Director of the Vygotsky Institute of Psychology - on the mass dismissal of employees from the RSUSU Photo: Vasyev Vasyev / TASS On Thursday, September 15, 12 teachers resigned from the Russian State Humanitarian University (RSUSU), all - employees of the Institute of Psychology named after Vygotsky. Some experts plan to write a statement in the near future.

The film company "Central Partnership" was presented by the trailer for the film "Viking" directed by Andrei Kravchuk ("Admiral"). The main role - the Baptist of Rus' of Prince Vladimir - is played in the picture by Danila Kozlovsky. Also in the film, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Maxim Sukhanov, Igor Petrenko and others starred. The action takes place in the X century: the film is dedicated to the conflict of the sons of the Grand Duke of Kyiv Svyatoslav.

A hacker group calling itself Fancy Bear has posted on fancybear.net a new batch of documents obtained as a result of hacking into the computer systems of the World Anti-Doping Agency. A new publication tells of athletes from the UK, Denmark, Australia, Spain and Germany who took illegal drugs during the Rio Olympics with the permission of WADA doctors. Fancy Bear began posting WADA documents on 14 September.

The international rating agency Standard & Poorʼs has improved the outlook on Russia's long-term ratings from "negative" to "stable". According to Interfax, the decision was dictated by the reduction of external risks and ongoing adjustments in the economy. The agency has affirmed Russia's long-term foreign currency rating at 'BB+' and in the national currency at 'BBB-'. Short-term ratings for liabilities in foreign and local currencies remained at the level of "B/A-3".

The difficult story of the filming of an artistic picture about the CIA informant Photo: jürgen olczyk frame from the movie On September 15, the director of Oliver Stone, who tells the story of a former CIA and NSA, hidden in Russia, was released in Russia in Russia. Snowden performed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, an inconspicuous discreiting hero fighting against the state.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with a painting for his 51st birthday. The painting is titled “In the workshop.” After a meeting of Crimea’s State Council, Putin said: “Today I would like [to congratulate you] personally and, on behalf of all [those present at this meeting], give you a souvenir. This corresponds to what Dmitry Anatolyevich does.

In St. Petersburg, the author of graffiti with the ensign Zadov was detained The Police of St. Petersburg detained the artist Artem Bourge, the author of graffiti with the ensign Zadov-the character of the actor and showman Dmitry Nagiyev from the television series "Caution, modern!" And "Caution, the backgot!". He was accused of "violation of the external design of the facade of the building" and then released.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that "everything that happened to Crimea is the result of the illegal actions of certain political forces in Ukraine, which brought the matter to a coup d'état." “Russia has not annexed anything,” the president said at a CIS summit in Bishkek in response to a claim by Ukrainian ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Nikolai Doroshenko. A little earlier, Doroshenko said that his country does not support Russia's chairmanship of the CIS in 2017.

The President of the Philippines was called the leader of the group who killed about a thousand people Photo: King Rodriguez / PPD / EPA / Leta President Philippine Rodrigo Duterte with the military, September 15, 2016 On September 15, the former hired killer from the Philippines Edgar Matobato told at the hearing in the local Senate that he had been in the criminal group “The Squadron of Death from Davao” for more than 20 years.

And seven more books about music The ABC publishing house in Russian is published by a new book by the modern English classic Julian Barnes, the noise of the times dedicated to Dmitry Shostakovich. The literary critic of “Medusa” Galina Yuzefovich tells about the new novel of Barnes and seven books about music and musicians. Julian Barnes. The noise of time. SPb.: ABC-classic, 2016. Translation from English E.

The Ostankino Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, filed in connection with the publication of the Vedomosti newspaper about the construction of his house in Barvikha.

Oppositionist leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation published the results of its investigation concerning Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s secret dacha on Thursday. The cottage is the estate of Milowka, located one kilometer from the center of Ples in the Ivanovo region. Though it was previously known that Medvedev and his family regularly visit Milowka, photographs of the residence, which is surrounded by a six-meter wall, had never been published before.

For the first time in its history, capybaras were born in the Kaliningrad Zoo. And two at once. The cubs appeared in a pair of Shchors and Pani on September 8. The cubs, apparently, have not yet been named. The zoo notes that in capybaras, offspring are born with open eyes, hair and teeth. On the first day, one of the newborns was caught swimming in the pool. Young capybaras began to actively try "adult" food, although up to 3-4 months their mother's milk will be their main food.

Interview with Patti Smith about memoirs, elections and death Photo: Loic Venance / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The book “Train M”, the second prose collection of Patti Smith, a set of surrealist poetic essays about memory, travels and culture, in which memories are difficult to distinguish from fiction, was published in Russian Publishing House in Russian.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev banned Alexei Navalny from Twitter. This was announced on September 16 by the opposition leader himself. According to Navalny, this is due to the investigation published the day before by the Anti-Corruption Foundation about the “secret dacha” of the Prime Minister in Milovka. Previously, many Twitter users reported that they were banned from Dmitry Medvedev's account. Among them was, in particular, FBK employee Georgy Alburov.