The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded for discoveries that could help Russia overcome poverty. But in Russia no one uses them The Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded today to three scientists from the USA and France, is more relevant for Russia than ever - not only because the topic of research of the laureates was such a close topic as the fight against poverty.

Novaya Gazeta, citing numerous sources, wrote about the "first-of-its-kind large-scale purge of the ruling elite in the republic" that began in Chechnya in August. What happened. According to the newspaper, the purge was provoked by the wiretapping of the conversations of the ex-mayor of the second city of Chechnya, Argun Ibragim Temirbaev, with high-ranking interlocutors, which fell into the hands of the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov.

The United States has prepared sanctions against Turkey, which can be introduced in the next day - before the end of Monday, writes Bloomberg. They are linked to the successful development of the Turkish offensive against US-allied Kurds in Syria - likely accompanied by "atrocities" in the form of videotaped executions of Kurds.

The iPhone SE 2 will start at $399, according to MacRumors, citing TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who predicted Apple's new budget smartphone in early October. According to Kuo, SE 2 will be equipped with an A13 processor (the same microchip works with the latest iPhone 11) and three gigabytes of RAM. The budget iPhone will come in 64GB and 128GB storage capacities and will be available in three colors: Silver, Red and Space Grey.

Quotes of "Yandex" today won back part of the sharp fall due to the bill of the deputy Anton Gorelkin on significant Internet resources, which the State Duma may consider in November. At the opening of Nasdaq, Yandex's quotes rose by almost 4.5%, and by 18.05 Moscow time, by 4.2% on the Moscow Exchange.

The Moscow City Court refused to mitigate the sentence of activist Konstantin Kotov, who was previously sentenced to four years in a general regime penal colony under the “Dadin” article (212.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies), writes Mediazona. The article was named after activist Ildar Dadin, who was sentenced to two years under it, but his sentence was eventually overturned.

JSC "AS Rus Media", which publishes the Forbes magazine in Russia, will file a lawsuit for the protection of business reputation against the Safmar group of Mikhail Gutseriev. The subject of the lawsuit is the protection of Forbes business reputation: Safmar called an article in Forbes about the debts of companies associated with the Gutseriev family and his nephew Mikail Shishkhanov “an example of corrupt and cheap tabloid journalism”, indicating that not a single figure in it is true.

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Vladimir Putin instructed the government to compensate airlines for the additional costs of kerosene that has risen in price in 2018, writes RBC. How much will be allocated for compensation is not specified. The funds will be allocated from the government's reserve fund, which last year amounted to about 200 billion rubles. For the six months of 2019, air tickets have risen in price by 7%, and the losses of carriers have reached 52 billion rubles against 50 billion for the entire 2018.

Dodo Pizza expects to reach revenues of $500 million in 2021 and $1 billion by 2024, said in an interview with Bloomberg. company founder Fedor Ovchinnikov The Dodo Pizza chain includes more than 500 franchised restaurants in 11 countries around the world. Weekly sales range from $48,000 in Novy Urengoy to $1,000 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The most successful Dodo Pizza restaurants are located beyond the Arctic Circle, in Norilsk and Salekhard.

The Investigative Committee continues to believe that mass riots took place in Moscow in the summer: the ICR wrote about six more people who attacked the security forces. It is only about cases under Part 1 of Art.

Yandex has launched an app for iOS about fashion and style with augmented reality technology - Sloy, The Bell was told in the press service of the project. It allows you to shoot short things and recognizes what kind of things a person is wearing. The Sloy project noted that this is the first application of its kind for a Russian-speaking audience. In addition, this is the first Yandex application aimed at an audience from 12 to 25 years old.

Surgutneftegaz filed four lawsuits with the arbitration court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, in which it asks to recognize more than 133,000 ordinary and 35,000 preferred shares as ownerless and transfer them to the company, Vedomosti . writes The former owners of the securities are companies that are no longer active.

Nine leaders of the Catalan independence movement received real terms due to the 2017 independence referendum, reports Bloomberg. The Spanish Supreme Court has sentenced Former Deputy Prime Minister of Catalonia Oriol Junqueras to 13 years for "incitement to sedition". The prosecution demanded 25 years for him. Eight more defendants received from nine to 12 years, three defendants got off with a large fine - 60 thousand euros.

The Nobel Week 2019 was closed by the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, which was received by three scientists - Americans Michael Kremer (Harvard) and Abhijit Banerjee (MIT), as well as Frenchwoman Esther Duflo (MIT) - for "an experimental approach to the fight against poverty." The new approach allows dividing the global problem of poverty into smaller ones that are easier to solve, the committee said. Ideas.