At once, a dozen Yandex managers became millionaires overnight, selling stakes that received the company's option program. Two of them - the editor -in -chief of Yandex Elena Kolmanovskaya and the head of the development department Alexei Mazurov - and received more than $ 10 million for shares. In general, private business and rather modest news from the world of business. Optional programs operate in so many companies for a long time (in the same Yandex since 2007) - ordinary practice.

The lawyer of the Public Verdict Foundation appealed to the Investigative Committee with a request to institute criminal proceedings on the fact of the death of Ivan Ignatov, who in the fall of 2009 fell out of the office of the investigator of the operational-search part of the criminal police of the Voronezh region, the press service of the human rights organization reports.

The Russian Automobiles Federation (FAR) asked the State Duma to create a special body that would investigate an accident involving drunken representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other law enforcement agencies. Police and prosecutors, due to their position and ties, often evade responsibility, say in the headlights.

17 top managers of Yandex, including developers, editors, financiers and lawyers, sold about 2.7 million shares of the company as part of the option, reports Vedomosti in the article by Yandex to the first ten employees with millionaires (No. 197, of October 17). All this package yesterday cost more than $ 60 million.

Dmitry Medvedev signed a government decree, according to which several holidays will be translated in 2013. So, the weekend from January 5 and 6 (this is Saturday and Sunday), as well as from February 23 (falls on Saturday), they will not be transferred to the following dates, but will be added to the May holidays. Thus, the Russians in 2013 will have 10 days of rest for the New Year in a row (from December 30 to January 8) and 9 in May.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the leader of the “Left Front” by Sergei Udaltsov after checking the facts from the film “Anatomy of Protest-2”, the RIA Novosti website reports. The SK explained that the case was initiated by the fact of preparation for riots. The defendants in the case are searches. According to an appropriate article, he can face up to 10 years in prison.

In Armenia, the court ended in the case of the explosion of balloons that occurred during the election rally of Yerevan in May 2012, as a result of which more than 150 people were injured, reports News.am. By one year of imprisonment, the only accused in this case was sentenced - a private entrepreneur Serob Bozoyan, who filled the balls with cheaper explosive methane, and not inert helium, which is usually used for such purposes.

The possibilities of heat saving in houses through the thickening of the walls have reached the limit, further savings should be achieved through technological solutions as air recovery and alternative energy sources, said Sergey Lyovkin, head of the Moscow Department of City Planning Policy, said on October 16 at the Citybuild International Exhibition, the Moscow Government Information Center reports.

Photo: Openberg.ru The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia has published a draft federal law providing for the introduction of provisions to the Water and Land Code of the Russian Federation, obliging coastal land owners to ensure the access of citizens to the coastal lanes of water bodies.

The first task in the field of Moscow’s ecology was the general cleaning of natural territories, said the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin, speaking today, October 17, to the deputies of the Moscow City Duma with an annual report on the results of the Moscow government. According to the mayor, in 2011 more than 65 thousand cubic meters were taken out of the city. Marmar, eliminated hundreds of illegal landfills.

The project for the tolerance of cellular numbers in Russia will most likely be implemented within the framework of the regions, and not at the federal level, Interfax reports. This was announced on Wednesday by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich following the results of a conciliation meeting with departments and telecom operators participating in the development of the relevant bill.

In 2013-2015, Russia will spend 101.15 billion rubles on nuclear weapons. This was announced by the head of the State Duma Committee on Defense Vladimir Komoedov , reports the RIA Novosti website. So, in 2013, 29.28 billion rubles will be allocated from the budget for these purposes, in 2014 - 33.3 billion rubles and in 2015 - 38.57 billion rubles. Komoedov recalled that in 2012, nuclear weapons amounted to 27.4 billion rubles.

The Yuzhnoy design bureau from Dnepropetrovsk, together with the International Academy of Astronautics, work out the possibility of implementing a project for burial of the most dangerous radioactive waste in distant space, reports Interfax-Ukraine .

The Moscow News website has published a map of the best Moscow schools. It highlights the best 100 schools in Moscow near neighboring Moscow metro stations. The position of schools in the ranking of the Moscow Department of Education was determined depending on the results of passing the Unified State Exam and performance at scientific Olympiads. The complete list of the 300 best schools in Moscow can be found on the MN website.

On October 17, the Smolensk Regional Court removed the cassation appeal of Taisia ​​Osipova against the verdict, according to which she received eight years of a general regime colony, Rapsei reports. Now the case will be returned to the Utneprovsky court of Smolensk to determine the new date of consideration of the complaint. When the judicial board began to consider the complaint, it turned out that the defense of Osipova introduced an addition to her complaint.