Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky proposed that the government appoint film scholar Larisa Solonitsyna, who has headed the Cinema Museum since 2014, to the position of director of the Cinema Fund . Sources close to the fund and the Ministry of Culture told Meduza about this. A decision on appointing a new director has not yet been made, one of the sources said. Larisa Solonitsyna was appointed director of the Cinema Museum in 2014, replacing the museum's founder Naum Kleiman.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case in connection with the crash in Syria of a military aircraft Il-20, on board of which there were 15 servicemen. According to what article the case is being investigated, the representatives of the Investigative Committee did not say. Investigators and forensic experts from the Russian Investigative Committee are working at the scene of the incident together with representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

In the Voronezh region, two passenger buses collided on the Don highway. As a result of the accident, five people died, 23 people were sent to hospitals, the regional health department said. Earlier, an Interfax source in emergency services announced 40 victims. What caused the accident has yet to be revealed. The buses traveled "from Moscow to the Stavropol Territory and Karachay-Cherkessia," the Interior Ministry said.

The Soviet Court of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced journalist Pavel Nikulin, who was detained on September 16 at the presentation of the almanac moloko plus , to two days of arrest and released him from custody, since he had already spent two days in the police station. Nikulin was accused of disobeying police officers (19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, maximum penalty - 15 days) for refusing to show them his documents.

Vitaly Kuzmin / Wikimedia Commons ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) An anti-aircraft guided missile on an S-200V launcher in Patriot Park outside Moscow Before dawn on September 18, Syrian air-defense forces shot down an Ilyushin Il-20 Russian military surveillance plane over the Mediterranean Sea, killing all five servicemen aboard. Russia’s Defense Ministry later blamed the incident on the Israeli Air Force, which earlier that night carried out airstrikes against multiple targets on the Syrian coast.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Swiss Ambassador Yves Rossier because of the "unsubstantiated accusations" of Russia in this country regarding "increasing the activity of Russian special services" and the activities of "certain" Russian agents "." The agency also invited Dutch Ambassador René Jones-Bos to speak "in connection with the ongoing spy mania campaign." In mid-September , it was announced that two Russians had been detained in the Netherlands in the spring, who allegedly tried to

The Moscow Arbitration Court has rejected a claim against Roskomnadzor filed by the owner of the VPN service TgVPN, which was blocked in Russia in April as part of measures to block Telegram. “The claims are denied in full,” the judge announced the decision. RIA Novosti TgVPN is a paid VPN service that developed a free proxy service to bypass the Telegram block in 2017.

Syrian Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar Jaafari expressed deep condolences to Russia in connection with the death of the Il-20 crew, shot down by Syrian air defenses. “I would like to express my deepest condolences to my friend and colleague, the permanent representative of the Russian Federation, in connection with the death of people, yesterday they became martyrs as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Syrian city of Latakia,” Jaafari said.

Fontanka.ru in a resident of the city of Damara in the Tsar shows in the photograph of Kirill Radchenko and Orhan Jemal, September 2018 The St. Petersburg edition of Fontanka has published an investigation dedicated to the murder of Russian documentaries Orhan Jemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko in the Central African Republic.

Vitaliy Kuzmin / Wikimedia Commons (CC by-SA 4.0) Anti-aircraft guided missile on the launching installation of S-200V in Patriot Park near Moscow On the night of September 18, Syrian air defense shot down the IL-20 intelligence on the Mediterranean Sea, which contained 15 Russian military (all of them died).

The US Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into Tesla. It is reported by Bloomberg, citing two anonymous sources. The reason for the case was a tweet by the head of the company, Elon Musk, that he decided to buy Tesla shares from the stock exchange - and had already found funding for this. Earlier, because of the same tweet, financial regulators launched an investigation: they suspect Musk of manipulating the company's shares.

Twitter users drew attention to advertising in the Copenhagen metro with curses in Russian and Polish. On the steps of the stairs, the words “Cyka”, “Kurwa” and others are written. There are more censorship words - for example, Banan and Sandwich. Cursing - part of the advertising campaign of the Danish bookmaker of the EODDSET, which promotes e -sports games and tournaments on them. The expressions used by her are slang from Counter-Strike.

The documents about the missile that shot down the Malaysian Boeing, presented on September 17 by the Russian Defense Ministry, contain discrepancies in the dates, writes Novaya Gazeta. We are talking about the "restored original engine form" of the rocket. The document has the date of restoration of the original - January 14, 1986. At the same time, the engine itself was produced almost a year later - on December 24, 1986.

September 18. Syria shot down a Russian military aircraft. Who is to blame for this? What's happened? On the night of September 18, the Russian Il-20 aircraft disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea near Latakia. There were 15 people on board. Around the same time, four Israeli Air Force aircraft struck warehouses with military products, which was intended for Hizballs. Syrian air defense tried to repel this attack, but accidentally hit the IL-20, which made an intelligence flight.

Anti-extremism police officers in the Sverdlovsk region say gay people aren’t a social group and therefore aren't protected against homophobic hate speech. That was the response to Anna Plyusnina, a lawyer for the LGBT Resource Center, who alerted the authorities to comments posted by Internet users on local news websites that insult gay people, advocate “conversion therapy,” and threaten gay people with physical violence.