A possible transaction for the sale of Sberbank of 30% of Yandex shares, rumors about which appeared last week, was discussed by the parties only in an informal setting. This was written by the newspaper Financial Times with reference to several sources. As two people close to Sberbank told the publication, the proposal to buy a large share of Yandex was nominated at the beginning of the year, but the general director of Yandex Arkady Volozh rejected it. “It was a conversation over a cup of tea.

Ex-President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev announced the new stage of the arms race between Russia and the USA. He expressed this opinion in an article published in The New York Times , According to Gorbachev, the US plans to exit the medium and lower -range missiles and the increase in nuclear weapons destroy the system of international treaties and agreements, which served as the fundamental foundation of peace and security after the Second World War.

Nikolai Travkin "In May, Vladimir Putin to commemorate his next victory in the presidential election and, in gratitude to the Russians, signed the decree for the right choice. The decree orders the Russians to live 6 years longer and not deny themselves anything," the former politician writes on his Facebook page.

The New Times and its editor-in-chief Yevgeny Albats were fined by the decision of the magistrate court for 22 million rubles for "untimely provision of information in Roskomnadzor," the chief of the Echo of Moskvy radio station Alexei Venediktov reports in his telegram channel . “This, of course, is the ruin and closing of the magazine. Another -1 independent media,” the journalist wrote.

The head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, asked the FSB to return to him two million rubles, which he issued from his pocket to capture the bribe takers.

On October 26, Apple began selling the iPhone XR smartphone, which was introduced in September along with the iPhone XS and XS Max models, but entered the market a month later. Sales of the iPhone XR in Russia also began today (in the case of this smartphone model, Russia was included in the list of “first wave” countries), and pre-orders started on October 19. The cost of a smartphone on the Russian market ranges from 64,990 to 77,990 rubles.

The US Department of Defense suspenses at least 24 multifunctional F-35 bombers in order to eliminate problems in the fuel supply system. According to Defense News , the inspection revealed two parts at once, the performance of which must be checked in order to avoid accidents. Earlier, the Pentagon has already suspended flights of all aircraft of this type to conduct a study of possible problems in their engines after the crash of the F-35B in South Carolin at the end of September.

The White House denied the article by The New York Times, according to which the phones of US President Donald Trump are listened to Russia and China. According to the representative of the White House Hogan Gidley, whose words are quoted by The Hill portal, the newspaper "presented inaccurate information." According to him, the president uses not three iPhone, but only one government mobile phone.

The publication "Gromadske" was published by Oleg Sentsov, which he wrote in September during a hunger strike. In it, the director asks to film films according to his scenarios. Sentsov's testament was on September 7 and transferred to the publication through his sister Natalya Kaplan. The document was assured by lawyer Dmitry Dinze.

You can get a compulsory medical insurance policy (compulsory medical insurance) until November 1, and then there will be a break in the issuance of policies until January 2019. After the appearance of this information in the media, the press service of "My documents" explained that a break of two months applies only to cases of changing the insurance company.

Roskomnadzor will demand to fine Google for non -fulfillment of the requirements of the legislation, according to which the search engine was obliged, but did not connect to the state system with the list of sites prohibited in Russia. "Earlier, Roskomnadzor sent a requirement to connect to the Federal State Information System to the Google company.

The Yaroslavl Regional Court on Friday, October 26, rejected the complaint of the lawyers of former prisoner Yevgeny Makarov, who was subjected to torture, to establish administrative supervision over him after his release. TASS reports this. “The decision of the Zavolzhsky District Court is left unchanged, the complaint is not satisfied,” said the chairman of the judicial panel, Elena Shchegolkova. Makarov’s lawyer, Irina Biryukova, said that she intends to appeal the court’s decision.

American authorities would like to hold strategic negotiations with Russia regarding China's hostile actions, said US National Security Adviser John Bolton. He made the statement in an interview with Reuters in Tbilisi, where he arrived for talks with senior Georgian government officials. According to Bolton, China’s missile potential poses a threat to the Russian Federation, since the “heart of Russia” is within the reach of Chinese missiles.

At the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo, deputy prosecutor of Bashkiria Oleg Gorbunov, suspected of receiving a bribe of 10 million rubles, was detained. He tried to leave Russia. In the near future, Gorbunov will be charged, and the investigation intends to petition the court about the election of a preventive measure in the form of detention in the form of detention, according to the website of the regional IC of the Russian Federation.

Alexey Roshchin “The Kremlin is now reminiscent of the same Chukchu from the joke that enters the tram and buys two tickets,” writes a political strategist in a “living magazine” . "The conductor is interested - why do you need two? - Chukchi smart, adnaka! Here I take one ticket, put in my left pocket. If he is suddenly lost - here, in the right pocket there is another ticket, a spare!