The authorities of Japan fined the local advertising agency DENTSU, one of the largest in the country and the world, for the processing of staff. It is reported by Reuters . The size of the pen for dentsu was 500 thousand yen ($ 4.4 thousand). Prior to this, the court Tokyo admitted that the agency forces its employees to process beyond any norms. In 2015, one of the employees of Dentsu committed suicide at the age of 24 after a constant overload in the office.

In the United States, a large scandal associated with sexual harassment began in early October: on October 4, an article was published in the New York Times, which states that for decades, producer Harvey Weinstein had been mentioned by actresses and workers of his own film company. Weinstein himself has already admitted that in some cases he behaved inappropriately with women, but still intends to sue the New York Times. Harvey Weinstein.

The net profit of Sberbank in January-September 2017 reached 496 billion rubles. This is evidenced by the organization’s reporting on Russian accounting rules. A year earlier, in the first three quarters, the bank earned about 377 billion rubles. Thus, in annual terms, the net profit of Sberbank increased by almost 32%. Since the beginning of the year, the organization increased the volume of loans issued to both individuals and legal entities by a quarter.

Former head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov and the temporarily acting head of Dagestan Vladimir Vasiliev. Photo: Vladimir Smirnov / TASS The Kremlin continues large personnel permutations at the governor's level, and observers are discussing the coming of a new generation of technocrats.

Burger King’s fast -fast restaurant network used advertisements after the premiere of the film “It” in Germany in order to pin up its main competitor, the McDonald's network. It is reported by Mashable. Before the final credits of the picture on the screen of the cinema, the inscription was projected: “Morality is as follows: never trust the clown” (a hint of the McDonald's symbol - Clown Ronald McDonald). Then, next to the inscription, the Burger King logo appeared.

The volume of cryptocurrency lost and “dead” for the global market, primarily bitcoins, is estimated at $ 21 billion. Such calculations were held by Forbes magazine. According to the publication, the total cryptocurrency market, according to Coinmarcetcap for September 2017, is $ 144 billion. In reality, it has liquid assets of $ 123 billion.

The building of the European University. Photo: Nikita Infantyev / Kommersant In 1945, American lawmakers discussed the issue of the inclusion of social sciences in the structure of the National Scientific Fund (NSF). This was a key question for American social studies, because NSF was then - and now remains - the main agency engaged in state financing of scientific research in the United States. During the discussion, opinions were divided. Many opposed, and the arguments sounded familiar.

The Laureate of the Nobel Prize of the World was the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) campaign. This was reported on the Prize website. As noted in the press release, ICAN received a reward for efforts to draw attention to the humanitarian disaster, which may be the result of the use of nuclear weapons, and a significant contribution to agreements to prohibit such types of weapons.

US Vice President Mike Pence wrote a column for The Wall Street Journal, in which he set out how America was going to regain a leading position in space exploration. One of the main and “vital” purposes was called the renewal of the United States of the Lunar Program. In addition, the Vice President pointed out too much US dependence on Russia when sending astronauts to the ISS.

More than 40% of budget expenditures in Russia are controlled by groups of elites. This is stated in the report of the director of the Institute "Development Center" of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Natalia Akindinova, RBC reports . According to economists, the most budget expenditures are under the control of security forces and regional elites - each group lobby for state expenses of about 5% of GDP.

On the afternoon on Friday, October 6, the name of the winner of the Nobel Prize of the World will become known.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow agreed to transfer to the house arrest of the former chief accountant of the Seventh Studio (founded by the artistic director of the Gogol Center Theater Kirill Serebrennikov) Nina Maslyaeva. It is reported by Interfax . The investigation petitioned for the release of Maslyaeva from the pre -trial detention center.

Hackers who enjoy the support of the Russian authorities back in 2015 gained access to the secret information of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the USA. About this with reference to their own sources wrote The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post . According to WSJ interlocutors, Russian hackers managed to steal the classified NSA information thanks to the Kaspersky antivirus installed on the home computer of one of the agency contractors.

Photo: John Lund / STEPHANIE ROESER / GETTY IMAGES Scientists urge government around the world to control greenhouse gas emissions, since their increasing volume accelerates the process of climate change. In the last decade, the volume of emissions of one of them - methane - began to grow rapidly contrary to all forecasts. At the beginning of the two thousandth, it was approximately 1750 PPB (methane molecules per billion air molecules), and today - 1830 PPB.

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who held a meeting with voters throughout the country since the beginning of autumn, was sent under the arrest on the eve of the event in St. Petersburg (which the authorities refused to coordinate). The meeting was planned on October 7-this date coincides with the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin-and after his arrest, Navalny called on supporters to gather in his absence, not only in St.