The Investigative Committee of Russia united five criminal cases instituted against Alexei Navalny and his associates, in one “big” business. This was announced on Instagram by the opposition associate Ivan Zhdanov.

Deputies of the new convocation of the Duma at the first plenary meeting In Russia, a new, eighth, convocation of the State Duma began work. The first plenary session was opened on October 12 by the second to the age of the deputy, 84-year-old Valentina Tereshkova. On the first day, the lower house of the parliament solves organizational issues, registering the factions, approving committees and their compositions, and choosing the chairman and his deputies.

In Russia, a decision was issued on the return of compatriots (500 thousand people) to the historical homeland until the end of 2030. Journalist Alexander Minkin shared his thoughts on this topic. He emphasizes that there are no need to return homeless people and prostitutes to Russia, but I would like to return good specialists: doctors, teachers, scientists. However, will they go to Putin's Russia?

Medical secret, the secret of correspondence, confession and adoption. Why are these secrets needed, how they are protected.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan held a fourth meeting in Moscow this year. They discussed the interaction of the two countries and the situation in Nagorno -Karabakh. Pashinyan called the Karabakh conflict "not completely settled." The President of Armenia believes that in resolving the conflict Russia plays a key role, being the co -chair of the Minsk OSCE Minsk group in the Karabakh settlement.

In Belarus, the investigation charged the Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist Gennady Mozheiko under articles on inciting social enmity or rake and insulting a representative of the authorities. It is reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda. Mozheiko is now in the pre -trial detention center of the city of Zhodino in a chamber with a quarantine in Koronavirus. Because of this, it cannot be visited by lawyers and relatives, and he is also forbidden to transmit programs. Mozheiko is a citizen of Belarus.

Dmitry Medvedev decided to remind himself and released an article about Russian-Ukrainian relations, she went out in the newspaper Kommersant . You can read the whole text, but it is worth mentioning that the article is accompanied by the subtitle "Five short polemic theses." The first four theses are formulated as follows: 1. Ukrainian leaders, especially the first persons, are people who have no stable self -identification. 2.

Methane bubbles Thirty -two countries have joined the project "Global Methane obligation" and intend to reduce methane emissions by 30%until 2030. So the international community fights global warming, the US Presidential Administration Joe Biden said on Monday. The project is being prepared on the eve of the UN climate conference, which will be held in November in Scotland.

Theater expert Natalya Kazimirovskaya talks about her book "Traveling in Life"

Good morning! The Awards for the Economics of Memory of Alfred Nobel, established by the State Bank of Sweden, were awarded to the economists David Card, Joshua David Angrist and Gvido Imbens for studying the labor market and the design of “natural experiments” (what it is, explained here ). In the news like this: Today the first meeting of the Russian State Duma in a new composition will be held.

“Somewhere there they still pretend that I haven’t returned, that I am not in the country. They don’t write about me and do not say a word, as if I were not in the country ...” This is a bitter letter Alexander Vertinsky writes the deputy minister of culture Kaftanov 13 years after his return from emigration. Did he regret it? What made him so dream of returning to his homeland? And why didn’t they let him go there, and then they took it and allowed to come?

The action of the artist Fedor Kalinin near the State Duma of Russia, Moscow, October 12, 2021 At the State Duma building, where on October 12 the first meeting of the lower house of the parliament of the new convocation was opened, the actor-activist Fedor Kalinin was detained. He stood at the building with Libra.

The organization to prohibit chemical weapons (OPCO) and Russia exchanged questions about the poisoning of the opposition Russian politician Alexei Navalny. Experts surveyed by Radio Liberty do not expect that as a result of this confrontation, Russia will leave the OPCU or will be excluded from it, but they hope that as a result of further proceedings at the international level, the circumstances of the attempt on Navalny will become extremely clear.

London, the building of the parliament A group of British parliamentarians recognized the actions of the government at the beginning of the pandemic by a serious failure in the field of public health. The authors of a special report called "Coronavirus: learned lessons" are members of two parliamentary committees - health and social protection and science and technology. Representatives of all parliamentary parties participate in both committees.

On October 12, the first meeting of the State Duma of the new convocation was held - it was approved by the Chairman of the Chamber, his deputies, as well as the structure and leadership of the committees. From this day, the powers of the deputies of the old convocation cease, but they left many bills for consideration to their successors. Radio Liberty tells what laws can appear in Russia in the near future.