An unknown killer at 01.50 Moscow time shot two people sitting in a Mercedes car near a restaurant in the center of Staraya Russa (Novgorod Region), RIA Novosti reports. The foreign car was standing at the Ilmen cafe when a man approached it and shot two men sitting in the car with automatic weapons. They died on the spot from their wounds. Details are unknown. The Ministry of Internal Affairs also does not specify the type of activity of the killed.

A criminal case has been initiated against a resident of Moscow under the article “Murder”, RIA Novosti reports. Valentina Khrapova is suspected of murdering her two-month-old granddaughter. The investigation found that on Wednesday morning Khrapova, while intoxicated, beat and then strangled her two-month-old granddaughter. She threw her corpse into the garbage chute, located on the landing of the 16th floor near her own apartment on Warsaw highway. Khrapova was arrested.

A journalist from the website of the Rossiya-24 TV channel mistakenly published on the Internet on Friday morning information that the president had chosen Sergei Sobyanin as a candidate for the post of mayor of Moscow. A few minutes later, the information was deleted, but the news got into the seven-hour newscast of the Vesti FM radio station, was quoted by Interfax, and then by the Mayak radio station.

The Russian Proton launch vehicle was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in order to launch the American telecommunications satellite Sirius XM-5 into a predetermined orbit. At about 08.05 Moscow time, the satellite successfully separated from the upper stage and was transferred to the control of the Americans, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the press service of the Khrunichev Space Center, Alexander Bobrenev. Starting weight Sirius XM-5 - 5983 kg.

A resident of the Kuvandyksky district of the Orenburg region found the body of a boy in the forest on Thursday evening, who committed suicide, RIA Novosti reports. It turned out to be a 13-year-old teenager, teaching the eighth grade of a local rural school. The investigation found that the reason for the suicide was a quarrel with parents due to poor school performance. As the mother of the deceased child said, the boy got on a bicycle at lunchtime and left with a package in his hands.

The director of the film "Stoker" told Elena Mukhametshina that the best era to display in cinema is from the mid-80s to the late 90s What kind of audience reaction to "Stoker" do you expect? I don't expect anything. It's nice when people like it, because I make films for people. If people like it, then I made a film, if they don’t like it, then it didn’t work out. Is this film a test for the viewer? No, it's such a quiet movie. Not scandalous at all.

The Stoker, a new film by Alexei Balabanov, is being released. Everything according to the usual recipe: colorful bandits, few words, many corpses, a huge public outcry Director Alexei Balabanov fell on the head of the Russian people like a curse. There is no way to get rid of him. He does not want to calm down, spit, wave his hand. You won't be able to miss his films past your ears and eyes (even if you haven't seen them).

"Formula 1" goes to the East. Russia should be next in the race The executive director of the Russian Automobile Federation (RAF), Sergey Ivanov, will not even remember the last time there was such an automobile boom in the country. First, Vladimir Putin drove a yellow Lada, then Dmitry Medvedev got behind the wheel, and at the end of September, Putin was already joking on automotive topics with participants in the Silk Way Rally at a bivouac near Maikop.