Facebook administrators have deleted up to 80 percent of the groups associated with the “Internet Research Agency,” an organization known as Russia’s biggest “troll factory.” A source close to the agency told the newsletter The Bell that administrators have shut down 25 Facebook communities with a total subscriber count of more than 3 million accounts, and 32 groups on Instagram with 2 million subscribers.

The Facebook administration has removed up to 80 percent of groups associated with the "Internet Research Agency", known as the "troll factory". This was told to The Bell by a source close to the leadership of the organization. According to him, 25 groups were closed on Facebook, which had a total of three million subscribers, and on Instagram, 32 groups with two million subscribers. On Twitter, 50 accounts were blocked, to which 600 thousand people were subscribed.

Moscow police are investigating the theft of a billion rubles allocated by the Moscow Department of Labor and Social Protection to create jobs for people with disabilities and youth. This was reported by RBC, which had at its disposal a decision to conduct a search in the framework of the case.

The Russian Defense Ministry decided to modernize part of the Soviet armored vehicles intended for disposal in connection with the change in the international situation and the growth of patriotism in the country, said the head of the Main Armored Directorate of the department, Lieutenant General Alexander Shevchenko.

The defendant in the Bolotnaya case, Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, who was released from prison in August, left Russia. This was reported by the organization “Public Verdict”. According to the organization, Nepomniachtchi plans to go to study in the United States. Now he is in Prague.

The director of the Tomsk Cadet Corps, Vladimir Brykov, was fired after the students complained about the presence of maggots in the porridge. According to the head of the department of general education of the Tomsk region, Irina Grabtsevich, he wrote a letter of resignation. “This is a very gross violation. The first duty of the manager is to organize the life support process in the 24-hour facility.

September 7th. In the exercises in the Leningrad region, the military died. A memorial plate was hung on the house of Boris Nemtsov Main In the exercises in the Leningrad Region, a soldier died . When fired from the tank, a shell after a ricochet from the ground exploded next to the shelter, where there were six people from the engineering support group. Five people were injured. One of them, according to journalists, torn his hands.

Boris Yakemenko, one of the chief architects of the pro-Kremlin youth movements “Nashi” and “Idushchiye Vmeste” (Walking Together), says he’ll run for president next year in Russia, according to the television network Dozhd . Yakemenko says he’ll make the official announcement “closer to the start” of his campaign, insisting that he hasn’t discussed his presidential ambitions with the Kremlin.

One of the ideologists behind the creation of the pro-Kremlin movements "Walking Together" and "Ours" Boris Yakemenko will run for the presidential election. It is reported by "Rain". As Yakemenko specified, he will officially announce this "closer to the start" of the campaign. He assured that he did not discuss his plans with the Kremlin and his brother, Vasily Yakimenko. According to the channel, Vasily Yakimenko will raise money for his brother's campaign.

The staff may be the only one in the United States where the pregnancy cannot be legally terminated Chris Kenning / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Protest Protest at the EMW Center in Louisville, July 27, 2017 In the United States, a trial begins regarding the license of a surgical center for women EMW in the city of Louisville, Kentukka. The state authorities believe that there are inappropriate conditions for abortion - and demand to close the clinic.

The founder of the Moscow Ararat football club Valery Oganesyan announced that the team will continue to exist. Oganesyan decided to leave the founders, Igor Korotkov will become the general director of the team. He thanked media manager Aram Gabrelyanov for "helping" the club. Hovhannisyan did not specify what the assistance consisted of. Prior to that, he said that Gabrelyanov provided "moral support." “How it will go, how much one share will cost – we will find out from the club later.

Clowns from the St. Petersburg theater troupe “Komik-Trest” (Comic Trust) staged a protest outside the city’s legislative assembly on Thursday, demanding that Russia ban Andy Muschietti’s new film adaptation of the 1986 Stephen King supernatural horror novel “It,” which features a murderous monster clown. The clowns from Komik-Trest say Pennywise the Dancing Clown — the monster in “It” — discredits their profession.

SpaceX has launched the US Air Force's classified X-37B experimental orbital plane for the first time. The broadcast is on the SpaceX website. The first stage of the Falcon9 launch vehicle successfully landed on the platform of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base for the 16th time. As Techcrunch wrote, the probability of launch was estimated at 50% due to Hurricane Irma. The aircraft was manufactured by Boeing. The X-37B is the first U.S. unmanned orbital plane. This is his fifth flight.

"Real Earth" / YouTube frame from the film "Call of Cosmic Evolution" On September 7, the Arbitration Court of the Moscow District refused to deprive the rental certificate of the film about the life and work of the artist Nikolai Roerich "Call of Cosmic Evolution." The Ministry of Culture insisted on this - on the grounds that the film is demonstrated in the film, and this is prohibited by Russian laws.

In St. Petersburg, clowns from the Comic Trust Theater held a picket outside the Legislative Assembly demanding a ban on the screening of the film It, based on the novel by Stephen King, in Russia. The artists believe that the hero of the picture - the monster Pennywise, who appears in the form of a clown - discredits their profession.