Google announced on its blog the launch of the Google Play Pass subscription service. Its users will have access to 350 mobile games and applications. All of them are already in the Play Store, but a subscription will allow you to use them without ads and in-app purchases. During the first 10 days, the service can be tested for free. In the first year, a subscription to it will cost $ 1.99 per month (127 rubles), then the cost will rise to $ 4.99 (319 rubles).

European low-cost airlines Ryanair, EasyJet and WizzAir have applied for flights from Pulkovo Airport. This was reported to RBC by Leonid Sergeev, general director of the Pulkovo operator company "Air Gates of the Northern Capital". In August, low-cost airlines provided plans for route networks for flights from Pulkovo. Airlines plan to operate flights from the airport all year round.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced a tender to equip the army with a system against unauthorized publication of official documents on the Internet. Information about this is posted on the government procurement website; Interfax was the first to draw attention to it. The contract value is 250 million rubles. The contractor will be determined based on the results of a closed auction. The work must be completed by October 1, 2020.

Forward of the Spanish Barcelona and the Argentine national team Lionel Messi was recognized as the best player of the year according to FIFA. In addition to Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool defender Virzhil Van Dyck claimed the award. The best goalkeeper is named the goalkeeper of Liverpool Alisson. The best coach was Jurgen Klopp, working with Liverpool.

Yana Paskova / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In 2018, the Swedish schoolgirl Greta Tunberg staged a strike near the parliament building in Stockholm, saying that she refused to go to school on Fridays until the politicians fulfill the Parisian climate agreement. The Tunberg action attracted attention around the world, and schoolchildren from other countries also began to arrange climatic strikes.

The World Athletics Association (IAAF) has extended the period of disqualification of the All-Russian Athletics Federation. “The Council unanimously decided that the All-Russian Athletics Federation cannot be reinstated at the moment,” said Rune Andersen, head of the IAAF working group on the restoration of the ARAF. He did not elaborate on the details of the decision.

from the website of the Ministry of Culture has disappeared All information about the educational project "Cultural standard of a schoolchild" . Open Media was the first to notice this. In particular, the list of works recommended for study within the framework of the “Cultural Standard of a Schoolchild” has disappeared.

Alexey Nikolsky / EPA / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA The family of Anton Vaino, the chief of staff of Russia’s presidential administration, reportedly owns properties in Moscow and the Moscow region that are worth a total of 1.6 billion rubles ($25 million). The Russian outlet Republic reported its discovery of the properties on September 23.

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Commission on Combating Falsification of Scientific Research has prepared a report on candidates for Corresponding Members and Academicians of the RAS who violated academic ethics. A link to the report was posted on Facebook by a member of the commission, co-founder of the Dissernet community Andrey Zayakin. The report includes 56 candidates from various fields of science.

Candace Elliott / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was at the center of a large political scandal. A month before the elections to the Canadian parliament, the press published several archival photographs and records for several days, in which young treudes posing in makeup, depicting black people. Trudeau rivals said that the prime minister not only showed himself a racist, but also lied to voters.

The “Immortal Regiment” memorial march is a staple of collective memory in contemporary Russia: In it, marchers carry photographs of relatives and others who were killed in the Second World War. In an apparent attempt to elevate internal Soviet repressions to the cultural status of the war, a group of Russian opposition organizations is petitioning to hold a march called “Immortal Gulag” in central Moscow.

In the US, a football fan raised a million dollars for a children's hospital. It happened almost by accident - in fact, he just wanted to get a few tens of dollars for his beer. Carson King, 24, came to the NCAA Collegiate League game between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Iowa State Cyclones on September 14. Came with a poster that said: "[My] supply of [beer brand] Busch Light needs to be replenished." In the same place, King indicated his account in the Venmo payment system.

As a new bill introducing regulatory categories for investors makes its way through Russia’s State Duma, the country’s Central Bank has introduced a set of amendments that would place severe restrictions on those who are just beginning to invest. RBC reported that the amendments restrict the total value of foreign companies’ stocks and other risky stocks that beginning investors can buy to 50,000 rubles (currently $782.50).

Russian Railways has introduced a service of free SMS notifications about possible delays and changes in the train schedule. To use the service, you need to leave your mobile phone number when buying a ticket. Notifications will only apply to the train for which the ticket was purchased. Phone numbers will not be used for marketing and advertising mailings, Russian Railways noted.

The Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC) sent a letter to Moscow Prosecutor Denis Popov, in which it recommended that the sentences of Pavel Ustinov and Konstantin Kotov, defendants in the “Moscow case,” be overturned.