Nika Novak went on a hunger strike to protest against the conditions in correctional colony No. 11 in the Irkutsk region, reports Sotavision*. Novak announced her decision at a court hearing when considering her complaint about being registered as “prone to terrorism.” As Novak said, she was repeatedly sent to a punishment cell for refusing to give interviews that “everything is fine in the colony and the prisoners are happy” and to work as a seamstress without training.

During the meeting between Putin and Aliyev in Dushanbe, the Russian side revealed to Baku the plans of Ramiz Mehdiyev, the former head of the Azerbaijani presidential administration, to seize power in the country, Azerbaijani media write . According to the APA agency, Mehdiyev allegedly developed a plan for a coup in Azerbaijan, which, according to the plan, was to be implemented with the support of Russia, and through his channels contacted Moscow.

US President Donald Trump praised his long telephone conversation with President Vladimir Putin as “very productive.” Putin, according to Trump , congratulated him on the “great achievement” that had been “dreamed of for centuries” - peace in the Middle East.

Five Russian citizens were detained in Georgia in connection with the legalization of illegal income, the Georgian Ministry of Finance announced . The case was initiated under two articles of the Criminal Code of Georgia: illegal business activity and money laundering. According to the department, one of the companies laundered virtual assets without the appropriate registration and permission from the National Bank of the country, and offered courier services.

On October 16, Andrei Tikhonov turns 55 years old In 1999, Andrei Tikhonov scored 19 goals and gave 11 assists in 29 matches of the Russian championship. Photo: Evgeny Uspensky Looking at Andrei Valerievich, it is difficult to believe that he is really fifty-five. It was perfectly preserved. So beautiful that calling him by his first name and patronymic is somehow out of place. Although, without any quotation marks, legend No. 11 is now a coach - and there’s no other way.

Interview with Mikhail Popov, who decided: people should change what they don’t like. He's been beaten more than once - but he wants to become mayor Urbanist Mikhail Popov was attacked in Chelyabinsk - two people beat him and his friend right on the street. Mikhail is sure: this is not an accident or a “domestic conflict,” but a planned attack. In the interview, he talks about how it all happened, why he considers it an act of pressure, and what he will do next.

Diana Loginova in court. Photo: Alexey Dushutin / Novaya Gazeta Diana Loginova was sentenced to 13 days out of a possible 15 under the article on “organizing an uncoordinated mass event,” a Novaya correspondent reported from the courtroom. The police considered such an event to be a crowd of listeners of songs that Loginova recently performed on a St. Petersburg street near the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station.

Osip Mandelstam and his attitude to the material world Nevsky Prospekt, early twentieth century. Photo: archive *God's bird doesn't know No care, no labor... *A.S. Pushkin *Don’t be sorry that I owe you eleven thousand, Remember that I could owe you twenty-one... *O.E. Mandelstam 1 Poetry, of course, is magic, but poets also need something, just like their muses. So questions of money, fees, advances and the like are an important part of life.

The St. Petersburg publication Fontanka, with reference to the Smolny Social Policy Committee, spoke about a resolution adopted on August 26 “for official use”, which stops gubernatorial payments of 1.6 million rubles for volunteers. “But this only applies to volunteers. Those who signed a regular contract are still paid,” Fontanka reported. Volunteers who signed a contract to serve in the BARS unit in August spoke about problems with payments.

The 35th anniversary film festival “Message to Man” will begin in St. Petersburg on October 17 Still from the film “Ghost Elephants” The program this year, put together by the selectors, is gigantic, varied to suit any, most demanding taste. The film Discovery is a documentary film parable “Ghost Elephants” by the modern classic Werner Herzog, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Herzog goes in search of fragile myths and real animals.

Judge not, lest ye be judged: out of 33 judges of the first composition of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR, ten were shot Executors of sentences, 1937. Photo: archive AUGUST 23, 1936 Telegram from vacation to Kaganovich "First. The draft verdict is essentially correct, but needs stylistic polishing. Second. It is necessary to mention in the verdict in a separate paragraph that Trotsky and Sedov are subject to prosecution and are on trial or something else of that kind.

Alexander Gutsan, who was Dmitry Medvedev’s Komsomol organizer at the university, became the Prosecutor General of Russia. Dmitry Medvedev. Photo: Igor Ivanko / Kommersant Dmitry Medvedev did not have a dacha “cooperative “Ozero”. But he had a law degree. The course in which the former president studied then at Leningrad State University turned out to be, perhaps, the most successful in the entire history of new Russia.

Vladimir Putin and Nicolas Maduro. Archive photo, Kremlin press service President Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill on strategic partnership with Venezuela, as follows from the database of parliamentary documents , a TASS correspondent noted. The treaty does not mention military cooperation and alliances, but expands the countries' interaction in the political and economic sphere: energy and mining (Venezuela is a major oil exporter), as well as in matters of countering terrorism.

Evgenia Lomakova. Photo from personal archive The decision of the panel of judges of the Moscow City Court: to leave the sentence of Evgenia Lomakova - 6 years in prison - unchanged, a Novaya Gazeta correspondent reported from the courtroom. The defense's complaint demanding that the charge be reclassified as possession of drugs without the intent to sell (Article 228 Part 2 of the Criminal Code) and a suspended sentence was not satisfied.

The unity of Russian history as the main Russian myth and temptation. Anthropologist on the foundations of the “Russian idea” Illustration: Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta The idea that Russian history is a movement in one direction is still very common.