The head and ideological inspirer of the world's largest oil company Rosneft Igor Sechin bought shares for 2 billion rubles, bringing his package to 0.0849%, RIA Novosti reports. An impressive amount that is almost exceeding the annual payments of the manager. This is the second purchase for a week. On August 28, Igor Sechin bought shares for 186 million rubles.

On August 29, the Digital October will take place the next episode of the Chain Reaction television project. This time the program will be devoted to fitness startups. The organizers invite the company related to digital technologies in sports, application developers for fitness, health and active lifestyle.

Dmitry Kiva, Antonov General Designer, said that Dmitry Rogozin is incompetent and, discussing the aircraft, simply does not understand what he was talking about. Last week, the Deputy Prime Minister criticized the An-70 aircraft. He called him “virtual”, they say, part of the technical characteristics “we saw only on paper”, and in addition, he called the new transporter a competitor to IL-76. On the salon, Max 2013 Kiva said that this was nonsense.

On October 27, the presidential election will be held in Georgia. The current president Mikhail Saakashvili by law cannot run for a third term. One of his most influential associates, Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili, who oversaw the famous police reform, will also not become a presidential candidate: he was arrested in May on suspicion of corruption.

Photo: ITAR-TASS / Mikhail Metzel The candidate from “ Fair Russia ” Nikolai Levichv today said that he was allowing the opportunity to withdraw his candidacy from the elections. According to Levichv, he is ready to sacrifice his ambitions so that Moscow receives two rounds of voting. Levichv, who recently took part in the procedure for sawing the door of supporters of Navalny Bulgarly, invites Alexei to act together. Although, perhaps, the proposal is addressed to Melnikov.

Earthly life, most likely, originated on Mars and only then was listed on our planet meteorites. About this at the GoldSchmidt 2013 conference, which is now in Florence, said Professor Steten Benner from the Westheimer Institute of Science and Technology (USA). The very idea of ​​transporting early forms of Martian life on Earth is far from new. However, Professor Benner gave her a completely new sound.

Recently, on the Choloki River, separating Adjara from the rest of Georgia, an action took place with a demand to introduce a new holiday in the country: the day of liberation from the Ottoman Empire - August 17. We are talking about the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878, as a result of which the ancient Georgian province of Adjara, relatively speaking, returned to Georgia. Conditionally - because Georgia as such did not exist: were the Tiflis and Kutaisian provinces of the Russian Empire.

In 2012, the public and cultural publication Colta.ru managed to raise money for life using crowdfunding. After such a success, the publication decided to once again test fate and did not lose - now the amount was twice as long as the declared target . Meanwhile, on the American venues of crowdfunding, one after another, projects related to the media business appear, and the experience of COLTA begins to adopt regional Russian sites. We looked at the most successful and interesting projects.

Events in Syria, regardless of their further scenario, again attracted attention to the danger of the use of chemical weapons. It doesn’t even matter who used it, why and how. Because there is every reason to believe that this is only the beginning of the new stage of the world asymmetric war. Chemical weapons are not a novelty today, as you know. The First World War was gloomily famous for its massive use by all large warring parties.

The global life suitability index , which is counted by Economist Intelligence Unit for 140 cities around the world, has fallen by 0.6%since 2008, says Forbes in its note. The index evaluates such components of urban life as security, education, infrastructure and others - about 30 indicators. The leader of the fall in five years is Damascus - his rating fell by 20%, he also became the completely worst city for life, taking the last place of 140 cities.

Richard III 2 days ago "In modern neurobiology, there are only two extreme poles: on the one hand, we roughly imagine how individual nerve cells or very small groups of cells work, on the other hand, we can observe the activity of entire zones of the brain consisting of hundreds of thousands of cells" It seems that between the poles it has already been quite well studied.

Residents of Moscow and the proxies of Sobyanin: will Sergey Semenovich continue to deal with corruption just as wonderful? Illustration: Vasily Efanov. An unforgettable meeting Already at the exit from the metro you feel: something important happens nearby. The cube of Navalny, for example, stands, and around - youth. By the way, it’s probably a shame to admit, but for the first time in my life I saw a cube of Navalny. Cube and cube. Indeed, a cube.

The architect and senior teacher of the University of South California Doris Kim Sung talked about how to unite disciplines distant from each other - biology and architecture. In the lecture “New Skin of Architecture”, she explained how to minimize the influence of civilization on the environment and at the same time bring the living conditions to the ideal. Slon publishes an abbreviated version of the lecture. The ideas of my projects are based on biomimics.

iOS 169 rubles Two years ago, a small, consisting of two people, the Pixbits Indo-Studio released the Junk Jack game-a beautiful two-dimensional variation on the Minecraft. Thousands of people spent a day of their lives on the cutting of trees, the production of ore, the creation of armor, battles with monsters and the construction of giant castles. There is good news for them: a full -fledged sequel has just been released - Junk Jack X.

The situation around the detention of the Belarusian authorities of Vladislav Baumertner continues to hesitate. Neither lawyers nor diplomats still let him go to him, but today they even refused the visit of the old woman, who came to visit him, tomorrow in the morning he would still be able to visit the consulate workers. Meanwhile, the Russian authorities gradually begin to be annoyed. Today, Arkady Dvorkovich decided to go to threats.