The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) begins negotiations with leading world universities and research centers on the creation of the first three centers of science, innovation and education (TsNIO), the press service of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Korea is interested in investment cooperation with Russia in the field of technology, said the head of the Korean Association of Wendular Investors Chin Taek Pak at the Global Innovation Partnership 2012 forum, which is held from October 2 to 4, the RVK press service said. “We know that various technologies are well developed in Russia, the Korean side also has good achievements in this area. Therefore, our joint efforts in this direction could be more effective.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church allowed clergymen to participate in the elections only in order to fight opponents of the Church. This follows from the published transcript of the Synod meeting . It is noted that in the elections it is possible to take part only with the permission of the Synod itself and "in exceptional cases, for reasons of extreme church necessity." Also, priests cannot be in political parties and occupy party positions.

On October 4, in the village of Smolino, the Kirovograd region in Ukraine, a solemn ceremony of starting the construction of the plant for the factory of nuclear fuel took place. This is a Russian-Ukrainian project, in which 50% plus 1 share belongs to Ukraine (Nuclear Fuel Group of Companies), and 50% minus 1 share-Russia (fuel company TVEL).

Ilya Belov filed a civil lawsuit with a request to recover five million rubles from the Domodedovo terrorist attack in Domodedovo, the airport as compensation for non -pecuniary damage, RIA Novosti reports. According to the plaintiff, before the terrorist attack, he was able to freely go to the airport building through the zero entrance, while the airport security officers did not carry out any audit.

Sales of the first “adult” book by Joan Rowling “Free Place” brought the novel to first place in the list of bestseller in the USA and Great Britain. According to The H Ollywood Reporter , in the first six days of sales, the Americans sold 375 thousand copies of the novel - on paper and electronic media. This publication was reported by Little, Brown and Company, which published a book.

The seven - time world champion in Formula 1 class races Michael Schumacher announced his career completion at the end of the 2012 season. According to Schumacher, the decision was made due to the lack of motivation and confidence that it was worth continuing the career of the rider. The next season, Lewis Hamilton will take his place in the Mercedes team. In total, during his career, 43-year-old Michael Schumacher spent 297 Grand Prix, won 91 victories and became a winner 155 times.

Roskomnadzor is not going to block the access of minors to public networks of WiFi , but intends to discuss the mechanism for the implementation of the law that will protect children from unwanted content, the head of the department Alexander Zharov explained to Interfax .

The number of users of the social network Facebook in the morning, on October 4, exceeded a billion, wrote its creator Mark Zuckerberg. He expressed gratitude to all users of the resource And he expressed the hope that once Facebook will be able to unite the rest of the world. A document was also published, which indicates the main statistics of the resource.

Tomorrow, October 5, at the Win-Western in the Red workshop, an exhibition of young Russian artists opens “ it seems that something is missing here”. As part of the exhibition, discussion events will be held - a round table and a meeting with artists. The listeners will tell you how the artist sees time, space, streams of information with which media works and why. The exhibition will work until November 5th.

The Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that the United States transferred information about 13 Russian Spy Networks arrested in the case, which, allegedly, sold secret microelectronics to the Russian special services, RIA Novosti reports. According to the head of the foreign policy, among them are ten US citizens and three immigrants from the former socialist. Lavrov emphasized that at the moment the issue of Russian citizenship of the arrested.

The material requests of Russians in nominal terms for the year increased by 30%, while normal citizens consider income by a third higher than the actual income around the country, writes “ Independent Gazeta ” with reference to the data of sociologists of the Public Opinion Foundation. In cities, million-plus cities, 97 thousand rubles are considered normal income, and a year ago it was estimated at 82 thousand.

The deputies of the Kyrgyz parliament of Kamchybek Tashiev and Sadyr Zhaparov from the Ata-Zhurt party (Rodina) were detained for 48 hours, Knews reports with reference to Tashiyev’s lawyer Ikramidin Aitkulov. The detainees, who were sent by the SIZO GKNB after a four -hour interrogation, opened a criminal case on the fact of an attempt to violent overthrowing the authorities. The accusation of them, according to the lawyer, has not yet been brought.

A survey conducted by CNN among viewers showed that in the first debate the current president of the United States Barack Obama looked less prepared and decisive than his opponent Republican Mitt Romny, the channel’s website says. The survey showed that 67% of American viewers believe that Romny won the debate, and only 25% of the respondents gave the victory of Obama.

Natalia Demina On October 3, 2012, a university rating was published according to the weekly The Times Higher Education. In the ten best universities in the world, only small movements occurred, Harvard University went down to 4th place, losing to Stanford and Oxford. The California Institute of Technology has been holding a confident first place for the second year. From the end of the third hundred, Moscow State University moved to its beginning (from 276-300 places for 201-225), and St.