The Russian national team lost in the semifinals of the European Basketball Championship to the Serbian team. The match ended with a score of 79-87. The Russian team lost the beginning of the meeting: after the first quarter, the score was 25-20 in favor of Serbia, after the second - 48-34. In the second half, the Russians were able to impose a fight on the Serbs, but still they never took the lead.

The terrorist organization Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the bombing of a subway car in London on 15 September. According to the organization SITE Intelligence Group, this was reported by the Amaq news agency controlled by terrorists. The report says that the explosion was arranged by a certain "branch" of the organization.

Russia’s Federal Security Service has reportedly ordered spokespeople for Russia’s Interior Ministry and Emergency Management Ministry to withhold all commentary regarding a nationwide wave of bomb threats that has led to evacuations of schools, shopping centers, and more, a source in the Russian federal government told told the newspaper Vedomosti .

The Moscow Patriarchate is proposing legislation that would prohibit organizations unaffiliated with established religious groups from using the names of those faiths in their names (for example, “Russian Orthodox”).

Filmmaker Alexey Uchitel, the director of a controversial upcoming movie, has filed a report with Russia’s Federal Security Service, following public comments by “Christian State” leader Alexander Kalinin, who told Meduza in an interview that Russian Orthodox activists nationwide are preparing acts of violence against cinemas and people who facilitate the release of his film. Uchitel argues that Kalinin’s comments incite acts of terrorism.

Moscow officials say parking spaces reserved for U.S. embassy staff were recently reopened to the public “due to an acute shortage of parking spaces” in the area. On September 11, Russian officials told the newspaper Kommersant that they were reviewing the possibility of revoking U.S. diplomats’ access to dedicated parking facilities near the American embassy and Moscow and at consular offices in other cities.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says reports about a reduction of humanitarian aid to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are inaccurate, clarifying that Moscow is planning a “redistribution not a reduction.” Earlier on Friday, media outlets reported that the Russian government intends to end its humanitarian aid deliveries to eastern Ukraine, in order to reallocate those resources to projects in Crimea and Kaliningrad.

The number of migrants who entered Russia in the first half of 2017 was the lowest it’s been in the past seven years, according to a new study by the Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Between January and July, 102,3000 migrants reportedly entered Russia. The last time this figure was any lower was in 2010, when 89,600 incoming migrants were recorded.

Doctors recorded a head injury at the coordinator of the Moscow headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny Nikolai Lyaskin, who had previously been attacked with a pipe. This was announced by the oppositionist himself. Lyaskin was attacked near the Moscow headquarters on Gilyarovsky Street. As the activist said, an unknown person approached him from behind and hit him twice with an iron pipe. One blow landed on the head, the second on the shoulder.

From Evdokiya Romanova's personal photos on Vkontakte On July 26, 2017, police summoned Evdokiya Romanova, an activist living in Samara.

NASA posted the last photo received from the Cassini probe. It was made a few hours before the end of the mission. The picture is a fragment of the night side of Saturn, lit by light reflected from the rings. The photo was taken from a distance of 634 thousand kilometers from Saturn. NASA notes that the site of the planet, which included Cassini, got into the frame. Space Science Institute / JPL-Caltech / NASA

On Friday evening, an unidentified man attacked Nikolai Lyaskin, the head of Alexey Navalny’s Moscow campaign headquarters. Nikolai Lyaskin“Just now, some bastard came up behind me and attacked me. He hit me several times with a steel pipe and ran off.” Speaking to the website Mediazona , Lyaksin said the attack took place near Navalny’s Moscow campaign office. He says the attacker hit him in the head and the shoulder. “I have an enormous bump on my head,” Lyaksin said.

September 15. There was a terrorist attack in the London metro. Cassini probe completed a 20-year mission and burned down in the atmosphere of Saturn The attack in London In the morning, a home -made bomb exploded in the London metro car - it was in a white plastic bucket, similar to a paint bucket. According to eyewitnesses, the explosion was slight, but 22 people were injured. Most of them received burns.

An unidentified person attacked the head of the Moscow headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, Nikolai Lyaskin. Laskin spoke about this on Twitter. In a conversation with Mediazona, Lyaskin clarified that he was attacked near Navalny's Moscow headquarters on Gilyarovsky Street. According to him, one blow fell on the head, the second - on the shoulder. “I have a huge bump on my head,” Lyaskin said.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation stated that it did not give recommendations on the refusal to rent the film by Alexei Uchitel "Matilda". It is reported by RBC with reference to the head of the department of cinematography of the ministry Vyacheslav Telnov. He noted that regional ministries also do not have the right to recommend the refusal of rental.