The film "Land of Nomads" directed by Chloe Zhao received the "Golden Lion" - the main award of the Venice Film Festival, held for the 77th time. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (The Spy's Wife) won the Silver Lion for Best Director. "Silver Lion" - Grand Jury Prize - went to Michel Franco ("The New Order"). The Special Jury Prize was awarded to Andrei Konchalovsky for the film Dear Comrades! Pierfrancesco Favino (Our Father) won Best Actor and Vanessa Kirby (Fragments of a Woman) won Best Actress.

The Swedish-British company AstraZeneca said that UK trials of a coronavirus vaccine developed jointly with the University of Oxford have resumed. AstraZeneca stressed that the trials have begun again after UK regulators confirmed the safety of the drug by conducting an investigation after one of the trial participants fell ill. AstraZeneca's vaccine trials were suspended worldwide on September 6 after one of the volunteers was diagnosed with transverse myelitis.

TUT.BY / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta in the center of Minsk on the afternoon of September 12, a “female march” of protest against Alexander Lukashenko was held. The participants of the action with several columns reached the city center with different routes, after which they united in a common column and passed along Independence Avenue - the total number of TUT.BY participants appreciated at 10 thousand people.

Imagine, go into your room, and there - she Time out dolls are dolls that look like a child playing hide and seek. The description is cute, but why does it look so scary? “I just found out about the existence of time-out dolls - dolls in the form of children facing the wall or turned into a corner. It’s already creepy and scary, but they don’t have faces yet!” These dolls are also called “crybabies” or “punished”.

The Union of Architects of Russia has announced a competition for the best concept for using Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum on Red Square in a different capacity. The competition was announced on August 25, but its provisions were officially approved and published only on September 11.

The host of Versus played Weak Link and heard a stern "goodbye" The organizer of the Versus Battle rap battles and rapper Restaurateur (Alexander Timartsev) took part in the Weak Link show. Yes, it still exists - in 2020, the quiz was relaunched with the previous host Maria Kiseleva on the Mir TV channel.

In the center of Minsk, several dozen participants of the "women's march" of protest against President Alexander Lukashenko were detained. The bulk of the arrests were made on Svoboda Square near the city hall building, where up to a thousand people gathered. The detentions were harsh, they were carried out by OMON officers and unknown people in unmarked balaclavas. After the police pushed them back from Svoboda Square, the marchers started marching along Nemiga Street and Pobediteley Avenue.

On the first day of the three-day voting in the presidential elections in Tatarstan, 27.5% of voters voted. According to the head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, this is the highest turnout in the elections of heads of regions. The lowest turnout on the first day of voting was recorded in the elections for the governor of the Irkutsk region - 8.11%. In elections to regional legislative bodies, the highest turnout was in Belgorod Oblast (24.12%), and the lowest was in Novosibirsk Oblast (7.8%).

Your browser does not support the audio element. Finding the poison: Dr. Marc-Michael Blum explains the analytical chemistry needed to identify nerve agents in patients The German media reported on September 9 that Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny was poisoned with a new type of “Novichok” nerve agent, more dangerous than any variation previously identified.

Maria Kolesnikova, a member of the coordinating council of the Belarusian opposition, was transferred from a pre-trial detention center in Minsk to a detention center in Zhodino. This was reported by her lawyer. The reasons for the transfer of Kolesnikova are still unknown. Maria Kolesnikova was abducted on September 7 in the center of Minsk. As her associates said, they tried to forcefully take her out of Belarus, but she tore her passport.

The Central Bank has revealed a new scheme that helped scammers steal money from bank cards. This was reported by RBC with reference to a letter from the Center for Monitoring and Response to Computer Attacks in the Credit and Financial Sphere sent to banks. The scheme became possible due to the fact that one of the banks provided its customers with data on their account balances through an interactive voice menu system.

About the heroic captain and an irresistible squeal Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich talks about two English novels that first released in Russian: “Greihanda” by Cecil Scott Forester (in English was released in 1953) and “How to become a Lady” Francis Eliza Hodgson Berunet (1901).

Bahrain and Israel agreed to establish diplomatic relations. This was announced on his Twitter by US President Donald Trump, through whose mediation this happened. The joint statement by Israel, Bahrain and the United States emphasizes that this agreement is a "historic breakthrough for peace in the Middle East." The solemn ceremony of signing diplomatic documents will be held in Washington on September 15.

The chairman of the Moscow City Court, Olga Egorova, may go to work in the Moscow City Hall, RBC writes, citing sources close to the city hall. “There is an idea to [appoint] [mayor Sergei Sobyanin] as an adviser or assistant,” another source close to the city authorities told the publication. He admitted that if Yegorov is appointed, he will be responsible for interaction with the courts.

The main objects of the Festival "Arch", which is 15 years old The Festival "Arch", which takes place in the art park "Nikola-Lenivts" near Kaluga, turned 15 years old. All these years, invited architects and artists mastered the banks of the Ugra River, surrounding fields, forests and villages. Despite the long journey, this annual holiday collects thousands of citizens. “Arch of Arch” today is not only Land Art, but also performances, performances, parties.