Mediazona journalist Nikita Sologub won the GQ men's magazine award in the Journalist of the Year nomination. This was reported by a Meduza correspondent present at the ceremony.

The Central Bank does not support the proposal of the Association of Regional Banks to abolish the requirement for the client's mandatory consent to a request to credit bureaus in a number of cases. It is reported by RBC. “Such an approach would violate the rights of the subject of a credit history,” the press service of the Central Bank quotes the publication.

Employees of Gawker Media, which was recently acquired by Univision, accused the new owners of removing “true and accurate” news materials. We are talking about six articles that became the basis for lawsuits. These included texts about scientist Shiv Ayyadurai (cited in the media as the inventor of email; Gizmodo published exposés about him) and baseball player Mitch Williams (Deadspin wrote about his alleged misbehavior during a game involving his son).

The head of the Blue Origin space company, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, spoke about a projected rocket designed to deliver cargo and people into earth orbit. The rocket will be called New Glenn in honor of astronaut John Glenn, the first American to make an orbital space flight. New Glenn will exist in two versions, with two and three steps. The second option will be able to fly beyond low Earth orbit. The first stage is planned to be used repeatedly.

In Chechnya, the former commander of the Alpha special unit, adviser to the head of the region Ramzan Kadyrov, Yury Torshin, died. He was 58 years old. According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Torshin died in an accident in the Naursky district of Chechnya on September 11.

The Russian election monitoring movement Golos called the 2016 election campaign “the most sluggish and inactive” in ten years. This is stated in the organization's report on media coverage of the elections. Among the reasons for the low intensity of the campaign, Golos admitted that it fell during the summer holidays, as well as the passivity of the election participants themselves. According to RBC , the current campaign is compared with the elections to the State Duma in 2007 and 2011.

Vladimir Motorin, former deputy editor-in-chief of RBC, will become the editor-in-chief of the website of the Dozhd TV channel. This was announced by the editor-in-chief of "Rain" Roman Badanin, who previously worked as the editor-in-chief of RBC. Nadezhda Ivanitskaya, who worked as Badanin's deputy at RBC, and Maxim Glikin, who was in charge of politics in the holding, will also switch to the Dozhd TV channel.

Russia’s Association of Regional Banks has sent a letter to the country’s Central Bank requesting that the requirement for a client to grant its bank consent to access client data from credit bureaus be waived under certain circumstances. According to newspaper Kommersant , the letter proposes making a client’s consent indefinite once obtained. Under the current law, consent is valid for two months from its receipt or until the end of the loan’s repayment in the event of one being issued.

Russians will not be able to vote at the embassy and the Consulate General Photo: Olga Movchan / Photobank Lori Svyatoslav Poroshenko’s spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko said that the President of Ukraine instructed the Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavel Klimkin to tell Moscow about “the impossibility of holding Russian elections in Ukraine”. On September 12, the Russian Foreign Ministry received an official note from Kiev. Ukraine demands that Russia abandon the elections in Crimea and Sevastopol.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe unveiled two monuments to himself on September 9. One of the works - a 3.8-meter monument by local sculptor Dominik Benchur - drew the attention of social media users (the media does not report what the second one looks like). It took Benhura half a year to create the monument, but on Twitter the result was considered ridiculous.

The press service of Norilsk Nickel reported that the reddening of the water in the Daldykan River in early September was due to the activities of the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant, which belongs to the company. According to the report, water got into the river, which was used to wash the tailing pipeline during the reconstruction of the tailing dump (the place of burial of wastes from mineral processing, “tailings”).

In Moscow on the night of September 12, unknown persons beat and robbed TV presenter Pavel Lobkov. This was reported by the Dozhd TV channel, where Lobkov works. about the beating of Lobkov, citing a source in law enforcement agencies reported Earlier , RIA Novosti . According to the report, the incident took place on 4th Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street.

The lawsuit filed by Rosneft head Igor Sechin against the Vedomosti newspaper over an article about the construction of his house in Barvikha demands the destruction of copies of the newspaper containing this material. This was announced by the head of the legal department of Vedomosti, Vladimir Rumyantsev.

Sichuan University lecturer Wei Xiaoyong uses facial recognition technology to determine students' moods. He wrote a program that plots a curve for each student that ranges from "happy" to "neutral". This is how Xiaoyong determines when listeners get bored. But he uses this information not to punish students, but to improve the learning process: using the graph, you can see at what points the lecture was interesting.

Among the newly-elected members of Belarus’s parliament, the National Assembly, were two politicians from opposition parties - Anna Kanopatskaya of the United Civil Party and Elena Anisim of the Belarussian Language Society - as per the results of elections that took place on September 11. The country’s previous parliamentary convocation included no opposition members. Belarus’s lower house of parliament consists of 110 deputies elected by simple majority.