A wave of uncertainty has recently covered Japanese companies, shared the observations of Masayuki Morikava, vice president of the Japanese Institute of Economics, Trade and Industry (RieTi). This is due to the political situation within the country (two chambers of the Japanese parliament are controlled by different batches), and with uncertainty in the economy, which is caused not only by the new course of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but also by the global economic decline.

Evgenia Vasiliev, the ex-head of the property department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in an open letter, the text of which on Tuesday was handed over to RAPSI her lawyer Hasan Borokov, said that by law it should be released from house arrest on November 23.

Trend In the traditional forecast Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2014, special attention is again paid to cloud technologies. Starting next year, analysts are not just predicting rapid growth of this market (see “Trend Locator. Cloud traffic: 5 times more in 5 years” ), but the beginning of the era of personal clouds. This will start with the corporate sector.

On the evening of November 3, two unknown in masks and with pneumatic rifles broke into the LABT-Sky LGBT Office in St. Petersburg, where the Rainbow Chaypit was held. As a result of the attack, two were injured: activist Anna Prutskova received light bruises of her back, and the video blogger Dmitry Chizhevsky fell into the eye. Now Dmitry is in the hospital, and, according to the doctors, his left eye is unlikely to see.

Photo: Sergey Bobylev / ITAR-TASS The march is the only political tradition associated with the Day of National Unity. The original name is the Right Marsh, in 2005 supporters of several nationalist movements, including the Loyal Kremlin (Eurasian Youth Union, the Russian National Union, etc.) passed the march from the Pure Pond metro station to Slavic Square.

- In the USA shooting again. At least two people were injured as a result of shooting at the Garden State Plaza shopping center in the American city of Paramus, New Jersey. The incident happened late in the evening in New York or early in the morning Moscow time. According to various sources, the criminal in a motorcycle helmet made six to eight shots from a rifle. The building of the shopping complex was cordoned off by the police who arrived at the scene.

Are you afraid that Facebook will turn your Instagram into an endless stream of advertising posts? This has already begun to happen, however, only in the USA. This week, American social network users were faced with the first sponsorship pictures in their tape. Earlier, the Instagram leadership promised that advertising would not differ from ordinary photos to friends. This is so. And everything is really not very scary.

The Central Bank offers the Russians to choose a graphic symbol of the national currency. Five options were submitted for public discussion on the regulator website . In the voting questionnaire there is also the column “Against all”.

By 2100, the volume of daily production of waste will triple and amount to 11 million tons per year, the Nature magazine said . In 2010, this indicator was only 3.5 million tons per year. This will happen if the main trends do not change, the population of the planet will approach 9.5 billion people by the end of the 21st century, and urbanization will reach 80%. In the graph below, this scenario is indicated blue color.

The Duma continues to delay the consideration of the bill on parliamentary elections. The relevant committee on constitutional law and state building proposed to transfer amendments that were supposed to be prepared by November of this year, for February 2014. Thus, the adoption of the law, which was spoke of President Medvedev in his message to the Federal Assembly in December 2011, is postponed indefinitely.

According to Interfax, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation sent the Belarusian authorities an official request for the issuance of Vladislav Baumerther, and this happened on October 22.

Despite the sequestration of the budget, regions and government officials will not skimp on souvenirs and gifts. The region is allocated to the region hundreds of thousands of rubles per panel, plates and sets. Then they are given to particularly distinguished employees, visitors to guests - officials from other regions and countries. This year, souvenirs ordered by state procurement on the public procurement website are not particularly diverse.

Italian programmers launched a site for posting organized crime information - Mafialeaks. The creators hope that the victims of racketeers and the mafiosi offended by the accomplices will post criminal secrets on the site. All information posted on the site will go through an anonymous Internet access network Tor. Programmers will also hide their names. The site was created by less than ten people at their own expense in their free time.

A precedent for filing a complaint against officials who violate a person’s right to life with their negligence, can become an example of the fight against a bureaucracy on a world -wide scale Illustration: Karl Bryullov. The last day of Pompeii Italians do not cease to amaze their attitude to the elements: at first they put scientists for the wrong forecast of the upcoming earthquake, and now they file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against the Vulcan Vesuvius.

The mystery of the death of the famous pharaoh is partly solved . According to scientists, who joined their efforts with forensics, the 19-year-old ruler of Egypt crushed the chariot, and his body burned down due to unsuccessful mummification.