The VMA company, who was famous for the collective lawsuit of copyright holders against the VKontakte social network, demanded that the Russian representative offices Apple, Google and Microsoft delete all VKontakte applications or put social networks to disconnect the function that allows you to listen to music and view the video.

The new council of grants of the Government of the Russian Federation was approved by the order of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on October 15, 2012. In addition to the Minister of Education and Science of Dmitry Livanov and his deputy Igor Fedyukin, historian Pavel Uvarov, an expert in the field of management processes, one of the leaders of the Society of Scientists Alexander Fradkov and other acting scientists, not administrators.

The Greek police confirmed that during the protest in Athens, a man died. Presumably, he died before law enforcement officers began to use tear gas against protesters, writes The Guardian . The police representative Lieutenant Colonel Manouras Christ said that the body of the deceased was taken to the hospital. The autopsy will take place in the near future, he emphasized, noting that, according to preliminary data, a heart attack or stroke was the cause of death.

Russian President Vladimir Putin reported to the Cabinet of Ministers because of the protracted process of transferring licenses to develop the Rosneft and Gazprom shelf and demanded to solve this issue before November 1, Interfax reports with reference to his disposal. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Minister of Natural Resources Sergey Donskoy confirmed that at the moment the relevant departments are in the coordination of the issuance of licenses to state-owned companies.

In Moscow, a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of an attack on a LGBT party in the 7 Freedays club, as a result of which three people were injured, Rapsei reports. The case was instituted on the fact of intentional infliction of easy harm to the health of the girl who suffered at the hands of the attackers during the party.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in the case of the organization of riots until December 16 Konstantin Lebedev , assistant coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov, reports Gazeta.ru . During the meeting, the judge read out the materials of the case, according to which Sergey Udaltsov, Konstantin Lebedev and Leonid Razvoszhaev, as well as other unidentified persons, prepared mass riots in Moscow, Kaliningrad, Vladivostok and other cities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin knows about the situation with the commander of the Ski pilot group by lieutenant colonel Valery Morozov, however, according to the army charter, it is impossible to turn through the head of a higher boss, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov.

The Moscow City Court will consider the case of the retired Colonel of the GRU Vladimir Kvachkov in closed mode, said RAPSI. The court made such a decision, since some of the investigation materials are marked by the “secret” stamp. Kvachkov is accused of trying to organize a military rebellion and complicity with terrorism, so he cannot ask for jury. The three professional judges will listen to the matter. The first meeting is scheduled for October 31.

The mayor of Batumi Dzhemal Ananidze opened a 25-meter tower-Fontane tower in the city center, where instead of water is used by the National Georgian alcohol drink, Interfax reports. The fountain was called "Chacha-Tower." However, Chacha will go only once a week for 10 minutes. At the opening of the guest, they gave me a drink from a special apparatus. The construction of the object cost the city hall in 490 thousand dollars. Chacha belongs to the grape brandy class.

The script of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, which will be held on February 7, 2014 at the Central Stadium, will be built on references to the Russian classics - Pushkin, Gogol and Russian folklore. Izvestia , citing a source close to the agency for the opening and closing of games, noted that the script has already been agreed with the International Olympic Committee as the main one. The show will be held on three scenes.

The European Court of Human Rights began office work on the complaint of former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko against an unjust court in her homeland, which, in her opinion, was guided by political motives during decision-making, Interfax reports with reference to the lawyer of ex-Prime Minister Sergei Vlasenko. According to him, office work was opened on October 15 in two articles. Vlasenko said this at a briefing in Kharkov on Thursday.

Higher education has become socially compulsory if you live in the city, believes Yaroslav Kuzminov, rector of the Higher School of Economics. In his opinion, the university is taught not so much by teachers as the environment and the quality of the environment, and the composition of the student audience produces a decisive impact on the quality of the university and social well -being in it.

The Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMBP) summed up the first results of the Biotrisk experiment, conducted at the ISS, and warned about the danger that microorganisms from space could be represented for the Earth. Planetary quarantine should be tightened - experimental objects not only demonstrate miracles of survival in orbit, but also mutate in an unexpected way.

The administration of schools in the Stavropol Territory allowed the Muslim girls to put on a braid instead of hijabs, Interfax reports with reference to the director of school No. 12 of the village of Kara-Tube, Neftekumsky district, Marina Savchenko. According to her, the parents and the school administration came to a compromise decision on Wednesday, but the next day it was fulfilled to the end.

About the new case of the “nurse” - the acceptance of the reviewed scientific journal to the spectacular text with a computer -reviewed scientific journal is reported on the website of That's Mathematics! ("This is mathematics!"). On August 3, 2012, a certain professor Mersei Rathke from the University of North-Yuzhnoye Dakota submitted an article to Advances in Pure Mathematics.