In St. Petersburg, two participants in the action of the memory of the victims of political repressions "Immortal Gulag" were detained. First, the police accused them of violating the picket procedure, but then drew up protocols for the lack of registration. Activists of the youth movement "Vesna" held a memorial action on Kirochny Street. According to archival data, at least 143 Leningraders were arrested here during the Great Terror.

The number of applications of British citizens for the provision of an Irish passport after voting for the exit of Great Britain from the European Union increased almost doubled. This was reported to the BBC with reference to official sources. The one whose parents or grandparents were born in Ireland may be claimed for Irish citizenship. It is noted that in 2015, 46 thousand British applied for the Irish passport. In 2017, 81 thousand people claimed Irish citizenship.

The Parker space probe approached the record in the history of research the distance to the Sun. Now he continues to get closer to him at a speed of about 70 kilometers per second. Thus, this is also the fastest apparatus ever created by the hands of a person. Now Parker is located 42 million kilometers from the sun. He should approach him at a distance of about 6 million kilometers - 25 times closer to the earth's orbit.

On the national day of memory of the victims of political repressions on October 30, an action "Bell of Memory" is held in Moscow and other cities of Russia. Its organizers are a memory fund and the Gulag History Museum. In Moscow, the action takes place at the memorial that was opened last year to the victims of political repressions "The Wall of Sorrow" at the intersection of Academician Sakharov Avenue and the Garden Ring.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Uzbekistan Zoyir Mirzaev was fired for photography with the mockery of residents of the Tashkent region who did not provide watering fields. This was reported by the Uzbek Service Radio Liberty (Radio Ozodlik). The photo shows how six men are knee -deep in water in the irrigation canal.

Dublin, Ireland The number of applications of British citizens for the provision of an Irish passport after voting for the exit of Great Britain from the European Union increased almost doubled. This was reported to the BBC with reference to official sources. The one whose parents or grandparents were born in Ireland may be claimed for Irish citizenship. It is noted that in 2015, 46 thousand British applied for the Irish passport. In 2017, 81 thousand people claimed Irish citizenship.

Poll on the streets of Moscow

Release of video novations Radio Liberty and TV channel Present

A resident of Dagestan on Tuesday sent a complaint about torture from the employees of the Center for Combating Extremism (Center "E") to the European Court of Human Rights. Abutalip Shakhruev believes that the Russian authorities violated his right to fair trial, the right to punish exclusively on the basis of the law and a ban on torture. Radio Liberty was reported in the press service of the "Zone of Law".

Alexander Potkin during the announcement of the sentence in the Meshchansky Court of Moscow, August 2016 The Domodedovo court of the Moscow Region returned to the prosecutor's office the case of nationalist Alexander Potkin, also known under the pseudonym Belov. He is accused of trying to legalize illegally acquired property. The reason for the return was violations in the indictment.

US President Donald Trump said that he could answer the questions of the special prosecutor Robert Muller, who is investigating the alleged intervention of Russia in the American elections in 2016.

The Perm Regional Court upheld the sentence to pensioner Igor Troshev, in the garden of which the poppy bushes grew. This was reported by the TASS agency. The prosecutor’s office, which had previously found violations in the materials, demanded to retrain the case for a less difficult article. The defense of Troshev, who was previously sentenced to one year conditionally under an article on the cultivation of narcotic plants, insists on his innocence.

Having talked with Vladimir Putin, Record Erdogan and Emmanuel Macron at a four -sided summit in Syria , German Chancellor Angela Merkel returned home and decided that it was time to leave. To begin with-from the post of the leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The head of the Government of Germany Merkel is still - and even, as she stated on Monday, intends to be her until the next elections in 2021.

Pupils of the school in Minsk made audio recordings indicating that teachers force them to join the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM). Belarus is the only post -Soviet country in which the state still officially supports the successor of the Soviet Komsomol organization.

The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, said that the Constitutional Court of the Republic was not entitled to cancel an agreement on the border with Chechnya. He also believes that the Constitutional Court of Russia should be checked by the competence of the court. “You need to understand that today's decision does not cancel the agreement with Chechnya, it has entered into legal force,” said the Ingush leader in a conversation with journalists.