Representatives of the hacker movement Anonymous reacted negatively to Wikileaks' decision to demand money from those wishing to familiarize themselves with the "leaks" published on the site. On October 11, in one of the most popular microblogs associated with the movement, wishes appeared for the resource to “burn in hell.” The day before, Wikileaks began publishing materials related to the US presidential election campaign.

The browser, released by Yandex , gained a million downloads in 11 days. This is stated in a Yandex message received by the editors of Lenta.ru. Yandex presented the browser on October 1 at the YaC technology conference in Moscow. The web browser became available for download on the same day at 17:00 Moscow time. Yandex Browser can be installed on computers running Windows and Mac OS. "Yandex.Browser" is based on the WebKit engine and the Chromium shell.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was announced in Oslo. In 2012, the award was awarded to the European Union. The ceremony is broadcast live on the award website. As the organizers explained, the EU received the prize for the development of democracy in Europe and reconciliation between the countries of the region after the Second World War.

Left Front activist Oleg Prudnikov was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest, according to the OVD-Info website. The court found him guilty of disobeying lawful orders of police officers during a rally on Red Square in support of Vladimir Akimenkov, a person involved in the Bolotnaya case. As activist Kirill Mikhailov tweeted , supporters escorted Prudnikov from the courtroom shouting “Putin will be executed.” to him According , the oppositionist went on a dry hunger strike.

So there was a reason for it How to recognize a Chinese Nobel writer The Nobel Prize winner in literature, Chinese Mo Yan, is practically unknown in Russia. Agree, this statement is quite paradoxical, even if you consider that he was awarded the prize only yesterday.

Greece-registered Coca-Cola Hellenic, the second largest packager and distributor of Coca-Cola products in the world and the largest company in Greece, will move its headquarters to Switzerland. This is stated in the official press release of Coca-Cola Hellenic itself. In addition, the company intends to delist its shares from the Athens Stock Exchange and obtain a premium listing in London.

Recently, several key top managers have left the Russian-British company TNK-BP. In particular, as Reuters reports , citing sources in the management of TNK-BP, on Friday, October 12, the dismissal of Vice President for Production Alexander Dodds will be announced. According to the agency, several high-ranking managers had previously left TNK-BP, including the head of the oil trading department and the head of the mergers and acquisitions department.

The heads of Moscow government wrote letters of gratitude to themselves on the “Our City” portal. According to RIA Novosti , Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova spoke about this at an operational meeting. Such thanks were rejected by the site's moderation service. Moderators discovered more than three and a half thousand dubious messages (for how long is not specified).

Rihanna announced the release of her new album on Twitter. The singer's seventh album is called "Unapologetic", it will be released on November 19, 2012. The disc will be published by Def Jam and SRP Records. The record was produced by American Benny Blanco and the Norwegian team Stargate. For the cover of the disc, the singer posed naked. The cover also has words written on it - "Side Effects", "Diamonds", "Love", "Chalice", "Fearless" - which appear to be song titles.

12.10.2012, 18:23:25 version Print | PDA/PDA Zaza Burchuladze. Photo by arili2.blogspot.com We're in the middle of nowhere Georgian writer Zaza Burchuladze told Lenta.ru about the disadvantages of Saakashvili A few days ago, contemporary Georgian writer Zaza Burchuladze was severely beaten in the center of Tbilisi. He became the first writer from Georgia to be translated into Russian after the collapse of the USSR.

Russia - Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo is cheerful and cheerful during training in Moscow. Photo by RIA Novosti, Ilya Pitalev The Russian national team faced a difficult match for first place in the group, albeit an intermediate one. Cristiano Ronaldo and help in the form of the rest of the Portuguese national team came out against the Russians on the wet Luzhniki field. The Portuguese coach said before the match that they came to win, but in the end they left as losers.

12.10.2012, 17:44:09 version Print | PDA/PDA Argentine Navy ship Libertad. Photo ©AP Who will remember the old Argentine ship seized in Ghana at suit of US billionaire The economic crisis in Argentina ten years ago, due to which the country declared a default and spent a long time negotiating debt restructuring, will haunt Buenos Aires for a long time.

The Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) estimated income from pension reform measures in 2013 at 65.4 billion rubles. According to the Kommersant newspaper, the changes have already been included in the fund’s budget for next year. Thus, the increase in insurance premiums for workers in hazardous industries in 2013 will additionally bring 24.7 billion rubles to the budget, in 2014 - 48.2 billion rubles, and in 2015 - 80.5 billion.

Moscow riot police refused to go to work because their schedule was too busy and there were no days off. reported this on October 11 Interfax with reference to the head of the coordination council of the Moscow police union, Mikhail Pashkin. The union was contacted by employees of the fourth battalion of the Moscow riot police, who stated that they did not want to work for the seventh day in a row. The number of riot police who refused to work is not specified.

About the essence of spoons Physicists have come up with a way to test the reality of the Matrix US and German physicists Silas Bean, Zohra Davoudi and Martin Savage have proposed an experimental way to test a philosophical idea known as the simulation hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, there is a possibility that we live inside a huge computer model that some posthumans launched to study their own past.