The Tver court of Moscow fined 300 thousand rubles of the International Society "Memorial" for violation of the law on foreign agents. The chairman of the board of the organization Jan Rachinsky was fined 100 thousand rubles under the same article. It is reported by "MBH Media". The protocol was drawn up by Roskomnadzor due to the fact that the Yetyub-channel of the Ingush branch of the Memorial does not have a marking of a foreign agent on each material.

The Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences appealed to the Ministry of Education and Science with a request to revise the recently taken measures to tighten the control of the contacts of Russian scientists with foreign colleagues.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky The Ministry of Culture and the Film Fund for the first time disclosed data on state support for domestic cinema. As follows from the database of departments, from 38 films, which since 2015 received 100 million rubles or more, 14 paintings have collected less than the state invested in them. Among the most striking failures - the military adventure militant "seven pairs of unclean" from the producer Vadim Abdrashitov and "Mosfilm", write "Vedomosti".

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

Mark Zuckerberg Russia, Iran and China are trying to influence the US presidential election in 2020. This was announced in an interview with NBC by the head of Facebook by Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. According to him, these countries use more and more sophisticated tactics.

The presidents of Turkey and Russia Recep Erdogan and Vladimir Putin in Sochi agreed that Türkiye and Russia will jointly control the Syrian-Turkish border east of the Euphrates River. According to the agreement , the text of which was read out by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Turkish troops will control the part of the 30-kilometer zone near the border, which was under their control as a result of the operation, which had begun Turkey in the north of Syria 2 weeks ago.

Stanislav Aseev is accused of espionage and calls for violation of the territorial integrity of the "DPR"

The Economic Forum "Russia - Africa" will be held in Sochi on October 23–24 , and this event, without a doubt, is of international significance, but it is interesting to me both as a Russian and as an entrepreneur who works in Africa. This meeting is the final event after the already held African business forum and the expanded conference of the African export-import bank.

Old Town Square in Prague On Monday, the head of the Czech Security and Information Service Mikhal Cowdock confirmed the information previously published by journalists that the Czech Republic was operating an agent network occupied by cyber attacks in this and neighboring countries. Cowdock also said that the work of the group was coordinated by the FSB, it had ties with the Russian Embassy in Prague, and among its members there were immigrants from Russia who received Czech citizenship.

For the first six months of 2019, in Russia, 56 people were convicted under the “anti -extremist” articles, follows from the data that the judicial department at the Supreme Court published.

Police officers came to the office of the Civil Rights Committee in Moscow on Tuesday evening. This was announced by a member of the board of the committee Yulia Perepelova. According to her, along with the police, the office of NTV and REN TV television channels entered the office. At the same time, they demanded to leave the premises from employees of the human rights organization.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

In the elections in Canada, the liberal party of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won. According to preliminary data, she received 157 seats in parliament of 338, but she will not be able to form the majority government. To do this, it was necessary to win in 170 districts. The nearest opponent - the conservative party - leads in 121 districts. Further, with a large margin, a new democratic party, the “Quebec block” and the Green Party followed.

The leader of the United Russia faction in the State Duma Andrei Turchak, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia Boris Gryzlov Experts close to the Kremlin of the Institute of Social, Economic and Political Studies (ISEPI) have prepared an analytical note on how a possible change in the election system in the State Duma in 2021 could affect the placement of political forces.

The House of Commons of the British Parliament in the second reading approved the bill on the withdrawal of Great Britain from the EU. Not only the ruling conservatives, but also part of the independent deputies, previously excluded from the conservative party, as well as several laborists, voted for the bill. Voting account 329: 299.