TV presenter and media manager Alexey Pivovarov became the general producer of the international Russian-language TV channel RTVi. This is reported by Vedomosti.

The European Union did not recognize the holding of elections to the State Duma in the Russian Federation on the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, since it does not recognize the “illegal annexation” of the peninsula. This is stated in the official statement of the EU. The text emphasizes that OSCE observers and European diplomats were not present at polling stations in Crimea.

The microblogging service Twitter allowed users to write tweets 140 characters long, without taking into account attached pictures, gifs, videos, polls and quotes from other tweets. Previously, these attachments to a tweet were counted as a link and took up 23 characters. plans to loosen the 140-character limit Twitter announced in May 2016. This came shortly after a Bloomberg publication that claimed the company plans to also stop counting 140-character references.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Dagestan opened a criminal case after the pogrom at a polling station in the village of Bolshoy Gotsatl on September 18. The case was opened under the article “obstructing the work of the election commission” (part 2 of article 141 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Alexander Tverskoy, head of Lyceum No. 1581, has been appointed director of School No. 57 in Moscow, and Andrey Bremzen, former vice-rector of the Russian Economic School, will become his first deputy and scientific director of the school. This is stated in Bremzen's statement, which was published on Facebook by a member of the school's governing board, Ilya Notkin.

On September 19, the leader of the Ukrainian pro-Russian organization Oplot Yevgeny Zhilin was killed in the Moscow region. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. Zhilin was shot dead in the restaurant "Veterok" in the village of "Gorki-2" on the Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway. His companion Andrei Kozyrev was hospitalized with severe injuries. The death of Zhilin is also reported by Life.

The Russian Oscar Committee nominated Andrey Konchalovsky's film "Paradise" for participation in the nomination "Best Foreign Film" of the Academy Award. It is reported by TASS. “Well, I don’t know, thanks to colleagues. It somehow all passed me by. Well, well, we must agree, ”Konchalovsky commented on this decision. Whether the film will get into the nomination, it will be known later.

The video blogger Casey Neistat was going to fly from Dubai to New York with a business class, but the airline unexpectedly raised his class. So he was in the first grade, a ticket for which costs 21 thousand dollars.

Apple has released a commercial for the Apple Music music service that looks like the process of coming up with a commercial. In the video, TV presenter James Corden proposes different ideas starring himself, and Apple executives reject them. First, Corden suggested this video: he gives birth to Justin Bieber, who gives birth to Anthony Kiedis, who gives birth to a phone. Then - portray the stars of music, from Bowie to Pharrell Williams.

The developers of bad games decided to punish dissatisfied players, and that was a mistake The small game studio Digital Homicide sued users of the Steam platform, which left unpleasant comments to her games. The developers want to sue millions of dollars, but so far they have only made problems: Valve, which owns Steam, deleted all Digital homicide games from its platform.

In Russia, the Russian domain of the porn site PornHub was blocked. As evidenced by the entry in the register of banned sites, Roskomnadzor entered it there on September 19. The reason for the blocking is the court decision of 2015. According to the same decision, about two dozen more porn sites were blocked. The service's main domain, pornhub.com, was blocked in Russia on September 13. Three days later, it was removed from the register, and on September 19 it was added again .

The real disposable income of Russians decreased by 8.3 percent year on year. This follows from the Rosstat report on the socio-economic situation in the country. In July, this figure was 7.3 percent. RBC writes that this is the biggest drop in real incomes on an annualized basis since December 2008 (then it was 10.7 percent). The nominal salary in August amounted to 34.095 rubles - 5.8 percent more than a year earlier.

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal received doping licenses in 2009 and 2012. This is evidenced by documents published by hackers from Fancy Bears. Information about Nadal got into the next block of documents posted on the Internet. Along with the doping documents, the Spaniard released data on several other well-known athletes, including the British runner and four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah.

Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was wanted in connection with the New York and New Jersey bombings, was detained in the city of Linden. It is reported by NBC New York. Rahami was detained after a shootout with police. One police officer was shot in the arm and another was hit by a bullet in his bulletproof vest, the mayor of Elizabeth, New Jersey, said, reports . Reuters Rahami was also wounded in the firefight. He was taken to the hospital.

Political scientists summarize the vote on September 18 Photo: Vladimir Lamzin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On September 18, elections were held to the State Duma. According to the latest data, there will again be four parties in the parliament, and the United Russia got a constitutional majority - more than two thirds of 450 seats in parliament.