The government approved the Decree on the postponement of weekends in 2018. The document published on the website of the Government of the Russian Federation was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. In accordance with the decree in 2018, weekends on January 6 and 7 (Saturday and Sunday), coinciding with non-working holidays, are transferred to March 9 and May 2, respectively.

Experts drew attention to the description of the iOS 11.0.3 operating system update, which talks about the possibility of disabling smartphones that had non-original displays installed during repairs. The new operating system update should fix several bugs. "We have resolved a touch issue not working on iPhone 6S that was causing some devices' screens to become unresponsive due to counterfeit parts.

In Kiev, two law enforcement officials were injured in clashes on Tuesday, October 17, with the rally rags protected by the building of the Verkhovna. A criminal case has been opened, the Ministry of the Interior of Ukraine reports .

The Venetian authorities have put up for auction places in the cemetery and ancient chapels on the island of San Michele. For a place in one of the 17 chapels they want to receive from 200 to 335 thousand euros, and in total they expect a profit of up to two million euros from the auction. They want to use the money to maintain Venetian cemeteries. The island of San Michele is known as the largest and most picturesque cemetery in Venice.

“Today everyone is asking about the reasons for the murder of journalist and blogger Daphne in Malta. I can tell you what happened in Malta in the last two years,” Ilya Shumanov, deputy director of Transparency International Russia, writes on Facebook . The Panama Archive contained the name of only one active European minister. It turned out to be the Minister of Energy of Malta, Konrad Mizzi.

On the night of October 18, in Irkutsk, a house on Kurortnoy Street caught fire, which housed a private and not -resolved house of the elderly. Four links of firefighters and rescuers organized the evacuation of 16 people blocked in the smoke covered by smoke. The helpless old people were taken to the balcony of the second floor, and from there they lowered down on soft stretchers.

Over the past month, 22 automakers have changed the price of their new passenger cars on the Russian market, reports the analytical agency Autostat based on the results of a study covering the period from September 16 to October 15, 2017. For a number of companies, price adjustments affected several models. Thus, German Audi increased the price of the A3 Sportback by 1-2.8%, the A3 Sedan by 1-2.7%, the A5 coupe by 1.1-1.2% and the A5 Sportback by 1.1-1.3%.

Russian dealers of the Czech automaker Skoda, part of the Volkswagen concern, began accepting orders for the Kodiaq Scout crossover “with an off-road character” on October 18, reports Skoda Auto Russia . The new product is offered with two petrol and one diesel engines. The cheapest modification, equipped with a 1.4 TSI engine with 150 hp. With. in combination with a DSG-6 gearbox, will cost domestic buyers from 2,193,000 rubles.

In the St. Petersburg maternity hospital N17 on the morning of October 17, a woman gave birth to a quarter, according to the website of the medical institution. The birth was taken by the head physician and 22 more medications. Patient Elena Gonchar became the mother of three girls and one boy. Each child weighs a little more than one and a half kilograms, they have to gain weight in the intensive care unit, where they were placed immediately after birth.

The metropolitan police are looking for unknown people who threw stones into the passing railway trains on the Novogireevsky bridge. Five trains were subjected to shelling in total. Enough injuries received one person.

The American producer Bob Weinstein was accused of sexual harassment, like his older brother Harvey , Variety reports. Amanda Segel, the executive producer of the series "Mlag", spoke about the harassment of Bob to the magazine. Harvey Weinasheat the day before was finally fired from the Weinstein Company film company he founded. He previously stated that his brother was initiated by a wave of accusations against him to select the business. Now Bob is also accused.

Two doctors of historical sciences - Professor MGIMO Mikhail Slavkov and politician, publicist, philosopher, member of the Academy of Political Sciences, professor of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov Sergey Chernyakhovsky - published an article in the Rossiy newspaper , in which they stood up for the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, accused of "unprofessionalism" when writing a doctoral dissertation.

In the Omsk region, a 19-year-old local resident was detained who killed his adult mistress, and then drowned the corpse in the swamp. The young man admitted to the crime when he began to pursue the ghost of the deceased. A 26-year-old girl from the Znamensky district disappeared in early August. She quarreled with her mother and left the house. At first she answered the calls, and on August 16 she stopped picking up.

The Moscow CSKA on Wednesday lost to the Swiss Basel in the home match of the third round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions Football League . The meeting at the VEB Arena stadium in Moscow ended with a score of 2-0 in favor of the visitors, which distinguished Taulant Jaka (29 ') with a long blow and a replacement of Dimitri Oberlin (90'), which realized one on one with a goalkeeper.

In Irkutsk, when digging a trench for communications, there was a collapse of soil, two workers died, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Irkutsk region. The tragedy occurred on Zakharov Street on the evening of October 17. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as a result of the collapse of four workers, citizens of Uzbekistan, were underground.