Four years ago, Ukraine was first attacked from the sea. Today, the Azov part of the country, blocked by Russia from the Crimea, is preparing to reflect the invasion Photo: Sergei Grits / AP / TASS From the message of the State Border Service of Ukraine “On July 5, 2014, from 01.20 to 2.15, the terrorists undertook the shelling of the settlement of technical observation on the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov. About 15 terrorists used mortars and small arms.

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) has suspended Slovenian athlete Teja Gregorin, who won bronze at the Sochi Olympics, for two years due to a positive doping test. This was reported on the website of the organization. The IBU decided to disqualify the athlete because of a doping test that was taken during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

The first solar power plant was put into operation in the Chernobyl zone. It is reported by Reuters. The agency notes that it was built next to the reactor that caused the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) in 1986. The new complex consists of approximately 3,800 panels and is located on a largely uninhabitable site.

In St. Petersburg, people in military uniforms, who introduced themselves to the Cossacks and police officers, tried to disrupt the lecture of the infectious disease doctor and project manager of the Speedes Center Foundation Nikolai Lunchenkov. This was reported on the organization’s website. Nikolai Lunchenkov. Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" The report notes that the lecture was supposed to take place in the Tom Soyer coffee shop on the Pechatnikov Union Street.

10 portraits of people who supported Oleg Sentsov in an unlimited picket The action in support of the director Oleg Sentsov lasts exactly one month. Today the theater joined her. Ten people told the "new" why they did it. Every day from 10 to 20 people stand with posters in support of Sentsov and other political prisoners of Russia and Ukraine. On weekdays-near the building of the reception of the presidential administration on China-Gorod.

The social network VKontakte disclosed the principles of working with user data, but did not provide statistics on government requests about its users. The general section is divided into three subsections: “Principles of information security”, “Data management procedures” and “Request processing process”.

The rating of the United Russia party has been sank since 2008 to the lowest level. This is evidenced by the survey "Political Indicators" conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). Screenshot from the website of the Public Opinion Foundation / Fom.ru The rating of United Russia, according to the FOM survey, is 31%. Since the beginning of 2018, it has fallen by almost 20%.

The Russian Ministry of Finance has proposed raising the minimum retail price for vodka from 205 to 215 rubles per half liter and for cognac from 293 to 307 rubles, follows from a draft published on the official portal of legal information. According to RIA Novosti, this decision was due to the fight against a surrogate and illegal alcoholic products. The Ministry of Finance also wants to cancel the obligation for alcohol producers to apply barcodes on excise stamps.

The Investigative Committee in Nizhny Novgorod opened a criminal case against a 27-year-old resident of the Saratov region, suspected of inciting hatred against women (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the department . According to investigators, in May 2018, the man created a community on the VKontakte social network.

The authorities of the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States with a difference of several hours accused the Kremlin of organizing cyber attacks around the world This happened just a few days after the performance from the rostrum of the UN General Assembly of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who urged the international community to cooperate with Moscow in the field of cybernetic security.

Due to the threat of sanctions, private clients of Sberbank withdrew $900 million from foreign currency accounts in September, research company Frank RG reports , citing the bank's financial statements . At the same time, Reuters estimates the outflow of foreign currency from the accounts of individuals at $1.95 billion.

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted of terrorism and serving a sentence in the Yamal colony, said that from October 6 he had to stop a hunger strike, which he kept more than 140 days. He wrote about this in a statement that was transferred through his lawyer Dmitry Dinze. “Due to the critical state of my health, as well as the pathological changes in the internal organs that have begun, in the very near future, the use of forced nutrition is planned to me.

An official farewell ceremony with Aznavour was held in Paris Photo: EPA In the Paris House of the Disabled, they had just said goodbye to Charles Aznavour. With all official details. It was a “state ceremony”-with the participation of the President of France, ex-presidents of France, other prominent politicians and figures of culture of France, etc., including the Prime Minister and President of Armenia.

In the Republic of Tatarstan, a criminal case was opened after poisoning 18 students of the Arsk Pedagogical College named after G. Tukay with a pair of spirits, according to a press release from the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia. The crime is provided for by Part 1. Art. 238 of the Criminal Code (production, storage, transportation or sale of goods and products that do not meet safety requirements).

On October 4, the Central District Court of Sochi arrested on charges of petty hooliganism (part 1 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) of the video blogger Vakhtang Ezugbay, who was trying to ask the mayor of the city Anatoly Pakhomov, reports Caucasus Post. Ezugbay was detained on the same day - he was called to the police department and after the detention was immediately taken to court.