The driver of a Moscow-Dagestan bus killed three girls who were crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing in the Volgograd region, reports the head of the press service of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Svetlana Smolyaninova. The accident occurred on the afternoon of October 30, in the Ilovlinsky district at the 73rd kilometer of the M-6 Caspian federal road.

In Yekaterinburg, an unknown man injured five visitors to the Podval nightclub, RIA Novosti reports , citing the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region, Valery Gorelykh. According to investigators, on the morning of October 30, a visitor to the Basement went outside and quarreled with several people from the club, then fired several shots, presumably from a traumatic pistol. As a result, five people aged 22 to 34 were hospitalized.

October 30 - Memorial Day of political prisoners. But it is necessary to remember not only those who have already served, but also those who are sitting now. The wife of one of the current political zones, Gennady Kravtsov, talked about how he was sitting in the Mordovian colony Radio engineer Gennady Kravtsov , a former worker of the space-Rocket industry, sent a resume to Sweden. For this, he was convicted of 14 years (then, however, they were “ate” to six).

A nine-year-old boy fell out of a window in St. Petersburg. The parents took the seriously injured child into the apartment and refused to open the door to the doctors, Fontanka reports . ru". The accident occurred on the night of October 29 at house number 24 on Belgrade Street. A nine-year-old schoolboy fell from a third-floor window and was seriously injured. Passers-by called an ambulance for the child.

In Surgut, an activists with portraits of the head of the NKVD Nikolai Yezhov and General Andrei Vlasov were detained in a promotion dedicated to the memory of the victims of political repressions. The posters were accompanied by the inscriptions of the “victims of the Stalinist repressions,” the Znak.com portal reports .

On October 29, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, the “Return of Names” event takes place in Moscow in memory of people secretly executed during the years of Soviet terror. For 12 hours in a row, people, replacing each other, read out loud the names of the dead, the event’s website says . The “Return of Names” campaign began at 10:00 at the Solovetsky Stone.

Students of the National Research University "MPEI" in Smolensk presented to the regional governor Alexei Ostrovsky a unique development - an "anti-freeze" from the hogweed plant, capable of replacing imported analogues, reports GTRK-Smolensk. Windshield washer fluid made from natural ingredients was developed by students Maxim Miroshin and Marina Novikova. They obtained ethyl alcohol from the hogweed weed, thanks to which the windshield washer can withstand low temperatures.