The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a 15-year-old resident of the city of Miass (Chelyabinsk region), who is suspected of murdering his mother. This was reported in a press release from the department. According to investigators, the day before, during a domestic quarrel with his mother, the teenager stabbed her multiple times, as a result of which she died. In addition, he wounded his father, who returned later, and was taken to intensive care.

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond saw “classical asymmetric warfare” in Russia’s actions in Syria. In his opinion, Moscow, while declaring that it is fighting the Islamic State, is in fact only supporting Bashar al-Assad British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (Photo: REUTERS 2015) British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond called Russia's actions in Syria "classic asymmetric warfare." He made this statement on Sunday, October 4, in an interview with Reuters .

Militants expressing their allegiance to the Islamic State group banned in Russia have claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near the Nigerian capital, Abuja, Reuters reports . On Friday, October 2, suicide bombers carried out terrorist attacks near a police station and a bus stop. The explosions killed 15 people. The terrorist group Boko Haram operates in northeastern Nigeria, carrying out bombings, attacks on populated areas, kidnappings and killings of residents.

The leader of the Portuguese opposition Socialist Party, Antonio Costa, admitted defeat following the results of the parliamentary elections held in the country last Sunday, reports Reuters . “I want to congratulate Prime Minister Pedro Pacos Coelho. The Socialist Party has not achieved its goal,” he said. Earlier it became known that, according to exit polls, the ruling center-right coalition in Portugal is winning the parliamentary elections by a large margin.

The Central Bank will not reduce the rate until the end of the year due to high inflation, lack of structural reforms and the risk of easing fiscal policy, writes Alfa Bank chief economist Natalia Orlova Bank of Russia (Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev/TASS) Risky Demotion At a meeting on September 11, the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia left the key rate unchanged for the first time in a year, interrupting the cycle of monetary policy easing.

The United States on Monday added three Russian citizens to the anti-terrorism sanctions list - two natives of Chechnya and a native of Kabardino-Balkaria. Information about sanctions against Russians was published on Monday on the website of the US Department of the Treasury. According to US authorities, the Russians were militants of the terrorist organizations “Islamic State” and “Caucasus Emirate”.

The US-led coalition intends to intensify the fight against the Islamic State and open a “main front” in northeast Syria to put pressure on Raqqa. According to the NYT, these plans were approved by Barack Obama. The United States, at the head of the coalition, intends to intensify the fight against the Islamic State group (the organization’s activities are banned in Russia) and open a “main front” in northeastern Syria to put pressure on Raqqa, which is the de facto capital of the terrorists.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the allocation of 4 billion 797.6 million rubles to the state company Avtodor. These funds are intended for the Mostotrest company as compensation for the delay in providing land for the construction of a section of the Moscow-St. Petersburg road in the Khimki Forest area. The document was published on the official legal information portal.

Another Nobel week begins on Monday in Stockholm. RBC studied forecasts about who will be among the winners of the prestigious award and who bookmakers are betting on Medal awarded to a Nobel laureate (Photo: REUTERS 2015) traditionally published its list of the most likely 2015 Nobel laureates The Thomson Reuters division , Intellectual Property and Science, Citation Laureates ranking . The Thomson Reuters was first compiled in 2002.

The Kremlin does not see the need to comment on journalist Oleg Kashin’s open letter to President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov Journalist Oleg Kashin (Photo: RIA Novosti) “Judging from what I’ve read, it’s not particularly designed for any kind of response,” Peskov told reporters (quoted by Interfax).

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday, October 5, signed a government order to hold an auction for the right to use subsoil plots of the federal message, according to the government website . The subject of the auction was a subsoil plot, including the Lyaseger-Yuryakh stream, a left tributary of the Mayat River, located on the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), for exploration and production of placer diamonds, with an area of ​​6.04 square meters. km.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev, called the food embargo “a chance to change the situation for the better.” this He stated in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. “I see how people’s consciousness is changing, they are beginning to love domestic products,” Tkachev added. According to the minister, now approximately 80% of the products in stores are domestic, and only 20% are imported. “And at markets and fairs, almost all products are domestic,” he noted.

Four people died from Typhoon Muzhige, which hit China's southern province of Guangdong, and another 16 people are considered missing, Xinhua reports . According to the latest data, 80 people were injured due to the disaster. The typhoon hit the coastal city of Zhanjiang the night before, with wind speeds reaching 50 m/s. According to meteorologists, the storm will last until Monday.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, 38, has become the company's new CEO. This decision was made by the company’s board of directors on September 30, according to a statement on the Securities and Exchange Commission website. In addition, he will remain a member of the board of directors, but will no longer serve as chairman. Jack Dorsey has served as interim CEO since July 2015.

The ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the central part of the Mediterranean Sea fired at sea and air targets using artillery and anti-aircraft missile systems. The head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet, Vyacheslav Trukhachev, reported this to Interfax. The maneuvers took place as part of the final stage of the test-tactical exercise. During the introductory phase, the ships also used jamming systems and rocket-propelled depth charges, Trukhachev added.