The leader of North Korea Kim Jong -un invited the pope of the Roman Francis to Pyongyang. This was reported by Yonhap, referring to the statement of the administration of the President of South Korea. The DPRK leader spoke about his readiness to meet with Pope during the inter -Korean summit, held in September in Pyongyang. The meeting was proposed to organize the meeting by the President of South Korea Moon Jae Ying, who stated that Francis was interested in the world on the Korean peninsula.

Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the idea of ​​introducing a preferential VAT for fruits of 10%. As TASS reports, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeev stated this. Putin also approved the proposal to free the farmers from paying VAT upon receipt of state subsidies. “There was an illogical decision when the state helps on the one hand, on the other hand, it is trying to take tax. The president also made a unequivocal decision so that there was no tax on subsidies, ”said Gordeev.

The Krasnodar football club made an official statement about several incidents with the participation of its player Pavel Mamaev, which occurred on Monday. “The first thing we can do is apply all the possible sanctions specified in the contract. We will put the maximum fine on the player and remove from training with the first team (unfortunately, the contract has not been laid down in the contract). At the moment, we are studying how to break the contract with the player.

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, serving a sentence in a colony on Yamal, stopped a hunger strike and began to eat. This was announced by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Anatoly Sak, Interfax reports . “According to the latest information, on October 5, Oleg Sentsov officially addressed the head of the White Bear IC, with a statement that he was starting to eat on October 6,” said Sak.

Dissernet community participants found violations in dissertations 224 experts of Rosobrnadzor, who are involved in checking state universities. It is reported by Kommersant. In 183, they found plagiarism in dissertations or scientific articles, some also participated in the defense of false dissertations. Direct incorrect borrowings found 48 people in the works - 23 of them simply took someone else's dissertation and replaced the object of study in it.

The Supreme Court of France rejected the lawsuit of Roman Abramovich against the tax authorities of the country. The billionaire tried to protest the decision of the lower instance that in 2006-2007 he underestimated the cost of his villa in Riviera and underpaid the French treasury of € 1.2 million luxury tax, Bloomberg reports . The defense of Abramovich in court claimed that the cost of Chateau de la, located on Cape Antibe, was overpriced.

The Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov is included in Russia, a serving sentence in Russia, is included in the short list of the Sakharov European Parliament “For Freedom of Thought”, Deutshce Welle reports. Also, the Moroccan human rights activist Nassar Zepzafi and humanitarian organizations saving refugees in the Mediterranean Sea claim the award.

In Barnaul, the court “to clarify the circumstances” returned to the prosecutor's office the case of Maria Motuznaya, accused of extremism and insulting the feelings of believers due to the publication of pictures on his page on VKontakte. It is reported by "Mediazona." This was asked by both the lawyers of the motive and the prosecutor's office.

The host of Channel One, Olga Ushakova, turned to the police after an attack on her driver. This was reported by the radio station "Speak Moscow" with reference to Ushakov. “We had an incident. The person who suffered and I, as the injured party, we wrote a statement to the police, but so far we cannot announce any results, since we ourselves do not own information. We are looking forward to ourselves. A person is sick, ”the presenter said.

The Kremlin will not take into account information about the Skripals suspects if it enters the media channels. Such a statement was made by President Putin Dmitry Peskov, responding to the request to comment on the information that Alexander Petrov is actually the name of Alexander Mishkin. Peskov said that the Kremlin refuses to discuss the details of the investigation with journalists and representatives of public and research organizations.

The deputy chairman of the government, Maxim Akimov, instructed to develop a bill on the gradual transfer of Russians from paper passports to electronic since 2021 by the end of this year. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to the press service of the government. “Russia intends to abandon paper passports and from 2021 to start a transition to an electronic passport - its concept is already five years old.

On October 3, the Russian President signed the law on raising the retirement age. Yuri Lobunov studied the statistics and explained The Insider why Vladimir Putin exhortations about the rapid growth of life expectancy - crafty or direct lies. Up to a decade The increase in the retirement age, according to Putin, will not hit the elderly population, because the life expectancy of Russians is “ almost 72 years ”.

The football players Mamaev and Kokorin were sent a summons with a call for interrogation to the address of their clubs, the informed source of Interfax reports. The players will be interrogated in the Presnensky police department. If they do not come, they will be delivered for an interrogation forcibly, the source added. Recall that athletes are suspected of participating in two fights. According to Ren-TV and the 360 ​​channel, the players are detained.

The Ministry of Defense decided to close the development of the largest drone "Altair". This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to a person close to the Ministry of Defense, and two sources in the defense industry. The development of the apparatus was engaged in OKB named after M.P. Simonova, who won the contract in 2011. More than 3 billion rubles took to work on a drone.

The main version of the cause of the fire in a military warehouse in the Chernihiv region is the sabotage from Russia. According to Telegraph, this was stated by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. “Given the proximity to the Russian border, it is no coincidence that the main version of the security service of Ukraine and the military prosecutor’s office is the sabotage,” Poroshenko said.