The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation canceled the mitigation of the sentence to the former commander in chief of the Russian Ground Forces, Colonel General Vladimir Chirkin, from whom in February 2016 a criminal record was removed ahead of schedule, and a real term was replaced by a fine.

Microsoft included Russian among the supported languages ​​of the Skype translator and a number of other products based on the Microsoft Translator platform. The Russian has become the ninth language available to Skype users around the world, for synchronous translation of speech during video calls, the Microsoft website said.

The Emir of Dubai, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, on Monday launched the construction of The Tower - a skyscraper that will be exactly 100 meters higher than the current world record holder - the 828-meter Dubai high-rise Burj Khalifa. The new building in the Dubai Creek Harbor area is scheduled to be completed in 2020. The project is estimated at $1 billion, writes Arabian Business .

The Russian government issued a decree allowing the import of citrus and bone fruits from Turkey into Russia. The corresponding document dated October 9 is stated on the government’s website. The fact that Moscow permits the return of Turkish fruits to the Russian market was announced on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin after a meeting in Istanbul with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Employees of the patrol service of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky detained at the crime scene of the garage thief. The message that a suspicious man was trying to hack a garage entered the on -duty part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kamchatka capital on Tuesday night, October 11. The patrolmen who arrived at the scene discovered a garage with a bent sheet of metal, under which an undermining was made. Inside the room, the police saw a moved cardboard box.

State demand support programs for nine months of 2016 ensured the sale of 516 thousand units of vehicles, The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade reported on Tuesday. In particular, the vehicle fleet renewal program ensured the implementation of 313 thousand cars. AvtoVAZ remains the leader here (30% of sales), then followed by Hyundai, Volkswagen, Renault and Nissan models assembled in Russia, Interfax reports.

The Ukrainian authorities are afraid that the introduction of a visa regime with Russia will entail a massive receipt by Ukrainian citizens of Russian passports. According to a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, at present too many Ukrainians are working in the Russian Federation.

Igor Nikolaev “The upcoming changes to the tax system can be judged from a document such as the “Main Directions of Tax Policy” (ONTP). The draft of this document (for 2017 and the planning period of 2018 and 2019) was recently published by the Russian Ministry of Finance,” writes the economist in blog on the website of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" . “What is interesting about it for us, “physicists?” 1. Income tax - personal income tax (NDFL).

On Tuesday, at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that professional sports should earn their own money. At the same time, by reducing the costs of regions and state-owned companies for professional sports, it is necessary to increase funding for mass sports.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) deprived the Russian thrower of Hammer Tatyana Lysenko (in marriage - Beloborodova) of the Golden Medal of the Olympics in London after the recruitment of doping industry, according to the official website of the organization . A Turinabol was discovered in the London sample of an eminent athlete. The IOC decided to cancel the results of Lysenko at the 2012 Olympics and ordered her to return the awards won there.

Physicists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as the universities of California, Texas and Stanford have created a transistor with a record small gate size - the part of the device responsible for turning on and off, writes N+1 . An article on the development was published in the journal Science . Currently, so-called field-effect transistors consist of three elements: source, gate and drain.

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Irkutsk Region will conduct checks of the quality and legality of the production of vegetables in the region. Such an order was given on October 10 at a meeting of the heads of greenhouse farms at Iskra OJSC Governor Sergey Levchenko, the official portal of the Irkutsk region reports. Levchenko’s assignment was preceded by a complaint of the General Director of the economy of Nadezhda Litvintseva about artificial underestimation of vegetable prices from China.

The Crimean Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case against the head physician of the Republican Clinical Hospital named after Semashko in Simferopol, who was in the center of the scandal around the salaries of the leaders of the medical institution. According to the SK website , the head is suspected of committing a crime under Part 1 of Art. 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of authority).

The largest Russian manufacturer of trucks - PJSC KamAZ for nine months of 2016 received a loss of 951 million rubles against 2.7 billion rubles loss a year earlier, the company reported. Revenue amounted to 77.826 billion rubles, which is 27% more than the same period in 2015, Interfax reports. Sales of KamAZ vehicles in January-September amounted to 21,499 units, which is 23% higher than a year earlier.

The famous American composer, the holder of the four Grammy awards, Randy Newman wrote the first song in eight years - dedicated to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The composition was published in the official account of Newman on YouTube. The signature says that the song is dedicated to the "Great World Leader." The author expresses the hope that everyone will like his creation.