The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle started with a new batch of 60 mini-satellites to replenish the orbital grouping of the global Internet cover of the Starlink system. The start-up broadcast of the SpaceX developer led on its Twitter page. The launch of the 14th Starlink Internet satellite group was carried out at 08:25 on the time of the east coast of the United States (15:25 in Moscow) from the 39a Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In Yekaterinburg, patients of the "Uktussky boarding house" were forcibly sent for sterilization. According to the BAZA Telegram channel with reference to several victims, the leadership forced women to go through this procedure, because it was impossible to keep children in the boarding house. According to women, they were taken to the hospital under the pretext of vaccination, but on the spot they were forced to undergo sterilization. Thus more than 10 women suffered.

On October 18, the Belarusians went to the Partizan Marsh demanding to free all the political prisoners and hold new elections. According to the Vesna human rights center, more than 98 people are currently detained, the list is updated. Most detained in Minsk. In addition, the detentions were held in Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Dzerzhinsk and Svetlogorsk.

OPEC+ countries are faced with growing pressure in order to change plans for oil production. It is reported by Bloomberg. This happens against the background of growing production in Libya, which is not included in the cartel. The OPEC was previously recognized that demand is “anemic” and the cartel will act to prevent the “relapse” of the market. Recall that in May 2020 the OPEC+ agreement to reduce production by 9.7 million b/s entered into force within three months.

The inhabitants of Khabarovsk went to the hundredth of the protest in support of the arrested ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal. About this writes "Siberia. Realities." According to the publication, about 200 people gathered on Lenin Square. They chanted “We are power here!”, “Freedom to Furgal!”, As well as “Hands off the journalists” because of a recent attack on journalist Sergei Plotnikov.

“The European Union has officially introduced a new package of sanctions against Russia for false accusations of poisoning Blogger Navalny ... The sanctions are absolutely groundless, since poisoning has not been proven in any way ... On the contrary, another has been proven. Navalny had no poisoning. No poisons in the Blogger’s body was found either during his stay in the Omsk hospital or during his stay in Berlin.

The Minister of Internal Affairs Gerard Darmanen gathered on the video conference of prefects and demanded to activate the expulsion of 231 people, “undesirable foreigners”, included in the so -called list of S and suspects in radical Islamism. It is reported by Europe 1. It is clarified that the expulsion candidates have been selected so far only among illegal immigrants who are in French territory without documents and without hope to get them someday.

The Ministry of Defense of the Unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic announced the deaths of another 40 military personnel in the zone of the Karabakh conflict in the battles. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the military department. In total, according to the updated data of the Ministry of Defense, 104 military personnel of the NKR army were killed from the beginning of the hostilities on September 27.

More than 50 participants in the partisan march were detained in Minsk, Interfax reports with reference to its own correspondent. Among the detainees-both participants in the action with white-red-white flags used by the opposition, and random passers-by. People continue to move along the avenue towards the Moscow Ring Road. As the correspondent of Interfax reports, the number of participants in the march exceeded 30 thousand people.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was accused of violating quarantine after returning from the United States. About this writes The Sunday Telegraph . Blair flew to Washington on a private plane. Returning, he had to serve two -week quarantine at home. However, he was photographed in one of London’s restaurants ten days after returning. The representative of Blair said that he visited the White House in Washington.

According to preliminary estimates, the fish in the Arsha-Zelmen reservoir in Kalmykia died due to a lack of oxygen against the background of a critical decrease in the water level, Interfax reports with reference to the statement of the prosecutor's office of the republic. In addition, the department emphasized that the reservoir in which mass death of fish occurred is formed from melt and rainwater.

In Moscow, people carry flowers to the buildings of the Armenian and Azerbaijani embassy. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The photographs shows that the buildings have already have many flowers, there are photos of dead military personnel. There are also posters with the inscription "Russia with you." Since September 27, a war with Azerbaijan is in Karabakh. In addition to the military, civilians were injured and died, there are injured journalists. Tens of thousands of civilians became refugees.

Investigators began to verify information about the mass death of fish in the Arsha-Zelmen reservoir of Kalmykia. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Investigative Committee of the IC of the Russian Federation in the republic. The fact that on the shore of the Arshan-Zelmen reservoir in the Sarpinsky district of Kalmykia, a huge amount of dead fish was thrown out, a resident of the region said in social networks.

“At least such a seemingly unthinkable fact is that even professional publications with a centuries -old reputation, out of politics, publish editorial articles calling for Biden to vote for Biden. The oldest medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine “smeared” himself in this way. Published by the Medical Society of Massachusetts since 1812. Of course, the most influential in the medical environment of the whole world.

In Russia, over the past day, according to official figures, 15 099 new cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded. It is reported by the operaste. In Moscow, 4610 new cases were identified, in St. Petersburg - 674 (maximum during the pandemic), in the suburbs - 460 (record from June 25). The only Russian region, where in the last day they did not record a single new sick, became Chukotka. 185 people died in Russia in Russia per day in Russia, including 52 in Moscow and 15 in St.