The Nobel Prize in the field of physics was awarded for a mathematical description of the topological phase transitions of the substance. In 2016, the laureates were American David Taules, Briton Dankan Haldein and Scot, John Kosterlitz, according to the Prize website. Taules will receive half a prize, Chaldeen and Kosterlitz - a quarter.

The International Memorial was included in the register of foreign agents based on the results of the audit, which revealed the facts of foreign financing, as well as the participation of the organization in political activities. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Justice.

Since October 4, the Apple Pay payment system has been earned in Russia, which allows you to pay for purchases using iPhone and Apple Watch. This was reported on the company's website. To pay the bill through Apple Pay, you need to attach a finger to the Touch ID and bring the iPhone to the terminal. The owners of Apple Watch need to press the side button twice, and then also bring the clock to the terminal. Payment is due to binding to a bank card.

The falling revenues of Russia's budget due to a discount on gas to Ukraine in the first quarter of 2016 will be more than the expected income from the growth of Russian fuel exports for the entire current year. This was reported by Interfax , at the disposal of which there was an explanatory note to amendments to the budget-2016. According to the calculations given in the document, due to a discount of Kyiv, the budget of the Russian Federation missed 14.58 billion rubles.

Akashevskaya Poultry Fabric LLC, located in Mari El, will soon be controlled by the structures of the agricultural complex named after N. I. Tkacheva, two sources who knew about the impending transaction told Vedomosti about this. Akashevo is the largest poultry producer in Russia and one of the main projects of Rosselkhozbank. In 2015, Akashevo produced 5% of chicken in the country, which amounted to 203 thousand tons. According to SPARK, the owner of the factory is Nikolai Krivash.

The son of the Vice President of Lukoil Ruslan Shamsuarov accused the police of provocating the races on Gelandewagen, RBC reports . During the testimony in the court, Shamsuarov said that the police threw the rod into the car of their friends, which provoked the races. “We rode along Leninsky Prospekt about 80 km per hour, drove to the garden ring when someone shouted-look, the rod flew,” said Shamsuarov. According to him, after this incident there were no signs of chase or sounds of sirens.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said that he did not know anything about the attempt on him, which was prevented at the beginning of summer, which was written by the New Gazeta. He left the corresponding commentary on the Instagram of the publication "Caucasian Pravda". "Why don't I know?" - wrote Kadyrov. On the morning of October 3, the New Gazeta wrote that at the beginning of summer the attempt was prevented on Kadyrov.

The Ministry of Agriculture intends to reduce the financial support of the Rosselkhozbank from 10 billion rubles to 5 billion rubles in 2017. This follows from the application to the project of the state agricultural development program until 2020, which Vedomosti got acquainted with. The source of the publication, close to the bank, said that the reduction of funds for pre -capitalization will lead to a reduction in the number of loans issued.

The Rosneft Board of Directors on October 1 unanimously approved a major transaction that requires coordination with the main shareholders. This was reported in a press release from the state-owned company of October 4. According to the Charter of Rosneft, the board of directors must consider transactions worth more than $ 1.5 billion. The details of the transaction approved on October 1 have not yet been disclosed, they will be announced later.

President Vladimir Putin agreed to increase the threshold of foreign exchange transactions to be controlled from $ 50 thousand to $ 100 thousand. This is written by "Vedomosti". “Let's take the decision,” Putin said in response to the proposal of a participant in a meeting with a business in the Orenburg region on raising the threshold of transactions. The initiative was also supported by the Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev.

The Google Internet giant at a conference in San Francisco presented the first smartphone under his own Pixel brand. https://twitter.com/google/status/783340769587388416 According to TechCrunch, the smartphone is made specifically for the virtual reality platform (VR) Daydream, which Google introduced in May 2016. Pixel is equipped with a 12 megapixel camera with a 2.0 aperture. The DXOMARK company, which evaluate the performance of photo equipment, gave the smartphone camera 89 points.

The Central Bank of Russia said that state employees must receive Mir payment cards to which their salary will be transferred to January 1, 2018. The regulator’s press service was told about this by RBC. Dates are set in accordance with amendments to the Law “On the National Payment System”. The document also states that the Mir Ekvown should be ensured by April 1, 2017, and the issue of the Buja Clients-until January 1, 2018, said in the Central Bank.

Deutsche Bank agreed to pay the regulator in New York a fine of $ 425 million for the “mirror transactions” that helped withdraw Russian money abroad, reports Reuters. The history of these transactions in August 2016 restored the New Yorker in his investigation , who told how the largest bank in Germany helped to withdraw about $ 10 billion from Russia.

Blockchain technology, which used to be associated mainly with Bitcoin's ambiguous cryptocurrency, is becoming more and more respectable. The introduction of blockchain in various areas of life (for example, when registering property rights) can produce an “economic revolution” in developing countries, on Monday, on October 3 , the founder of the Virgin billionaire Richard Branson at a thematic conference in London.

Yahoo scanned the letters of its users for American intelligence, Reuters reports. Last year, Yahoo has developed an application for reading and analyzing incoming messages, the agency’s sources related to American intelligence report. The data was transferred to the National Security Agency or the FBI. The interlocutors of the publication did not specify what information the special services were looking for in letters.