The Primorsky branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation did not nominate a candidate for the election of the governor of Primorye. This decision was made at a conference of the regional department, Interfax reports . Andrei Ishchenko was supposed to take part in the second vote from the Communist Party. In an interview with the BBC, he did not rule out that he would run as a self-nominated candidate.

The MiG-29M fighter jet crashed during a training flight in Egypt. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the United Aircraft Corporation. One of the fighter jets that Russia supplied to Egypt in 2018 as part of a contract collapsed. It was driven by an Egyptian pilot who managed to eject. The cause of the accident could be pilot error or technical problems. The United Aircraft Corporation is going to send specialists to Egypt to help investigate the accident.

A group of long-distance carriers appealed to the Tagansky District Court of Moscow with a demand to ban the work in Russia of the service for finding fellow travelers BlaBlaCar. The plaintiff is the carrier Trans Line, which was joined by 27 more companies and individual entrepreneurs, the defendants are Comyuto Rus LLC, which is the representative of BlaBlaCar in Russia, and Roskomnadzor, TASS reports .

The President said that digitalization is one of the priorities. So the digitalization of denunciations and repressions will be very trendy The State Duma began to discuss a draft law on the creation of cyber teams to track "unwanted" user posts on the Internet. The authorities want to legalize the work of trolls and attract thousands more volunteers to cyber-snitching, who, for a fee, with the help of denunciations, will send to court and jail anyone whose comment they consider “illegal”.

It doesn’t matter if they bought them there or they themselves understood everything and got scared: once again, the “parliamentary opposition” showed its principledness and intransigence The Communist Party withdrew from the elections in Primorye: the very ones that won a month ago. The party explained the withdrawal by not recognizing the cancellation of the previous result. But they could also explain the upcoming invasion of the Martians: the argument would be just as convincing.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against a schoolboy suspected of making a bomb. This was reported by Interfax with reference to sources . The case is being investigated under two articles: illegal acquisition and storage of explosives (Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and illegal manufacture of explosive devices (Article 223.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The administration of the social network Twitter has deleted more than 10 thousand accounts from which messages were sent calling for people not to vote in the US midterm elections. It is reported by Reuters . The accounts were deleted in late September and early October. They looked like they belonged to supporters of the Democratic Party. Representatives of the latter took to Twitter with complaints. The company noted that the network of accounts was launched from the United States.

The head of the Synodal Department for Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church with Society and the Media of the Moscow Patriarchate Volodymyr Legoyda commented on the cooperation agreement between Ukraine and the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Legoyda, in his Telegram channel , indicated that the agreement does not yet mean the creation of an autocephalous Ukrainian church.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed an agreement on cooperation. Poroshenko announced this on his Twitter. “Today is a historic day. We have signed an agreement on cooperation between Ukraine and the Ecumenical Patriarchate,” the President wrote. According to Poroshenko, the signing of the document completes the process of granting tomos according to all the canons of the Orthodox Church.