On Tuesday, October 31, in the US Senate, special hearings were first held on the issue of the use of social networks by Russia to influence American voters. Representatives of the Facebook, Twitter and Google administration were invited to the hearings to tell how to penetrate from the outside into American social networks.

Nikolai Lyaskin and Alexey Navalny (archive photo) In Moscow, on Tuesday morning, the head of the Moscow headquarters Alexei Navalny Nikolai Lyaskin was detained. He reported this on Twitter. Police and employee "in civilian clothes" stopped Lyaskin’s car near his house and forced him to go to the police department. According to Lyaskin, they are going to draw up an administrative protocol for him. According to which article, it is unknown.

On the evening of October 30, a rally of memory of political repression was held in St. Petersburg. The Immortal Gulag is held at the initiative of the Youth Democratic Movement "Vesna" for the third year. Participants in the action fill out one of the central streets with posters with the names of the large terror repressed during the years.

Carles Puchdemon at a press conference in Brussels The leader of Catalonia Puchchdemon, removed from his post by Madrid on Tuesday, said that he agreed to hold extraordinary elections appointed by the Central Government of Spain in Catalonia, and would not apply for a political asylum in Belgium. He announced this at a press conference in Brussels. Puchdemon also said that he did not try to avoid justice after the State Prosecutor of Spain recommended that he charges him of the rebellion.

Director Asya Puff, Moscow. A film about a young man who quitting a school who came to Moscow from the province and considered himself an artist.

The Kremlin claims that the collection of "biological materials of Russians", which was announced the day before, said President Vladimir Putin, is information from the country's special services. The press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov added that some representatives of non-governmental organizations and other bodies are allegedly engaged in the collection of "biomaterials".

Ksenia Pakhomova at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny In Kemerovo, the director of the children's art school No. 50, Natalya Pakhomova, was dismissed. Her daughter Ksenia leads the local headquarters of the opposition Alexei Navalny. My mother was fired from the post of director of the School of Arts No. 50 #Zanavalny .

Nikolai Lyaskin The police were released from the police previously detained on Tuesday Nikolai Lyaskin, the head of the Moscow headquarters of the opposition Alexei Navalny. Lyaskin himself announced this on Twitter. He noted that the police ordered him to appear in the police department on November 9. What exactly was connected by Lyaskin’s detention is certainly unknown.

The memorial to the victims of the crash of the a321 airline "Kogalymavia" over Sinai In the Leningrad Region, on the day of the second anniversary of the plane crash in the sky above the Sinai, the Memorial "Garden of Memory" was opened. These are plates with the names of those who died surrounded by trees. According to its page on VKontakte, the Flight 9268 charity foundation, on this day a memorial panachid was held in the Troitsko-Izmail Cathedral, and in all temples of St.

Detention for promotions in St. Petersburg, archival photo In St. Petersburg, the police detained an activist on Tuesday, who was twice as arrested in the case of a protest at Palace Square on October 8. Journalist David Frenkel told the Mediazona that the detainee is called Rafael Gainutdinov and he is entered by Artillery Podge, which is recognized as extremist in Russia and is prohibited by court decision.

What should we celebrate today - Halloween or the Day of the Dead? The end of October in Barcelona is the time when sugar heads, pumpkin, web, zombies are in every window. Young Catalan activists are discussing which holiday is “right”, and which is only a consequence of cultural borrowing, globalization and consumerism. Supporters of Halloween gather for the World Marsh "Witches against Machism." People who choose the "folk" Mexican Day of the Dead go to the altar party.

Lada Ryracut and the murdered businessman Nikolai Martynov Every year in Russia thousands of genetic examinations are carried out to establish paternity. Analysis of judicial practice shows that in 95% of cases, when making decisions, the court is guided only by DNA analysis. Due to the fact that the problem of establishing paternity through the court is now very relevant, in May of this year, a decree of the Plenum of the Supreme Court No.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine believes that Russian special services are behind the murder of Amina Okuevo. The second version is Ramzan Kadyrov's revenge. Last night, two people fired at the car in which Adam Osmaev and his wife Amina Okuev were traveling. Osmaev was wounded and located in the hospital, Okueva was killed in place with a shot in the head.

In Minsk on Monday, an opposition politician, a former presidential candidate Nikolai Statkevich, was detained on Monday. About this Belarusian service Radio Liberty was told by his wife Marina Adamovich. According to her, Statkevich was detained the day after the action of the memory of the victims of the Stalinist repressions near the Belorussian KGB building. On Tuesday, October 31, Statkevich planned to speak at sessions of the Eastern Partnership Parliamentary Assembly (Evronest) in Kyiv.