The brother of the main oppositionist is about how to survive in a zone where there are no rules Photo: Alexander Ryumin / TASS Oleg Navalny “3½” (Individuum Publishing House) was published. That's how much, three and a half years, he spent first in Butyrka, then in the Oryol colony. Nominally - for economic crimes, but in fact it was taken hostage. Fragment from the book "3½" “I read books about the Politzks and knew that they were constantly planting informers, provocateurs, and so on.

The draft federal budget for 2019 classes 17% of expenses Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" In the government draft federal budget for 2019, the number of classified expenses increased. The secret expenses of the Russian budget will exceed 3 trillion rubles, which is 2.9% of the Russian GDP. This figure looks even more impressive if you take into account that it is 17% of all expenses of the federal budget. What exactly does our terrible budget secret hide?

The pilot and navigator of the L-39 training aircraft that crashed into the Sea of ​​Azov died. The Ministry of Defense announced the discovery of fragments of their bodies, Interfax reports . Recall that the L-39 aircraft, while performing a planned training flight on October 18 at about 17:00 Moscow time, crashed in the Krasnodar Territory and fell into the Sea of ​​Azov. As reported , both pilots managed to eject. The plane itself was found the next day, there was no crew in it.

The march of supporters of the People's Vote movement, demanding a second vote on the conditions for the country's exit from the European Union, according to its organizers, gathered about 700 thousand people on Parliament Square in London, according to their Twitter account . The police refused a preliminary estimate of the number of participants, writes "BBC".

The prosecutor's office of the Yaroslavl region did not find any violations in correctional colony No. 1, where five prisoners went on a hunger strike due to poor conditions. This is stated on the website of the supervisory authority. According to the prosecutor's office, there are no problems in the colony either with the provision of medical care to the prisoners or with the observance of the temperature regime.

The state began to build a planned-woven-type economy in Russia The news that Sberbank can be included in the capital of Yandex and de facto gain control over the country's main IT company reflects the general vector of the Russian digital transformation. Its main motive is to transfer that hybrid and oriented to the public sector an economic model that has long been implemented in all other areas of the national economy.

The synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP) added to the title of the primate the phrase "Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev Lavra, sacred archimandrite," according to the journal of the Synod meeting. The full title thus has the following form: "His Holiness and Beatitude (name), Archbishop and Metropolitan of Kiev - the mother of Russian cities, Galicia, Patriarch of All Rus'-Ukraine, Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev Lavra, Archimandrite".

What religious services and shrines will the Orthodox Russians lose as a result of the rupture of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Patriarchate of Constantinople? Photo: Alexey Pavlishak/TASS Athos Of course, the most painful fruit of the gap between Moscow and Constantinople, finally approved by the ROC Synod on October 15, was the closure of the Holy Mount Athos for the Russian pilgrims in the canonical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

The head of the human resources department of the traffic police, Dmitry Skryabin, was detained and placed under house arrest for refueling a personal car using a fuel card assigned to an official vehicle, reports . Interfax A case was initiated against him under two articles - on embezzlement (part 3 of article 160 of the Criminal Code) and abuse of authority (part 1 of article 285 of the Criminal Code).

Europe and Asia met in Brussels, where Russia was alone. We summarize the results of the EU summits and the European -Asia forum Photo: EPA The last three days of the last weeks Brussels, more precisely, the new Corps of the EU Council with a giant round ball inside, has become a real umbilical waist of the Earth, a place of gathering leaders of 51 states.

The Moscow Mayor's Office invited representatives of the Memorial Center to a meeting at the Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanskaya Square to agree on the territory of the "Return of Names" campaign, according to a message posted on the organization's Facebook. The head of the regional security department, Vladimir Chernikov, in turn, also confirmed the information to Interfax.

The administration of Komsomolsk-on-Amur refused to approve the Immortal GULAG procession planned for October 30 in memory of the victims of repression. The organizers published the answer of the mayor's office in the group of the event in social networks. The organizers planned to hold a procession from Metallurgists Square to Lenin Avenue - near the memorial sign to the victims of political repressions.

The 10 most wealthy Russians, despite the sanctions and crises, only increased their wealth. Country, know your heroes! This week, the Bloomberg agency has released a study in which it considered how much the welfare of the richest people in different countries grew or fell. For this, data were taken into account from January 1 to October 17, 2018.

Accused of meddling in the US presidential election, the Internet Research Agency, which is associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, used the services of American startups to spread messages on social networks, writes Bloomberg , which analyzed the database of accounts suspected of meddling posted by Twitter. Among them are services from RoundTeam, Dlvr.it and IFTTT.

Andrei Ishchenko, a candidate for governor of Primorsky Krai from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, said that he was offered to refuse to participate in the elections in exchange for the post of vice-governor. This is reported by Interfax. “There were such proposals: come on, you will withdraw from the elections, for this you will receive a position, something else,” he said.