Alexey Navalny and Ksenia Sobchak. Photo: Ekaterina Chesnokova / RIA Novosti They write that Ksenia Sobchak must announce his plans for the presidential election after meeting and talking with Vladimir Putin.

We seem to know all this from the textbooks. How did people move from hunting and gathering to a settled lifestyle, growing agricultural crops and farming? Most believe that this happened due to "great domestications" - animals and plants. It is believed that it was agriculture and settling that ultimately led to the emergence of cities, states and further - laws and all that we call civilization. However, anthropologist James Scott disputes the current performance.

The Tver court of Moscow arrested for five days the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov, finding him guilty of violating the rules for organizing rallies. It is reported by Interfax . According to Udaltsov, he does not agree with the court decision, he will appeal him, but for now he announces a hunger strike. “I declare a hunger strike in protest, I will keep it until the release, to seek a review of the case,” he added.

The leader of the "Christian state" Alexander Kalinin has a criminal record for the murder, robbery and forgery of documents. It is reported by RIA Novosti. According to the source of the agency, in 2002 he was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Russian Jews. The film is third. After 1948. Photo: Filmpro.ru Last week, the premiere of the third and final film from the Leonid Parfenov cycle “Russian Jews” took place. The first part was devoted to the position of Jews in tsarist Russia. The second is the most dramatic moments of Russian history: revolution, great terror and the Great Patriotic War. The new film covers the post -war period, the era of Khrushchev and Brezhnev and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Gazprom took first place in the ranking of 250 largest oil and gas and energy companies in the world according to S&P Global Platts. In 2016, the Russian concern ranked third in the list. The American Exxonmobil, which headed the rating for 12 years, shifted from the first to the ninth line. The second place this year was taken by the German E.on SE, which made the greatest jump (in 2016 it took 114th place).

The Central Bank of Russia developed a bill that temporarily prohibits the beneficiaries and leaders of ruined banks abroad. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the financial and economic block of the government. According to him, the bill will also affect the owners and management of non -state pension funds and insurance companies. The document has already conceptually approved the Ministry of Economic Development, the agency’s interlocutor emphasized.

The governor of the Samara region Nikolai Merkushkin resigned of his own free will. His resignation was accepted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin website. Merkushkin was appointed special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for interaction with the World Congress of Finno-Ugric peoples. Dmitry Azarov, a member of the Federation Council, will act as the head of the region. In 2010-2014, he held the post of mayor of Samara.

In 2018, Sberbank intends to introduce scoring (evaluation system) of borrowers on psychometric models. This was told by the senior vice president of Sberbank Alexander Vedyakhin, Interfax reports.

In November 2016, Barack Obama, still holding the post of US President, personally warned the creator of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg about fake news on the social network and their negative impact on the country's presidential election. This was written by The Washington Post with reference to sources familiar with the situation. According to the publication, the conversation between Obama and Zuckerberg took place at the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Peru.

Centers for the control and prevention of US diseases (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC) will test blockchain technology to combat epidemics. It is reported by Coindesk. According to the main software developer of CDC Jim Nasr, the use of blockchain will help to significantly reduce the time when collecting information about the occurrence of the disease and its distribution. According to his estimates, now months take such data, but it will take several hours with blockchain.

The British police arrested the seventh suspect in the case of a terrorist attack in the London metro. It is reported by Reuters . According to the agency, the 20-year-old young man was detained in Cardiff, the capital of Wales. Earlier, one of the detainees, 18-year-old Ahmed Hassan, was charged with attempted murder. He was arrested until October 13. On September 21, the police arrested the sixth suspect-a 17-year-old teenager.

Binbank, Mikail Shishkhanov, does not plan to continue to work in the banking sector after the completion of the reorganization of a credit institution. He told about this in an interview with the newspaper Vedomosti. “And then I will just finish with banking activities. <...> forever. I worked for 25 years, I had a dream. I did not have enough a little to build the organization that could be built by putting on the right rails. If you keep what is, it will be a strong organization, ”he said.

Lieutenant General Valery Asapov died in Syria as a result of mortar shelling by the Islamic State. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. According to the agency, Asapov helped the Syrian commanders with the operation of the liberation of Deir Ez-Zor. He was at the command post of Syria troops.

In the middle of the seventies, 15-year-old Dale Vince left school, four years later he became infected with the ideas of New Aiga and, becoming Hippie, lived in the old trailer for ten years. In 1991, Vince first saw a wind station, and this forever changed his life. “I thought that I would either live by myself with such a windmill for the van, or I can do something more,” he recalls .