Ex-Minister of Health of the Saratov Region Natalia Sokolova, fired after talking about the opportunity to live on 3.5 thousand rubles. per month, received material assistance from the regional budget. This is reported by Medialix 64 , which sent a request to the governor of the Saratov region in 2017. The answer says that the head of the region and members of the government receive material assistance in accordance with the law adopted by the regional Duma in 2002.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released from the special detention center where he was serving an administrative arrest for 50 days. Navalny announced this on his Twitter . After his release, the politician thanked everyone for their support and admitted that he was not sure whether he would get home, Rain reports .

After the decision of Constantinople, the Orthodox in Ukraine are faced with a choice between the new local church and fidelity to Moscow. The choice will be historical Sofia Cathedral in Kiev Photo: Wikiway.com The process of creating a local church in Ukraine continues. On October 10, the Synod of the Ecumenical Church took another important step.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, and gave advice on protests against the transfer of land to Chechnya. Yevkurov spoke about this on the air of Ekho Moskvy . According to him, Putin was interested in the situation and asked if Yevkurov thought that people should be taken off the streets. As a result, the Head of Ingushetia and the President of Russia came to the conclusion that “we need to talk” and not use force.

In Sergiev Posad, the car of Andrei Mardasov, a deputy of the City Council, who opposed the landfill, was set on fire. Writes about this "Alternative newspaper of Andrey Trofimov" . The car was set on fire near the front wheel. The fire quickly spread to the engine compartment. The deputy himself and his acquaintances tried to extinguish the car, but they did not succeed. The engine and part of the cabin burned out completely.

The editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Alexei Venediktov, was hospitalized. The journalist spoke about this in his channel in Telegram . According to Venediktov, on October 13 he was urgently hospitalized with acute pain in the kidney. Operation was successfully completed. The journalist said that he felt "relatively well" and that he would have to spend a week in the hospital. Alexei Venediktov has been the editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy since 1998.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation proposed to allow the cultivation of opium poppy for medical purposes. The department has submitted a relevant document to the Russian government, TASS reports . The draft law proposes to determine which plants will be allowed to be grown and establish a state monopoly on them.