The information that the coach of the Tosno football team, Kirill Gashichev, was kidnapped in Moscow is not true. About it A representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the capital told TASS . “Tonight, an unknown person called the police and reported the abduction of a coach. Police officers who arrived at the scene of the call determined that this information was not true,” a law enforcement representative told the agency.

The Russian Ministry of Defense expressed indignation at the statement of the head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko that the Russian military was involved in the crash of the Malaysian Boeing 777 in the Donetsk region.

Bulgaria rejected the accusations of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who claimed that she once again “betrays” her former ally, deciding to replace the outdated Russian-made aircraft with aircraft built in the West.

VTB does not yet see progress in negotiations with Mechel. The head of the bank, Andrei Kostin, told reporters about this, RIA Novosti reports . Today, the main owner of the company, Igor Zyuzin, said that negotiations with banks are going well, but he did not disclose details. On October 1, Kostin said that creditors could resolve the situation with the restructuring of Mechel's $8.3 billion debts. “We need a few days to resolve the situation,” he said.

In February, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shocked the world by announcing the purchase of WhatsApp messenger for a fabulous sum of $19 billion. It took the companies almost six months to close the deal, during which they needed to obtain regulatory approval in the US and Europe. During this time, Facebook shares, with which the social network paid for a significant part of the deal, increased in price by almost 14%.

Five US airports will conduct rapid body temperature checks for passengers arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three countries hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic. This was reported by The New York Times with reference to US federal officials. Precautionary measures will be introduced at Kennedy in New York, Dulles in Washington, O'Hare in Chicago, Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta and Liberty in Newark.

The All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) plans to launch several paid digital TV channels in foreign languages ​​in the near future. This was announced by Deputy General Director of VGTRK, Director of the company’s digital technology development department Dmitry Mednikov at the presentation of the new season and new channels of the package of non-terrestrial TV channels of VGTRK and Rostelecom “Digital Television”.

Foreign exchange interventions in October amounted to about $2 billion. Judging by the movement of the bi-currency basket, the Central Bank sold currencies for $420 million, previously about $980 million, and on Tuesday - about $700 million, RIA Novosti reports . On Wednesday, October 8, the dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange again rose above the psychologically important mark of 40 rubles/dollar.

Warren Buffett is so confident that Hillary Clinton will win the 2016 US presidential election that he is willing to bet, CNN reports . “Hillary will win, yes,” said Buffett, who is an outspoken Clinton supporter. “I’ll bet money on him,” he added. At the same time, Clinton herself has said that she is thinking about running for president and has yet to announce her decision. Buffett suggested that her statement be considered a foregone conclusion. “I like what she believes in.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft order to exclude Malta from the black list of offshore territories. The corresponding notice was published on the unified portal of draft legal acts.

The former owner of YUKOS revealed some details of his future cooperation with the opposition. The ex-oligarch is not going to help her financially Former owner of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky (Photo: REUTERS 2014) Former Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky revealed some details of his future cooperation with the opposition in the State Duma elections in 2016. According to him, the assistance will be organizational, but not financial.

London police have arrested four suspects in preparing a terrorist attack, the BBC reports. As Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe explained, this was part of a series of arrests made over the past few weeks as part of an investigation into Islamist terrorist activities. In particular, one of those arrested recently went to fight in Syria. British government officials said the suspects were likely in the early stages of planning terrorist attacks in Britain.

The prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic resigned. He told the Russian Reporter magazine about this. Prime Minister of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko (Photo: AP) “I just wrote my resignation letter. You are now sitting next to a person who in two and a half hours may no longer be prime minister,” he said earlier in an interview with a journalist from the publication. “If I don’t leave this post now, then I will become a traitor,” Zakharchenko added.

Xi Jinping was born on June 15, 1953 in Beijing in the family of comrades -in -arms Mao Zedong Si Junjun. The father of the future chairman of the PRC held various posts in the party hierarchy, and in 1959-1962 he was deputy chairman of the State Council. However, in 1962 he was accused of an anti -Party conspiracy and arrested, and his son was sent for re -education to Shanxi province. There he was engaged in heavy physical labor and lived in poverty, often spending the night in dugouts.