The US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology has invited Kaspersky Lab founder Evgeny Kaspersky to testify at a hearing on the risk of using the company's products in US government agencies. Hearings are scheduled for September 27th. They also invite cybersecurity experts from various US organizations and the Department of Homeland Security. Evgeny Kaspersky tweeted that he agreed to come to the hearing.

In the United States, three former employees of Google sued the company, accusing it of discrimination against women in pay and career development. The plaintiffs allege that at Google, women are paid less than men doing similar jobs and are less likely to get promoted. The lawsuit says that it was filed not only on behalf of three former employees, but also "all the women who worked at Google in California" over the past four years.

Russian rapper Oximiron called the date of his next battles - against the American rapper Dizaster. Battle will be held on October 15, 2017 in Los Angeles. Opponents will bathe in English, but the video will be accompanied by Russian -language subtitles. King of the Dot Entertainment Kotd - World Domination VII La - Main Event Announcement | #Wdvii Itʼs on.

As part of the case of anonymous calls with threats of explosions that provoked mass evacuations throughout Russia, several teenagers were detained. This was reported by Kommersant without specifying the source of information. The detainees, according to the publication, turned out to be imitators who learned about what was happening from the media.

The head of the Zaryadye Park press service, Karina Gorobets, said that park employees “did not see visitors tearing out plants or flowers from the park and carrying them with them.” “This is some kind of speculation,” RIA Novosti quotes her. Gorobets did not specify what the previous reports of plant theft were related to.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that the protection status of the snow leopard (snow leopard) has been changed from endangered to vulnerable. The organization said that in some parts of the range of the snow leopard the situation has improved (including due to the fight against poaching), but the number of the species continues to decline and the snow leopards are still threatened with extinction.

The symbol of the stadium of FC Zenit St. Petersburg for the 2017/18 season will be a cormorant. The club's press service told TASS about this. On match days of the season, there will be a mascot at the stadium - a life-size puppet in the shape of a cormorant. Earlier, the club's director of public relations, Zhanna Dembo, said that the cormorant would become a symbol of the stadium (her words were quoted by Vedomosti). According to Dembo, “St.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow sent Oleg Korshunov, deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, under arrest. It is reported by Interfax. The investigation petitioned for the arrest of Korshunov. He himself refused to admit guilt and complained of poor health, indicating that he was on a "strict diet" after the operation. “I didn’t run away and I’m not going to,” the deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service assured. Korshunov was detained on September 13 in a yacht club.

After publishing this infographic, Meduza received a statement from RFE/RL, republished below. Meduza received a response from RT, as well, which we are also sharing below: “RFE/RL objects to the false equivalency suggested by the headline, ‘Comparing Russian and American government ‘propaganda,’’ that introduces the infographic published on September 14.

September 14th. What is in the heads of the "Christian state"? The main news of the day The terrorists from the Islamic State are suspected of organizing anonymous bombs that last from Sunday throughout Russia, the source of RIA Novosti claims . Separate performers are allegedly installed. Prior to this, what was happening was explained by exercises and an attack from the territory of Ukraine.

The social network Facebook has begun testing the Snooze function - temporarily hiding the posts of friends and communities. Techcrunch drew attention to this. Journalists have found that you can hide updates for 24 hours, a week or a month. The release of the new feature has not been officially announced. So far, Snooze only works in the US and only in the desktop version. The button is located below the “hide post” function.

Lawyer Ilya Novikov got into a fight in the center of Moscow with an activist of the SERB movement Gosha Tarasevich, Mediazona reports. Neither Novikov nor Tarasevich were seriously injured. According to Novikov, he met near the house in Klimentovsky Lane, where politician Boris Nemtsov used to live, with municipal deputy Sergei Markov. Tarasevich and another SERB activist were near the house at that time.

The leader of a Russian Orthodox Christian group explains how opposition to a film is tied to nationwide bomb threats Alexander Kalinin's personal Vkontakte page On September 13, the leader of the rightwing group “Christian State — Holy Rus,” Alexander Kalinin, declared on Vkontakte that an ongoing wave of bomb threats prompting evacuations across the country are part of a “social campaign” against Alexey Uchitel’s controversial new film “Matilda,” an upcoming movie about the ballerina Mathilde

Insight Media / Vida Press Leo Trotsky in 1922 On September 13, the collector Kit Melton transferred about five thousand subjects to the International Museum of Spying, which he collected for forty years. Among them - and an ice ax, which in 1940, the NKVD agent Ramon Merkader cut Leo Trotsky in Mexico. The murder gun was long considered lost until it was found literally under the bed of the daughter of a Mexican policeman.

The New Yorker number of the host of the American weekly The New Yorker could be released with such a cover on November 14, 2016. Donald Trump won the election, and the magazine used another cover : it was on the wall.