On the Day of National Unity at VDNH , the international exhibition-forum “Russia” was opened. It will act for many months until April, when the election presidential campaign will already begin. The main task of the exhibition is contrary to dramatic events and, above all, a protracted war in Ukraine, to inspire the population that all regions are flourishing, the country has no serious problems, and in the future life will become even better.

In 2022, by October, expenses on antidepressants in Russia grew by 70% compared with 2021, and sedatives by 56%. For nine months of last year, Russians spent 5 billion rubles on antidepressants, 13.9 billion on sedatives. This is 8.4 million packages of antidepressants (48% more than a year earlier) and 108 million sedative packages (44% growth). The demand was so huge that many drugs disappeared in pharmacies - Proseak, Depakin, Anafrapinel and others.

Fighting in the gas sector The Israeli army completed the environment of the city of gas of the same name and advanced along the coastline. This was stated by the representative of the Israeli Defense Army Daniel Hagari, calling what is happening "a very significant step" in the strengthening of attacks on the radical Palestinian group of Hamas (recognized in the USA and the EU by a terrorist organization), under the control of the gas sector.

The presenter Ivan Tolstoy raises sharp, often painful, issues of the Russian cultural process: are the established stereotypes are true, are the assessments, are these entertaining and unfairly forgotten by certain cultural figures?

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The head of the Palestinian autonomy, Mahmoud Abbas, at a meeting with the head of the US State Department, Anthony Blinken in Ramalla called the gas sector an integral part of the Palestinian state - along with the western coast of the Jordan and Eastern Jerusalem. This was reported by the Palestinian Agency WAFA.

In Penza, a criminal case was instituted against the 70-year-old military veteran under the article on the so-called re-discrediting the Russian army. The reason for the persecution was the post of pensioner on the Social Network "Odnoklassniki": he posted there a video of journalist Evgeny Kiselev about massacres in Buch in the Kyiv region in March 2022. The telegram channel "Astra" calls the name of the accused-Nikolai.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that he did not consider the situation at the front Patova, thereby indirectly objecting to the commander -in -chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, who, in the recently published article in The Economist magazine, gave just such an assessment.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umarov instructed the Main Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defense to conduct a "full audit" on the fact of the death of military personnel of the 128th separate mining and gym of Transcarpathian brigade in the Zaporizhzhya region. Earlier, the Ukrainian media, and subsequently, representatives of the authorities reported that as a result of Russian shelling, dozens of Ukrainian troops gathered at the award ceremony near the front line were injured.

Family of the family of Yuri Glodan In the war with Russia, a Ukrainian soldier, Odessa, Yuri Glodan, whose family died in April 2022 as a result of Russian missile shelling of Odessa. The Ukrainian media reports about the death of Glodan with reference to his former colleagues. On April 23, 2022, the three -month -old daughter of Yuri Glodan Kira, his wife Valeria and her mother Lyudmila were victims of shelling Odessa. Yuri Glodan was not at home at the time of shelling, he went to the store.

The cover of the book of Victor Erofeev "Great Gopnik" Sergey Medvedev is talking to the writer Today, a special guest Radio Liberty is the writer Victor Erofeev. Sergey Medvedev: Your new book called "Great Gopnik" was published in Germany, was published on October 12, presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair . The first thing that is interesting: you enter this word into the western revolution.

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Adam Kadyrov The 15-year-old son of Ramzan Kadyrov Adam was appointed to the post of head of the security department of the head of Chechnya. This was reported in telegram channels of the Minister of the Republic of National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information Ahmed Dudaev and State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov. On October 6, the boy received the title of Hero of the Chechen Republic.

Suitable expectation. In the foreground is Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Kondyrev with his wife. Ruggel, May 9, 1945. (state archive of Liechtenstein) Historians Igor Petrov (Munich) and Oleg Baid (Melbourne) talk about the results of their many years of search in the genre of the historical puzzle. Igor Petrov : We will begin our story today with quotes from two newspaper publications published in Soviet newspapers with an interval of a quarter century.

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