Police officers blocked Strastnoy Boulevard, where an “indefinite” protest was taking place. The broadcast of what was happening was conducted by the YouTube channel “Another Opinion”. On the evening of September 10, several dozen activists were near the monument to Rachmaninoff. According to OVD -Info, four of them were detained. The rest left the boulevard. Police officers refused to explain why the boulevard was blocked.

Director Oleg Sentsov wrote a letter to his sister Natalya Kaplan, where he spoke about his condition. Kaplan published excerpts from the letter on her Facebook. “I didn’t give up anyway, I just don’t believe in a happy ending to this whole story. My condition is about the same: stable-shitty, hypoxia has now been added to all the old special effects - this is a lack of oxygen in the organs, mainly the heart and brain.

SVTV / YouTube Mikhail Svetov A 33-year-old blogger and member of Russia’s Libertarian Party, Mikhail Svetov hosts a YouTube channel where he discusses libertarian ideas with guests, including oppositionist Ildar Dadin, Barnaul resident Maria Motuznaya (now on trial for sharing supposedly extremist online memes), former Yekaterinburg Mayor Evgeny Roizman, and former Deputy Energy Minister Vladimir Milov.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wrote a letter to US President Donald Trump, in which he proposed a new personal meeting. As said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders , this is an "extremely warm, positive letter." She stressed that Washington is ready for a second meeting and is already "in the process of coordination." Sanders also said that Washington noted the absence of ballistic missiles at the parade in Pyongyang dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the DPRK.

The Russian national football team won a friendly match against the Czech Republic with a score of 5:1. As part of the Russians, goals were scored by Alexei Ionov (twice), Anton Zabolotny, Alexander Erokhin and Dmitry Poloz. Many base players were absent from the Russian national team: Igor Akinfeev, Artem Dzyuba, Fedor Smolov. The Czech Republic also played with a semi-reserve squad. On September 7, the Russian national team won the Nations League match against Turkey with a score of 2:1.

Mixed martial artist Jeff Monson is now a bonafide city councilman in the town of Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow. He was elected this Sunday on United Russia’s ticket, though Monson instantly tried to distance himself from the party, tweeting , “I was invited by United Russia party [sic] to run but I am independent.” Monson even had the governor’s endorsement. It’s quite a feat for a man who only this May acquired Russian citizenship (and renounced his U.S. citizenship).

Interview of the Communist Valentina Konovalov. He won the first tour of the governor's elections in Khakassia by a large margin. Khakass branch of the Communist Party On September 9, governor's elections were held in many regions of Russia. In most of them, the current governors won - however, the second round will take place in four regions.

Voids in the concrete under the service tower of the launch complex of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle at the Vostochny cosmodrome appeared due to the speeding up of construction deadlines and technology violations. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source at the cosmodrome. “This is a mistake of Spetsstroy - the technology of pouring concrete was violated due to the assault.

SVTV / YouTube 33-year-old Mikhail Svetov-blogger, member of the Libertarian Party of Russia. Since January 2017, he has been leading a channel on Yetube, in which he discusses the ideas of libertarianism with guests. Among them were the political activist Ildar Dadin, a resident of Barnaul, Maria Motuznaya, accused of extremism for repost, former mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman, politician Vladimir Milov. Currently, 102 thousand people have been signed on the channel.

The Russian animation company Evil Pirate Studio has released the first trailer for its new film, “Cyberslav.” The video features a burning city invaded by a race of tall, murderous creatures that are hunting down the remaining survivors.

10 September. Ballot box - against Vladimir Putin, John Terry - against CSKA and Zenit protest vote. Yesterday, a single voting day was held in Russia - 22 heads of regions, 16 regional parliaments and all sorts of little things were elected. The main surprise in the elections was the low results of the party in power - in three regions, United Russia received fewer deputy mandates than the Communist Party.

In Pyongyang on the evening of September 9, a large-scale torch procession was held, which ended the festive events in honor of the 70th anniversary of the DPRK. Thousands of students came to Kim Il Sen in Pyongyang. With the help of torches, they built slogans : “Long live the kimirsenism-memberism!”, “Long live the Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong-un!” And "Long live the invincible labor party of Korea!" Subscribe to our YouTube

The Russian Oscar Committee nominated Sobibor by Konstantin Khabensky for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film was chosen "by a majority of votes," said producer Alexander Rodnyansky, a member of the Russian Oscar Committee. Sobibor is the directorial debut of Konstantin Khabensky. The film tells about the uprising in a concentration camp in 1943, which was led by the Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky.

The Russian animation studio Evil Pirate Studio released the first cyber Slava trailer - the cartoon in the genre of Old Slavonic cyberpunk.

Alexander Ryumin / TASS / Vida Press Sergey Naryshkin Sergey Naryshkin , the director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, apparently belongs to that select group of state officials with relatives who have applied for residency in Hungary in exchange for investing at least 360,000 euros ($418,000) in government bonds.