of errors in his dissertation. He also stated that he had a desire to give up his scientific degree, RBC reports , having read the audio recording of the meeting. Medinsky said that if he had defended his work today, he would have corrected the mistakes in it.

Writer Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili) spoke in an interview with Dozhd , published on Thursday, October 26, about the conditions for his return to Russia. The writer will return from exile if "the public atmosphere changes" as happened in 2011 during mass rallies. Akunin said that if the situation changes, he will "come to help." The writer added that he does not even come to Russia to visit friends, as he believes that this would be wrong.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny on Thursday, October 26, for the first time commented in detail the intention of TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak to participate in the elections of the President of Russia. Navalny reported on the YouTube channel “Navalny Live” that he has a “main and only comment” about the nomination of Sobchak. “Ksenia Sobchak, being a citizen of Russia over 35 years old and not in places of imprisonment, can put forward his candidacy in the elections,” the politician said.