Elena Panfilova, Chairman of the Management Board of Transparency International-R, stepped down as Vice President and Executive Director of Transparency International. Panfilova told the special correspondent of the "Novaya" Ilya Azar about this. At the next annual meeting of the organization, the director of Transparency International-R, Anton Pominov, was elected a member of the Accreditation Committee of the organization.

. Photo: Almaz Supataev, especially for "New" Updated The election results were updated on the morning of October 16, 2017. The CEC of Kyrgyzstan published preliminary voting data in the presidential election on October 15. According to the estimates of the automatic voting system used during the vote, with the result of 54.81%, the candidate from the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan Uraoronbai Zheenbekov leads.

The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) has published excerpts from a video recording of interrogations of detainees on October 14 in Moscow and Makhachkala on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks in Dagestan. The entry was published on the Russia Today website. According to one of the detainees, the militants of the international terrorist organization ISIS, banned in Russia, had several explosive devices, one of which was equipped with a clockwork.

A passenger plane flying from Moscow to Surgut returned to Vnukovo due to smoke in the cockpit, reports . Interfax The plane took off from Vnukovo at 10:38 and after some time turned around in the Kostroma region. “The commander of the UTair Boeing 737 aircraft reported smoke in the cockpit, but a few minutes later he reported that the situation had returned to normal,” a source at the airport said. Although the smoke stopped, it was decided to return the aircraft to Vnukovo for safety reasons.

UPDATED According to Sky News, the attack killed 189 people and injured more than 200. Earlier it was reported that in the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu, 85 people became victims of two explosions, another 100 were injured. The day before, on one of the busy streets of the city near the Safari Hotel, a truck filled with explosives was blown up. Several buildings were destroyed as a result, and dozens of vehicles caught fire. A few hours later, an explosion occurred in the Medina area.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova became the winner of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tournament in Tianjin, China, reports Interfax . This is the first victory of a tennis player in the WTA tournament after disqualification. In the final, she defeated the representative of Belarus Arina Sobolenko in two sets - 7:5, 7:6 (10:8). For Sharapova, this final was the first after a 15-month suspension.

Two festivals of youth and students Spectators of the carnival procession in the framework of the 19th World Youth Festival welcome the Brazilian column. Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" The World Youth and Students Festival in Moscow opened with a carnival procession from the Vasilievsky descent along the Kremlin, Prechistenskaya, Frunze and Luzhnetskaya embankment to the Luzhniki stadium, where a festive concert was waiting for participants in the procession and guests.

Report from Kyrgyzstan - the last democracy in Central Asia Photo: RIA Novosti In Kyrgyzstan there is a saying "there are many travelers, and the poor have politicians." In the Kyrgyz language, the words “journey” and “politics” are similar in writing, and thus residents of the state with a population of five million people are ironic, first of all, over themselves.

Examination proved: an attack on the house of Latynina is a crime committed in a socially dangerous way Photo: Anatoly Strunin / TASS Now the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta has every reason to say: a summer attack on the house of Yulia Latynina is not hooliganism, but a cruel action committed in a socially dangerous way, which, if not for the case, could lead to irreversible consequences.