In recent days, commentators in the Western media are discussing a lot of the state of the oil market. Firstly, this topic is related to conflicts in the Middle East, in the region that leads oil production. Secondly, the discussion revived due to a sharp jump in oil prices on Tuesday. Oil prices on October 6 rose due to the hope of reducing the supply in the United States and in world markets, explains Wall Street Journal .

Russian military aviation on Wednesday subjected intensive air strikes by the Syrian province of Hama and the neighboring Idlib region, Reuters reports with reference to the Syrian Monitoring Center for compliance with human rights. Observers note that during bombing, heavy missiles of the Earth-Earth class were also used.

The Russian rapper Timati (real name Timur Yunusov) released a clip dedicated to the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The video is available on YouTube. The video for the song "Best Friend" was shot on Red Square the day before, for which it was numb. Photos from the scene were published , for example, the Super.ru portal. Timati also launched a hashtag on Twitter #the best -ruble President Putin. Anyone can use it for his congratulations to the president.

At the largest medical university, Japan Junta (Tokyo), a simulation center has opened today, where young surgeons will study operations. Imital simulators were developed and produced by the Russian company Eidos Medicine (Kazan), a resident of the Clister of Biomedical Technologies of the Skolkovo Foundation. The amount of the contract for the supply and installation of stimulating robots at the University of Juntendo amounted to 1.5 million dollars.

The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video on the Internet, which demonstrates the shelling of the positions of militants of the Islamic State group banned in the Russian Federation in Syria. The shelling was carried out using cruise missiles from the ships of the Caspian flotilla. Earlier, the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin that the ships of the Caspian Flotilla of the Russian Navy inflicted 26 missile attacks on IG positions, amazing 11 goals.

The press conference of the Enlightener Prize, at which the authors and finalist books were announced, was in a sense farewell. The Dynasty Foundation, which all these years was the organizer of the premium in the field of popular science literature, ceases its official legal existence on October 31. The fund's logo will disappear from the banners of the award.

The acting head of the Komi Sergey Gaplykov was sent by the deputy minister of architecture and construction of the region Nicholas Soroku to live in an inconspicuous house for immigrants. The official, according to the head of the region, went to the house with a cot, TASS reports. “I sent the known to you by Nicholas Soroku with a cot to an unfinished house in Ukhta,” Gaplikov said.

At the end of the day, Polit.ru publishes an unusual video from the Internet, which the editors discovered while working on the news. Editor comment: “The new video of the fighters in Syria from the Ministry of Defense, which was posted on the official YouTube channel of the department, is not devoted to the work of aviation, but to the fleet. The launch of missiles really looks impressive.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev believes that it would be fair to think about canceling the indexation of pensions for working pensioners, TASS reports. At the same time, the head of government supported the possibility of additional indexation of pensions based on the results of the first half of 2016. Such an idea sounded at a meeting of Medvedev with the leadership of United Russia.

Fourteen elephants have become victims of poachers in Zimbabwe national parks over the past two weeks, reports The Guardian . According to the representative of the Caroline parks Vashayu Moyo, 11 elephants were poisoned by cyanide in the Hwang National Park, three more in the Matusadona Park in the north of the country. Elephants ate the oranges in which cyanide was injected, the official noted. In six dead animals, poachers managed to saw off tusks.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, promised not to disregard the call of the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko to publish the personal information of Russian pilots in Syria so that the Islamists could find them and “take revenge on the laws of Sharia,” the Izvestia newspaper writes. “We do not intend to ignore the threats of our pilots. And the answer will be sensitive. There is strength and means for this.

The County Chamber of Russia has prepared a report in which it criticizes the government’s anti -crisis plan for impermanality and slow performance, writes Vedomosti . According to the Accounts Chamber, the Cabinet of Ministers accepted 63.3% of the regulatory acts planned to combat the crisis, while the anti -crisis measures themselves were performed only by 28.3%.

Visitors to the glass bridge that recently opened in China had to be urgently evacuated after the bridge cracked from the fall of the thermos of one of the tourists, according to the Twitter of the PEOPLE's Daily publication. A bridge located in the mountains at a height of several hundred meters from the ground, on Monday, cracked from the fall of a metal thermos with water, which dropped one of the tourists. According to eyewitnesses, they heard a loud sound and felt vibrations.

Small snowy charges passed over the center of the capital on Wednesday in the afternoon, seeing “Polit.ru” eyewitnesses. Either small, then large snowflakes fall from the sky on Tverskaya Street from Pushkinskaya to Manezhnaya Square. Snowflakes do not linger on the roads and buildings and immediately melt. According to the latest forecasts of weather forecasters, the first real snowfall may come to the capital on October 9.

The international group of researchers, led by Barbara Goettsch) found that 31 % of the currently existing 1480 types of cacti are at risk of extinction. Scientists call the main reasons for such a plight of cacti the development of agriculture and construction in arid areas and illegal plant trafficking. “We were surprised by finding how high the share of the types of cactus is at risk, as well as a variety of threatening factors,” Getch admits Barbara.