Memory of Yuri Afanasyev Photo: Vladimir Zavyalov / TASS In Moscow, the founder of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Yuri Afanasyev, died. He was 81 years old. At the request of Medusa about Afanasyev, the director of the Institute of Eastern Cultures and Antiquities of the Russian State University, Professor Ilya Smirnov , tells. Yuri Afanasyev is a historian and politician from perestroika. In 1986-1991 he headed the Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute.

Photo: Andy Mead / Ycj / Icon Smi / Corbis / Vida Press Former Mexican football player Kuautemock Blanco Plagiadil his own resume from the Wikipedia article about himself when he was recorded as a candidate for the post of mayor of the suburbs of Mexico City Coernavaki. The elections took place back in June, but at the athlete’s summary they paid attention only now.

Photo: ThinBoyfatter / Flickr (CC by 2.0) The photographer Trevor Frost captured how the crests of the crocodile soars out of the water vertically up - in the pursuit of prey. These giant reptiles thanks to a powerful tail can almost completely throw their body out of the water.

Rector of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Edward Crowley will return to the United States and continue to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, RBC reports. The American will leave his post in December. Crowley wrote a farewell letter to his colleagues, but did not explain in it the reasons for the resignation. According to the institute's vice president, Crowley is leaving due to the expiration of his contract.

Shot: The Watercooler / YouTube Mashable released a video in the spirit of the series “ 100 years of beauty ”, but with a hamster in the title role. And this hamster constantly eats! The WaterCooler 100 Years of Hamster Beauty in 60 Seconds If you missed the original series, see, for example, how the ideas about beauty in Russia have changed. Cut Video 100 years of beauty - Episode 8: Russia (Anya)

The Federal Antimonopoly Service found Google guilty of violating competition law. The FAS came to the conclusion that the search engine is abusing its position in the market. After that, Yandex shares rose on the NASDAQ . The decision was made on the complaint of "Yandex". In February 2015, a Russian search engine accused a competitor of not allowing it to work normally with the Android operating system.

Shot: Seb Montaz Studio / Facebook Director Sebastian Montaz Rosset, who specializes in the set in hard-to-reach places, published a short film with an appeal to take a break in work on a light run. A light run, from the point of view of the Montaza-STROST, is a race on the tops of the mountains and steep slopes. The video is removed from the first person. You desern a break ... Now! I Think We All Deserv a Break in Our Working Day now ... Go for it! Je pense qu'on à tous mérité une pace Boulot.

The prosecutor's office appealed the verdict of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow, which acquitted four base jumpers accused of involvement in painting a star on a Stalinist high-rise. “The prosecutor's office filed a brief submission in which it asks to cancel the verdict,” Ksenia Lapina, spokeswoman for the court, said.

Reuters reported , citing two unnamed US officials, that Russian tanks and artillery took up positions at Latakia airport in Syria. One of the agency's sources said that seven T-90 tanks were seen at the airfield. This information has not been confirmed by other sources. The Pentagon said that Russia is building a base of operations near Latakia. Official Damascus denies the presence of Russian military in Syria.

Andrey Kozenko - About the most interesting winners of the governor's elections Photo: Zamir Usmanov / Interpress / TASS On a single voting day, on September 13, elections of the heads of 21 of the Russian region were held. In three more chapters of the constituent entities of the Federation, they were elected through voting in local parliaments. In 14 cases, the elections were early: the current head of the region went to resign in the spring to confirm his powers in September.

Russia has entered into negotiations with the United States and Saudi Arabia on the conditions for the resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources in Russia, the United States and Saudi Arabia, as well as representatives of the Syrian opposition. There is no official confirmation of this information.

The Ministry of Economic Development has decided to temporarily ban the export of recycled paper and cardboard from Russia. As the department says, this will reduce the existing shortage of waste paper in the domestic market and increase the volume of its processing.

Shot: Mike Wilson 3run / YouTube Periodically, we stumble upon a video in which young people bring their friends, girls or wives. About one such “Medusa” already wrote : the British video blogger Rob Pooh bought a mechanical “claw” for himself and lifted his own girl with her. Rob Pugh Videos Good Morning. The video with screaming rubber geese also would also hardly have appeared if it were not for the desire of his author to confuse his girlfriend.

What newspapers write about the new leader of the largest British party Jeremy Corbine Photo: Stefan Rousseau / Pa / Scanpix On September 12, the 66-year-old socialist Jeremy Corbin led the Labor Party of Great Britain. Never in recent decades, one of the two main political forces in the UK had no such controversial leader with political views close to radical.

Recapping the latest round of managed democracy Photo: Igor Ageenko / RIA Novosti / Scanpix Russia held elections in more than 20 regions last Sunday, September 13.