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In October this year, the daily maximum deaths was updated several times in connection with the coronavirus from the beginning of the pandemic. According to the operational headquarters, over a day a day per day, more than a thousand people died. Rosstat data on mortality are much higher - in August, 49,389 people died, who at the time of death were sick with coronavirus.

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Everything you need to know early in the morning of October 29 Good morning! Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook has changed its name to Meta, but the social network itself decided not to rename. In the metapacebook, things are like this: In Russia, a new maximum of the daily mortality from the Covid-19 has been recorded from the beginning of the pandemic and the record number of new cases per day.

In Krasnoyarsk, the court fined the adviser to the vice-governor of the region Andrei Agafonov for 5 thousand rubles for the words about the “aching bunch of shit” and the “tearful of rabble”, with which the official described the residents of the region. A member of the government of the region was found guilty of public insult over the Internet, writes Siberia. Reals. Agafonov did not judge by the article about the insult, the perfect person in the civil service.

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Abduction, torture, exorcism Every fifth Russian allows the use of torture against prisoners, evidence of a survey of the Levada Center. 11 percent stated that it is possible to torture people in exceptional cases when it can save the life of innocent. Another 9 percent think that you can torture convicts for serious violent crimes.

The online action “Return of the Names”, the day of political prisoners and the latest political repression.

In the city of Ivanteevka in the Moscow region, the Major General was committed to retired, the former deputy chief of staff of the Airborne Forces Anatoly Belyanin. This was reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to him, Belyanin has recently hurt. The Investigative Committee conducts a check on the suicide of a retired general. In the 90s, the Belyan was a witness in the case of the murder of journalist Dmitry Kholodov. See also a directed explosion.

The Northern California district approved a magistrate agreement between the Russian banker Oleg Tinkov and the Tax Department of the US Department of Justice. The businessman paid the American budget 509 million dollars of unpaid taxes and a fine. The entire amount has already been transferred, ”RBC correspondent reports , observing the court hearing. Tinkov will remain for a year under court supervision.

The court in Moscow sentenced a blogger from Tajikistan Ruslan Bobiev (real name Ruslani Talabjon) and model Anastasia Chorov by 10 months of a colony for a photograph with imitation of oral sex against the backdrop of the Blessed Vasily Church on Red Square in Moscow. This was reported by the OVD-Info (the project was included in the register of "media-foreigners"). Bobiev and Church were found guilty of insulting the feelings of believers.

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In Russia today, the annual action "Return of names" dedicated to the victims of political repressions takes place. Since 2007, people came to the Solovetsky stone near the FSB main building in Moscow and, defending a long line, replacing each other, from 10 a.m. to 10 pm they read the names of those who died during the years of Soviet terror. This year, like 2020, due to the pandemic, the action takes place in online format.