North Korea has very limited sources of income. The main trading partner is China, but he recently limited imports. The country constantly has to look for new sources of income. If you believe the special services of the United States and South Korea, including illegal ones .

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that he would participate in the elections of the head of the city, which will be in September 2018. He reported this in an interview with the newspaper Vedomosti. Sobyanin said that the mayor wants to finish the reforms in the city. His probable rivals in the elections may be the former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov and the head of the Moscow Office Moscow branch Sergey Mitrokhin.

The MDK public “VKontakte” announced an exit to the ICO (an analogue of IPO for cryptocurrencies). The community wants to attract up to $ 10 million to create a platform with content that is created by users. This was reported on the project website. The first ICO round will begin on November 7th. MDK plans to release a billion tokens, of which 500 million will be launched openly, 250 million - for a reward of users, 200 million for a team, another 50 million will be a reserve.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the murder by an employee of the National Guard of four colleagues. This is stated in the official message of the department. The case was brought under paragraph “A” of part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of two or more persons).

Singapore will froze an increase in the number of private cars since 2018, but will expand urban transport. This is stated in the message on the website of the Singapore transport administration. Now the country has an increase in private transport in the amount of 0.25% per year. The quota was promised to revise in 2020. In a press release of transport administration, they indicated that the authorities will continue to invest $ 20 billion in a new railway infrastructure.

Inflation for the poor in Russia was equal to inflation for the rich, writes Bloomberg . Inflation for the poor in the country has been lower than a similar indicator for the rich or approximately at the same level with it since the end of 2015 - the most long time in the history of data collection by the Bank of Russia since 2003. Both indicators are now close to 3% - the total annual inflation has reached this historical minimum in September.

The founder of the HERMITAGE CAPATAL Foundation William Brauder, who was canceled by an American visa on the eve, received permission to enter the United States as part of a visa -free program. This was told by RBC by the representative of the customs and border guard service. Permission to Browner was given on October 18.

The Presnensky court of Moscow on the afternoon of October 24 arrested Boris Gritsa for two months, who attacked Tatyana Felgenhauer on the eve of the Echo of Moscow. Gritsu was charged with attempted murder, he faces up to 11 years in prison. The man partially pleaded guilty, confirming that he attacked a journalist, but he had no intent to kill. Felgenhauer is in a stably serious state in the intensive care unit of the Sklifosovsky Research Institute.

The Interfax news agency was subjected to an "unprecedented viral attack." This was announced on Facebook by the Deputy General Director of Interfax, Yuri Pogoreryy. As a result, the site and signature services of the agency became inaccessible. “Our engineers restore their performance. My apologies. We try to return to you as quickly as possible! ”, - wrote Pogarevy. In addition, the Fontanka website was temporarily unavailable.

On October 24, journalist Ksenia Sobchak held the first press conference as a presidential candidate. She announced the composition of her campaign headquarters and answered questions from journalists. Republic collected the main facts. Sobchak began its press conference with the words about the deputy editor of Echo of Moscow Tatyana Felgenhauer, which a man with a knife attacked the editor on October 23.

The Tiangun-1 multi-toned station-one of the hopes of the Chinese space program-should fall to Earth in the near future. But no one knows where. Republic tells the history of the spacecraft and gives the assessments of experts who discuss the danger of the situation. What is Tiangun-1 The Space station “Tiangun-1”, which means “Heavenly Palace” in the Chinese, was taken to the earth's orbit in 2011 from the Cosmodrome of Tszyutsyuan.

The Chinese Communist Party introduced to its constitution the name of its chairman Xi Jinping and its ideas about the development of the country, putting it on a par with the founder of modern China Mao Zedong. This happened at the closure of the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, reports Reuters . As the agency notes, the introduction of the name of SI into the party constitution is a demonstration of his strength, as well as a comparison, in addition to Mao, with Dan Xiaopin.

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad Ben Salman Al Saud announced the construction of a new city on the Red Sea. The metropolis is promised to ensure the standard of living, which is now not available in other cities of the country. It is reported by Bloomberg. The project was called Neom. The city will exist regardless of “existing state structures” with the assistance of investors and large businesses. At the initial stage, more than $ 500 billion will be invested in the construction.

Researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing first raised piglets with the addition of mice genes - the grown pigs are distinguished by a reduced fat content. The results of the study were published in the American scientific journal PNAS, their summary is given by The Salt blog. Chinese experts took the UPC1 gene from mice (it is responsible for regulating body temperature in mammals; pigs do not have it) and placed it in pig embryos using CRISPR/CAS9 technology.

“Russian Post” apologized for the fact that in the summer of 2017 she could not deliver a registered letter in time, in which they asked to reveal the correspondence of Telegram users, the creator of the messenger Pavel Durov. It was supposed to come on July 19, but only reached July 21. This was told in his telegram channel by lawyer Pavel Chikov, who will defend the side of Telegram in the Russian court in the case of the protection of correspondence.