Crimea, grape - damage to the line of the gas pipeline The FSB Office in the Crimea annexed by Russia opened three criminal cases against sabotage on two gas pipelines and power lines in the south of the peninsula under the article "Diversion". This was announced to Interfax by the representative of the press service of the department.

Ambassador of Ukraine to Belgrade Alexander Alexandrovich The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia made a tough statement to the ambassador of Ukraine in Belgrade Alexander Alexandrovich. Thus, the Serbian Foreign Ministry responded to a recent interview with a Ukrainian diplomat, in which he criticized Russian-Serbian relations, and also raised the issue of participating Serbian mercenaries in conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The IOC published a decision on the affairs of Russian skiers Alexander Legkov and Evgeny Belov . According to the results of the trial of the IOC commission under the leadership of Denis Oswald, the results of athletes at the 2014 Olympic Games will be canceled. Russian skiers Alexander Perevkov and Evgeny Belov are life -disqualified by the International Olympic Committee and are removed from participation in all subsequent Olympic Games.

The artistic director of the Gogol Center became a nominee for the best directorial work in the drama genre for the production of Akhmatova. A poem without a hero. " The award ceremony will be held in April.

In Moscow, employees of the Globattek construction company participated in the laying of tunnels in the area of the Khodynskoye field, Polezhaevskaya and Dynamo metro station, and worked underground 12 hours a day. For a year now, builders have been seeking to pay off wage debts: more than 200 people did not receive money for 5-6 months of work. The prosecutor’s office said that for further proceedings, the Investigative Committee must recognize them as victims.

The Orthodox Entrepreneur said that he was selling his stores in Moscow, and one of them, on a garden ring, was already closed at all. The latter turned out to be not true: on Thursday the store worked as usual.

The so -called Orthodox businessman in the spring opened in Russia a chain of stores bread and salt. In the windows, he placed signs with homophobic inscriptions. Activists for several months wrote complaints to the police and the prosecutor's office.

The White House late in the evening of November 1 called on Russia to stop blocking the resumption of powers of the UN investigative authority, which was instructed to determine who is worth a primary weapon in Syria. Russia has imposed a veto to resume actions in the UN Security Council to investigate the circumstances of the acceptance of chemical weapons. The powers of the UN investigative mechanism and the organization to prohibit chemical weapons expire in mid -November.

The Kremlin said that the President of Russia is not related to the permission or ban on rallies. “It is not our prerogative,” the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov told the rain channel. So he commented on the intention of Alexei Navalny to sue Vladimir Putin. The opposition claims that the authorities of dozens of cities of Russia forbid him to meet with supporters precisely because of the corresponding instruction of the Kremlin.

View of the bridge under construction through the Kerch Strait The Crimean authorities adopted the first in the history of the region annexed by Russia in 2014, a draft three -year budget. In accordance with the document, the budget is completely reckless - due to the growth of subsidies from the federal center. According to the plan, their share in the revenue of the region will increase annually and by 2020 will reach 79 percent.

Hollywood continues to shake scandals associated with sexual harassment: recognition of Harvey Weinstein’s victims brought down an avalanche of such accusations against other cinema figures. Several men announced harassment by Kevin Spacey, and the fact that in response the actor apologized and announced his homosexual orientation for some time distracted the audience from the essence of the scandal.

“During the war, I was not a poet, but a child,” writes Tanya Stupar -trifunovich, one of the leaders of the post -war generation of writers of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. War through the eyes of a woman -meadow, wars in Yugoslavia and Ukraine - the internal motive of this video for the verses of the four poets, presented by the Russian Radio Liberty service at the conference "Yugoslavl wars: another person of European civilization" in Rome for the project "Europe for citizens".

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The head of Catalonia Carles Puchdemon and four other members of his office did not appear in the National Court of Spain in Madrid for testimony. The prosecutor's office brought against them the charges of rebellion and embezzlement of state funds. According to Spanish laws, politicians face up to 30 years in prison.