The new "short course" cowardly evaluates Russian history “The era of stability or as they sometimes say -“ stagnation ”. Well, yes: someone sometimes calls this historical period in some places stagnation. But we are objective people, so we have everything "on the one hand, on the other hand." Brezhnevskaya stability, however, we write without quotes. But the "repressed peoples" - in quotation marks. What do quotation marks mean?

About 45 people were injured in a collision between two trams at an intersection in the center of Sarajevo, reports . Gazeta.ru The circumstances of the incident are not yet known. However, according to preliminary data, one of the trams rammed another at high speed. The victims mostly had bruises, in some cases fractures. One child was seriously injured, he is in the neurosurgery department. The accident happened around 14:00 local time (17:00 Moscow time).

First Deputy Prefect Larisa Martyanova has been appointed Acting Prefect of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow, reports , citing a source in the city administration. RIA Novosti Recall that the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, on Friday dismissed the prefect of the Southern District of Moscow, Georgy Smoleevsky, and the head of the district council of the Zapadnoye Biryulyovo district, Viktor Legavin.

The Russian consulate is monitoring the development of the situation around hockey player Semyon Varlamov, who was arrested in the United States on charges of domestic violence and then released on bail, Interfax reports .

Moscow "Spartak" has the opportunity to apply to the appeal committee of the Russian Football Union to suspend the sanctions of the Control and Disciplinary Committee, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the chairman of the FTC RFU Artur Grigoryan. Recall that the Control and Disciplinary Committee punished the Moscow "Spartak" for the unrest of the fans in the match 1 / 16 finals of the Russian Cup with the Yaroslavl "Shinnik".

Seven natives of Chechnya were arrested earlier this week in Strasbourg on suspicion of participating in a criminal group that attacked prostitutes. This was reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the local prosecutor's office, which announced the detention only today.

Such an order came from the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union as a punishment for Spartak for riots in the stands during the match of the 1/16 finals of the Russian Cup with Yaroslavl Shinnik, Lenta.Ru reports with reference to the director of the Spartak fan club . Oleg Semyonov. In addition, Spartak will have to pay a fine of 600 thousand rubles. Spartak will play the next match of the Russian championship at home on November 3 with Lokomotiv Moscow.

A machine will appear in the Moscow metro that will issue tickets not for money, but for squats. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the press service of the Olympic Committee. The number of squats will correspond to the cost of one trip, i.e. you can buy a ticket for one trip for 30 squats. Especially for this purpose, an automatic machine will be installed in the lobby of the Vystavochnaya metro station, which will count the number of squats.

Greenpeace activists arrested for an action at the Prirazlomnaya oil platform are being transferred from the Murmansk pre-trial detention center to St. Petersburg. This was reported on Twitter by members of the environmental organization, citing a source in diplomatic circles. On November 24, the period of detention of activists who until that time were in the Murmansk pre-trial detention center expires.

Young children and a positive testimonial influenced the commutation of the sentence of Alexei Navalny, reports Lenta.Ru. This is stated in the appeal ruling posted on the website of the Kirov Regional Court. The document notes that "the conclusions of the court in the verdict are sufficiently motivated and correct." At the same time, it is added that almost all the arguments of the defense or the convicts themselves are unfounded and far-fetched.

In Novorossiysk, Alexei Ponomarenko will judge. Earlier, he told Novaya Gazeta how drugs were thrown in the Novorossiysk police, and then he was extorted and received a bribe. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Krasnodar Territory, this information refutes this information. The meeting in the case of Alexei Ponomarenko will be held on November 7 at 12:30 in the Oktyabrsky District Court.

Ecologist and politician Andrey Rudomakha released from the Khostinsky district police in Sochi. Previously, he was detained under the pretext of "the existing orientation." The actions of the police will be appealed. Andrey Rudomakha - coordinator of the public organization "Environmental Watch in the North Caucasus", chairman of the Krasnodar regional branch of the Yabloko party. He is known for his criticism of large-scale projects that violate Russian environmental laws and damage nature.

The main defendant in the case of the murder of 12 people in the village of Kushchevskaya in November 2010, during a speech at a judicial debate, retracted his confession, which he gave during the investigation, Interfax reports . “I retracted my testimony during the investigation, because I gave it under the most severe pressure. I admit that I showed weakness, slandered myself and others,” Tsapok said at a meeting in the Krasnodar Regional Court.

Edward Snowden could lose political asylum in Russia if he leaves the country to testify in the Bundestag (German parliament) about the wiretapping of Angela Merkel. This was reported to ITAR-TASS by lawyer Anatoly Kucherena. Bundestag deputy Hans-Christian Ströbele said that Edward Snowden is ready to testify in the case of wiretapping Angela Merkel. According to the deputy, he met with an ex-employee of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and the NSA (National Security Agency) in Moscow.

Sergey Esipov, head of the department for the execution of sentences and special records of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation, said that more than 564,000 people are currently serving sentences in Russian prisons, RIA Novosti reports . He also said that 85% of prisoners were convicted of serious and especially serious crimes; about 36% - for the first time sentenced to real terms. According to Esipov, another 114,000 people are in pre-trial detention centers.