Boris Dobrodeev, General Director of the VKontakte social network, holding this position since the fall of 2014, became the new head of Mail.ru Group. This was reported in the company's press release . The current CEO of Mail.ru Group Dmitry Grishin, who led the holding since 2010, left the post, but remained chairman of the company's board of directors.

The editor -in -chief of the newspaper Vedomosti Tatyana Lysova in March 2017 will leave his post. At a meeting of the board of directors of the publication on October 26, she stated that she would leave the post of head of the newspaper for family reasons and that there were no external or internal corporate reasons for her future resignation, the newspaper website said . At the same time, she will remain a member of the board of directors of the publishing house.

Argentina and Uruguay are planning to apply for a football championship in 2030. This was reported by Associated Press with reference to statements by the presidents of these two countries.

The Artistic Council of the Novosibirsk City Hall on the eve of October 25 sent for refinement a project of the monument to the border guards, not seeing on the map of Russia, depicted on the stele, the outlines of Crimea and the Kuril Islands.

The plenary session of the Open Innovation in Skolkovo forum had to be interrupted after clapping was heard in the building, RIA Novosti reports. The session was attended by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, government members, businessmen. Later it became known that there was a short circuit. Its consequences were promptly eliminated, but it was announced that there would be no continuation of the plenary meeting.

The Tver Court of Moscow fined the analytical center of Yuri Levada (Levada-Center) for 300 thousand rubles for refusing to register the environment independently as a non-profit organization that performs the function of "foreign agent". Earlier, the Center was entered in the appropriate register on the basis of a decision of the Ministry of Justice of Russia.

The Omsk Region Court sentenced four police officers who are found guilty of the detainees torture. The law enforcement officers demanded that the victims make a reservation and give confessions in the murder case. At the dock, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Pavlograd district of the Omsk Region Rustam Akhmetov, Vladislav Bogomolov, Yuri Diser and Evgeny Dubovikov were at the dock.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) published another press release on Wednesday, notifying the deprivation of the Russian national team of the 2008 Olympic Games. This time, the IOC deprived the bronze award by the runner Ekaterina Volkova, who became 3000 meters with obstacles in Beijing in the final race.

The police of the Moscow region detained natives of the post -Soviet space, who are suspected of robberies, abductions of people and extortion of money. For the liberation of the prisoner, criminals demanded several tens of millions of rubles, RIA Novosti reports.

In Israel, the vandals attacked the Basilica of the Transfiguration of the Lord, built on the spot, where, according to the Christian tradition, the appearance of Christ to the disciples in his divine greatness occurred. The hooligans robbed a box with donations, damaged the icons, stole the twitches (bowls for communion) and scattered prosphoras.

Residents of the village of Motygino Krasnoyarsk Territory picked up and sheltered the ownerless chick of Flamingo, who died from the cold. According to the Yenisei TV channel, children were found on the shore of the hangars of the Yenisei, children found on the shore of the hangars. At first, the villagers thought that this was some kind of herons. The fact that this is Flamingo was prompted by veterinarians who were attributed to the bird for examination.

At the Lakhtinsky spill in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg, the Elite residential complex "North Versailles" was erected, which, on the grounds dubious from the point of view of the law, extended its possessions to the surrounding territory, "privatizing" 600 meters of the city street and the passage to the beach, reports Fontanka.ru . As the publication found out, 44 sites with a total area of ​​more than 20 hectares are located on the territory of Versailles.

Apple recorded the fall in income following the results of the financial year for the first time since 2001, writes The Verge . According to published data , Apple's revenue according to the results of the 2016 financial year, which ended at the end of September, amounted to $ 215.6 billion, decreasing by 8% compared to last year (233.7 billion). In turn, the company's annual profit decreased from $ 53.4 billion to $ 45.7 billion.

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the two already former students of the Moscow Road Institute (MADI) to Lev Kamenetsky and Stanislav Sobolevsky, who were found guilty of the group rape of a minor girl during the dedication party. The crime was committed in the toilet of the nightclub and shot on camera. It caused a large public outcry, since the shocking video was published on the Internet. Judge Dmitry Makarenkov sentenced Lev Kamenetsky in the form of nine years in prison.

About 20% of participants in the insurance market of the Russian Federation are in the so -called "red zone" in terms of inconsistency of assets to their obligations. According to RIA Novosti , this was reported on Wednesday at a round table organized by the All -Russian Union of Insurers (VSS), director of the Bank of Russia Insurance Market Department Igor Zhuk.