Derek Black, the son of the leader of Ku-Klux-Clan Dan Black, was the rising star of the racist movement. Since childhood, he attended the events of neo -Nazis, as a teenager created a children's version of one of the world's largest Racist forums StormFront. In the late 2000s, Derek campaigned as associates to capture the Republican Party and make racist rhetoric part of the mainstream policy-that, according to critics, Donald Trump eventually realized.

The Moscow authorities consider the possibility of transferring the municipal elections of 2017 from autumn to spring. This was reported by RBC with reference to sources close to Moscow City Hall and the Presidential Administration.

The Bank of Russia said that due to the reduction of the middle class, growing material inequality and the drop in retail revolutions, its “ability to control inflation” is at risk. It is reported by Bloomberg, who has seen the data of the Central Bank. The agency noted that the reduction in retail volumes in Russia lasts 21 months. At the same time, the real disposable income of Russians fall by 7% per year.

The Russian Ministry of Defense extended for three hours the action of the humanitarian pause, which will be introduced on October 20 in Syrian Aleppo. This was announced by the representative of the department Sergey Rudskoy, reports Interfax . The pause will operate from 08:00 to 19:00 local time. Rudskoy added that the aircraft of Russia and Syria completely stopped hitting, and the planes do not approach the city closer than 10 kilometers.

The official Tokyo is ready to abandon the claims to two islands of the Kuril ridge to sign a peace treaty with Russia. It is reported by Kyodo News with reference to sources. According to the agency’s interlocutors, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is ready to do this, as he is interested in signing a peace treaty with Russia. According to Kyodo, the fate of two, and not four islands will be discussed during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan.

In Russia, according to the Central Bank, about 130 thousand ATMs were installed, and in each of them there are 3-5 million rubles of cash. This money is an equally attractive target for scammers than theft of customer data. So far, some invent sophisticated methods of devastating ATMs using complex software or access to control modules, others remain faithful old brutal methods - they simply take away or explode devices. Slon Magazine figured out how fraudsters devastate ATMs in Russia.

Business losses from the implementation of ineffective requirements of control and supervision bodies make up to 5% of GDP. This was stated by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Prime reports. “By the way, according to experts, the loss of business from the implementation of ineffective requirements of this kind reaches up to 5% of GDP.

The unity of the masses around the President after the accession of Crimea and the transformation of Russia into a “besieged fortress” is the main resource of Vladimir Putin, who retained his popularity and gave a carte blanche for any actions in the country and abroad. But the ratings are falling: the Levada Center published data on a decrease in trust in all institutions of power-from local self-government to Putin.

In fact, riots in Voronezh before the match between the local “torch” and the Moscow “Dynamo” opened a criminal case. This was reported on the website of the regional prosecutor's office. The case was opened under paragraph “A” of part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism using weapons or objects used as weapons). The investigation of the criminal case was taken into control by the prosecutor of Voronezh Yuri Nemkin.

Ecuador authorities admitted that they limited access to the Internet to the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange, who lives on the territory of the country's embassy in London. It is reported by Reuters . “The Government of Ecuador respects the principles of non -interference in the internal affairs of other countries. It does not intervene in elected processes and does not support any specific candidate, ”the Equador Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

A senior NATO diplomat announced the movement of Russian ships that transport aircraft, reports Reuters . According to him, this was the "largest deployment of the groups of ships since the end of the Cold War." According to the diplomat, two weeks later, Russian bombers will take part in the offensive on Aleppo. “Two weeks later, we will see an increase in air attacks on Aleppo, as part of Russia's strategy to win in this region,” the diplomat said.

The operation to liberate the Iraqi Mosul from the militants of the “Islamic state” has not yet begun. This was stated by the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov. “Space intelligence devices are redirected there [to Mosul], and more than ten of our reconnaissance aircraft, including unmanned vehicles, also work in close proximity to the district.

On October 18, Saudi Arabia conducted the first placement of government bonds in the international market and attracted a record $ 17.5 billion from investors. About this writes Financial Times. The book of applications for the debut government bonds nominated in US dollars was closed earlier on October 18.

With real incomes of the population, “we have a huge failure”-both in 2015 and in 2016, the deputy chairman of VEB, economist Andrei Klepach, noted the other day. The fresh data of Rosstat confirm that in September this indicator in annual terms fell by 2.8%. Thus, the earnings and other cash receipts of Russians with the amendment for inflation have been reduced for 23 months in a row - this has not yet been this under Vladimir Putin.

Belgian fighters did not apply aircraft with the Khassajek settlement in the Syrian province of Aleppo. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Defense of Belgium Stephen Vander, reports the publication De Redactie.be . Thus, the Belgian minister rejected the prosecution of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which previously stated that during the bombing of Hassajek in the air were F-16 F-16 Air Force Belgium.