Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the meeting of the Norman Four generally agreed to the placement of the OSCE armed police mission in the Donbass. This was announced to reporters by the press secretary of the president Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. “In general, Putin agreed to post such a mission during negotiations. And there is a general understanding.

The convergent Schiaparelli module to the joint Russian-European expedition “Exomars” stopped transferring data at the last stages of planting on Mars. This was reported in the European Space Agency. Telemetry, obtained from the module, showed that the device successfully entered the atmosphere, opened the parachute and dropped the thermal shield.

The court in Tatarstan arrested a 36-year-old resident of Kazan, suspected of involvement in the activities of the Islamic State terrorist group. It is reported by Interfax . “In July 2016, the detainee manufactured three home -made explosive devices from pyrotechnic products and tested them between abandoned storage facilities on the outskirts of one of the settlements of the republic.

It is generally accepted that power spoils people. The classic quote from the British historian John Akton - “Power is corrupting. Great people are usually bad people. " Examples can be found both in life and in scientific research. The Standford prison experiment of the early 1970s is widely known, when students who were in the role of prisoners began to behave like sadists. However, other studies have shown that this does not always happen.

The United States demanded that the special verification commission is convened under an agreement on the liquidation of medium and smaller missiles (RSMD), as they believe that Russia violates the agreement. It is reported by Wall Street Journal. The meeting of a special verification commission on which Russia will be obliged to provide evidence of compliance with the terms of the contract can take place in the coming weeks. Before that, the commission was not convened for 16 years.

The detention of a Russian citizen in the Czech Republic on charges of involvement in cyber attacks is part of the “global hunting”, which the United States leads to citizens of the Russian Federation. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reports Reuters . “The Russian Foreign Ministry and the embassy in Prague are actively working with the Czech authorities in order to prevent the extradition of a Russian citizen in the United States.

The strategic command of the United States recorded the tests of a ballistic missile of the medium radius of the Musudan in North Korea. It is reported by Reuters . It is specified that the attempt was unsuccessful. The military of South Korea confirmed the fact of testing and said that the rocket had fallen immediately after launch. This happened a few hours after the United States and South Korea agreed to activate joint efforts to combat the DPRK missile program.

Rosneft is ready to fulfill any requirement of the Ministry of Energy to freeze oil production. This was announced by the head of the company Igor Sechin, reports Prime . Rosneft will perform any installations of the Ministry of Energy, ”he said. Prior to this, Sechin said that Russia will be able to increase oil production by 4 million barrels per day by 2045 due to projects in the Arctic, Western Siberia and Caspian countries.

At the end of the next week, Aleksey Gaskarov, one of the convicts in the “swamp case” and (perhaps, along with Sergey Udaltsov), a reference political prisoner, that is, not a layman who was imprisoned “for politics” and broke his life, but literally a politician of this kind, for whom a detailed prison line in political biography, should leave the colony in Novomoskovsk.

Sergey Minaev was appointed editor -in -chief Esquire. This is written by "Vedomosti". “We are glad to welcome Sergei Minaev in our company. Sergei has all the necessary qualities of both the print and online media, and the entrepreneur who understands the commercial component of publishing, ”said representatives of Premium Publinging (part of the Independent Media group, which issues Esquire).

From 2019 from 5.1 to 5.9%, the tariff of insurance premiums to the compulsory medical insurance fund (MHIF) from salaries will increase, four federal officials of Vedomosti said . It is assumed that the increase in the tariff will bring the MHIF in addition from 182 to 190 billion rubles in 2019. This decision is necessary for the implementation of the May decrees of Russian President Vladimir Putin to increase salaries to health workers.

Russia extended the humanitarian pause in Syria for another three days. This was stated by the representative of the UN Yang Egellan, reports Reuters . As he explained, the humanitarian pause will operate four days, starting on October 20, 11 hours a day. At the same time, the UN representative said that the organization hopes that the humanitarian pause will last one day longer. The Russian Ministry of Defense, in turn, said that they prolong the effect of the pause for only a day.

Discussions about technological and Internet addiction have been going on for a long time, but now the world has close to a critical point as possible. Confession about how devices enslave a person, like the recent text of Andrew Sullivan, collect a record number of views and cause laudatory reviews, and calls sound not only from users, but also from the inside of the existence. Both the first and the latter are sick.

Representatives of the OSCA visited the village of Zaitsevo in the Donetsk region Mikhail Sokolov / TASS The results of the meeting of the Norman Four in Berlin dedicated to the conflict in the Donbass. turned out to be modest. Not a single document was signed, the parties only agreed on the development of a “road map”, one of the goals of which is an attempt to reanimate the Minsk agreements on the ceasefire and resolve the conflict concluded in 2014-2015.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Czech Republic created a unit to combat propaganda from Russia, as well as from other states that can influence public opinion in the country. This was stated by the head of the department, Milan Khovanets, reports Reuters . The service will include 20 employees. Its main duty will be to combat false information located in the public domain, for example, on Facebook and Twitter.