Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov has stopped his hunger strike, which he began in May. As Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko told the Interfax agency, the best nutritionists in Moscow have developed a special diet for Sentsov so that he can smoothly come out of the hunger strike. “I thank everyone who took part, and our (FSIN - TD’s note) doctors, and the doctors of the Labytnang hospital, and the lawyers who told him that he had to live, that life goes on.

The State Duma Committee on Education and Science called for the development of e-learning in Russia to avoid “brain drain.” HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov announced that in five years the university will completely switch to online courses instead of traditional ones.

The Ministry of Health has proposed a ban on advertising of antimicrobial drugs in 2019-2020. This will happen as part of the government strategy to prevent antimicrobial resistance. As Nikolai Bespalov, development director at RNC Pharma, told RBC, antimicrobial drugs include medications for a variety of diseases, ranging from sore throats (for example, popular lollipops) to dermatological, gynecological or ophthalmological diseases.

Two servicemen of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division died during an exercise in the Strugokrasnensky district of the Pskov region. This was reported by MBKh Media. According to the publication, 24-year-old contract soldier Vladislav Novikov and 20-year-old conscript Maxim Sazonov drowned in an airborne combat vehicle, which they used to cross the river on the orders of the commander.

The volunteer movement “Danilovtsy” will open the first school for volunteer group coordinators in Russia; it will begin work on October 18. The goal of the school is to teach coordinators to assemble a volunteer group from scratch for their project: from helping a nursing home to creating animal shelters. The training will take place for a month at the school of social volunteering.

In Karelia, specialists from the Moscow Institute “Spetsproektrestavratsiya” found an older altar on the site of the 18th-century Assumption Church that burned down in August. Despite the colossal destruction, at the level of the lower crowns of the basement (the lower tier of the church - TD's note) all the volumes of the temple were preserved, the press service of the head of Karelia reported . The logs were badly burned, but the joints and cuts were preserved.

On the morning of October 5, a minibus and a passenger bus collided near the village of Nekrasovo, Tver Region. 13 people died. As TASS was told by the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations, in addition to the 13 dead, 17 people were injured. Four of them were taken to hospital by ambulance. The emergency department of Hospital No. 4 stated that only two surviving passengers of the minibus were taken to the hospital. They are in serious condition in intensive care.

As in the days of Lenin, prisoners in Russia still sculpt chess from bread crumb. Recipe and several more stories from the new book of Oleg Navalny Oleg Navalny photo: Alexander Ryumin/TASS Despite all our isolation, Ruslan found a lot of pluses in the move. Well, not that the mass, in fact - is only one. Together, it was much calmer to sit. Of course, in a friendly team of forty robbers more fun: you can play cards for money, make moonshine, participate in conflicts, telly again look.

In Russia, 80% of citizens have heard about repressions in the USSR in the 20-50s of the twentieth century, but only 14% know about the fate of their repressed relatives. This was reported by TASS with reference to the results of a telephone survey conducted by VTsIOM. The number of people aware of political repression increased by 7% compared to last year, the researchers note. At the same time, 19% of respondents in the survey stated that they first heard about this phenomenon in the USSR.

Mass poisoning of minors occurred in the Arsky district of Tatarstan, reports the press service of the Republic’s Ministry of Health. 18 teenagers were taken to the Arsk regional hospital, 16 of them were hospitalized. Their condition is assessed as moderate. Doctors do not yet know what substance caused the inhalation poisoning; the circumstances of the incident are being clarified.

The Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize for the fight against sexual violence in wars and armed conflicts. Doctor Denis Mukwege from Congo and human rights activist Nadia Murad from Iraqi Kurdistan received the award “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon in war and armed conflict.” 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Denis Mukwege is the helper who has devoted his life to defending victims of war-time sexual violence.

The Vera Hospice Assistance Fund and the House with a Lighthouse children's hospice summed up the interim results of the Children Instead of Flowers charity event. On September 1, schoolchildren and their parents were limited to one bouquet for the teacher, and the savings were used to support terminally ill children.

In Ingushetia, officials who took part in a rally against the border treaty with Chechnya were threatened with dismissal from the civil service, Interfax reports , citing its own source in one of the departments in the city of Magas. According to the source, on October 5, the head of the department had a conversation with employees who had participated in the protest the day before.

In Sochi, the court arrested for five days the video blogger and the activist of the Left Front Vakhtang Ezugbay, who tried to publicly ask the mayor of the city Anatoly Pakhomov, reports OVD-info. The administration said that the arrest was connected with the visit of a blogger to the city hall on September 22. On October 2, Ezugbay, shooting what was happening on the video, came up during the mayor’s walk along the embankment, greeted and asked for permission to ask him a question.

The prosecutor's office of the Osinsky district of the Perm Territory, during an inspection of a private shelter for pensioners, identified more than 140 violations of fire safety requirements and sanitary standards and rules. In addition, people were not provided with medical and psychological assistance. The shelter is located in three residential buildings in the villages of Monastyrka and Kochebashevo, as reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office.