The Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Emergencies Ministry with rescuers and high-tech equipment landed in Norway on the night of October 29. Team members will take part in the search for a Russian helicopter that disappeared near the island of Svalbard, Interfax reports . Divers-rescuers of the Central Airmobile Rescue Team "Centrospas" and the Center for Special Risk Rescue Operations "Leader" of the Russian Emergencies Ministry have arrived in Norway.

Under the slogan "We are all Catalans!" defenders of the unity of Spain took to the streets. The organizers talk about 1.6 million demonstrators, according to official figures, there are 300,000 of them, according to El Pais . The main goal of the demonstrators is to show that not everyone in Catalonia supports the idea of ​​independence from Spain. Many demand to imprison the head of the government (Generalitat) of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, dismissed by Madrid, reports the BBC .

Activists of the Liberation movement called for blocking the work of enterprises owned by President Petro Poroshenko. Yegor Sobolev, a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Samopomich faction, announced on his Facebook that activists had already begun blocking Roshen's facilities.

The police detained headquarters coordinator Nikolai Lyaskin, his deputy Vitaly Serukanov, and lawyer Dmitry Volov near Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station when they arrived for Volunteer Mobilization Day, the headquarters said. “We will find out the official (absurd) reason later. We can name the unofficial right now: the authorities, as always, are trying with all their might to prevent us and our volunteers from telling the truth to Muscovites about their crimes, ”the message says .

The protesters under the building of the Verkhovna Rada intend to expand their demands and include in them the adoption of the law on the impeachment of the president, Interfax reports . Mikheil Saakashvili said that the parliament and the president of Ukraine do not want to hear the demands of the protesters, they must leave, and called for early elections in Ukraine. He also proposed that the presidential elections in Ukraine be held according to a new mechanism using primaries.

In Moscow on Lubyanskaya Square, the action “Return of Names” in memory of the victims of political repression is held Photo: Screenshot "Echo of Moscow " On October 29, on the eve of the state day of memory of the victims of political repression, from 10 to 22 hours, people, replacing each other, on Lubyanskaya Square, at the Solovetsky stone, read out the names of those who were shot during the years of Soviet terror. Everyone can take part in the Marathon of Sorrow.

Journalist Vladimir Solovyov, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, accused the hosts of Ekho Moskvy and personally the editor-in-chief Alexei Venediktov of harassing journalists from the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and Solovyov himself. “Venediktov and Ekho Moskvy, by and large, began to persecute the journalists of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and me personally. This bullying is not limited to the media.

On October 29, on the eve of the state day of memory of the victims of political repression, from 10 to 22 hours, people, replacing each other, read the names of those executed during the years of Soviet terror on the Lubyanskaya Square near Solovetsky Stone. “Name, surname, age, profession, date of execution - thousands of names will sound that day over Lubyanskaya Square. People were shot secretly - we are doing the memory of them public, ”the Memorial Society said in a statement.

Ksenia Sobchak, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Repression, stated on her Instagram that Joseph Stalin staged a "full-scale genocide of the Russian people." In addition, it was he who “built a system where all power belongs not to the people, but to the special services,” Sobchak believes. “Stalin is definitely a bloody executioner and criminal.

Activists of the Liberation movement called for blocking the work of enterprises owned by President Petro Poroshenko. Yegor Sobolev, a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Samopomich faction, announced on his Facebook that activists had already begun blocking Roshen's facilities.

The teacher, who conducted an "educational conversation" with the students of school No. 14 in the city of Ivanovo, grossly violated the law "On Education" and professional ethics. The order for his dismissal was issued on October 27, said on Twitter .

The wreckage of the Mi-8, which went missing on October 26, was found two kilometers from land at the bottom of the sea, at a depth of 209 meters, Norwegian rescuers said . The police will search for the bodies of the dead. A Russian Mi-8 helicopter with eight passengers crashed into the sea off Svalbard on October 26. On board were five crew members and three employees of the Research Institute of the Arctic and Antarctic. They flew from the village of Piramida to Barentsburg.