On September 19, Singer Rezeda Ganiullina post a music video on Youtube for her new song Zhanym (which translates as Beloved). In the video, the singer is seen in a transparent dress singing and dancing against the background of the White Mosque in the Tatar city of Bulgar.

Vladimir Dzhamirze, an Australian citizen of Russian origin, has asked Russian president Vladimir Putin to allow him to buy a controlling stake in oil company Bashneft for $6 billion, reported newspaper Vedomosti on Friday. According to the letter Dzhamirze sent to Putin, his company, Donoylgaz Lighthouse , was founded in Rostov-on-Don in 2013 and raised $10 billion for investment in Russia’s oil and gas industry. Little is known about Dzhamirze’s previous activity in Russia.

The number of political parties in Russia may soon be "optimized", reported news agency Interfax on Friday, citing Russian president Vladimir Putin's statements at a meeting with the leaders of parties represented in Russia's parliament. According to Putin, the alignment of political forces in Russia has become apparent, which offers a prime opportunity to "talk about some optimizing" the political arena.

The head of Russia's Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova commented on the post of electoral geography expert Alexander Kireev, who called attention to the fact that Sunday's election results from polling stations in the Saratov Region reveal "coincidences" that are suggestive of ballot stuffing. According to Panfilova, Saratov's results were "taken out of context" by the media. "Anything can be taken out of context.

NETFLIX US & Canada / YouTube Vyacheslav Volodin, most likely, will become the new speaker of the State Duma - Russian President Vladimir Putin asked deputies about this. In the past five years, Volodin worked as the first deputy administration of the Kremlin. The position of curator of domestic policy did not imply frequent appearance in public, so Medusa tells those who do not carefully monitor politics, who is Vyacheslav Volodin.

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the last two days have held ceremony of awarding honored figures of his countries. On September 23, Obama presented national medals in the field of art, and Vladimir Putin the day earlier - different medals and orders. Journalists paid special attention to how American director Mel Brooks and the permanent leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky received awards.

The Bank of Russia has begun checking applications from residents of Tatarstan who complained about the organization of forced voting for the design of new banknotes. As reported on the official website of the competition for choosing a symbol for banknotes of 200 and 2000 rubles, mass voting for Kazan is organized in schools, universities and budgetary organizations. The Central Bank said that such cases could "discredit" the competition for the choice of symbols for new banknotes.

Historical non-fiction: Overview of Galina Yuzefovich The Literary critic of “Medusa” Galina Yuzefovich talks about two fascinating books of the fall of 2016 in the non-fiction genre: “Vila” by Alexei Ivanov and “The Secret of Labyrinth. How the forgotten writing was read ”Margalite Fox. Alexey Ivanov. Pitchfork. M.: AST, editorial office of Elena Shubina, 2016 The only one with whom you can compare Alexei Ivanov by firepower is, of course, Dmitry Bykov.

Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS On Friday, President Vladimir Putin praised employees of the Central Election Commission for a good job. He said that the results of the elections are recognized by most participants, observers and Russian society objective and legitimate. Nevertheless, five days after the end of voting in the media and social networks, a lot of certificates of violations and mass falsifications of the results appeared. "Medusa" collected cases that are most talked about.

Photo in the announcement: Robert Melen / Alamy / Vida Press at the end of August 2016, the WhatsApp messenger announced that he would transfer the phone numbers of its users Facebook (Facebook bought WhatsApp two years ago). This is done to improve recommendations and advertising on Facebook. The condition on data transfer is hidden in the new “confidentiality policy” of the messenger, which was started to offer users on August 25.

"Medusa" tells which of the bots plays best - and why they are trained to kill Photo: Intel VCL / YouTube On September 22, the DOOM tournament ended among bots that played like people - that is, perceiving only information from the screen. In the competition, the InteLACT team, consisting of the head of the computer vision laboratory at Intel Labs, Vladlen Koltun and an employee of the German University of Freiburg, Alexei Dosovitsky.

The police shot a black man and refuses to publish a video of the murder Photo: Sean Rayford / Getty images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Police and demonstrators in Charlotte, North Carolina. September 21, 2016 On the afternoon of September 20, the police of Charlotte, the largest in North Carolin, saw in a parking lot next to the local university a suspicious black man who got out of the car.

Vladimir Lapygin, an employee of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMash), was found guilty of treason and sentenced to seven years in a strict regime correctional colony. Such a sentence to 76-year-old Lapygin was passed by the Moscow City Court. Details of the charge brought against the TsNIIMash employee were not disclosed in court. According to an Interfax source, Lapygin was accused of passing secret information to one of the Asian countries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin reminded Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov that the Communist Party played a role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. “Our common Fatherland was headed by the Communist Party, and not by any other that put forward the idea of ​​nationalism or other destructive ideas that are destructive for any state, for a multinational country like Russia, all the more so,” Putin said at a meeting with party leaders passed to the State Duma of the new convocation.

Several thousand drivers are unhappy that the aggregator reduced tariffs On Friday, September 23, several thousand Moscow drivers working with the Yandex.Taxi service turned off the aggregator for three days - in protest against reducing fare tariffs. Drivers are sure that the new pricing policy will significantly affect their income and will force to work almost around the clock. Representatives of Yandex-Taxi claim that the service operates in normal mode.