On October 15, the Board of Directors of the Russian Railways terminated the powers of the First Vice President Vadim Morozov, Vice President for Health and Public Organizations of Oleg Atikov and Vice President for Corporate Management and Strategic Development of Valery Reshetnikov. This newspaper Vedomosti was reported by two sources close to the board of directors of the monopoly, and one close to Russian Railways.

The International rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) left the long -term rating of Russia in foreign currency at the BB+level (below the investment, “garbage” level) with a “negative” forecast. This is stated in a press release from the agency entering Slon. The negative forecast for ratings reflects the agency’s point of view that the rate of reduction in budgetary reserves of the Russian Federation in the next 12 months may be faster than analysts expect, the review is indicated.

The oil refinery (refineries) “Yenisei” in Komi stopped working due to the unprofitability of fuel oil production, Komiinform reports with reference to the Minister of Industry of the region Alexander Gibazh. “We reap the fruits of the so -called tax maneuver. In connection with the situation in the oil products market in the global context, the production and export of fuel oil becomes economically unprofitable. This year the company pays an excise fee of 75%, in 2016 it will pay 100%.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine does not have evidence of the involvement of the Russian authorities in the murders during the Euromaidan, the head of the department Viktor Shokin said to the Facts. “If you remember, the ex-head of the SBU Valentin Nalivaichenko once stated that, they say, a Russian official was in Kyiv in the winter of 2014, gave the commands to securely shoot at the protesters. I asked Nalyvaichenko to provide us with at least some documents confirming this.

In Ukraine, they intend to rename the city of Dzerzhinsk. The corresponding decision, as reports by the Donetsk regional state company, adopted the City Council. According to LB.ua , the authorities decided that the city should be called the Toretsk - by the name of the river, which flows through it. Finally, the issue of renaming will have to agree on the Verkhovna Rada.

The Presidium of the Krasnodar Regional Court freed Dmitry Lopatin from the criminal record of the Kuban inventor and laureate of the Zvorykin Prize. This was reported on the website of the regional prosecutor's office. “[Lopatin] The attempt on the illegal acquisition of psychotropic substances made for their subsequent use in scientific activity.

The US Department of Finance has reported to reduce the country's budget deficit to the lowest level from 2007 - $ 438.9 billion or 2.5% of GDP. It is reported by Bloomberg . The department clarified that such an indicator is associated with an increase in tax collection. The current budget deficit in the country is lower than the average indicator over the past 40 years. Compared to last year, the deficit decreased by 9.2%.

Go to *** - this is if translated into a very understandable Russian. The English-language version of this thesis of the White House spokesman Josh Ernest turned into a detailed sarcastic tirade . No, they will not accept the delegation led by Dmitry Medvedev, since they do not plan to conduct military negotiations with Moscow in Syria at all.

The engineers of Stanford University have developed artificial skin, capable of determining the pressure of pressure during touch and generate an electric impulse that transfers this feeling to the brain. The development description was published on October 16 in the journal Science . Artificial leather is a two -layer plastic material. The upper layer is a sensory coating that can determine what pressure was exerted when touching, from a light touch of a finger to a solid handshake.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov proposed to introduce the death penalty for terrorists in Russia. He told about this in an interview with Russia 24. “It is necessary to introduce the death penalty. The faster they leave this life, the faster we will have order, ”Kadyrov said. In his opinion, to maintain terrorists in prisons "wrong." “They also interfere with [in prisons] and recruit there.

Brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenbergs could benefit from the so -called “mirror” deutsche Bank transactions, which have now become the subject of verification of the US prosecutor’s office, British regulators and the bank itself. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to unnamed sources. We are talking about transactions in the amount of about $ 6 billion made by DB customers with shares in the Russian market from 2011 to the beginning of 2015.

The Minister of Work with the Open Government Mikhail Abyzov denied plans to reduce several ministries, Interfax reports. “Information on the preparation and consideration of proposals for the reduction of federal ministries is not true. There were no such instructions from the President and the Prime Minister, and the corresponding work was not underway, ”he said.

The representative of the Orlan type producer announced that in the photographs published by Turkish media, not a Russian aircraft was captured, TASS reports . “Pictures published on social networks with reference to the Turkish General Staff photos of the allegedly knocked drone are more like a poorly played information provocation. And in published photos - definitely not Orlan. With such a glider, drones are not produced in Russia, ”said an unnamed representative of the St.

At the Summit in Brussels, the leaders of the European Union agreed to expand the powers of the Frontex external boundaries agency to return illegal immigrants to their homeland. This was said by the chairman of the European Council Donald Tusk. The video recording of the press conference is posted on the EU website.

There are no ban on sending sanctions goods ordered by the population from foreign online stores for personal use. This was stated by the First Deputy Head of the Central Customs Administration of the FCS of Russia Konstantin Galnykin, Interfax reports. “The official position is as follows: the movement for personal use is a decree [of the President of the Russian Federation] and the resolution of [government] on sanctions goods does not apply,” he explained.