The death of several thousand exotic fish at Sochi customs left neither their owners indifferent, who filed a claim for damages, nor customs officers who are preparing to defend their honor and dignity in court, nor bloggers who simply feel sorry for the fish.

Rescuers recovered the body of a deceased person from under the rubble of an underground parking lot that collapsed in the center of Moscow, RIA Novosti reports . Earlier it was reported that the man was crushed under a slab and was in serious condition. The man was under the rubble for several hours, Ministry told ITAR-TASS the press service of the Moscow Emergency Situations . All victims of the collapse were citizens of Belarus.

Zoologists have found that ant-eating chimpanzees are able to use different tools depending on the situation. Until now, it was believed that animals do not use more than one tool to accomplish a specific task. The researchers' observations are described in detail in their article in the American Journal of Primatology . The main conclusions of the work are presented in a press release from Wiley-Blackwell, which publishes the journal.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation returned the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya to the prosecutor's office . According to RIA Novosti , the corresponding decision was made at a meeting on Thursday, September 3. Thus, the court upheld the complaint of the relatives of the murdered journalist.

District Election Commission No. 13 for the Moscow City Duma elections rejected about 30 percent of the signatures collected by the candidate from the Solidarity movement, Vladimir Milov. At the same time, the inspectors recognized Milov’s own signature as fake, he reports on his blog. The candidate is also accused of collecting signatures from people who do not live in the electoral district.

Ukrainian heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitschko invited American firefighters to his fight with Chris Arreola, which will take place on September 26 in Los Angeles. Thus, Klitschko noted the work of firefighters who have recently been putting out severe fires in California. About a hundred tickets have been allocated to firefighters, reports the Associated Press . Klitschko has a house in Los Angeles, where he lives, in particular, when preparing for his fights in this city.

Oil prices remained almost unchanged on September 2, fixing below $70 per barrel. As a result of trading on Wednesday, a barrel of WTI oil for delivery in October cost $68.05. During the first hours of transactions in the electronic trading system on the morning of September 4, oil prices rose by 15 cents to $68.2 per barrel. Russian stock indices closed in the red on September 2: the RTS fell by 1.9 percent to 1,053.17 points, and the MICEX by 2.56 percent to 1,076.69 points.

The Serbian military department confirmed on September 2 that Iraq is interested in returning a batch of MiG-21 and MiG-23 combat aircraft transferred to Belgrade for maintenance during the reign of Saddam Hussein . According to Agence France-Presse , Yugoslavia received Soviet-made fighters about twenty years ago, and at that time they were not airworthy.

Unlike Russia, American schools do not have a single calendar, but classes usually begin at about the same time - at the end of August or beginning of September, after the end of the summer holidays. School difficulties known to everyone - lack of funding, low standards of knowledge, overcrowded classes - are strikingly evident at the beginning of the school year with renewed vigor.

Astronomers working with the VLBA telescope have made extremely precise measurements of the gravitational deflection of radiation. The result they obtained is in good agreement with the theoretical one predicted within the framework of Einstein’s general theory of relativity (GTR). The authors' article was published in The Astrophysical Journal . A brief description of the work is given in a press release from the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

About 15 thousand families in Russia cannot pay off their mortgage debts due to the crisis. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a statement by Deputy Minister of Regional Development Sergei Kruglik. Speaking at the PROEstate real estate forum in St. Petersburg, Kruglik noted that this figure turned out to be six times less than previously expected.

At least 476 people have been attacked in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. As AFP reported on September 3 , unknown persons injected them with syringes. According to Reuters, the number of victims of syringe injections could reach thousands of people. In the city of Urumqi, which is the capital of the region, protests were held, the participants of which demanded that the authorities punish the attackers and take measures to ensure public safety.

Volzhsky Neschastlivtsevs The conflict in the Nizhny Novgorod Youth Theater is resolved for the time being The crisis at the Theater for Young Spectators in Nizhny Novgorod, which began with open letters, continued with the hunger strike of the artists and ended with the arrival from Moscow of the conflict commission of the Union of Theater Workers, has been suspended: the interested parties met and came to a decision to divide the troupe into two parts.

The captain of the cargo ship "Arctic Sea" made contact for the first time since the disappearance of the ship, RIA Novosti reported on September 3 . A representative of the company Solchart Arkhangelsk told the agency about this. On Monday, the Arctic Sea captain called the company from his personal phone and reported that he and three other sailors currently on board the cargo ship were feeling well and had no injuries.

On September 2, it became known that the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (SKP) of the Russian Federation is investigating the case of smuggling of motor yachts. On this day, one of the suspects was detained - the managing partner of the Burevestnik Group holding and the general director of Aston Martin Moscow, Andrei Lomakin. Later it became known that a total of eight people were detained in connection with the smuggling case.