The budget crisis in the United States can disrupt the next flight to Mars. Since October 1, like most American civil servants, 97 percent of NASA employees stopped going to work until a financial dispute ends between Obama and the House of Congress. Meanwhile, the Maven probe (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), designed to study the upper layers of the Martian atmosphere, has already been delivered to the starting platform of the space center at Cape Kennedy.

Fell it, it has become cheaper! The Alrosa diamond company announced that IPO was going to conduct an IPO. “We hope that placement will help strengthen our unique positions in the global diamond production industry,” the company President Fedor Andreev said on this occasion. The placement will be mainly carried out at the expense of state -press. The Government of the Russian Federation will part with 7% of capital, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) will be sold as much.

The subject of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Sergei Polonsky, realized that he should not wait for help from the new homeland, and decided to act himself. On his Facebook page, the entrepreneur published a preliminary statement (probably there will be details), in which, in fact, he announces a counterattack: “I, Polonsky Sergey Yuryevich, begin my own investigation about theft by G. M. Alyakin A.A. My assets and theft of funds from customers of the Bank "Pushkino".

Mikhail Saakashvili signed a decree on the pardon of all conventionally convicts and persons who have a criminal record. The exception is those who have committed especially serious crimes like an encroachment on life, sexual freedom and actions against the state. The process of receiving requests for pardon in the name of the president will begin on October 3. The president announced on an amnesty for about 18 thousand conditionally convicted on August 19.

Alexey Moiseev. Photo: Sergey Karpov / ITAR-TASS Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev at today's Forum VTB “Russia Calls!” He promised in the near future to "seriously improve the situation for banks ." Which ultimately leads to a decrease in the cost of consumer loans. “I emphasize - not to increase the growth rate, but to improve the situation,” the deputy minister explained.

- The confrontation between the democrats and the Republicans in the American Congress continues: the second day the country lives without a budget, and civil servants are sent on unlimited vacation. On Tuesday, the Americans could not cope with the crisis and could not even adopt special bills that would unlock the financing of individual institutions. Obama spoke sharply: "The termination of the government threatens the American economy." But it has not helped yet.

Has the Russian political system changed after the September 8 election? In a series of columns, party leaders are responsible. I believe that the political system has not changed. There are no reforms. There is only their imitation. The system remained the same. Its goal is to retain power at all costs. Including through manipulations, falsifications, deception, threats and special services.

Vladimir Pokrovsky subscribe to the author Nadezhda Biohacker: A language for programming synthetic DNA has been created In the future, “smart molecules” and the detectors of the disease are already at the cellular level Share 17 Tweet 1 2 days ago The team of researchers from the University of Washington has created a programming language that will help genetics compile texts of the four -letter DNA alphabet and at the same time understand what mixtures of chemical reactions will cause genes

Photo: Grigory Dukor / Reuters Slon launches a new joint project with the international network of scientists “ Ponars Eurasia ”, whose participants are developing new approaches to politics and security in Russia and Eurasia. As part of this project, we publish analytical articles of Ponars, among which are famous political scientists, historians and sociologists from the USA, Europe, Russia and other CIS countries. This is another view of Russia, its policy and its politicians.

Russian President Vladimir Putin only completed the performance at the forum "Russia is calling!". In general, it repeated on -duty phrases in his previous performances and performances of the rest of the officials. Nevertheless, there were interesting and new fragments that we publish. The acute phase of the crisis is overcome. The current risks are more or less taken under control, but hopes for the rapid recovery of the global economy, if someone had them, are not justified.

Photo: Elena Shirikova “People ask me whether it will be a problem to go to student parties if you don’t drink. I answer: yes and no. Of course, you can go, but you are unlikely to want to stay there. A sober person among drunk people can only have about twenty minutes of fun,” Natalie Hollak, a first-year business school student at St. John’s University, reports on the Huffington Post website.

60% of people do not believe in advertising, but at the same time 70% of buyers trust the reviews on the Internet. How to motivate your buyers to recommend you? After this master class, you will learn: How to turn buyers into lawyers; Who are the brand lawyers and how to identify them: the use of transactions history together with social data; How to motivate a one -time client to make a second order; All the main secrets how to make a campaign for referral marketing as successful as possible.

On the sidelines of the forum "Russia calls!" Former Minister of Finance of Russia, VTB 24 President Mikhail Zadornov confirmed the thesis of the Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev that the high cost of loans in Russia is largely due to high costs for checking data about borrowers. “In Russia, approximately 20-30% of all problem loans are credit fraud. That is, obviously incorrect information or just fraud against banks that individuals carry out.

Well, what a well done! The Tesla Model S car, the flagship of the electric car, has become the best -sold model in Norway in September, writes Green Car Reports . Not the best -selling electric car, but the best -selling machine sold by the model in general! For a month, the Norwegians acquired 12,168 cars, and a little more than 5% of this number was on the new Tesla. For comparison, the entire Volkswagen took together for the same period a little more than one and a half thousand pieces.