On October 21, the documentary film festival "Artdocfest" began in Riga. This year the festival finally moved to Latvia: the entire competition program will be shown here for six days, voting will take place here and the winner will be announced. There are 21 films in the festival program. According to director Vitaly Mansky, some of the films are likely to be withdrawn from screenings in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which will begin in December.

Frude Berg, convicted in Russia for espionage, can return to Norway this week Frude Berg. Photo from the archive Prior to the return of the Norwegian pensioner to Kirkenes there were a few days. According to many sources, the Norwegian, convicted in April for espionage, may be released before October 24.

Psoy Korolenko sings a song by Katya Yarovaya. Premiere Six months ago, we presented to the readers of Novaya Gazeta a song by the bard Katya Yarovaya (1957-1992) “Kings change, Russia remains” performed by Yulia Teunikova. It suddenly turned out that the long-dead Yarovaya is popular and loved in Russia - the track had more than a hundred thousand views. And in November, a tribute album with her songs is released. Fedor Chistyakov, Olga Chikina and other artists took part in it.

Why seriously ill -painted are doomed in Russia for painful death Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" According to international associations, in the world there are about 350 thousand patients with lateral amyotrophic sclerosis (BAS). This serious disease is not treated. The only thing that can be done for patients is to facilitate their living conditions. In developed countries, rehabilitation agents are provided free of charge in local medical centers.

Tamara Morshchakova. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" The judge of retired Constitutional Court Tamara Morshchakova left the Presidential Council for Human Rights after the dismissal of his head of human rights activist Mikhail Fedotov and the replacement of a number of his famous members. Previously, she signed the appeal of members of the Council in support of Fedotov. “There is no previous advice. I answered this question at the very beginning.

In Cherepovets of the Vologda region on October 19, during the performance of the Alice group, the fighters of OMON of the Russian Guard with the use of clubs detained 28 listeners, 10 of them were protocols. The regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported this by Interfax. Alice closed the rock festival “Time of bells” in the ice palace of Cherepovets.

Why the Kremlin Old Believers and how they showed themselves in the Crimea and in Ukraine Photo: RIA Novosti Vladimir Putin became the first Russian leader to personally arrive at the Rogozhsky cemetery, to the spiritual center of the largest consent of the Russian Old Believers - Belokrinitsky. This happened on May 31, 2017. The sovereign guest was accepted by the 70-year-old Metropolitan Cornelius (Titov)-the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (RPSC), uniting 370 parishes.

The Soviet District Court of Ulan-Ude dismissed the case of Dmitry Kharaev, a participant in the September protest rally, about spraying a spray can in the face of a fighter of the National Guard. He was released from criminal prosecution with the appointment of 5 thousand rubles of a judicial fine, according to the website of the court.

The head of the Czech Security and Information Service, Michal Koudelka, in a report to parliament mentioned that in 2018 his office discovered a network of hackers operating under the leadership of the Russian FSB. Excerpts are given by iDNES.cz.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended for three months the arrest of Nikita Chirtsov, a person involved in the Moscow case, who is accused of using violence against a policeman during a rally on July 27. This is reported by the correspondent of "Novaya Gazeta" from the courtroom. The court granted the investigator's request to extend the arrest until January 27, 2020. The term of the investigation has also been extended until January 27.

And it will be the Russian sun Photo: Reuters In the blessed time of socialist realism, a production novel was in fashion. His signs-traffic: optimistically smoking factory pipes at the beginning-as a symbol of industrial progress, and at the end-rays of the breaking sun, falling on the happy faces of the workers. I will try myself in the genre of production report, behind which the new American Caprevalism will see. The city of Pueblo, Colorado, Rocky Mountains.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow reduced the amount of claims in a lawsuit against the organizers of the rallies on July 27 and August 3 from 18 million rubles to 9.6 million rubles. Now the amount of claims against Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Milov, Ilya Yashin, Ivan Zhdanov, Lyubov Sobol, Alexander Solovyov and Oleg Stepanov due to the action on July 27 is 4.1 million rubles.

In Britain, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has refused to put the Brexit deal to a vote. It is reported by the BBC. According to Bercow, today's vote repeats what was scheduled for Saturday, but nothing has happened since then that could change the essence of the issue. At the same time, the speaker called the argument that these days the Prime Minister sent a letter to the EU asking for a delay in Brexit, unconvincing.

The Magassky District Court in Ingushetia awarded Lemka Dolieva, the mother of the victim of torture in the building of the Center "E" of Ingushetia, 1.5 million rubles in moral compensation. It is reported by "Zona Law". “The judge reduced the amount of compensation for non-pecuniary damage that we asked for in the application by 10 times, so we will appeal this decision to a higher authority,” said lawyer Andrei Sabinin.

THERE IS A CONTINUATION &NBSP Former judge of the Constitutional Court Tamara Morshchakova left the HRC due to a change in its composition President Vladimir Putin expelled political scientist Yekaterina Shulman from the Human Rights Council, Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora international human rights group, and Ilya Shablinsky, professor at the Higher School of Economics. This follows from the relevant presidential decree.