Researchers from Melbourne believe that people over 40 should adopt a five-hour workday. If a person has crossed his fifties, then his working day should be reduced to 5 hours a day, as scientists from Australia believe. An experiment involving more than 6,000 workers of different ages showed that it is from this age that hormonal changes affect labor productivity, reducing performance during longer working hours.

The capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin relieved Muscovites of responsibility for traffic jams in the city. Earlier, Sobesednik.ru wrote that the head of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, allowed the installation of “flashing lights” not on eight, but on 12 State Duma cars. On October 24, Sergei Sobyanin said at a meeting with journalists that 50% of the cars on city streets belong to residents of the Moscow region or other regions of the country.

Photo: Nikolay Baskov // Lyubov Shemetova Sobesednik.ru columnist Otar Kushanashvili appreciated the Kremlin premiere of Nikolai Baskov’s new concert program. – For me, the Kolya phenomenon is obvious, as is obvious, for example, the disgustingness of people in robes who turned into rough pop Satans (Okhlobystin, Photius). Kolya is not satisfied with the formulation of the question whether life took place in the present completed tense.

On the morning of October 26, an engine caught fire on a UTair flight from Moscow to Yerevan before takeoff to Vnukovo. According to the Moscow city news agency, the incident occurred during the engine start. “When starting the engine, the kerosene left over from the previous flight caught fire. The ignition was extinguished by the internal fire suppression system of the engine,” the airport told the agency.

The editor-in-chief of the Vedomosti newspaper Tatyana Lysova may leave her post in March 2017. According to Echo of Moscow, the decision to fire Lysova was made by the owner of Vedomosti, Demyan Kudryavtsev. Representatives of the publication have not yet commented on this information. In 2015, Kudryavtsev bought out the shares of foreign partners Dow Jones and FT Group and became the absolute owner of the Vedomosti newspaper.

General Director of VKontakte Boris Dobrodeev took a similar post at Mail.Ru Group. As Interfax writes, citing a company statement, the previous CEO of Mail.Ru Group in Russia, Dmitry Grishin, intended to “focus on investments and strategy, including international expansion,” as a result of which Boris Dobrodeev, CEO of VKontakte, was appointed in his place. It is noted that Dobrodeev will continue to manage VKontakte, but as the CEO of Mail.Ru.

The victims of the accident on the Don highway in the Moscow region are in serious condition. Previously , Sobesednik.ru reported that on October 26, a major accident involving two trucks and a passenger minibus occurred on the Don highway in the Domodedovo district of the Moscow region. Seven people died as a result of the incident.

On October 26, two trucks and a passenger minibus collided on the Don highway in the Domodedovo district. Sobesednik.ru previously wrote that six people were killed and three were injured in an accident on the Don highway. As RIA Novosti writes, citing a source, the number of deaths has increased to seven. The agency also notes that there are no difficulties on the section of the road where the accident occurred.

US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper named the main goal of Russian President Vladimir Putin's policy. At the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that Vladimir Putin's foreign policy is aimed at making the world perceive Russia as a great power. The full text of the speech is available on the Council website. “Putin sees Russia as a great country, a great power.

In the center of Moscow, unknown persons shot up the windows of the TriTe studio, owned by director Nikita Mikhalkov. The director's press secretary Evgenia Dorofeeva told the Moscow agency that the attackers damaged the double-glazed windows on the façade of building 11 in Maly Kozikhinsky Lane in the Presnensky district of the Central Administrative District of the capital, where Nikita Mikhalkov's studio is located.

The head of the Independent Public Anti-Doping Commission, Vitaly Smirnov, spoke about the fight against doping in the Russian Federation. According to Sovsport.ru , speaking at a seminar for top managers of Russian sports, Vitaly Smirnov said that the Independent Public Anti-Doping Commission is trying to promote a law on punishment for doping.

US presidential candidate Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton's plan for Syria could lead to a world war. In an interview with Reuters, US presidential candidate Donald Trump said that his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's plan for Syria could lead to World War III. Instead, Trump said, the US would be better off focusing on fighting ISIS. “What we should do is focus on ISIS. We don't need to focus on Syria.

The European Commission has allowed Gazprom to use more than 50% of the OPAL pipeline, which continues the Nord Stream onshore. According to The Wall Street Journal, the European Commission agreed to allow Gazprom to use more than 50% of the OPAL pipeline. At the same time, the European Commission has put forward a condition that will allow it not to violate European legislation: Gazprom will have to provide 10-20% of the pipeline capacity to other suppliers.

Former MADI students Lev Kamenetsky and Stanislav Sobolevsky were sentenced to 9 and 9.6 years in prison for rape. In 2015, Sobesednik.ru covered in detail the scandal of the rape of an 18-year-old girl in a nightclub in the capital. Interfax writes that the Savyolovsky Court of Moscow found former students of the Moscow Automobile and Highway Institute (MADI) guilty of raping a girl and distributing pornographic materials.

On the morning of October 26, a fire broke out in the Usadba Bannaya bath complex, located in the Tushino district of North-Western Administrative District of Moscow. As TASS writes with reference to the Moscow headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the fire has now been extinguished. “The fire area was 500 square meters. meters. There were no injuries,” the department added. The agency notes that numerous structural collapses occurred during the fire.