Maltese journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia has died in a car bombing, reports The Guardian. She was 53 years old. The journalist's car exploded shortly after she left home. The cause of the explosion has not been established. 15 days before Caruana's death, Galizia complained to the police about the threats. The journalist participated in the investigation of the Panama Papers. Daphne Caruana Galizia accused the family of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of corruption.

Maxim Lapunov tells his story. Video Maxim Lapunov lived in Chechnya for two years. On March 16, 2017, he was detained by the Chechen security officials. He was held for almost two weeks in one of the basements, presumably, the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic - another so -called “secret prison” of Chechnya. They mocked him only for one reason: Maxim - Gay. He was tortured, demanding to pass the same gays like him.

Elena Panfilova left Transparency International. About how she will fight corruption further - in an interview with Ilya Azar Photo: Sergey Karpov / TASS Elena Panfilova worked for 17 years in the Transparency International system, where she went from the head of the Russian branch to the executive director of the head office, but now officially resigned her powers. On October 15, Patricia Moreir became the new executive director.

The group “Polite Refusal” - about militarism, propaganda and military service. And the premiere of the song "We will win!" Dmitry Shumilov, Basitara: - The song was composed not only before the Ukrainian war, but even to Georgian. But aggression was already worn in the air, the militaristic vector was already in society. We only caught folk expectations and talked them out loud. There was a hope that if you talk, it may not have to be carried out, it would not be realized. Not carried.

In the park named after Nikolai Ostrovsky in Rostov-on-Don, a solemn ceremony of opening a monument to the heroes of Donbass was held. It is reported by TV channel "Rain". According to the channel, the event was attended by Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko and head of the Union of Donbass Volunteers Alexander Borodai.

Maxim Lapunov and human rights activists spoke at a press conference in Moscow The appearance of a living applicant, ready to go to Chechnya and poke a finger in the executioners, has attached the investigation to the wall. There were no more reasons to continue a meaningless test. Now it was necessary to either start a criminal case, or by no means justified inaction with ironly confirm the fact that the state refuses to investigate terrible crimes in Chechnya.

Elena Milashina - with a continuation of the investigation of a violation of human rights in Chechnya. The first witness that discovered his name is already Maxim Lapunov. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" In April, the New Gazeta published an article “Murder of Honor” - about the mass organized persecution of gays in Chechnya. From the point of view of the genre, it was a classic journalistic investigation.

The press center of Novaya Gazeta in Moscow hosted the press conference of Maxim Lapunov, who filed an official statement to the Investigative Committee after torture in one of the so-called “secret prisons” for gays in Chechnya. In the photo (from left to right): Chairman of the “Committee Against torture” Igor Kalyapin, lawyer Vladimir Smirnov, Tatyana Lokshina (Moscow Bureau of Human Rights Watch), LGBTS Chairman Igor Kochetkov, Maxim Lapunov and the special corner of “New” Elena Milashina.

ON THIS TOPIC EU imposes new sanctions on North Korea Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree imposing restrictions on North Korea in response to its nuclear missile tests. We are talking about restrictions in the field of scientific and technical cooperation. This was reported on the official Internet portal of legal information. The decree was signed in connection with the adoption of UN resolution 2321 of November 31, 2016.

How the right defeated socialists in the election Sebastian Kurtz. Photo: EPA In Austria, elections were held to the lower house of parliament - Nationalrat. The Austrian People’s Party (övp), which gained 31.6 % of the vote, was in the first place, followed by the Austria socialist party (Spö) - 26.9 %. In third place was the Law Popopulistic Austrian Party of Freedom (FPö) - 26 % of voters voted for it. In fact, the elections were to be held in 2018.

The Prosecutor General's Office did not find "dubious schemes" in the financing of the film "Matilda" by Alexei Uchitel. This is stated in the message in the Telegram channel of the department.

Two Russian airlines Nordavia and Red Wings announced a merger to create an aviation holding company with a single management company. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the press service of Nordavia. “The purpose of the merger is to consolidate the business, which, among other things, will make it possible to increase the financial stability of companies, carry out a full-fledged renewal of the aircraft fleet, and create a single route network,” the airline said.

An explosion in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killed 276 people, said on Twitter. Somalia's Information Minister Abdirahman Osman “The number of victims has risen to 276, and about 300 more people were injured as a result of a barbaric attack by the Al-Shabaab terrorist group (banned in Russia),” Osman wrote. Authorities do not exclude that the number of victims may increase.

Nikolai Podguzov, General Director of Russian Post, in a letter to Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, proposed holding negotiations within the framework of the EAEU (Eurasian Economic Union - ed. ) on a phased reduction in the limit for duty-free import of personal goods from abroad. The document was at the disposal of Kommersant.

In the US state of Louisiana on an oil drilling platform, seven people were injured as a result of an explosion, the Associated Press reports , citing Kenner City Police Department spokesman Brian McGregor. The drilling platform is operated by Clovelly Oil. Five people are in the medical center at the university "with injuries and burns", their condition is assessed as critical. The condition of two other victims is stable.