Photo: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images project "Sea Start", 2010 On September 27, the Russian airline S7 bought a "sea start" - a floating cosmodrome in the Pacific Ocean. For several days, the carrier gave mean comments about why he needed the cosmodrome, but on September 30 he collected a press conference and explained some details of the transaction. The Medusa correspondent Evgeny Berg went to her and figured out what exactly he bought S7. What did you buy S7 Group?

The administrative of the Penza diocese will not be held accountable for comparing atheists with circus bears, said Svetlana Artamonova, senior assistant to the regional prosecutor's office.

Odn Adorable Panda Cubs Make Public Debut in China In the video above - 23 cubs of large panda from one to four months old, who were born in a research center in the Chinese city of Chendu. By the end of the year, the center’s employees expect four more cubs. 27 babies are almost twice as much as last year. Moreover, among these 27 cubs 10 pairs of twins.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has refused to apologize for the shooting down of Malaysian airliner MH17 over Donetsk, Ukraine in July 2014. The disaster took the lives of 298 people, 283 of whom were passengers and 15 of whom were crew members. "Any kind of apology for what?" asked Lavrov, in response to a question from the BBC on Friday. The Minister said that Russia is going to wait for the final results of international investigation. "The investigation is not over.

Food cards for the poor will not be introduced in 2017, as planned by the government. This was announced by the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov. According to him, the draft federal budget, which is being prepared by the government, does not take into account this program. According to the estimates of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, 250 billion rubles are needed to launch the food aid program for the poor.

Ludmila Verbitskaya, President of the Russian Academy of Education, proposed that Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace , along with some novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, be removed from the country's obligatory school curriculum. "These are profound philosophical works with serious arguments in regards to various topics. A child cannot understand their full depth," said Verbitskaya in an interview with news agency Moscow .

CSKA fans were outraged by the use of the club’s symbols in the advertising of the Jewish New Year Frame from the commercial "Where will you hear the shofar?" Jewish religious and cultural center "Zhukovka" On September 25, on the Yetyub-channel of the Jewish cultural and religious center Zhukovka, an advertising video was published dedicated to the holiday of Rosh Ha-Shan (Jewish New Year).

The end of September was a turning point in the lives of many Russian-speaking Twitter users: they learned that Orion Chocopie confectionery can be warmed up before eating. And so they supposedly become tastier. about her discovery in an enthusiastic obscene manner It all started with a tweet from the user @evdokimovaaaa, who spoke . She claimed that reheated Choco Pies were twice as big and tastier, which inspired dozens of people to try the same thing.

The President of the Russian Academy of Education, Lyudmila Verbitskaya, proposed to remove Leo Tolstoy and some novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky from the school curriculum "War and Peace". “These are deep philosophical works, with serious discussions on various topics. A child cannot understand all their depth, ”Verbitskaya said in an interview with the Moscow agency. At the same time, according to Verbitskaya, it is necessary to include “works of spiritual literature” in the school curriculum.

Photo in the announcement: Valery Sharifulolin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta International Investigative Group, leading one of the two official investigations of the Boeing Crumes of Ukraine in 2014, submitted a preliminary report on September 28. It says that Boeing was shot down from the Buk anti-aircraft missile system, which was delivered to Ukraine from Russia, and after a plane crash, it was taken back.

The Ministry of Finance of Russia predicted a fall in the ruble exchange rate within three years. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that the draft budget for 2017 includes an exchange rate of 67.5 rubles per dollar, for 2018 - 68.7 rubles per dollar, for 2019 - 71.1 rubles per dollar. At auction on the Moscow Exchange on September 30, the dollar is worth about 63 rubles. The draft federal budget of Russia for 2017-2019 provides for a deficit of 3.3 percent of GDP.

Michelle Bussy, Angela Marsons and the English detective club - in the review of Galina Yuzefovich The Literary critic of Medusa Galina Yuzefovich talks about three detective books published in the fall of 2016 in Russian: “So far you are not sleeping,” Michel Bussy, “The Mute Scream” by Angela Marsons and the collective work of the English Detective Club “The Last Swimming of the Admiral”. Michelle Bussy. Until you sleep. M.: Phantom Press, 2016. Translation from French E. Klokova.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov refused to apologize for the crash of the Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk. "Apologize for what?" Lavrov asked in response to the corresponding suggestion of the BBC presenter. The minister said that Russia was going to wait for the final results of the work of the international commission to investigate the disaster. “There are 100 names that appear in the investigation, but they don’t even pass as suspects yet,” Lavrov added.

In Russia, insurance certificates of compulsory pension insurance (SNILS) will be issued that do not contain a line about the need to exchange it in case of a sex change. This was announced by the head of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation Anton Drozdov. Issuance of a new sample of SNILS, according to Drozdov, will begin in October 2016.

Mail.ru Group provided the Russian Dvach imageboard with protection against DDoS attacks. This is stated on the company's website. Mail.ru services are free for the resource. The attack on Dvach has been underway since September 25th. As a result, the site was unavailable to users. Since September 30, the resource has earned. Dvacha administrator Nariman Namazov thanked Mail.ru for its support. "Dvach" is a popular Russian community, an analogue of the American 4chan imageboard.