French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Thursday, October 30, in an interview with RTL radio that at the moment there is no possibility of delivering the first Mistral helicopter carrier to Russia, since the conditions for its transfer have not been fully met. “The situation in Ukraine is normalizing, and Russia is playing a positive role in this... The situation has improved, but there are still reasons for concern,” the French minister emphasized.

Microsoft Corporation presented on its website a new Microsoft Band wristwatch with sensors that allow it to monitor the general vital signs of its owner, including heart rate, stress level and the number of calories burned. In total, the new gadget has ten sensors that can monitor heart function, analyze the user’s activity around the clock and monitor the level of exposure to sunlight on the owner’s body.

NATO has recorded an “unusual level” of Russian air force activity in European airspace, according to a statement published on the NATO website. NATO said that on October 28 and 29, four formations of Russian military aircraft conducted "significant military maneuvers" in European airspace over the Baltic, North and Black Seas. In particular, on Wednesday, October 29, NATO radars detected eight Russian aircraft over the North Sea: four Tu-95 (“Bear”) and four Il-78, the statement noted.

reported on Thursday, October 30 Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, during a speech at the OPORA Russia forum “Small Business: Reboot,” said that any attempts to “nightmare” business are unacceptable, Interfax . “Any attempts to terrorize business are unacceptable. This signal, unfortunately, remains relevant to this day,” the Prime Minister stated.

Pharmstandard co-owner billionaire Viktor Kharitonin bought the Nürburgring race track in Germany from Robertino Wild, who heads the racing car components supplier Capricorn, German business magazine Wirtschafts Woche reported on Thursday .

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that he knows nothing about the agreements between Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (No. 7 on the Forbes list of the richest Ukrainians, net worth $1.3 billion) on Crimea, which Ukrainian diplomat Bogdan Yaremenko had previously stated , reported on Thursday, October 30, Reuters . “I have no idea who Bogdan Yaremenko is, there are more than 3,000 such diplomats,” Peskov said.

Russia will issue special visas to foreign tourists and specialists involved in investment projects entering Crimea when crossing the border, Crimean Affairs Minister Oleg Savelyev said on Thursday. During a meeting of the Russian government on the creation of a free economic zone in Crimea, Savelyev announced a number of pilot projects in the Crimean Federal District.

AFK Sistema, controlled by billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov , signed an agreement to purchase 2,474,818 ordinary shares of its subsidiary MTS Bank, placed as part of an additional issue, in the amount of 9.46 billion rubles, the reported on Thursday. AFK press service It is planned that the transaction will be completed before the end of 2014 after fulfilling a number of conditions stipulated by the issue documents. Mobile Telesystems OJSC will also take part in the additional issue.

Photo by RIA Novosti Fierce anti-Westernism is combined with the rhetoric of the European choice, an effective manager with his own executed clergy, patriotism with total imports In the previous article, we talked about a hidden problem: postmodernism is not recognized in government and in everyday life, because they have become accustomed to it without realizing it, and therefore they do not directly see the destructive effect of postmodernist techniques.

The investment fund Templeton Emerging Markets, whose president is Mark Mobius, warned investors about the risk of confiscation of Russian assets in the event of increased mutual sanctions between Russia and the United States, according to published materials from the fund.

The Russian government has approved the creation of a free economic zone in Crimea, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. “We need to move forward, promote the law,” the Interfax agency quotes Medvedev as saying during a government meeting dedicated to the creation of a free economic zone in Crimea. The Prime Minister explained that the law could be promoted with the help of State Duma deputies and in coordination with the relevant departments.

Deputies from the LDPR proposed to include in the Code of Administrative Offenses a provision on mandatory preliminary SMS notification of the car owner about the upcoming forced evacuation of the car, Interfax reports on Thursday, October 30, with reference to the deputy head of the faction Yaroslav Nilov. According to the deputy, the State Duma is currently developing a corresponding bill.

Photo by Corbis Images In the coming years, technologies based on the laws of quantum mechanics will allow states and corporations to ensure the complete safety of their secrets Quantum cryptography makes it possible to detect any attempts to eavesdrop on communications and ensure the secrecy of transmitted information using the fundamental laws of nature, and not the technical or computational limitations of the attacker.

The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov did not confirm the information that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev allegedly wrote a letter reports on Thursday, October 30 of resignation, RIA Novosti . “I don’t know anything about this,” said the president’s press secretary.

Representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Vladimir Markin announced the initiation of a criminal case into the attack on the Russian Embassy in Kiev in June 2014, reported on Thursday, October 30.