Established in 2017, the Expert Institute for Social Research (EISI), dubbed the Kremlin's "expert platform", will receive hundreds of millions of rubles from state-owned companies, including Rosatom and RusHydro. This was reported on September 6 by The Bell, citing sources close to the institute and these companies. According to The Bell, EISI will receive about 400 million rubles from RusHydro and a “comparable” amount from Rosatom.

The former head of the Russian Post, Dmitry Strashnov, joined the board of directors of the RBC holding. The composition of the new council is published on the holding's website.

Audio version of the report of Pavel Merzlikin about a teenager who arranged a “terrorist attack” in a school near Moscow On the morning of September 5, a student of school No. 1 in the Ivanteevka near Moscow brought pneumatic weapons, a kitchen ax and home -made firecrackers and began to shoot. Four people were injured: the computer science teacher has a traumatic brain injury, three children were injured, jumping out of the window.

When writing news stories in local newspapers about Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, authors observe a “Three Moscows, Three Sobyanins,” where the mayor’s name has to come up three times, staff writers at regional news media told the Russian journalist Alexey Kovalev . Meduza reviewed several dozen news stories and confirmed that Sobyanin’s name does in fact appear exactly three times in most local news stories about him.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Delete My Life 09/05/17 On the morning of September 5, a student of school No. 1 in the Ivanteevka near Moscow brought pneumatic weapons, a kitchen ax and home -made firecrackers and began to shoot. Four people were injured: the computer science teacher has a traumatic brain injury, three children were injured, jumping out of the window.

Moscow city officials have rejected a permit request for a protest outside the Myanmar embassy on Friday, September 8, demonstration organizers told the television station Dozhd . The mayor's office reportedly refused to grant a permit for the protest because organizers failed to note the purpose of the demonstration, and because the area outside Myanmar's embassy lacks the space apparently needed to accommodate a public assembly as big as organizers hoped to rally.

Facebook has reported the results of an investigation into possible links between advertising purchases and Russia's alleged attempts to interfere in the US election. The company managed to find about 470 fake accounts and pages that distributed political advertising and, according to Facebook, were controlled from Russia. From June 2015 to May 2017, they posted about three thousand ads for about $100,000.

The Moscow government refused to coordinate a picket in support of Muslims from this country at the Myanmar embassy, ​​which was planned to be held on September 8. It is reported by "Rain" with reference to the organizers of the action.

American millionaire Martin Shkreli put up for sale on the online platform eBay his only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which he bought for two million dollars. The lot was published on the website on the evening of September 5, American Pacific Time (on the morning of September 6, Moscow time). The starting price, according to the trading history, was $1.

Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta former chief accountant of the Seventh Studio Nina Maslyaeva in the Moscow City Court On September 6, the Moscow City Court recognized the extension of the arrested by the defendants in the “Seventh Studio” - Nina Maslyaeva, Yuri Itina and Alexei Malobrodsky. The appellate court left the preventive measure unchanged to each of them.

6 September. Everyone is discussing Sechin's basket Attack on a school in Ivanteevka The Investigative Committee qualified the actions of 15-year-old schoolboy Mikhail P., who yesterday attacked a teacher in Ivanteevka with a kitchen hatchet and an air gun, as attempted murder (the article “Hooliganism” also remained in the case). The teenager is about to be arrested.

Salvador Dali's DNA test revealed that Spaniard Maria Pilar Abel Martinez is not his illegitimate daughter. It is reported by the BBC. The fortune teller who achieved the exhumation claimed that the artist was her father. According to Martinez, in 1955 her mother had a relationship with Dalí "which developed into a secret love." Initially, her grandmother allegedly told her this, later - her mother. Martinez has been trying to prove her relationship with Dali since 2007.

When writing notes about Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in regional newspapers, the rule “Three Moscows, three Sobyanins” is applied, according to which the mayor must be mentioned in the text three times. This was told to journalist Alexei Kovalev by employees of regional newspapers. Meduza checked dozens of publications: in most cases, Sobyanin is actually mentioned exactly three times in the text. Sometimes Sobyanin can appear in a note four times, very rarely - twice.

Meduza tracks down the impressive Rosneft figure who apparently packed Alexey Ulyukayev's 2-million-dollar bribe Alexey Filippov / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA In a transcript of a conversation between Rosneft head Igor Sechin and then Economic Development Minister Alexey Ulyukayev, read out this week at the latter’s trial, there are several mentions of a Rosneft employee named Shokina. This was the woman tasked with bringing Ulyukayev a “basket” that he says he thought contained sausages.

Says Vitaly Mansky (Bonus-Free tickets for a movie in an online cinema!) On September 1, the Artdoc.Media project began to work - the largest cinema of documentary cinema in Russian, where information about a thousand paintings has already been collected. Artdoc.media also functions as an online cinema-you can buy a ticket on the site and watch a movie in the schedule for a certain time.