The wall of memory was opened on October 27 at the former shot training ground of the NKVD of the USSR "Kommunarka". On it - and the name of my grandfather Ekaterina Vorobyova. Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" This is a memorial to thousands of executed, whose fate has been unknown for many decades. The territory of the special object was used for mass executions and burials in 1937-1941. According to historians, from 10 to 11 thousand people were killed here.

Mitch and Suraykin entered the struggle for the chair of the governor of Primorye Photo: RIA Novosti On October 26, the election commission of the Primorsky Territory began accepting documents from candidates for governors of the region. On the first day, a line of 12 candidates lined up in the election room of Primorye. Among them are the temporarily acting governor Oleg Kozhemyako and the Green Party Oleg Mitvol.

Pension reform showed the vulnerability of the political system created in zero. What will the Kremlin and the opposition answer? Photo: RIA Novosti The news, which on the Internet would give a characteristic “not everyone will understand, few will appreciate”: the Boris Titov growth party held a congress, which significantly updated the composition of its governing bodies.

On October 23, the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk arrested Amir Gilyazov, a wheelchair user, for two months on charges of participating in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info about this .

Solidarity is the only way to save Russian media and NGOs that are being destroyed by exorbitant penalties The New Times, headed by Evgenia Albats, was fined 22 million rubles - formally for late financial reporting. Experts note that this is the largest administrative fine awarded to media outlets in Russia. Even non-specialists understand that the independent press in Russia does not have that kind of money.

Ingush refuse to repent to Ramzan Kadyrov unilaterally Ingushetia continues to boil about the recently approved border with Chechnya. On October 30, the Congress of the Ingush people was appointed - a mass meeting dedicated to the land issue and the opposition started by the Ingush opposition in order to cancel the approved borders.

Unscheduled checks of shawarma trading points passed in Moscow Photo: Svetlana Vidanova - especially for "New" On October 24, Rospotrebnadzor published on its website a document with a long name “On the results of conducting checks of catering enterprises for the manufacture and implementation of shawarma in the city of Moscow”. The results for the period of June -October were quite frightening.

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) spokesman for media freedom Harlem Desir called on the Russian authorities to lift the fine of 22.28 million rubles for The New Times magazine and its editor-in-chief Yevgenia Albats. His statement is available on the organization's website. “The extraordinarily large fine for The New Times is an unprecedented decision with negative consequences for freedom of speech in Russia.

Even on a wheelchair, Manafort did not testify that would seriously confirm Moscow’s direct intervention in the election Photo: EPA Last Friday, Paul Manafort was brought to court in a wheelchair. Former political strategist Viktor Yanukovych and Donald Trump asked Judge Thomas Ellis to allow him to appear at a meeting in a civil suit, but Ellis refused, and 69-year-old Manafort was dressed in a green prison jumpsuit.

The river came out of the shores, the shows flooded Sochi again, forecasts of weather forecasters are disappointing, the emergency mode is not removed Description to the image Sochi received the greatest damage from the elements on October 25. On Friday evening and at night, rains walked again. True, not as fiercely as the day before. I must say right away that such incidents in the “main resort of the country” are not uncommon. Livine floods occur every two to three years.

In Russia, they tested the Tirada-2S mobile complex for electronic destruction of communication satellites, which will be able to disable enemy communication satellites. This was reported to Interfax by a source in the military-industrial complex. their development The agency announced in November last year. In January, the agency noted that the Tirada-2 systems would soon enter service, and development work on the project began in 2001.

More and more countries see a national threat in Russian hackers Photo: EPA Last week, the European Union summit was held, where they decided to create a joint mechanism for imposing sanctions for cyber attacks. The initiative belongs to eight countries, the rest supported: someone-Germany and France-with great enthusiasm, someone-for example, Italy-reluctantly.

UPDATE 19:01 *CBS correspondent, citing & unnamed sources, & live *& identified the attacker as 46-year-old Robert Bowers . According to the journalist, the shooter entered the synagogue at 9:45. An unidentified gunman opened fire at the synagogue of the Tree of Life parish in the US city of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), writes Associated Press. A CBS reporter reports at least eight dead, police have not yet specified the exact number.

The kurultai (general meeting) of Crimean Muslims decided to appeal to the authorities of the peninsula with a demand to transfer to them the property of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people (recognized as extremist and banned by the Supreme Court of Crimea in 2016), RIA Novosti reports with reference to the assembly delegate Raim Gafarov .

The editors sent me to a mourning rally on the occasion of the anniversary of Nord-Ost. I realized: at school we were not told the main Photo: Svetlana Vidanova, for Novaya Gazeta When the Nord-Ost happened, I was four years old, and I remembered almost nothing. All the horror of those years for me, as for many guys of my age, merged into one vague memory.