Photo: ITAR-TASS The Smolensk Regional Court today withdrew from consideration the cassation appeal of the Other Russia activist Taisiya Osipova against the verdict. A new consideration of the cassation appeal against the verdict of Taisiya Osipova in the Smolensk Regional Court will take place no earlier than in three weeks.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against oppositionist Sergei Udaltsov after checking facts from the film “Anatomy of a Protest-2,” RIA Novosti reports, citing department official Vladimir Markin. A criminal case has been initiated under Articles 30 and 212 of the Criminal Code (“Preparation for organizing mass riots”). According to him, searches are being conducted at Udaltsov and other defendants in the case.

Photo: PublicPost Collage For 10 years now, Russia has been negotiating with the European Union on providing a visa-free regime. The other day, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov admitted: Europe does not abolish visas for political reasons. And at a meeting in Luxembourg with his European colleagues, Lavrov did not succeed in making the visa regime easier, at least for Russian officials who hold official passports.

“Graze, peaceful peoples. The cry of honor will not wake you up..." (A.S. Pushkin) A scandal is breaking out in the Stavropol region, which I would call “hijab-gate.” Having gone beyond the boundaries of an individual school, it acquired significance at an almost federal level. It all started with the decision of the director of school No. 12 Marin Savchenko in the village.

Photo: Stills from the film "Provocateurs-3" Arkady Mamontov presented the third part of his author's project about Pussy Riot. “Provocateurs-3,” according to the author’s plan, completes the series about the punk prayer service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior with an answer to the question “who and how wanted to make money from the ungodly action in the temple.” Traditionally, this question was first addressed to the studio guests.

Photo: Reuters UPD. 22.04 Timur Khorev @timurkhorev Sergey got into the car, he is escorted with applause 21.50 Anastasia Udaltsova @udaltSova from the Investigative Committee left Udaltsov 21.49 Nikolay Lyaskin @nlyaskin so far has a subscription, Kostya in Petrovka. Maybe there are not many people, but everything is very beautiful. There are more people more, they are only afraid of strength. The bus drove up. Today we plan to stand until 22:30, tomorrow pickets from 12:00 on Petrovka 38.

The third episode of Comrade Mamontov’s television work “Provocateurs” about Pussy Riot has been published... Or is it actually about something else? What is Mamontov telling us (sorry, not to us, but to those who watch the Russia channel and trust it)? And what does it show?

Photo: collage PublicPost At the National Research Nuclear University, MEPhI will open the Department of Theology . The opening of the department and the appointment of Metropolitan Ilarion of the Ilarion, its head, was unanimously approved at the last educational council of the university.

A court in the Altai Republic, at the request of an investigator, arrested journalist Ruslan Makarov, who is accused of threatening to kill the head of the region, Alexander Berdnikov, reports the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region.

Photo: PublicPost Collage On October 17, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case under the article “Fraud” (Part 1 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against the creators of the website of the Central Election Committee (CEC) to the Coordination Council of the Opposition.

Calling to give way to "future mothers", the St. Petersburg authorities illustrated their appeal with a photograph of the famous porn actor-shimel Jay. The girl is good, no doubt. However, what to do with the ban on the propaganda of transgenderness, not so long ago introduced by the deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly? Where are the crowds of indignant parents, where, finally, this fighter for Milon's morality? Or are they only to fight the master with Madona?

I always said that I would live in Russia and would leave only in the event of a direct, immediate threat to life, not so much my own, but my family’s; I would leave along the old Bandera paths only when there was not the slightest chance or hope left. They expelled, exiled and simply imprisoned writers, artists and scientists, sent troops into Afghanistan, constantly rewarded Brezhnev and completed the construction of developed socialism. I didn't even think about leaving.

A panel of jurors in the high-profile case of the so-called “Primorsky partisans” could not be formed for the fourth time on Wednesday in the Primorsky Territory court. “The next meeting on the formation of the board is scheduled for November 20,” Maria Litovchenko, press secretary of the regional court, told the Interfax agency.

Apparently, after the Bolsheviks carried out a “purge” in the good old days, the Russian Orthodox Church has some kind of manic desire to build and build churches. In Yekaterinburg there are 232 churches (approximately 33 churches per district), 230 houses of worship (also approximately 33 per district), 59 communities and 29 chapels, the Ekaterinburg Diocese writes on its website.

In Buryatia, the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is checking the fact of premature birth, after which a living child ended up in the morgue, reports the press service of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs. On October 14, a 20-year-old resident of one of the suburban areas of Ulan-Ude developed a stomach ache.