Political scientist, researcher at University College of London Vladimir Pastukhov reflects in this lecture on the following topics: why is the topic of nationalism taboo in the intellectual environment? What nationalism we do not need, but which one is needed? Is it possible to combine nationalism with liberalism? How does the national state differ from the empire? What will come out to the surface if modern populism is thoroughly wiped?

The new authorities of Yugoslavia applied to the UN. According to the official representative of the United Nations Manuel de Almeida, the application will be considered in the near future. Yugoslavia ceased to be a member of the UN in 1992 after the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic. Slobodan Miloshevich stubbornly refused to join the organization for a second time, arguing that the place of the decayed federation should automatically take new Yugoslavia.

Fraudsters stole 3.3 million rubles from the Honored Artist of the RSFSR, singer Nina Shilnikova, TASS reports . The press service of the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reported that a woman who introduced herself as an employee of the Pension Fund of Russia called an 86-year-old artist. She said that Shilnikova needs to change the pension book, for this a courier will come to her home and replace.

Russians will not need to withstand 10-day quarantine upon arrival in Switzerland, TASS reports. The authorities of this state excluded the Russian Federation from the “quarantine” list. In the updated list on the website of the Federal Health Department of Switzerland, only four countries remain. This is Andorra, Armenia, Belgium and the Czech Republic, as well as three French provinces.

The temporarily acting governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Mikhail Degtyarev, said that the best assessment of the activity for him would be known as a tyrant. He spoke about his views on management in an interview with Znak.com. “I hope they will never remember me as a Democrat governor,” the head of the region emphasized in an interview with the journalist of the acting head.

The Governor of the Omsk Region, Alexander Burkov, suspended the Deputy Minister of Health of the Omsk Region, Anastasia Malova, from work, according to the website of the regional government. The day before, ambulance workers came to the Ministry of Health building to find out where they could take patients with COVID-19, who were not accepted by any hospital. Malova was responsible for providing emergency medical care to the population.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the situation in Omsk, where the COVID-19 patients did not provide assistance, is “impermissible”, Interfax reports . The Kremlin representative noted that the federal authorities quickly respond to such incidents in the regions. He added that the heads of regions and local Ministry of Health should operate the faster of all in case of problems.

The Ministry of Health forbade doctors publicly speak about coronavirus without coordination. Not by a public order, but the disposal of the press service of the department confirmed Medusa. All subordinate institutions and their employees will be required to coordinate their statements with the Ministry of Health - orally or in writing. It is assumed that this will slightly unload the information space and improve the quality of information about coronavirus in principle.

Israeli doctors found that the effect on certain types of liver cells and on bacteria living in the intestines can improve the condition with acute liver failure. Acute liver failure is a destructive, rapidly progressive disease. If the patient is not performed by an emergency liver transplant, in 80 % of cases the disease leads to death. In developed countries, the main cause of acute liver failure is a significant overdose of paracetamol.

The Russian Ministry of Finance opposed indexing pensions to working pensioners, since he believes that this would be unfair, TASS writes with reference to the head of the Ministry of Anton Siluanov. “Here the question is not even in money, but in some justice, when when receiving wages and a pension, you say - let's also index the pension,” said Siluanov. The minister emphasized that the pension compensates for the lost earnings, and if the pensioner "also works, then the earnings are not lost.

On October 27, in St. Petersburg, at the age of 74, the poet, translator, children's writer Mikhail Yasnov died. This was reported by his wife Asya Petrova on Facebook. Many of our readers know him as a poet. Someone-as an author of children's books: for many “scarecrow-humido” has become an integral part of childhood. Someone is as a translator of French poets and writers, including Verlaine fields, Arthur Rimbae, Jean Cocteau and Guillaume Apolliner. We will remember him as our good friend.

The persecution of Soviet power to the Russian Church was such that it was not to say about their faith, but even silently follow it as a feat. The new martyrs and confessors, glorified in the face of the saints did not come: believed, prayed and meekly went to their Calvarys. “Polit.ru” recalls those who gave their lives for faith and by whose prayers the Russian Church is alive - even if almost nothing came to us besides the name.

The Investigative Committee brought a new charge to the Krasnoyarsk businessman and former deputy of the Legislative Assembly Anatoly Bykov, according to the website of the department. He will be judged under an article on incitement to commit a murder for hiring ( part 4 of article 33, paragraph "h" part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code).

Doctors of the Central Military District (CVO) were sent to the Kurgan region to help in the fight against an epidemic coronavirus infection, writes Zvezda. They will advise local doctors and help them in practice. A group of specialists of the District Military Clinical Hospital consists of infectious disease specialists, anesthesiologists-resuscitators and a laboratory and PCR diagnostics doctor.

The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk sentenced the former head of the city Evgeny Teflev to three years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 37.5 million rubles. This is stated on the website of the prosecutor's office of the region. The ex-official was found guilty of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). He was also deprived of medals and orders for merits to the Fatherland of the 1st and 2nd degree.