The Moscow football club Lokomotiv defeated the German Bayer 04 in the opening match of the group stage of the Champions League. The match, held in German Leverkusen, ended with the score 1:2. According to RBC, this is Lokomotiv's first away victory in the Champions League over the past 17 years. Lokomotiv in the Champions League plays in group D, which also includes Juventus, Atlético and Bayer. On October 1, Lokomotiv will play against Atletico.

On July 27, three hours before protesters swept Moscow’s Tverskaya Street to demand fair elections, Constantine Konovalov was going on a run when he was unexpectedly arrested. Police officers knocked the professional designer onto the curb of a sidewalk, and one officer stepped onto his calves in such a way that Konovalov broke his right leg. At Moscow’s Hospital Number 67, the young man was diagnosed with a “closed internal tibial spine fracture.” Konovalov’s arrest was caught on camera.

Two candidates for municipal deputies in St. Petersburg were attacked on September 18, Mediazona reports. The first to suffer was the candidate from Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in St. Petersburg, Ulyana Timofeeva, who ran in the Novoizmailovsky district. She was attacked when she came to the municipality to get a protocol on the voting results. A woman inside the building pushed her, causing Timofeeva to hit the wall.

Writers, publishers, critics, journalists, translators and representatives of bookstores wrote an open letter in support of those involved in the “ Moscow case ”. The text of the letter was published on Facebook by the author of the YouTube show “Yet Poser” Nikolai Solodnikov. The authors of the letter demand that all sentences imposed on those involved in the “Moscow case” be reviewed. “We represent the humanitarian world. In which the highest value is the life of an individual.

Medusa guide for an unprecedented campaign in defense of the defendants in Moscow business Anton Andrienko for "Medusa" Starting on September 16, representatives of professional communities have been speaking with open letters in support of the defendants in the Moscow Affairs. It all started with a sentence issued by actor Pavel Ustinov, after which cultural figures began a wide public campaign in its defense.

Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS / Vida Press Rector of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University Anatoly Alexandrov, February 13, 2017 The Dissernet community has prepared a report on the rector of Russian universities that violated the norms of academic ethics. It is compiled on the basis of “dissuropedia of Russian universities” , which includes data about 676 universities in the country. In the report, 112 people are mentioned in whom Dissernet found one or more violations.

Masseur from California, who accused actor Kevin Spacey of sexual harassment, died during the consideration of his claim in court. This is reported by The Hollywood Reporter and Variety , citing a court statement. Spacey's lawyers filed a notice with the court on September 17 stating that on September 11, representatives of the plaintiff informed them of the death of their client. Other details are unknown. Officially, the name of the massage therapist was not disclosed.

Russian doctors wrote an appeal in support of the defendants in the "Moscow case". The text of the open letter was published by journalist Katerina Gordeeva. The authors of the letter note that they are following the process “with concern and indignation”, in which they “continue to make unfair decisions”.

Sergey Karpukhin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta In Moscow, a shootout occurred at the Ryazan Prospekt metro station. Interfax , citing a source, reports that this happened during the detention of an employee of the Moscow metro protection department suspected of a bribe. During the detention, one policeman was killed from his own security department, the second was wounded.

Former Moscow City Duma candidate Roman Yuneman filed a lawsuit against the precinct election commission demanding that the results of Internet voting be canceled in the 30th district where he ran. It is reported by MBH Media with reference to Yuneman. Earlier, Yuneman filed a complaint with the Moscow Election Commission about the voting results in his constituency, but the election commission recognized the election as valid on the same day.

A grunt nicknamed Pukhlyash gnaws everything that he sees - from tomatoes to cucumbers. And he loves to show off in front of the camera. Surka even has its own yutyub channel . He was started by American Jeff Permar from Delaware, the owner of the garden, from which Pukhlyash steals vegetables. Chunk The Groundhog Initially, the owner of the site wanted to calculate the pest using the camera and get rid of it. But Permar did not assume that the thief fascinates him so much.

An employee of Nokia Networks mistakenly posted a disk with information about the operating principles of the Russian SORM , TechCrunch writes. The disk contained about two terabytes of information dating back to 2016-2017. This information included data on specific devices and the structure of SORM networks serviced by MTS (Nokia Networks provides technical support for these networks), as well as information on the procedure and type of information provided to Russian government agencies.

Update. Ukrainian special forces detained a man who threatened to blow up a bridge in Kiev, Ukrayinska Pravda reports , citing Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Before the arrest, he threw away the weapon; no explosives were found on him. In Kyiv, an armed criminal threatened to blow up the Metro bridge across the Dnieper, UNIAN reports. Traffic is blocked. The man fired several shots, Interfax-Ukraine reports , citing Yaroslav Trakalo, a representative of the National Police of Ukraine.

Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena announced that he would defend actor Pavel Ustinov, who was sentenced to 3.5 years under an article on the use of violence against a Russian guard. "I'm going into business today," Interfax quotes him as saying. The artistic director of Satyricon Konstantin Raikin asked Kucherena to join the case, the actor told Interfax and the lawyer himself confirmed.

Users of the MT_FREE mobile application, which is used to connect to free Wi-Fi in Moscow transport, received push notifications on the afternoon of September 18 with an appeal to “save Russia”. This was reported by users of social networks . Representatives of the Maxima Telecom company, which provides Internet access in Moscow transport, said on Twitter that the MT_FREE application was not hacked.