Member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture Igor Kalyapin, after a meeting with prisoner Ildar Dadin, recommended transferring him to another colony. “He needs to be transferred because the conflict is acute. In some situations, Dadin believed that he was defending human rights, but in fact he violated the detention regime and irritated the colony staff, Kalyapin told Vedomosti.

The head of the Chinese company LeEco, which has just introduced a smartphone, TVs and a bicycle on Android and is going to invest a billion dollars in Russia, complained about a lack of money. Jia Yueting wrote about this in a letter to employees, excerpts from which were published by the Global Times newspaper and the Bloomberg agency. In the letter, he wrote that the company had grown too fast while it did not have the resources to do so.

Photo: Sergey Gritz / AP / Scanpix / Leta on November 7, on the anniversary of the October Revolution, a restored monument to Lenin was opened in Minsk. He used to stand on the territory of the Minsk Tractor Plant, but the management of the enterprise decided - at the request of “veterans and communists” - to install it outside the plant. During the opening ceremony, the police detained an activist who protested against the installation of the monument.

Mara Baghdasaryan, a participant in the Gelendvagen race, was arrested for 10 days for failure to pay a fine for violating traffic rules. On November 7, the Savelovsky Court of Moscow considered four facts of non-payment of the fine: one was acquitted, two were given a total of 75 hours of compulsory work. In total, Mara Baghdasaryan did not pay 51 fines. The Court will continue to consider these offenses separately.

The Russian Ministry of Transport announced on November 7 that it would not suspend flights to Tajikistan. The parties agreed on the "preservation and development of air communication between the countries." On November 3, the Russian Ministry of Transport announced that flights to Tajikistan could be suspended because Dushanbe refuses to coordinate flights from the airport in Zhukovsky.

The National Bank of Ukraine sent out a message to banks about a ban on interaction with the Yandex.Money, Qiwi, Single Wallet and Webmoney payment systems. As stated in the document, the National Bank did not coordinate the operation of these systems, so they are banned. to Kommersant The National Bank confirmed that they really reminded market participants of the ban on the use of uncoordinated payment systems.

Two inmates from London's Pentonville Prison have escaped. They managed to fool the guards by placing mannequins in the bed. How exactly they managed to get out of the cells and overcome the prison fence is not known for certain. According to one version, the prisoners sawed through the bars with diamond-coated tools. For what the fugitives were convicted, it is not specified. According to The Daily Mail, one of them is 28 years old, the other is 31 years old.

Airbnb forced users to accept the manifesto against discrimination Photo: John Macdougall / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Since November 1, new rules aimed at combating discrimination began to operate on Airbnb - the largest site for searching for rented housing. The document , called the “obligations of the members of the Airbnb community”, prohibits users - both homeowners and potential tenants - discrimination by any signs, from race and religion to sexual orientation.

Photo: Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili on Monday November 7 resigned. The former Georgian president spoke about his decision at a briefing in Odessa. Saakashvili criticized the central Ukrainian authorities, saying: “It makes no difference who will rob Ukrainians - Poroshenko or Yanukovych.” Now, most likely, he will lead the political party "Hwil" ("Wave"). Medusa talks about what he managed to do in the position of governor and why he quit.

The owner of a noodle shop in the city of Brisbane (Australia) Hunter Hu scared off a 19-year-old robber who handed over a note demanding to give him all the money from the cash register. The young man also said that he had a knife. Hu did not lose his head, took two cleavers from the kitchen and began to threaten the robber himself. The young man got scared and ran out of the cafe. The man ran after him. According to Hu, during the chase, he yelled , “Do you have a knife?

Mara Baghdasaryan, a participant in the race with the police on the Gelendvagen, was sentenced to 75 hours of compulsory labor for failure to pay two fines for violating traffic rules. In total, she did not pay 16 fines. The Court will continue to consider these materials separately. The court decided that Baghdasaryan's repeated evasions from paying fines and her numerous bringing to administrative responsibility did not allow her to impose a fine as a punishment.

In recent years, it has become fashionable to work standing up - it seems to be more useful than sitting all day. Usually, special high tables are used for this (in special cases, tables with variable height). But such tables are not cheap, and not everyone can afford them. A photo of an employee of a company who decided to work at a computer while standing was published on Reddit. He did not buy a high table, but simply dismantled the floor and stood in the pit. Brilliant!

How the convicts are tortured in Russia - and what happens for this colonies Photo: Valeria Prikhodkina / "Human Rights Environmentalists of the Urals" Protest of protest of convicts on the roof of the corps in correctional colony No. 6, Chelyabinsk region on November 25, 2012 On November 1, Medusa published an opposition to the opposition Ildar Dadin about torture in correctional colony No. 7, where he is serving a term in the case of repeated violations of the rules for rallies and pickets.

The minimum cost of a package of 19.5 percent of Rosneft shares subject to privatization is set at 748.26 billion rubles, Alexei Ulyukaev, head of the Ministry of Economic Development, told Interfax. The package price is calculated on the basis of Rosneft stock quotes as of October 11, the discount is 5 percent. Taking into account the discount, the transaction amount will be about 710.8 billion rubles.

Blizzard Entertainment Google Deepmind was the first to create artificial intelligence, who defeated a professional player in Go - an ancient game with a huge number of passages. Now the company has set itself an even more ambitious goal: to teach artificial intelligence to play Starcraft II - one of the most popular strategies in the world. For this, DeepMind, along with the developer of the game - Blizzard - will release a platform for convenient interaction with Starcraft II.