On October 10, VKontakte turned 10 years old. In honor of this, the social network launched a mini-service “Remember the moments from the past, as it was”, in which you can see some data about your page. The service shows the first status, first photos, audio recordings, graffiti and user friends. In addition, in it you can see the age of the page, the number of messages sent and set likes, as well as a social column built in the form of the VKontakte logo.

Samsung said it would ask "partners around the world" to stop selling and trading Galaxy Note 7 phones until an investigation into "recent incidents" involving the model is completed. “Owners of both original and replacement Galaxy Note7s should turn off the device and stop using it,” the company said in a statement. Earlier it became known that Samsung again suspended production of Galaxy Note 7 phones.

Facebook launched the Workplace website, a paid social network for work communication. The site is designed in almost the same way as Facebook, while users of the popular social network will need a separate account to work on it. Workplace, unlike Facebook, will not have ads. Workplace does not provide a service for working with documents, writes Recode. Early posts about Facebook at Work (working name for the network) reported that the service might have such a feature.

Roskomnadzor will add the website of the Children-404 project , which provides assistance to homosexual teenagers, to the register of prohibited sites if prohibited information is not removed from it within 24 hours. This was reported by site administrator Elena Klimova with reference to a letter from the department. According to her, the letter was sent on October 10. Roskomnadzor did not specify what information was declared prohibited by the court, Klimova said.

The Russian government lifted the ban on the import of Turkish fruits. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin after talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Today, the Russian government has decided to allow a whole group of Turkish goods on the Russian market, these are the so-called stone fruit and citrus products,” Putin said. When the government's decision will come into force, the president did not specify.

Shares of Twitter fell more than 13 percent in early trading on October 10 in the US. Thus, over the last three trading sessions, they have fallen in price by almost a third. If on October 5 they cost more than $24.9, then on October 10 they cost less than $17.2. Twitter shares are getting cheaper as investors stop believing that a competitor will buy the company.

The energy ministers of the Russian Federation and Turkey signed an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. It is reported by TASS. This happened in Istanbul, where earlier talks were held between the presidents of both countries.

Explains the chief economist of the EBRR Sergey Guriev Photo: Shi Tiansheng / Sipa USA / Scanpix / Leta On October 10, the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the Economics Prize. This year she went to British Oliver Hart and Finn Bengt Holmstrem for his contribution to the development of contract theory.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against two police officers from Kaluga and their friend, who set up an accident with a car of a person without a driver's license and then extorted money from him for not filling out a report.

Randy Newman is one of the most notable American pop composers of the last 50 years: he composed songs for the big stars of the 1960s (Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, Jerry Butler, and so on), released albums himself, made musicals (based on Faust, for example), and most importantly - he worked a lot in the cinema.

The Australian company Lucapa Diamond mines diamonds in Angola. And from large screened pieces of rock, he builds roads around the field. Or rather, built. In February 2016, the company accidentally discovered an elongated 404-carat thumb-like diamond.

The bill on the ban on the use of baby boxes, introduced to the State Duma by Senator Elena Mizulina and deputy Oleg Mikheev, needs "substantial improvement", according to the official response of the Russian government. The government indicated that the Convention on the Rights of the Child requires states to ensure both the right of children to survival and healthy development, and the right to know their parents and the right to be cared for by them.

And what was inspired by its creators HBO / "Amediathek" The HBO TV channel on October 2 began to show the new series “The World of the Wild West”-the science fiction thriller from producer Jonathan Nolan with Anthony Hopkins in the title role. The start of the series turned out to be very successful: it is discussed no less than at one time “Game of Thrones” or “to stay alive”. "Medusa" explains why the "world of the Wild West" was so loved by everyone - and what its creators were inspired by.

The Writers' Union of Russia and the Investigative Committee have signed a cooperation agreement. The corresponding document was signed by the chairman of the board of the union, Valery Ganichev, and the head of the UK, Alexander Bastrykin. In his speech, Bastrykin called the Writers' Union a patriotic and sovereign organization. “The tasks of preserving and protecting historical truth, reliable ensuring the information security of Russia are becoming more and more urgent and complex.

Photo in the announcement: Toru Hanai / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Igor Sechin won the court of Novaya Gazeta. Judge Galina Grabovskaya agreed with the representatives of Igor Sechin, who insisted that there was no social significance in information about the yacht on which the wife of the top manager of the state company rests. Grabovskaya decided to refute that Sichin can be associated with a yacht called his wife, as well as the fact that the expenses of the top manager exceed income.