The South Korean prosecutor’s office conducted searches at Samsung Electronics offices as part of an investigation of the company's management in state affairs, Yonhap reports . The audit is associated with a political scandal with the participation of the President of the Republic of Korea Pak Kyn Hy and her friend Choi Song Sil, who is suspected of unlawful influence on state affairs. The searches should have helped find out what financial support was Samsung to the daughter of Choi Song Sil.

American security forces are trying to prevent Russia from observing the US presidential election. This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Ryabkov, RIA Novosti reports. “Representatives of the relevant power structures of the US administration are not disdained by any techniques in order to cut off Russian representatives from the possibility of evaluating the conditions of the upcoming elections,” he said.

On December of December, 2010, at about 4 o’clock in the morning, a man in baggy dark clothes, rubber gloves and a motorcycle helmet with a lowered visor drove up to the most famous casino Las Vegas and the whole world-Belladzhio. He parked his Suzuki motorcycle at the entrance so that the front wheel looked in the direction of the building, looked at the guard booth, where a small woman was sitting alone, and went inside.

Ildar Dadin, who complained about torture from the administration of the Karelian correctional colony No. 7, refused to transfer to another institution, said Igor Kalyapin, a representative of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC), TASS reports . “Our opinion is that Dadina must be transferred to another correctional colony, but he categorically refuses and asked us not to speak with requests for translation.

The investigating authorities put on the federal wanted list of the former deputy head of the apparatus of the State Duma Committee on Natural Resources and Natural Management Anton Vakhonin. He is accused of trying to seize the property of a business partner in the amount of $ 1.5 million. This is reported by Kommersant. Information about the search for Vakhonin was confirmed by his lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin.

The elements of the US election system are vulnerable to hacking and cyber attacks, which may affect the outcome of the presidential election on November 8. It is reported by Fox News with reference to the report of the US Department of Internal Security of September 20. Special services appreciated the risks of hacking the US electoral system on election day. The most vulnerable to cyber attacks were the databases of voters.

Almost three quarters of Russians (74%) believe that Western countries tighten sanctions against Russia in order to weaken and humiliate it. This is evidenced by the results of the Levada Center survey. 13% of the population I think that the sanctions of the West are aimed at "restoring the geopolitical balance, violated by the annexation of Crimea to Russia." According to 5% of respondents, sanctions are tightened in order to stop the conflict in the southeast of Ukraine.

In Russia in Russia in the next five years will decrease compared to the level of 2016. This is stated in the annual long -term forecast of the organization of oil exporters (OPEC) World Oil Outlook . According to OPEC calculations, in 2017-2019, daily oil production in the Russian Federation can fall to 10.9 million barrels, in 2020–2021 - up to 10.8 million barrels. In 2025–2040, Russian oil production should stabilize at 10.9 million barrels per day.

The impact of the presidential elections in the United States on the Russian market will be minimal with any result, according to the head of the Ministry of Economic Development (mayor) of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev. “I don't think there will be some significant influence. How Brexit discussed how it will affect Russia, although the result was completely unexpected for the majority, and the influence was minimal, ”Interfax quotes Ulyukaev.

The Russian government must quickly amend the bill on a one -time monetary payment to pensioners so that its provisions are extended to military pensioners and categories equated to them. Such an order was given by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with members of the Security Council, Interfax reports. “I understand, probably, the logic of the authors of this bill: 24 thousand [rubles] - approximately the average pension of military pensioners, 13 thousand in the civil sector.

In the story with a failed armed coup in Montenegro, in which a Russian trail denied by Moscow was visible, some clarity appeared. There really is a Russian trace there, however, it seems, not quite a state. But the number of unpleasant questions for Moscow does not decrease from this.

13:45 It is still necessary to make a reservation that not only Clinton and Trump participate in the presidential election. Among the candidates are also Libertanian Gary Johnson (he could not answer the question of what Aleppo was, and could not name the president of any country except the United States). Three more applicants for the presidency: Jill Stein from the Green Party, representative of the Constitutional Party Darrell Kasl and self -nominated Evan McMullin.

The London Court rejected the lawsuit of the Russian oil company Tatneft against Ukrainian businessmen Igor Kolomoisky, Gennady Bogolyubov and Alexander Yaroslavl. About this, as Interfax reports, reports Bloomberg. As the agency notes, the lawsuit was not accepted "due to the lack of real chances of the success of the case." In addition, the court lifted the arrest from the assets of Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov at $ 380 million, which was imposed as part of the case in April 2016.

Rosneftegaz may not pay income tax from the sale of 19.5% of Rosneft shares if the relevant amendments to the Tax Code are adopted, RBC reports . The exemption from income tax as a result of the Rosneft privatization transaction will save Rosneftegaz more than 100 billion rubles.

The Russian economy is “simplified” and structurally degrading. This conclusion was reached by specialists of the Center for the Development of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in the new analytical review “Comments about the state and business” (KGB) for the period from October 18 to November 7, which entered the Republic of November 8.