The United States has expanded sanctions designed to prevent the supply of aviation fuel to the Russian group in Syria. The main object of the new sanctions was Maritime Assistance, which the US authorities consider to be a shell company of the previously blacklisted Sovfrakht. in 2018 Sanctions have also been imposed against three Russian citizens Ivan Okorokov, Karen Stepanyan and Ilya Loginov, who were already charged with supplying fuel in circumvention of sanctions.

He is the last one who was able to hold out for two terms in this post At the age of 86, Jacques Shirak, President of France from 1995 to 2007, died. Under him, the country joined the euro zone, won the World Cup, suffered from terrorist attacks, but was able to catch almost all terrorists. He was a typical example of a traditional politician - the right, but ready to drift in any direction for the requests of the audience, an amazing speaker, which is difficult to distinguish from a demagogue.

Roskomnadzor has begun testing traffic filtering equipment, which should also allow blocking Telegram, throughout the Urals Federal District. Two sources involved in the pilot project told RBC about this. The Data Center for Processing and Automation (DCPA) company was tasked with covering the entire Urals with such devices by the end of 2019, the publication's sources claim. The company is headed by the former head of Nokia in Russia and former Deputy Minister of Communications Rashid Ismailov.

Investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have published a report on the investigation of the Boeing 737 MAX crashes . They concluded that when designing the plane, the company incorrectly predicted the actions of pilots in special situations. In developing and certifying the new MCAS, Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration made incorrect assumptions about what pilots would look for in real-life flight, when they must monitor multiple cockpit readouts.

The US State Department has imposed sanctions against former Cuban leader Raul Castro and members of his family - they are banned from entering the country. The ban is due to a "gross violation of human rights" in Cuba during Castro's rule. Raul Castro oversaw a system that allowed arbitrary detentions of Cubans, the State Department said, and there are now more than a hundred political prisoners in the country.

The most interesting Amazon announcements Amazon on September 25 spoke about the output of fifteen new devices at once. All of them are somehow connected either with the voice assistant Alexa, or with the "smart home". Medusa talks about the most interesting Amazon announcements.

Rosmolodyozh, Russia’s federal agency for youth affairs, plans to develop programming that will teach university students how to stand up against “fake news,” “post-truth” and rhetorical manipulation techniques. A contract auction for the program was first spotted by the newspaper Vedomosti .

An interview with the defendant of "Moscow business" Alexei Minyailo. The court freed him from custody and closed his case Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On September 26, the defendant of the Moscow Affairs, the entrepreneur and civil activist Alexei Minyilo, who was accused of participating in the riots, was released from custody, criminal against him was discontinued.

Moscow officials have declined to grant a permit for a memorial march organized by several Russian opposition parties. The “Immortal Gulag” march was to be modeled on the annual “Immortal Regiment” march, during which Russians carry portraits of relatives who died in the Second World War. Andrei Nechayev, the head of Civic Initiative (now called The Party of Change), posted the permit rejection letter on Facebook.

The Izvestia newspaper fired military observer Ilya Kramnik, announcing that his contract expired on September 24 and was not renewed. On the same day, Kramnik's column "PR and his team: Sergei Shoigu's achievements as defense minister" appeared on the newspaper's website, but was removed a few hours later ( copy ).

EVA HAMBACH / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On September 26, the U.S. Intelligence Committee published the text of a complaint of an unnamed American intelligence officer, after which Congress officially launched the impeachment of Donald Trump. The complaint, first of all, concerns the conversation of the US President with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, held on July 25. "Medusa" retells the main thing from this document.

Andrey Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a Russian couple whose home was searched after investigators discovered that they had adopted children, have political refugee status in the United States. The Russian LGBTQ group Coming Out first reported the couple’s petition. In July, investigators opened a criminal neglect case alleging that a group of Moscow social workers had harmed the “moral and spiritual development” of Vaganov and Yerofeyev’s children by leaving them with the two men.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed that changes to the fire regulations introduced on September 25 prohibit smoking on balconies. “Smoking on the balcony falls under the category of “open burning”, respectively, it will also be prohibited,” Interfax quoted the press service of the department as saying. The ban will take effect on October 1.

A Philippine court has acquitted Russian citizen Yuriy Kirdyushkin , who faced charges of carrying almost 10 kilograms of contraband cocaine into the country. Kirdyushkin’s attorney, Alexander Boikov, told the independent Russian television station Dozhd about the ruling. Kirdyushkin’s father, Sergey Kirdyushkin, confirmed that his son had been acquitted. Yuriy Kirdyushkin was detained in October of 2016, the Russian embassy in the Philippines told the newspaper Izvestia.

A new criminal case has been opened against former Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov — for laundering about 800 million rubles stolen during the construction of new Hermitage facilities. This was reported by Interfax, citing an unnamed source. According to investigators, the funds were laundered by Pirumov and his accomplices through “fictitious financial transactions in organizations under their control.” This occurred from July 2015 to March 2016.