This year, Abijit Banerji (India), Esther Dufflo (France) and Michael Kremer (USA) "for an experimental approach to reducing the scale of poverty in the world," the Nobel Committee’s website reported. All three scientists work in the USA: Banerji and Duflo - at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Kremer - at Harvard. Until now, there was only one woman among the laureates of the Economics Prize - Elinor acute, she received a prize in 2009.

The Moscow City Court considers the complaint to the programmer Konstantin Kotov, who was previously sentenced to four years in colony for participating in four peaceful protests. According to Mediazona , among those gathered at the meeting, which was considered an appeal for Kotov’s sentence, previously convicted under the same article Ildar Dadin, as well as the accused in the “New Greatness” case of Anna Pavlikova and his mother.

In early September, Porsche officially introduced its first serial electric car. Then Porsche showed top versions of the model (Taycan Turbo and Turbo S), and a month later with a small company announced the output of the cheaper Taycan modification, which received the designation 4s. Outwardly, the most affordable Taycan can be identified by a simplified design of 19-inch discs and a slightly different design of the front.

People's Artist of the RSFSR Mikhail Boyarsky, who for some time now does not care about traffic rules , said that the current Russian football team, which made it to Euro 2020 ahead of schedule, is the strongest in history. “It’s so unusual that ours win 4:0 and 5:0 , that there is a joyful surprise. Well done to the young guys who don’t stop even after 3:0, bringing the score to this level. I’m afraid to get used to it, because all the excitement loses its meaning: Everything comes too easily.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan court with a request to suspend the ICO Telegram and was able to achieve a temporary ban on the sale of GRAM cryptocurrency. This became known from the message on the website of the department published on October 11. The regulator received a temporary trial against two offshore companies related to the sale of GRAM tokens - Telegram Group Inc. and her "daughter" Ton Issuer Inc.

Visa, MasterCard, Stripe and Mercado Pago, as well as Ebay, October 11, left the Libra Association, which controls the cryptocurrency project of the Facebook social network. This was announced by a number of media, including Bloomberg and The Verge . This happened a week after the project left the PayPal payment system. VISA reported that the company decided to wait for the accession to the Facebook project.

Residents of the city of Fort Wort in the American state of Texas reached a protest of protest after a white policeman shot a black girl in her own house in front of her eight-year-old nephew. The tragedy occurred on the night of October 12, the dead Atatian Jefferson was 28 years old. The police were called the police, who was alerted that the door of her house has been open for several hours.

The American aerospace company Stratolaunch Systems, which develops the Stratolaunch aircraft with a record wingspan, announced the owner’s change, writes The Verge . The company’s report, published in the official microblog on Twitter, said that Stratolaunch Systems does not belong to the Vulcan holding, as it was sold. The transaction value and the name of the new owner in Stratolaunch Systems are not disclosed.

The Turkish military markedly strengthened their successes in Syria, gaining control of the track about 30 km from the border. This looked like the rapid success of the Operation "The Source of the World", which sets the purpose of the elimination of Kurdish formations, which Ankara considers terrorists.

An open slap championship took place in Arkhangelsk, in which eight brutal men took part. The athletes were divided into pairs, each of the opponents had three attempts to hit. And if the first couples treated each other very carefully, then by the end of the event the cheeks of the opponents were no longer spared, generously leaving sports magnesium on them, which was used to lubricate the palms.

The head of Abakan Nikolai Bulakin died in an accident, according to the website of the government of the republic. According to TASS, the accident occurred near Minusinsk, near the village of Topolka of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. According to preliminary data, the mayor lost control, the car drove into a ditch and ran into a tree. Bulakin died on the spot. “Today, Khakassia suffered an irreparable loss.

One person died as a result of the explosion and collapse of the inter -apartment partition in a residential panel house in the Primorsky Territory. This was reported to TASS in the emergency services of the region. "There was a collapse of the inter-apartment partition and the ceiling on the 4th floor, a staircase march from the 5th floor of the 4th floor of a five-story residential panel house. Previously, a woman died, the reason is specified," said emergency services.

Türkiye is trying to most effectively protect its border with Syria from terrorist attacks. At the same time, Ankara is shocked by the condemnation of her actions by a number of allies, said the head of the Turkish parliament Mustafa Schentop. "We have a rather long border with Syria, which is 107 kilometers and, of course, being so close to such a conflict zone, we think about how to act as efficiently as possible.

“According to the classical qualification of Max Weber, there are three types of political domination: charismatic, traditional and rational. The first is kept on the charisma of the leader, the second - on the traditions transmitted from generation to generation, the third on the rational interest of people (I am simplifying for brevity),” the sociologist writes on his Facebook page. "The Stalinist regime was charismatic, Brezhnevsky-traditional.

The former goalkeeper of the London football clubs Chelsea and Arsenal Peter Czech debuted as the goalkeeper of the English hockey team Gilford Fe-Nicks , with which he signed the contract last week. The new team of the 37-year-old Czech station wagon won Suidon Wildkats with a score of 3: 2 in a series of post-match shootouts. According to the results of the meeting, Peter was recognized as the best player of the meeting, showing himself perfectly in the key moments of the match.