American Joshua Aaron, suspected of the largest hacking on Wall Street and one of the most wanted people in the United States (his name is on the Cyber's Most Wanted list) remains in custody in Russia. A few months ago he was detained in Moscow by the warrant of Interpol. He is facing an expulsion from the country, but so far it has not been done. It seems that they tried to use the American as a bargaining item with the United States, but the attempt failed.

The Supreme Court of Russia canceled the decision to mitigate the sentence from the real term for a fine to the former chief of the ground forces Vladimir Chirkin. This was reported by Interfax from the courtroom. “The appeal resolution of the Moscow District Military Court and the decision of the Presidium to cancel, the case to send for a new appeal consideration,” the judge said.

The accused in the case of the largest hacking in the history of the US banking system, Joshua Aaron, tried to get political asylum in Russia, but was refused. This was reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. “An American who expects deportation for violation of migration legislation in a special projector for foreign citizens, asked him to provide him with political asylum, since in the United States he threatens until 170 years in prison.

Investors with undisguised anxiety monitor the events in the UK after the country's population voted in the European Union on June 23. Brexit’s national economy losses will amount to € 81 billion (5.6 trillion rubles - almost three Russian reserve funds ), the local Ministry of Finance calculated . Financial companies have already begun to transfer their offices from London to other countries: the first Russian VTB publicly announced this today.

The Russian throw by the hammer Tatyana Lysenko is deprived of the gold medal of the 2012 Olympics due to the positive result of doping tests. This was reported on the website of the IOC. Analyzes showed the presence of an athlete in the prohibited drug dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (Turinabol). In London, Lysenko won competitions with a result of 78.18 meters, setting an Olympic record. Her gold will go to the second place to the representative of Poland Anita Vlodarchik.

On the post of head of the apparatus of the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, the appointment of Alexander Nikolin is being prepared, the sources of the newspaper Kommersant reported. According to the publication, Nikolin was in the workplace on October 10. Nikolin was already working with Kiriyenko, he led the secretariat of the apparatus Sergey Kiriyenko in the Volga Embilical Party in the first half of the 2000s.

The consumer confidence index (IPU) in Russia in the third quarter of 2016 grew to the mark of minus 19%, which is 7 percentage points higher than the previous quarter. This was written by RNS with reference to the data of the Center for Conjunctural Studies of the Institute of Statistical Research and the Knowledge of the NIU HSE.

The presidential assistant for international affairs Yuri Ushakov may soon resign, Kommersant writes with reference to sources in the presidential administration (AP). The publication notes that leaving will be associated with the age of the official, in March 2017 he will be 70 years old. The source of the publication in AP noted that the issue of the president’s assistant to the successor to Ushakov should already be resolved.

In January-September 2016, $ 9.6 billion was withdrawn from Russia. This was reported in the materials of the Central Bank on October 11. Last year, over the same period, the outflow of capital from the Russian Federation was five times more - $ 48.1 billion.

Lukoil refused to participate in the privatization of Bashneft due to the too high asset price. This was told by the vice president of Lukoila Leonid Fedun, Interfax reports. “The price of $ 5 billion per“ Bashneft ”is high for Lukoil. <...> We have an understanding of a fair price. It is expensive for our company. For Rosneft, in which all profit will climb the state, it does not care what prices to pay, ”he explained.

The “Victory” lawsuit against the “Novaya Gazeta” is related to the protection of business reputation, Prime reports with reference to Lawkoster's statement. As explained in the company, the reason for the lawsuit was the material of Anastasia Egorova of August 17, 2016. “Victory Airlines believes that the editorial board of Novaya Gazeta published knowingly false charges against Victory as part of a custom campaign against Lawkoster, conducted in the summer of 2016,” the company said.

The Government of Ireland planned in the 2017 budget the tax reduction and increase in budget expenditures to support the economy, which may suffer as a result of the UK withdraw from the European Union (Brexit). It is reported by Reuters . In total, the economic measures of the Irish authorities are estimated at € 1.3 billion. Among them, in particular, is a decrease in VAT for the tourism industry to continue to attract tourists from the UK, the largest market for Ireland.

France President Francois Hollande emphasized the need to continue negotiations with Russia to resolve the situation in Syria, but noted that they should be “firm and frank”. He stated this during his speech in Strasbourg, reports Reuters . “I consider it necessary to conduct a dialogue with Russia, but it should be firm and frank, otherwise it makes no sense, and this is just fuss. I am ready to meet with Putin if we achieve progress in resolving the situation, ”the French leader said.

The deputy head of the Kremlin’s domestic policy department Olga Sitnikova leaves the presidential administration and goes to the State Duma, Sitnikova herself told RBC. She stated that she had already written a letter of resignation. The interlocutors of the publication clarify that the main reason for her dismissal was that she wants to continue working with Vyacheslav Volodin, who took the post of State Duma speaker.

The Bail-in mechanism (forced attracting depositors to save a problem bank) is not yet proposed to extend to individuals who hold funds in a particular financial organization. This was told by the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Moiseev, reports RNS. According to Moiseev, the Ministry of Finance proposes to apply Bail-in to depositors-legal entities whose deposits exceed 100 million rubles.