The bishop of the Diocese of Samara and Syzran Metropolitan Sergius has commissioned a church trial against hieromonk Amfian, who was recently outed publicly as a homosexual. The Diocese also stated that hieromonk Amfian has been removed from active church service. On September 17, the publication The Togliatti Room published a report stating that hieromonk Amfian (whose legal name is Artem Vechelkovsky) is openly gay.

In Samara, a court arrested LGBT activist Konstantin Golava in absentia. He was also put on the international wanted list. Head is charged under article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for publishing VKontakte records. On May 13, 2015, a search was conducted near Golava. He was prosecuted for inciting hatred against the group “Russian citizens of Russia”.

Frame: USA Today / YouTube The one-year-old sea otter named Mishka, who lives in the Seattle Aquarium, fell ill with asthma because of the smoke from forest fires that reached the city. Representatives of the aquarium believe that this is the first fixed case when Kalan picked up asthma. Employees caring for a bear had to treat it with an inhaler. For sea otter, a special nozzle was developed through which she could inhale the medicine. And Mishka eventually learned to use this inhaler.

The Samara district attorney has banned the Metida bookstore chain from selling birch-rods designed for disciplining schoolchildren. According to prosecutors, the sale of this item is illegal, insofar as it promotes violence against minors. On September 11, Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service opened an administrative case against Metida for advertising the rods. The ad looked like this: Metida: "Textbooks, notepads, office supplies, backpacks, with huge sales!

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The International Film Festival "Message to Man" refused to show Gaspard Noé's film "Love" due to the fact that the film did not receive a distribution certificate in Russia. Despite the fact that Russian festivals have the right to show films without distribution certificates, the organizers still decided to remove the film from the out-of-competition program.

Bishop of the Samara and Syzran diocese, Metropolitan Sergius (Poletkin) instructed to conduct an ecclesiastical trial of Hieromonk Amphian (Vechelovsky), who confessed to being homosexual. The message of the diocese specifies that the priest has now been removed from the staff of the church organization. On September 17, The Togliatti Room reported that Hieromonk Amphian (in the world Artem Vechelkovsky) openly declared himself a homosexual.

Three books about the future. Overview of Galina Yuzefovich Weekly on Fridays, the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting book novelties published in Russia. In the current review there are three books: “Innovators” by Walter Aisekson, “Ilon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the road to the future” by Ashley Wans, as well as the “Evolution of the Mind” of Ray Kurzweil.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter held talks on Syria. Their telephone conversation lasted about an hour. The press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Shoigu and Carter discussed the need to coordinate the actions of Russia and the United States in the fight against terrorism.

In the Samara region, the prosecutor's office banned the chain of bookstores "Metida" to sell rods for schoolchildren. As explained in the prosecutor's office, the rosen advertising does not comply with the law, since it calls for violence against children. Three network employees were brought to disciplinary liability. On September 11, the Federal Antimonopoly Service started an administrative case on Metida for the fact that entrepreneurs hung an advertisement for a rose.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, through the public procurement website, ordered a study to find ways to spy on "smart" equipment, including TVs with Smart TVs. The contract for four million rubles was concluded with the Regional Research Expert Center on August 26, 2015. to it .

The German user of the SCRATCH site (MIT project to create cartoons and games) under the pseudonym Dixiklo created a two -dimensional simulator of the Falcon 9 missiles . The creators of Falcon 9, the company Ilona Mask SpaceX, hope for repeated use of missiles - for this they want to “catch” them with special platforms located in the ocean. In the game, you need, driving a rocket, slow down and carefully put it on the platform. The control is carried out by the ke, a, s and D.

The deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly sent a draft resolution to the speaker of the regional parliament depriving Lev Shlosberg of his deputy powers. This document was developed by six deputies representing four factions - "United Russia", the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party and "Fair Russia".

Activists from the "Union of Transnistrians of Ukraine" have decided to join in support of a campaign already underway by Crimean Tatars to block the border between Crimea and Ukraine along the Kherson region. In solidarity with the Crimean Tatars, Ukrainian-Transnistrian activists plan to block the border between Ukraine (in the Odessa region) and the unrecognized nation of Transnistria.

The Security Service of Ukraine opened a criminal case against Anatoly Wasserman on suspicion of separatism. This decision was made at the request of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksiy Goncharenko. According to the deputy, the activities of Wasserman, who has Ukrainian citizenship, are detrimental to the interests of Ukraine. Goncharenko accuses him of encroaching on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state.