Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is not going to visit Russia. He stated this at a press conference in Tbilisi, reports News-Georgia . The head of the office promised not to visit Russia until it maintains diplomatic relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. However, he did not exclude meetings with the Russian leadership on the territory of the third country.

The results of the First Moscow International Innovation Development Forum “Open Innovations”, held in Moscow in early November, the organizing committee of the forum .

Mosquitoes, which, as it turned out recently, are not at all afraid to fly in the rain, in the fog they feel not so comfortable. In the summer, scientists from the Georgia Technological Institute in Atlanta (USA) showed that a drop of rain weighing 50 times more mosquitoes does not scare insects much: his light body sticks to her, falls with her for some time, and then the mosquito simply passes through a drop without much harm to the body.

“Society mutated,” the participants in the round table decided “Why do people don’t want to read books?” It was organized as part of the Builders contest , which is held by the BURO17 Production Agency and the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications.

In the last agricultural season, the agrarian sector has grown a crop, which is usually called medium - only 72 million tons against normal 75 million tons and super -high 100 million tons. True, it should be noted that this relatively modest collection of grains will not produce large perturbations in the country's food market, since in the prevailing order of use of the resulting harvest, it should be enough for all our needs.

The London football club Chelsea after the dismissal of Roberto Di Matteo released the name of the new head coach of the team. According to the official website of the FC, the Spanish specialist Rafael Benitest reports to them. An agreement with 52-year-old Benites will be calculated before the end of the current season. Benitest already has experience in England - he previously worked in Liverpool, with whom he won a number of tournaments, including the Champions League.

In Murmansk, the Norilsk Nickel OJSC held a round table on corporate social responsibility (CSR). The event on the “Responsible Business Practice and Social Investments of the Norilsk Nickel GMC in the development of the Murmansk Region” was organized in accordance with the recommendations of the Council for the NPPP. The round table took place as part of the I Murmansk International Business Week.

“Such numbers as 28-33 thousand [in the form of a salary of the faculty of universities] for September are a shame. Teachers in Moscow schools receive 65 thousand rubles. Low indicators in universities are associated exclusively with the insufficient level of work of leadership, ”said Dmitry Livanov, Minister of Education and Science at a meeting with rector of a number of Moscow universities. This was reported by the website of the Ministry of Education and Science.

The second arbitration court confirmed the legality of the seizure of two bears - Masha and Tolik - from the Yaroslavl individual entrepreneur, according to the court website . The entrepreneur Lambzira Sichinava demanded to select animals from the entrepreneur in court for the protection and use of the animal world of the Yaroslavl region. Six-year-old Masha and the eight-year-old Tolik lived in a metal, bushy-made aviary near the Genatsval cafe on the 230 km of the M8 M8-Kholmogory highway.

"The presidential administration denies the possibility of changing the service life of the army ," Interfax said with reference to a senior official in the Kremlin . " Indeed, such a story began, but no feeling that this statement will end is not. So, at first, the chairman of the Duma defense committee, Admiral Vladimir Komoedov , said that the Committee plans to seek from S. Shoyug to increase the service life of the army for recruits - from one year to one and a half years.

On Thursday, Pakistani Taliban threatened to carry out attacks on the inhabitants of India because of the execution of the terrorist Mohammed Ajmala Casaba, the only surviving participant in the attack on Mumbai in 2008 , Reuters reported on Thursday . “We will make the Indians our goal to take revenge on the murder of Ajmal Casaba,” said the Taliban spokeswoman Ehsanullah Ehsan on the phone from an unknown place, demanding to return the body executed by his family.

The chairman of the Duma defense committee Vladimir Komoedov said that the committee will seek a review of the service life of a call from one year to one and a half years. He stated this " Izvestia ." “The reduction in service to one year was a political decision, and this poorly affects the combat readiness of the army. Moreover, we came close to the demographic pit,” Komoedov said. “The contract army is a bubble that is injecting, and it will immediately burst.

The Investigative Committee of Russia refused to start a case of the abduction and torture of oppositionist Leonid Razvoszhaev. The corresponding application is published on the website of the department. The decision was made based on the results of an audit conducted on the basis of media reports and the statements of the arrested himself.

According to MK , Latvia may impose sanctions against a group of Russian officials and businessmen. While this issue is being discussed, the source of the newspaper said. According to the MK source, some Latvian financial institutions provided large “politically motivated” loans to Russian borrowers. First of all, we are talking about the famous Parex Bank (Parex Banka), which gave the Russians of poorly wealthy loans worth more than $ 300 million.

OJSC "RVK" invites students and schoolchildren who are interested in technical creativity and invention, to take part in the All -Russian in absentia contest of the Technical Creativity of Youth "Talent, Technology, Creativity - 3T. Digital Creator, ”the press service of the RVK reports.