Photo of passport of Alexander Mishkin. Photo The Insider Alexander Petrov, whom the British police suspects of the poisoning of the Skripals, turned out to be a military doctor from the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (previously GRU), the journalists of the publication of The Insider and the Bellingcat research group said . According to them, an employee of the special services is called Alexander Mishkin.

The Central Bank described the worst script for the Russian economy. What will the scenarios be with the ruble? Photo from Facebook Central Bank The Central Bank described the most negative of realistic scenarios of the development of events in the Russian economy: a risky scenario involves oil for $ 35 already in 2019. In this case, the Russian GDP can go into the minus, and the ruble will become cheaper to 80–100 rubles./$.

On Saturday, October 6, a closed meeting was held at the Russian Ministry of Defense, at which they discussed the failures of alleged agents of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (formerly the GRU) abroad, Sergei Kanev, a journalist for the Dossier project, said, citing his own sources in the military department . According to Kanev's sources, the work of agents abroad received extremely negative assessments during the meeting.

The Central Bank, in a risky scenario, allows oil prices to fall to $35 per barrel in 2019, said Ksenia Yudaeva, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank. The forecast is based on the fact that Russia will continue to be under Western sanctions. According to experts interviewed by The Bell, if such a scenario comes true, we can expect the ruble to collapse to 80–100 rubles/$.

The platform war entered the second phase. If in the first it was about the set of as the largest audience and monetization of social networks as possible, now about the invention of instant messengers and their independent survival. Founder Snapchat Evan Spiegel, photo Cellanr C Flickr Snap lost attractiveness in the eyes of investors .

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, commented on the story of the expulsion of four Russians by the Netherlands: they really were “Russian specialists”, and there was “nothing secret” on their trip. According to the Netherlands, they were agents of the GRU. Later, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Interfax that the technical equipment seized from the Russians was intended for testing the information systems of the Russian embassy in The Hague.

The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to the Americans William Nordhouse and Paul Romer for, as stated in the statement of the Nobel Committee, "the integration of climate change and technological innovation into long -term macroeconomic analysis." Nordhaus is called the father of the economy of climate change, he was the first to look at the climate change as an economic problem and proposed ways to regulate it through a tax on the release of carbon dioxide.

Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Argentinean SAOCOM 1A satellite from a spaceport in California. The next launch was widely discussed on social networks, in most of the posts, users admired the beauty of the evening sky, which was “lit up” by the rocket. According to the posts of the inhabitants of the state (among them there is even the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti), you can trace the entire path of the rocket.

Western IT companies continue to open their offices in Russia — following Samsung and Microsoft, an artificial intelligence lab from Californian startup PicsArt will open in Moscow. Experts interviewed by Vedomosti explain the interest of foreign employers in Russian programmers by the strong mathematical school in Russia.

The US authorities have frozen the assets of businessman Oleg Deripaska in the country, including mansions in New York and Washington, writes the New York Post, citing its sources in the US Treasury. At the same time, according to the interlocutors of the publication, the US authorities are negotiating with Deripaska to lift sanctions on some of the operations that the company conducts in Europe.

In October, banks continued to raise rates on foreign currency deposits. This was preceded by an outflow of depositors with foreign currency savings. Members of the government are already urging citizens on television not to withdraw currency from banks. The authorities assure that the foreign currency savings of Russians are not in danger. But these speeches may have the opposite effect - against the backdrop of a sharp drop in trust ratings for the authorities led by the president.

Bank rates are growing with distrust. Details - in the morning newsletter The Bell Alexey Kudenko/RIA Novosti In October, banks continued to increase rates on foreign exchange deposits. This was preceded by the outflow of depositors with foreign exchange savings. Members of the government are already calling not to take the currency from banks on TV. The authorities assure that nothing threatens the foreign exchange savings of Russians.