The Investigative Committee is preparing to reduce staff, regional departments should prepare proposals for the dismissal of 10% of employees of supporting units. According to RBC , citing sources in the UK, the chairman of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, has already signed an instruction on optimization measures. Employees who ensure the work of the investigation will be laid off - these are specialists in personnel, financial and logistical departments.

Maia Sandu, the leader of the oppositional pro-European Action and Solidarity Party, won 35.94% of the vote in the first round of the presidential elections in Moldova, while the incumbent head of state, Igor Dodon, 32.75%. These are the preliminary data of the CEC after processing 99.63% of the protocols. After counting, Dodon was in the lead from 95% of the polling stations, but by morning everything had changed.

In Minsk, after the Sunday protest action, a criminal case was opened on the fact of mass riots. 231 people were recognized as suspects in the case, reported the Belarusian Investigative Committee . The sanction under part 1 of article 342 of the Criminal Code provides for punishment from a fine to three years in prison.

The Directorate of Transport Procurement of the Moscow Department of Transport allocated 38.4 million rubles for the purchase of 50 devices for face recognition of participants in mass events. This was reported by MBH Media with reference to public procurement data. The price of one complex can range from 577 thousand to 710 thousand rubles. The documents cite three brands of devices from three manufacturers - BEWARD TRS-FR-200, MSK-FC-01 (Face Capture) and VT-1000Face.

November 3 on the USA Presidential Election Day. Whoever wins is not clear when the results will also be, but the turnout promises to be record for the entire time of the presidential election - from the United States Evgeny Albats Until the day of presidential elections in the United States, less than a day remained. More than 92 million people have already voted by mail and personally-these are almost two-thirds from the turnout in the 2016 elections.

Mediazona and Scanner Project re -studied all the materials of the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov and found out against whom the UK could not start the investigation, and what information the investigators missed or ignored The investigation for the first time published photos of Ruslan Geremeyev, whom the lawyers of the family of Boris Nemtsov consider the alleged organizer of the crime, but the investigation did not charge him.

The problems of the Kremlin multiply in the post-Soviet space MAIN • Alyaksandr Lukashenka responded to the “March against Terror” with mass repressions – more than 230 people became defendants in a criminal case on mass riots after the Sunday action. • All in Minsk, the police detained about 300 demonstrators - the security forces used weapons, caught people in the yards and even staged a "safari", chasing the protesters in cars. in the first round of the presidential elections .

Expenses of Russian families fell in the second quarter of 2020 by almost 13% to 16.5 thousand rubles. Taking into account inflation, real expenses dropped to a 13-year low - Russians spent less only in 2007, analysts from the international auditing and consulting network FinExpertiza calculated, Rosbalt reports.

On November 1, 13 protest actions took place in Belarus, the procession “Dzyady. March against terror" in Minsk. The police detained about 300 demonstrators, according to the Interior Ministry .

Politician Vladimir Milov, in a complaint to the Constitutional Court, demands the exclusion of administrative arrest for all parents with children under 14 years old. At the moment, part 2 of Art. 3.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation implies the exclusion of arrest for women with children under 14 years old, but considers it quite acceptable for men, they explain in the "Apology of Protest" .

The campaign headquarters of US presidential candidate Joe Biden accused supporters of the current head of the White House, Donald Trump, of creating a dangerous situation on the highway in Texas. Several pickup trucks of Trump supporters on the stretch between San Antonio and Austin surrounded the Biden headquarters bus, trying to slow it down and push it off the road, Democrat representatives said, DW reports .

The person involved in the "Moscow case" Danil Beglets was released from the colony on parole. This was reported by the head of the "Agora" Pavel Chikov with reference to the lawyer Leonid Solovyov. On September 3, 2019, Danil Beglets was sentenced to two years in prison in a general regime colony under the article on the use of violence against a government official. Later, the Second Court of Cassation changed the place of serving the sentence to a colony-settlement.

Alexander Kots, journalist of the Moscow edition, has become acting editor-in-chief of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus. Today he was introduced to the team, Mediazona reports . It is noted that according to the “Law on Mass Media”, only a citizen of the country can be the editor-in-chief of a Belarusian publication.

The elections again showed that two colors still dominate in the Georgian political spectrum. And the struggle between them determines the development of Georgia The parliamentary elections held on October 31 became the main event of 2020 in Georgia. The country has been waiting for this date for more than a year. The two-year-old presidential campaign was already seen as a dress rehearsal for the parliamentary one, and its results were interpreted as the first stage of new elections.

Unprecedented (in terms of concentration over time) growth of Russia's problems in the post-Soviet space Back in July, everything was calm. Lukashenka showed his temper by arresting Babariko - but this is in the order of things, somewhere on the level of the Baumgertner case seven years ago. He wins and releases - well, maybe he will hold him in jail for a while. And everything is so predictable.