Good morning! Statistics, published on World Sobriety Day, indicates that they began to drink less in Russia. Here the specialist explains why: because he is no longer happy. Still: The “Archive of Pandora” was published about the offshores of world leaders and officials: Ernst through Offshore builds shopping centers in Moscow, the Chemezov family led 22 billion rubles abroad. Human rights activist Valentina Chupik flew to Armenia.

The armored vehicle with three Russian mercenaries was ambushed by the village of Bomb in the prefecture of the mamber-kadei, in the west of the Central African Republic. The ambush was arranged by fighters of the "coalition of patriots for changes." The death of three Russian mercenaries is confirmed by the local authorities of the prefecture.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday adopted early resignations of the governor of the Tambov region Alexander Nikitin and the governor of the Vladimir region Vladimir Sipyagin. It is reported by "Interfax." The temporarily acting governor of the Tambov region was appointed Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services Maxim Egorov. The acting of the Vladimir region was the State Duma deputy from United Russia Alexander Avdeev.

Start "Zircon" from the surface ship (archive photo) The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the first test launch of the Zircon hypersonic missile from the submarine. Prior to this, the launches of the "Zircon" were carried out from the side of the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" in the White Sea. Shooting was made from the Nuclear Submarine "Severodvinsk" for a conditional sea target in the Barents Sea Barents. Tests are recognized as successful, the Russian defense department said.

Persons from Vladimir Putin’s closest encirclement appear in an international investigation into money laundering “Archives of Pandora” *** The arrest of the journalist of the publication “KP in Belarus” by Gennady Mozheiko led to another disagreement between Moscow and Minsk *** whether Mikhail Saakashvili arrested in Georgia will be issued to Ukraine? *** Olga Starovitov.

The founder of the human rights project Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin said that he managed to get a “secret” video archive of special services with records of brutal torture of convicts contained in Russian colonies. We are talking about more than forty gigabytes video.

On Monday, the authorities and law enforcement agencies of several Western countries at once announced that they would carefully investigate the possible involvement of their citizens in violations of the law in connection with the publication of the Pandora archive - the next leakage of data on the final beneficiaries of offshore companies in more than 10 jurisdictions around the world.

Conversation with Solomon Volkov about the American style in fashion - and in culture

In the city of Chekhov, the Moscow Region, in a shelter for homeless animals, the “shaggy soul” died 16 dogs, another 60 are in serious condition, said the creator and director of the institution Valentina Silich. According to her, the animals were poisoned by poor -quality food, which was put by the shelter at the end of September. Silich clarified that the food called Happy Lunch is produced at the factory of our city in Stupino near Moscow.

Former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, who left the country eight years ago, was arrested on October 1 in Tbilisi. A new criminal case was instituted against the politician - for illegally crossing the Georgian border, the fifth in a row. According to the politician, he came to his homeland to help his supporters win municipal elections. They took place on October 2.

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.

Activist Viktor Rau, who lived in Altai, left Russia with his grandson, saying that he wanted to protect himself and him from the arbitrariness of the authorities. Now he is in Tbilisi. This was reported by Siberia. Realities. According to the activist, he made a difficult decision to leave Russia after criminal cases were opened on him, and his grandson was registered with the police department because of his opposition activity.

Caliph Haftar and Sergey Shoigu in Moscow, January 2020 All aspects of the armed conflict in Libya, including Russian mercenaries, allowed numerous human rights violations during their participation in the conflict, some of them can qualify as war crimes or crimes against humanity. Such conclusions came an independent investigative mission, which was sent to Libya under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council.

“Another Russia” is Russia of exiles: scientists, writers, artists and artists, the White Army, entrepreneurs, lawyers. This is the whole cut of old society, who had lost his country overnight. Nevertheless, "other Russia" managed to create and recreate the impressive world that we are now studying Ivan Tolstoy: “Another Russia” is the name of the new book by historian Oleg Budnitsky, published by the publishing house “New Literary Review”.

- How the New Light is dressed - What is the American style - Universal metaphor of patchwork blankets - What is the specifics of America's culture Today, in the new episode of the podcast "Genis: a look from New York" -we are with a culture historian and musicologist Solomon Volkov talk about a grandiose exhibition at the Institute of Costume of the Museum of Metro dedicated to the American style. We are easy to find on the air and on the Radio Liberty website.