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September 8. The Chinese will buy part of Rosneft. Politinformation returned to schools

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The condemned in the "Swamp case" Ivan Nepomnysh, who left the colony in August, left Russia. He left, although the court appointed him administrative supervision: he forbade him to leave the Moscow region, leave the house after ten in the evening and approach the places of rallies. The Nepomnyans managed to leave before the decision on the supervision entered into force - today his appeal was considered (and rejected). Here you can find out what administrative supervision is and what is relied on for violation of its conditions.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the death of the “Minister of War” by IS , the former head of the Tajik riot police, Gulmurod Khalimov . The Ministry of Defense believes that he died along with other IS commanders during an airborne shelter in the Deir Ez-Zor area-a city that was surrounded by terrorists for several years and which is now liberating the Syrian army. However, the death of Khalimov is not announced for the first time - and not one of the previous messages has been confirmed. Read more about what is known about Gulmurod Khalimov, read here .

Part of Rosneftwill be sold to the Chinese. CEFC China Energy Company will receive 14 percent of the shares - most of the package purchased at the end of 2016 by the Glencore consortium and the Qatari sovereign fund. According to the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, the Chinese will receive shares that were bought on credit-due to fluctuations in the foreign exchange market, its maintenance costs increased.

By the way, about Sichin. Kommersant correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov asked Sechin how he refers to the fact that in court they presented the deciphering of his negotiations with the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev. And here is what Sechin answered:

Hurricane "Irma" is approaching the coast of the United States. In Florida, more than 500 thousand people were evacuated. At the same time, the hurricane is slightly weakened - from the fifth (maximum) to the fourth category. The island of Saint-Martin, according to which Irma has already walked, looks like this:

Municipal elections soon. What is it?

On September 10, in many regions of Russia, in addition to the governor and parliamentary elections, the elections of municipal deputies will be held. Readers sent us a lot of letters with a request to tell what it is and why go to them. We answer .

On the occasion of the elections, we recorded a special podcast . Our editor -in -chief Ivan Kolpakov and publisher Ilya Dolizhchik talked about them with a blogger Ilya Varlamov. And the journalist Alexei Kovalev spoke about his new investigation: he found out, for example, that the Rule “Three Moscow, Three Sobyanin’s rule has been operating in Moscow district newspapers - the mayor should be mentioned exactly three times.

Politinformation is returning to Krasnodar schools

The other day it became known that in the schools of the Krasnodar Territory, “information five -minute” appeared from the new school year, very similar to political information from Soviet schools. Although the law directly forbids teachers to engage in political agitation. The Ministry of Education of the region does not believe that we are talking about propaganda. Some schoolchildren with whom Medusa talked about the “five -minute” called them “delirium”; others like everything.

About art

Oleg Navalny launched the project "Tattoos from the Russian prison." The bottom line is as follows: Navalny makes sketches (including ordering), and users fill tattoos by choosing a master from the base on the site. “All in order not to forget one simple thing. The progress of mankind ... It is also when here, on Earth, people are not fester in dungeons, depriving them of human appearance - simply because human solidarity does not allow this hell, ”says Oleg Navalny.

Read the text of Anton Dolina about the new film of the author of "Adele Life" Abdellatif Keshish , which was shown at the festival in Venice. It is called "Mektub, my love. The first song ”and tells about the unemployed screenwriter Amine, who comes home on vacation and finds a childhood friend with her cousin. The Dolin considers the picture “a film of amazing and uncompromising freedom” and draws parallels with the work of Proust.

Finally, another cultural advice - listen to the new album of The National . It seems to us that he is good.

Victor Davydov. Good weekend!