The head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, called the cause of difficulties in the relationship of the special services with the Telegram messenger, the incomprehensibility by the owner of the service of the importance of assisting in the fight against terrorism. With this opinion, Bortnikov made a meeting of the heads of special services, security bodies and law enforcement agencies - partners of the FSB of Russia.

The Chinese state news agency Xinhua has presented a technology that in the future can leave the leading news releases without work. We are talking about dictates with artificial intelligence (AI).

In the Saki region of Crimea, near the village of Nizinnoye, a minibus lost control and crashed into a fence. As a result, six children were injured, the head of the Crimean disaster medicine center, Sergei Astankin, told TASS on Thursday, November 8. Two victims were taken to the Saki Central District Hospital. As the district administration clarified, according to preliminary data, the driver of the minibus lost control.

US President Donald Trump selects a replacement for the former Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General Jeff Sehns, who had been dismissed by him the day before, but has not yet made a final choice. Among the most likely candidates are the head of the US Department of Health Alex Azar and the prosecutor General of Florida Pamela Bondi, reports The Wall Street Journal .

Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa, who had previously been charged with the abduction of the opposition policy of Fernando Balda in 2012, requested a shelter in Belgium, reports Reuters. The corresponding request was made in the summer of this year, the press found out. The current head of state Lenin Moreno came to power following the results of the second round of the presidential election in April 2017.

Maxim Mironov "Putin's attempts to actively intervene in the political and social life of other countries led to the fact that the Western countries made a consolidated decision: we do not want to see Russians anymore, and we do not need their money either (and those that we have already taken out, if we can confiscate, based on our anti -missile laws that we just need to begin to apply)," writes IE Business professor School in Madrid in the "Live Journal" in connection with the detention of

Over 110 billion rubles have been allocated in the city budget for the design, release of land plots and construction of the South-Eastern Expressway in Moscow, Interfax reports citing the words of the head of the Moscow Construction Department Andrei Bochkarev. “Active construction of the South-Eastern Expressway will begin next year. The entire expressway is divided into six sections, along which different types of work will be carried out in parallel.

Khabarovsk investigators began an investigation after reports appeared in the press that debt collectors threatened a local resident with violence over an unpaid debt and posted obscene photo collages of his family members on social networks. This was reported by the regional headquarters of the Investigative Committee. “A regional TV channel aired a story about a resident of Khabarovsk taking out loans from microfinance organizations.

The An-2 passenger plane made a rigid landing in the forest in the Arkhangelsk region, Interfax reports with reference to a source in emergency services. An -2 has been a flight on the internal regional route Vaskovo - Mezen. “During the flight, the commander reported on icing and requested a return to the departure airfield. Then the connection with the crew suddenly broke off,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The number of Russians who plan their lives for the next few years has decreased. Compared to 2016, the number of such citizens decreased from 17% to 11%. At the same time, 46% of Levada Center respondents do not know what will happen to them even in the coming months. The same share over the past few years was only in May 2015. 35% of respondents make plans for their lives for the next year or two. Back in May there were 40% of them, and in 2016 - 37%.

The American company Google announced to update its policy against the backdrop of a scandal around the accused of sexual harassment of top managers. This is stated in the letter of the General Director of Sundar Pinchai to employees of the corporation posted on the corporation blog, TASS reports. “We understand that in the past we made a number of mistakes for which we sincerely repent. Obviously, some changes are needed,” the text said.

The authorities of Beijing and Shanghai have introduced a system that could with high accuracy to recognize people by gait based on video analysis. It is reported by Associated Press . It is reported that the system that the police of the two largest cities in China has already been used in the work was developed by Watrix. According to the creators, the algorithm can recognize a person by gait at a distance of up to 50 meters.

Kaliningrad anarchist Vyacheslav Lukichev , against whom a criminal case was opened for publicly justifying terrorism on the Internet, was interrogated for 1.5 days. Lukichev’s lawyer Maria Bontzler told Open Russia human rights manager Valentina Dekhtyarenko about this, The Insider writes. According to Bontzler, this happened on November 4 in the presence of a lawyer by appointment, when the Kaliningrad resident was just detained.

The young woman and her 12-year-old son were found killed in the apartment of the house on Sofia Kovalevskaya Street in the north of Moscow in the evening of November 7. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case. According to the Moscow 24 TV channel, the murdered - 35 -year -old Ekaterina Smirnova. The bodies were discovered by her mother, who came to visit her daughter and grandson from the Vladimir region. She called the police.

The State Duma on Thursday adopted in the first reading a government bill on the ban on a military personnel to post information about themselves or other military in the media. In it, the military is forbidden to share photo and video materials, geolocation data and other information about themselves and other employees, Interfax reports.