Boeing has chosen a name for a new manned spacecraft it is developing for commercial orbital launches. The ship was named Starliner ("Star Liner"). Until now, it was known under the designation CST-100 (Crew Space Transportation - manned space transport). Boeing is developing the Starliner as part of NASA's privately owned manned spacecraft program. The agency has awarded Boeing a $4.2 billion contract. Under the terms of the contract, the ship should be built by 2017.

Shot: Madagascar 3 In a couple of days with the State MIA “Russia Today” and TASS there were so many strange events that we decided to simply tell them in chronological order, supplying with circus gifs. Alexei Venediktov immediately hit three media gigants with one tweet: he wrote that instead of Vladimir Kulistikov, Margarita Simonyan would be the head of NTV, and the Russian Agency today and TASS will be united near Sergey Mikhailov, the general director of the latter.

Three designer novels for reader pleasure. Overview of Galina Yuzefovich A weekly literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting book news released in Russia. In the new review there are several designer novels: “Honey Paradise” Valery Bochkova, the “abyss” of Christophe Ta-di-Bio and the “Girl on the train” Hokins floors. The common maxim is that great literature is always the literature “from God”, written without regard to the requirements of time and market.

Two residents of the city of Seversk in the Tomsk region were fined 3,000 rubles each for posting extremist materials on the social network, including a Walt Disney cartoon about Donald Duck and the Nazis. As reported on the website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Tomsk Region, the court issued fines under the administrative article on the production and distribution of extremist materials. A cartoon titled "Der Fuehrerʼs Face" was released in 1943.

What European politicians say about the migration crisis Photo: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Scanpix In the European Union there was a split between Western and Eastern countries that look differently at how the migration crisis can be solved. The most controversial point was the question of the quota, that is, the distribution of the growing number of migrants on EU member states.

RBC, citing analysts of the bank, calls nine ways to avoid devaluation Photo: Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix Analysts of Sberbank (or rather, his investment unit - Sberbank Cib) published a report in which nine ways were called to stop the fall in the ruble. All of them can theoretically use the authorities, but analysts are sure: some of the methods in Russia are not applicable.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan has accused Deputy Defense Minister Abdukhalim Nazarzoda, who was dismissed on September 4, of organizing armed attacks on the central office of the Ministry of Defense in Dushanbe and the department of internal affairs in the city of Vakhdat. In the message of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, these attacks are called terrorist acts. The ministry claims that Nazarzoda led his accomplices and personally took part in the attacks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with the Minister of Sports, President of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko, announced the need to tighten the limit on foreign players. Mutko told reporters about this. “On September 1, I spoke with the president. And he said that they made small restrictions in football. It needs to be even tougher,” Mutko said.

Image: Non -Steadedrusey.rf Rostelecom launched the Old Friends test, which adapts to each user. In order for the game to start, you need to allow her to scan your account on the VKontakte social network. After that, the test will offer nine questions about “old friends”: who was the first to leave the record on your page, what was the first avatar of your friend, who lives where and where he studies. With this test, Rostelecom calls for users not to forget about home phones.

In January-July 2015, Russia's revenues from oil exports decreased by 1.72 times compared to the same period of the previous year, to $56.229 billion. Such data was published by the Federal Customs Service (FTS). The export of oil products for seven months of 2015 increased by 9 percent compared to the same period a year earlier - up to 105.05 million tons.

The United States Embassy in Dushanbe suspended its work after a shootout in the capital of Tajikistan on the morning of September 4, as well as an attack on a police station in the city of Vahdat.

Interview with Leonid Nevzlin Photo: Franck Ferville / Agency VU A year ago, in July 2014, the Arbitration Court in the Hague awarded the shareholders of the Yukos compensation in the amount of 50 billion dollars: Russia must pay this money for the expropriation of the company's assets. At the same time, the European Court of Human Rights decided on tax fines against Yukos and established another compensation, which amounted to 1.8 billion euros.

Four American technology companies, Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe, have been punished for a secret "non-aggression pact" - an agreement not to poach employees from each other. Federal Judge Lucy Koh ordered the companies to pay the plaintiffs $415 million. This money will be distributed among 64 thousand employees - 5.8 thousand dollars per person - and the lawyers representing them (they will receive a total of 41 million dollars).

The art collection owned by billionaire Alfred Taubman, who passed away in the spring of 2015, will be auctioned by the Sothebyʼs auction house he once owned. The collection, which includes about 500 paintings, is tentatively valued at $500 million. In a statement released by Sotheby's, it is emphasized that this is the most expensive private collection that has ever been put up for auction. The artworks that Taubman has been collecting for nearly 50 years will be sold at four auctions.

Why will the price of the main product of Russia fall (or grow)? Photo: KENG PO Leung / PantherMedia / Photobank Lori The head of Rosneft Igor Sechin, in recent years, several times largely mistaken with forecasts at the cost of oil, decided not to answer such questions from journalists and advised me to contact the fortuneteller. Medusa made it a little differently-and read the reports of analysts and investment bankers for oil.