Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on the dismissal of Tatyana Voronova from the post of head of the presidential department for domestic politics and on the appointment of Andrei Yarina for this post. This was reported on October 22 by the Kremlin press service .

Russian tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Australian Daria Gavrilova in the final of the Moscow tournament “VTB Kremlin Cup 2016”, the Championship reports. The final match took place on October 22 in the Moscow Olympic SK and ended with a score of 2: 0 (6: 2, 6: 1). Svetlana Kuznetsova once served and made one double mistake. The total duration of the meeting was 1 hour and 14 minutes. Thus, the Russian woman defended the title of the current Kremlin Cup.

In Ukraine, in the 75th year of life, the Soviet and Ukrainian theater and cinema actress Valery Sklunna died. The news of this on October 22 was posted on Facebook by the Kiev National Academic Theater of the Russian Drama named after Lesya Ukrainka. “To the theater named after Lesia Ukrainka again came trouble. The great actress passed away, who worked on our stage for more than 50 years, ”the message says. The causes of the death of Valeria Blistan in the theater were not specified.

Russians began not only to eat less, but also to drink less In the context of the economic crisis, Russians began not only to eat less, but also to drink less - strong alcohol. In general, alcohol consumption in the country is reduced, while the preferences of Russians are shifted to beer and guilt. Experts predict the preservation of such a trend for the next decade if the impoverishment of the population does not intensify.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that the decision to return to Kyiv a liner of the Belarusian airline was caused by the threat of a nationality of security. This was announced by the head of the apparatus of the head of the SBU, Alexander Tkachuk in an interview with the 112 Ukraine television channel.

According to the results of the two -day EU summit, which ended in Brussels on Friday, European leaders postponed the adoption of new sanctions against Russia in connection with the bombing of the Russian VKS of the eastern part of Aleppo, which is controlled by an armed opposition against the Syrian government army.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case into the murder of two people in the north of Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the capital’s department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee. On October 21, the body of a 31-year-old woman with multiple gunshot wounds was found in the stairwell of a residential building on Lavochkin Street.

The attacking of the militants of the Islamic State terrorist group (IG, prohibited in Russia) on the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, who was onset by surprise, apparently, was a distracting maneuver, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the Russian defense department. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on October 21, the IS militants in Mosul attacked the city of Kirkuk, located 140 kilometers east of them.

The Hollywood actress Salma Hayek accused the US presidential candidate from the Republican Party Donald Trump of obsessive suggestions about the meeting. The actress told about this in an interview with the Spanish radio station El Show del Mandril. According to Hayek, Trump supposedly specially made friends with her boyfriend then to get her phone number.

The talisman of the FIFA World Cup, which will be held in Russia in 2018, chose a wolf named Zabivak. This was announced in the program "Evening Urgant" on Channel One. The election of the talisman was carried out through popular voting on the FIFA website with the participation of more than a million users. There were only three options - a wolf, a cat and a tiger.

On Friday, a powerful hacker attack blocked users from the USA access to a number of popular Internet sites. Twitter, CNN, The New York Times, Reddit, Wall Street Journal, Spotify PayPal payment system turned out to be inaccessible. All of them were attached to Dyn - one of the largest holders of domain names (DNS) servers. The company's infrastructure is located in New Hampshire in the United States. For Internet traffic, it is a kind of address book.

Somali pirates released 26 captives who were captured in February 2012 in East Africa, reports Reuters . According to the agency, released are citizens of China, Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam. All of them were on board the ship, which sank while trying to capture the pirates near the Seychelles. The conditions for the release of captured sailors are not reported. The captives themselves refused to say whether the ransom was paid for them.

The President of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) Craig Ridi suggested that the next - the second row - the report of an independent commission led by Richard McLaren will be published in mid -November, Interfax reports with reference to Kyodo News.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that at the meeting of the leaders of the Norman Four, a lack of a common language in Berlin, Interfax reports. “The common language does not manifest as often as we would like. Its is few - a common language, ”said Dmitry Peskov in an interview with the program“ Vesti on Saturday with Sergey Brilev ”on the Russia 1 television channel.

At the Alfred Smith charitable dinner, both US presidential candidates, representing Republicans Hillary Clinton and a billionaire resort Donald Trump, talked warmly with each other despite mutual criticism during their performances at the same event, NBC News reports. The witness of the “touching moments” between Trump and Clinton became the American cardinal Timothy Dolan, who later told reporters about this.