Why Russia freed and transferred to Turkey Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umarov Ilmi Ulmerov. Anton Naumluk / "New" Russia released and transferred to Turkey the deputy chairman of the extremist organization, the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umarov and Akhtem Chiygoz. Both were convicted in Crimea, both were citizens of Ukraine. Why were they handed over to Ankara, not Kyiv? And what is the benefit of Moscow?

As a result of the shooting in Essentuki, in addition to two policemen, a man passing by in a car was injured, reports . Interfax He, like the two policemen who were shot at, was hospitalized. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Article 317 and Article 222 of the Russian Criminal Code (encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer, illegal arms trafficking).

The Investigative Committee began checking after media reports about the death of a man in a hospital in Moscow, the department told Novaya Gazeta. “From the information disseminated in the media, it follows that the man was admitted to a medical institution with a traumatic brain injury, where he was in a coma for two months. Despite the assistance provided, the patient died, ”the statement said.

In Essentuki, unknown persons opened fire on police officers, TASS reports citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Two policemen were injured. As the agency was told in the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, officers of the patrol service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stopped two men to check their documents. After that, unknown persons opened fire on the policemen.

Stanislav Belkovsky has become the chief political consultant in the campaign headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak, the head of its headquarters, Igor Malashenko, told Ekho Moskvy radio station. The day before, Belkovsky left the Dozhd TV channel, where he had worked for the past few years. Earlier, he said on the air of the TV channel that he would help Sobchak in the elections "with his own voice." Ksenia Sobchak on Tuesday, October 24, presented the team that will work on her election campaign.

Solidarity activist Aleksey Stroganov, who was reported to have died after being hit on the head with a pipe, actually died after falling from a balcony under unclear circumstances. This was announced by the founder of the social network gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin and confirmed by politician Ilya Yashin. According to Osechkin, he learned about Stroganov's death from the activist's friends, who voiced the version of the police officers of the Severnoye Medvedkovo district.

The editor -in -chief of the St. Petersburg edition of Fontanka spoke about the threats and pressure that the editors faced after the publication of materials about Wagner PMCs In August, Fontanka published a series of materials “Wagner List”. Our journalist Denis Korotkov collected evidence that there is a private military company in Syria. Exists and carries losses. PMC, which, according to our information, is related to a serious St. Petersburg businessman Evgeny Prigozhin.

The investigation is considering two versions of the attack on Tatyana Felgenhauer, deputy editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Interfax reports citing lawyer Sergei Badamshin. “The investigation has two versions: the first is the result of mental imbalance, and the second is a planned action using a person prepared for murder,” said Sergey Badamshin.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Omsk fined history teacher Anton Zainulin, who published pictures with Pokemon Pikachu and Adolf Hitler, 2,000 rubles for publicly displaying Nazi symbols (under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the information and analytical center "Sova". Police officers found that the pictures posted by Zainulin on the social network VKontakte contained Nazi symbols.

Interview with a political strategist from the headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak Vitaly Shklyarova - Ilya Azar Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" On October 24, a presidential candidate of Russia, TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak announced members of her election team. The Belarusian political strategist Vitaly Shklyarov will be responsible for the online direction at the Sobchak election headquarters.

State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Valery Rashkin sent requests to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov with a request to check the words of journalist and TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak about the Ukrainian belonging of Crimea. with the relevant appeals . got acquainted RBC The author of the request cited Sobchak's words from her press conference on October 24 in the document.

The plenum of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) did not put on the agenda the issue of creating a commission on the case of depriving the academic degree of Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. Andrey Zayakin, co-founder of Dissernet, told Novaya Gazeta about this. The historian Igor Danilevsky and the biologist Sergei Bershitsky proposed putting the question of Medinsky on the agenda. VAK Chairman Vladimir Filippov put it to the vote.

Vladimir Shipitsin, a member of the Solidarity of St. Petersburg movement, was beaten in the front door of his house, according to the movement's social networks. “Vladimir was returning home from a long trip. A man of about 35-40 years of age was waiting for him in the front door. Near the elevator, the attacker blinded the activist by spraying a dark-colored liquid from a spray can, beat him with brass knuckles, inflicting cut wounds, threw him to the floor and kicked him,” the report says.

Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko suggested discussing the possibility of returning the “against all” column to the ballot papers, since this is “required by modern political realities.” Matvienko said this at the opening of the autumn session of the Federation Council, RIA Novosti reports .

The founder of Kaspersky Lab, Evgeny Kaspersky, said that his company accidentally received files that were related to the US National Security Agency. about it Writes Associated Press. According to him, in 2014, employees who downloaded information about hackers came to his office and reported that they, along with data on the Equation Group, accidentally downloaded classified NSA documents. Kaspersky said that without hesitation he decided to delete the received data.