American scientists have established, Ebola virus is much ancient than before. He, like the Marburg virus, refers to the filoviruses that arose in the Miocene era, from 16 to 23 million years ago. This was reported in the journal Peerj, as well as in a press release from the University of New York in Buffalo. American scientists found that in time the evolutionary lines of the Marburg virus and Ebola dispersed.

Andrey Levkin Elections in Ukraine Photo: Telegraf.com.ua On October 26, extraordinary parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine. So far there are only very approximate results. The overall picture is clear, some failures are also perhaps visible. Who exactly will win the numbers and will form a coalition - not yet. But maybe this is not important, because they will compromise in advance.

People's Artist of the USSR and deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Joseph Kobzon during his speech in Donetsk, together with the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, performed the song “I love you, life”. It is reported by Russia Today . According to the agency, the concert at full full house took place in the hall of the Donetsk Opera Theater.

Transneft's management decided to suspend oil shipment in most Russian ports in connection with the weather worsening. This was reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to the adviser to the president of the concern Igor Demin. Currently, the work of ports in Kozmino, Primorsk, Ust-Luga and Novorossiysk is limited. According to Demin, in Kozmino Storm began on Monday October 27, a storm warning is also operating in Primorsk and Ust-Luga.

The increase in prices in 2014 in Russia may exceed 10%if inflation remains at the level of the last week. This was announced on October 27 by the HSE macroeconomic research director Sergei Aleksashenko in his own analytical ballot Nota Bene, reports Slon . “The average daily increase in prices in October is already one and a half times higher than the September and almost twice - the pace of last year,” Aleksashenko explained.

Michael Zerusf, who is suspected of an armed attack on the Canadian National Memorial and the building of the country's parliament, which led to the death of a soldier, recorded a video message before the terrorist attack. This was reported by TASS with reference to the public report of the Ottawa police.

Based on the results of processing, 75.09% of the ballots in the Extraordinary elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which took place on Sunday, the Public Front Party Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk increased the gap from the pro-presidential “Petro Poroshenko Bloc”, gaining 21.93% of voters against 21.50%. This is stated in the summary table of the vote count published on the official website of the CEC of Ukraine.

US President Barack Obama congratulated the residents of Ukraine on the successful holding of the Verkhovna Rada. The full text of appeal to the Ukrainian people was posted on the White House website . Obama highly appreciated the level of organization of the past vote, and also noted a sense of social responsibility among millions of Ukrainian voters who took part in the elections, despite the intense situation in the country.

A search in the Central headquarters of the unregistered party “Other Russia, located in the area of ​​the Voikovskaya metro station in Moscow, is a search. This was announced in his LiveJournal by her leader Eduard Limonov. “Now they called me and informed me that the party headquarters (in the Voikovskaya metro area) has been a search for about an hour. We arrived from 20 to 25 employees of the 2nd operational regiment, ”he wrote.

In the exhibition complex of the State Historical Museum, the next lecture-performance began from the cycle "Amateur readings". For the umpteenth time, this event was held jointly by Polit.ru and the historical magazine "Amateur".

There are no prohibitions on the departure of the company's employees to vacation abroad in Russian Railways. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the statement of the company representative. So in the Russian Railways, media reports that the company’s employees allegedly massively hand over the companies are handing over tickets for rest abroad.

The head of the self -proclaimed Lugansk Republic, Igor Plotnitsky, expressed doubts about the legitimacy of the elections to the Verkhovna Rada on the eve of the elections. It is reported by TASS . “If they consider our territories part of Ukraine, then the question arises whether these elections can be considered legitimate. After all, it turns out that part of the country is not involved in the elections at all, ”said Plotnitsky, commenting on the preliminary results of the vote.

The former girl of the colorado goalkeeper Semyon Varlamov Evgenia Vavrinyuk filed a lawsuit against him in a civil court in the amount of $ 1 million. It is reported by TMZ . According to Vavrinyuk, the hockey player terrorized her for many years and even tried to kill her in a state of intoxication, so now she requires compensation for moral damage.

Slon.ru editor Andrei Goryanov leaves his post and goes to work in the Russian BBC service. It is reported by Forbes . According to the publication, he will become the general producer of the Russian BBC Service in Moscow. Who will lead Slon.ru instead of Goryanov is not yet known. Andrei Goryanov headed Slon.ru in the summer of 2011. Prior to this, Goryanov headed the magazine "Finance", and also worked in the St. Petersburg office of RBC and the newspaper Delovoy Petersburg.

Russian President Vladimir Putin changed the composition of the Presidium of the State Council, including the heads of nine regions of the Russian Federation. This was reported on the portal of legal information. The new composition included the heads of Dagestan, Perm Territory, Volgograd, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk and Arkhangelsk regions, as well as Sevastopol and the Khabarovsk Territory. The last time the rotation on the presidium of the State Council took place in April 2014.