At the gates of the Moscow Gulag Museum, stylized as camps, activists hung a scarecrow with a photograph of the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn glued to his head, Dozhd TV channel reports , citing the museum's press secretary Anna Ropeiko. According to a representative of the museum, two unknown young people ran up to the gate, hung up a scarecrow and hurriedly disappeared. The scarecrow was removed after a few minutes.

The meeting of the leaders of the four countries in the Normandy format, dedicated to the settlement of the situation in Ukraine, will be held on October 19, Life.ru reports with reference to presidential aide Yuri Ushakov. According to Ushakov, the meeting is planned to be held in Berlin. “Leaders should gather in a narrow format, with a minimum number of escorts, on October 19 in the evening in Berlin,” he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the admission of Rosportebnadzor to state secrets of six categories. This is stated in the presidential decree published on the portal of legal information.

Russia and Türkiye signed an agreement on the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. This is reported by Interfax. “You have just witnessed the signing of an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. As part of this project and the expansion of our cooperation, we also agreed on a mechanism for providing gas discounts.

The vice-governor of St. Petersburg moved from his office in Smolny to a building at the construction site of the Zenit Arena stadium on Krestovsky Island, . RIA Novosti reports “All meetings are held from here, if necessary, via video link. Here is organized a common workspace at the 14th mark. Igor Nikolayevich said that he would work here until the facility was put into operation, ”a representative of the official told the agency.

The European Union calls on Minsk to introduce a moratorium on the death penalty. This is stated in the message of the head of the EU Delegation to Belarus Andrea Wiktorin. “I call on the authorities of Belarus to commute all remaining death sentences to non-death sentences, to establish an official moratorium on the execution of death sentences, thus taking the first steps towards the abolition of the death penalty,” Viktorin said in a statement posted on the mission’s website on Monday.

Revenge in the Minsk shopping center was arranged by a teenager Photo: TASS He is a minor. In court, this will be recognized as a mitigating circumstance, unless, of course, the court will take place: it is not known what conclusions a psychological and psychiatric examination will come to. One murdered, two wounded and hundreds of deadly scared people-this ended the campaign in the European shopping center of a 17-year-old Minsk resident. His name does not yet call the investigation.

After the elections, the financial authorities went to storm pockets of citizens Photo: TASS The government has an intensive discussion of the federal budget draft for the nearest three -year -old. This topic ensured a creative charge of the brain center of the Cabinet of Ministers, responsible for new mechanisms for withdrawal of money from the population. In the budget, income from increasing excise taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel and tobacco products have already been laid.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's tenth child was born. about this on his Instagram. wrote Magomed Daudov, speaker of the Chechen parliament, “By the grace of the Almighty, his son Abdullah was born - another successor to the great Kadyrov family, my dear nephew,” Daudov wrote. “I sincerely wish that he, like his brothers and sisters, grows up worthy of his grandfather, our national leader, the First President of the Chechen Republic, Hero of Russia Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov,” he added.

The Committee for the Development of Entrepreneurship and the Consumer Market of St. Petersburg denied the information about the introduction of a "military norm" for bread, writes . Rossiyskaya Gazeta The press service of the committee explained that the news about the norm for bread was caused by a misreading of the text of the decree of the city government. The volume of stocks of the Regional Food Fund for 2016-2018 will amount to 69.9 thousand tons of wheat, rye and grain.

The government proposed to finalize the bill of Senator Elena Mizulina on the ban on baby boxes. The corresponding response was published on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers. The government pointed to vague language and that the punishment would be an obstacle to getting medical care.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, and the chairman of the board of the Union of Writers of Russia, Valery Ganichev, signed a cooperation agreement, the reports .

The Krasnaya Gorka border checkpoint in the Smolensk region will not let anyone through except citizens of Russia and Belarus, reports with reference to the Russian Union of Tourism Industry. RIA Novosti Irina Tyurina, spokeswoman for the department, explained that both countries are part of a union state, so there is no border between them. “Crossing this point by train or by car by citizens of other countries is illegitimate.

Memory of the director Andrzej Vaida, who died on October 9 at the 91st year of life Photo: EPA/Jacek Bednarczyk His films became a moral tuning fork, in them the past speaks with the present and this conversation is essentially. Not only the ingenious director, but the unconditional moral authority, could afford a similar level of dialogue. In Poland. And in the world. We have already agreed on an interview organized by the Polish Cultural Center.

The State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications did not support a bill to tighten the rules for blocking sites with extremist content, reports . RNS The profile committee did not support the document on empowering regional prosecutors to send requests to Roskomnadzor to block websites with calls for extremism. The committee recommended it for rejection on first reading.