An-72 (illustrative photo) The Congo crashed the AN-72 military transport aircraft, on board of which several Russian citizens were located. This information "Interfax" was confirmed by a representative of the Russian diplomatic mission in the country. According to Reuters, there were 8 people aboard. According to preliminary data, they all died. It is known that the aircraft ensured the transportation of the president of the Congo Felix Numbers.

Anton Drozdov Chairman of the board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation “In Russia, our citizens over 65 in 2017 were 14.2% [from the total population] . And by 2050 their share increases ... up to 24.2%” Source: TASS Rather, so ...

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Dubrovsky among participants in the meeting with President Putin in the Kremlin, January 16, 2019 Former Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky, suspected of abuse of official powers, left for Switzerland. This was reported by RBC with reference to a source close to the presidential administration. The fact of Dubrovsky’s departure to Switzerland confirmed TASS , referring to a source familiar with the case file.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called on the leaders of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States to support, as he put it, "new power in Ukraine." Lukashenko spoke at the CIS summit in the capital of Turkmenistan Ashgabad, where there is, among others, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The American newspaper The New York Times published on the first page the material about the Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev, who walked from Siberia to Moscow to "expel Putin from the Kremlin." The article also states that in Russia the discontent of citizens is intensified by power, and the president’s rating continues to steadily fall. Earlier, the shaman recorded a video message to Putin.

Zelensky during a press marathon Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is not able to ensure the breeding of the forces of the parties to the conflict in the Donbass. Speaking in the Ashgabat at the CIS summit, Putin imposed liability for disruption of the parties in the areas of the settlements of Zolotoy and Petrovskoye on Ukrainian "nationalist armed formations" that impede this.

Britain and the European Union on Friday agreed to resume negotiations on the issue of Brexit and hold intensive discussions on the weekend on a possible new agreement on Britain's withdrawal from the EU. The hope of achieving an agreement, which was ghostly at the beginning of the week, has increased again in the last hours. This follows from public statements by EU representatives and from sources.

An explosion occurred on the Iranian oil tanker located in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia. It is reported by Associated Press. According to preliminary data, none of the crew members were injured. The Iranian agency ISNA writes that the explosion could be a terrorist attack, but this information has not yet been confirmed. According to Pressstv, two missiles were released on the ship. The tanker belongs to the National Oil Company of Iran.

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Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman (second and third left) in the American court, October 10, 2019 In the USA, a new turn of the Ukrainian scandal, which remains the strongest irritant in the relationship of President Donald Trump with Congress. Trump is accused of using his position of the head of state for the purpose of the election struggle. On Thursday, people who helped Trump Rudolf Juliani were arrested in the United States to look for a compromise on the opponent of the president.

The curator of the exhibition about the police violence and non -freedom of the word "autumn Pahan" Veronika Polonskaya was asked not to hold an event in the central district of Moscow, and even better - to find a site in another city. The audio recording of a telephone conversation with a certain German Veselov, who introduced himself as an employee of the prefecture of the Central District of Moscow, Polonskaya provided the media.

US President Donald Trump announced on Friday the appointment of John Sullivan Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States in the Russian Federation. After the approval of the candidacy of Sullivan, the US Senate, he will take a post at which John Huntsman was previously resigned on October 3, 2019. Currently, 59-year-old John Sullivan serves as deputy secretary, being in this position since May 2017. In April 2018, he temporarily acted as the head of the State Department.

The cosmonaut pilot Alexei Leonov died-the first person who went into outer space. He was 85 years old. TASS reports about Leonov’s death with reference to his assistant. Leonov was the eleventh Soviet cosmonaut and the first person who went into outer space. This happened in March 1965 during the flight on the Sunrise spacecraft. In July 1975, Leonov participated in the joint flight of the Soviet and American spacecraft "Soyuz" - "Apollo". He was twice the hero of the Soviet Union.

What can stand behind the call of the former US ambassador to the dialogue with the Kremlin? Are there any moods in Washington in favor of the abolition of sanctions? Will Putin can leave his enemies in the West? What changes in Moscow awaits the former American ambassador? We discuss these and other issues with the American publicist former correspondent of Financial Times in Moscow David Sater and political scientist Professor of George Mason University in Viriku Shiryaev