In Tbilisi, on October 4, the car of Givi Targamadze, a member of the Georgian parliament, who was put on the wanted list in the Russian Federation in connection with the riots on Bolotnaya Square, was blown up. Targamadze and the driver of his car, according to RIA Novosti, received "minor injuries." Interfax reports that the deputy was not injured. According to the Georgia Online website, five people were injured in the explosion, four of whom were hospitalized.

In 2015, at the request of US intelligence agencies, Yahoo created a program to analyze incoming messages from all users of its mail service. It is reported by Reuters, citing sources familiar with the situation. According to the agency, the program was designed to screen out in real time all incoming emails containing a certain combination of characters.

Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov denied the statement of the representative of the US State Department about pressure on American diplomats in Moscow. “Such fabrications have nothing to do with reality and, in fact, represent an attempt to divert attention from Washington’s own unseemly actions, including in relation to Russian citizens,” Interfax quoted Ryabkov as saying.

Alexey Arbatov - about how the Russian Federation and the United States curtail nuclear cooperation: carnegie.ru Photo: Vitaly Ivanov / TASS Dismantling reactors who have developed their life at the Zheleznogorsk Mining and Chemical Plant. Krasnoyarsk Territory, April 3, 2000 Russia announced that it refuses to fulfill the contract with the United States on the disposal of weapons Plutonium, presenting to Washington impossible requirements.

Pixel phones, virtual reality and smart column Photo: Beck Diefenbach / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On October 4, Google showed the new Pixel phones line, which replaced the Nexus series. Simultaneously with the change of name, Google decided to abandon the previous concept - now the phone from the creator of Android is not a naked operating system without superstructures, but a seriously modified OS Android 7.1 Nougat.

Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky said that he considers the filing of an application for the deprivation of his doctorate in historical sciences "a denunciation in the best traditions of Lysenkoism." “I consider this phantasmagoric story with a denunciation written by one journalist, one associate professor and one professor as a denunciation in the best traditions of Lysenkoism, but I won’t comment on it now,” he said.

Photo in the announcement: Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The Minister of Culture and the chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society, Vladimir Medinsky, actively supports the film “28 Panfilovites”, which is released in November 2016. The film talks about the feat of fighters who participated in the defense of Moscow in 1941. The State Archive of the Russian Federation convincingly showed that the “feat of the Panfilovites” is nothing more than a propaganda myth.

Explains physicist Eduard Devyatov Photo: Anders wiklund / tt / AFP / Scanpix / Leta using topology can explain how the ball differs from the bagel: one cannot be turned into another using continuous deformation. The bagel has a hole, but the ball has no. On Tuesday, October 4, the Nobel Committee called the laureates of the Physics Prize in 2016.

Photo: on Facebook Messenger earned a “secret” mode that involves encrypting messages on user devices. Thanks to this, no one outsiders can read the message - even Facebook itself. To enable the encryption mode, you need the latest version of the application. It is not turned on by default for all contacts, it must be selected separately for each contact - as in Telegram. In WhatsApp, this mode works by default for all messages.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation rejects the proposal to limit the veto power of the permanent members of the UN Security Council in connection with the humanitarian situation in Syria. This, according to Interfax, was reported by the representative of the department Maria Zakharova. Earlier, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin "has a negative attitude" to this idea.

In Omsk, a verdict was passed on repeatedly convicted Ermek Abdrakhmanov, who in one day committed crimes falling under 10 articles of the Criminal Code. Abdrakhmanov was sentenced to 21 years for murder, attempted murder of two people, illegal possession of a firearm, robbery, car theft, rape, robbery, battery, threat of murder and sexual assault.

Former State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein and granddaughter of the first KGB chairman Ivan Serov, Vera, asked the court to recover two million rubles in compensation from the Ekho Moskvy radio station for disseminating information discrediting their honor and dignity. This follows from the text of the statement of claim, published on the website of the radio station. They demanded 500,000 rubles each from historian Boris Sokolov, declared in the lawsuit as the second defendant.

On October 4, the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced that the tectonic movement of Crimea was directed to Russia: so at the time of the attachment of the peninsula, according to researchers, Crimea himself moved towards the Russian Federation.

How did Pixel phones presentation, columns and router Google Corporation held the presentation "Made by Google" on October 4. It was an “iron” event: the company showed many new devices, including Pixel phones. "Medusa" conducted a text broadcast of the presentation. October 4, 2016 20:29:05 Thanks to everyone who followed the broadcast with Medusa. Google did not have a revolution, but we will believe, hope and wait!

Photo: Vipin Kumar / Hindustan Times / Getty images On October 3, the British publishing house of Penguin announced the release of the new novel of the Indian writer Arundati Roy “The Ministry of the highest happiness” in 2017. This is the second book of the author of “God of Logs” - a novel, in 1997 awarded the Buker Prize and the highest assessment from John Apdike and Julian Barnes. "Medusa" explains who Arundati Roy is and why it is worth waiting for her new book. Who is Arundati Roy?