The British Home Office refused to provide legal assistance to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in the investigation of a criminal case initiated in Russia on the fact of the attempt on the life of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

US President Donald Trump at a meeting of the UN General Assembly accused China of trying to interfere in the upcoming November congressional elections. According to Trump, China was trying to weaken the Republicans because of the rejection in Beijing of the policies of the White House. “They don’t want us or me to win because I am the first president to openly oppose China on trade,” Trump said. A Chinese spokesman called the allegations "baseless".

The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 2-2.25%. This decision was expected by most analysts and market participants. The Fed also said it plans to raise rates once more in 2018 and three times in 2019. The Fed has been consistently raising the base rate since the end of 2015. Prior to that, it had been at a minimum level for seven years.

Pussy Riot member and Mediazona publisher Petr Verzilov said that Russian intelligence services, “possibly the GRU,” were behind his poisoning. Bild published an interview with Verzilov. According to Verzilov, this is evidenced by how “professionally” the poisoning was carried out.

The MGM Studios studio released the second trailer for the Creed 2 boxing drama - continuing a series of films about Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) with Michael B. Jordan in the title role. MGM film trailer In the second part of Creed, a student of Rocky and the son of the famous fighter Apollo Creed, will fight with Victor Drago. Victor is the son of the Russian boxer Ivan Drago (Dolf Lundgren), who several decades ago killed the elder Creed in battle. Now he trains Victor for a match.

September 26th. Relatives in Kabardino-Balkaria, namesakes in Astrakhan: Putin changes governors News of the day (with comments) The State Duma adopted the pension reform in the second reading (the age for women was raised to 60). Bellingcat and The Insider found out that Ruslan Boshirov's real name is Anatoly Chepiga (he is indeed from the GRU, and also a Hero of Russia).

The accidents of the Russian Proton-M launch vehicles may be due to the fact that Roscosmos did not modernize production in time. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov. The space industry of the Russian Federation, according to Borisov, has lagged behind the aviation industry, where engineers and designers have been designing digitally for a long time, documentation is transmitted to manufacturing plants in electronic form.

The press service of the Head of the Republic of Ingushetia / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov sign an agreement on consolidating the border between the regions in Magas, September 26, 2018 Kadyrov and Evkurov signed an agreement on the border.

Patrick T. Fallon / Bloomberg / Getty images Brian Eckon at a conference in California, October 25, 2016 About a day after the founders of Instagram, Kevin System and Mike Kriger announced the departure from the company, Forbes magazine published the story of Brian Eckon - he left WhatsApp a year ago, which he himself created. The stories of these people are united by the fact that their companies bought Facebook-and Mark Zuckerberg is allegedly guilty of leaving top managers.

The real name of Ruslan Boshirov, accused of attempting to assassinate the Skripals , is Anatoly Chepiga. This is stated in the third part of the investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider. The publications claim, in particular, that they found in the “Russian Passport” system a photograph of Anatoly Chepiga, born on April 5, 1979 - this man looks like Ruslan Boshirov. According to the investigation, Anatoly Chepiga was born in the Amur region.

Here is the cheat sheet This article was published on September 26 and updated on October 2. Because Vladimir Putin keeps changing governors to namesakes of other governors. Kurgan region . Governor Alexei Kokorin, who has led the region since 2014, has moved to a new job. In his place, Putin appointed Vadim Shumkov. Since 2015, he has been Deputy Governor of the Tyumen Region.

The Kremlin has revealed its next step in Primorsky Krai, where invalidated voting results recently snatched away the incumbent governor's suspicious runoff election victory: Vladimir Putin is appointing Oleg Kozhemyako, currently the head of the Sakhalin region, to be Primorye's new acting governor. The president also said he won't object if Kozhemyako decides to run in the third-round gubernatorial election, which is scheduled to take place in the next three months.

Oleg Kozhemyako, who headed the Sakhalin Region, has been appointed Acting Governor of Primorsky Krai. The corresponding decision was announced at a meeting between Kozhemyako and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kozhemyako will also put forward his candidacy in the elections for the head of Primorye, which will be held in two months. Earlier on Wednesday, Putin appointed acting heads of two more regions - the Astrakhan region and Kabardino-Balkaria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Kazbek Kokov as acting head of Kabardino-Balkaria. Yuri Kokov, who headed the region until recently, according to the president, asked to be transferred to work in Moscow. Update: Yuri Kokov was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council by presidential decree. Earlier, on September 26, Putin replaced the head of the Astrakhan region. Kazbek Kokov's father Valery headed Kabardino-Balkaria from 1992 to 2005.

The Central Bank sent information about the activities of the Cashbury group of companies to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, seeing in it signs of a financial pyramid. Interfax writes about this with reference to Valery Lyakh, Director of the Department for Combating Unfair Practices of the Central Bank. Cashbury positions itself as a lending and investment platform, offering investors a return of up to 550% per annum.