Artem Geodakyan / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The writer Dmitry Glukhovsky on September 17 received the GQ magazine in the category "Author of the Year". At the ceremony, he spoke with a bright speech in which he stated that he would prefer to give his prize to George Orwell or Janni Rodari. Glukhovsky’s call finished his speech to free the political prisoners. Here is a complete decoding of his speech.

How the second day of elections to the State Duma went. Main Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta, residents of Donetsk take places in buses that will take them to polling stations in the Rostov region. September 17, 2021 On the night of September 18, Telegram blocked the Bot Voting Bot .

A Los Angeles jury has found millionaire Robert Durst guilty of murdering his girlfriend Susan Berman in 2000. The jury found Durst guilty of first-degree murder . The jury found that he committed the crime because Berman could tell about his involvement in the disappearance of his wife in 1982. Durst was suspected of murdering his wife, but due to lack of evidence, charges were not brought against him.

Russia will not repeal the law on "foreign agents," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. She posted the corresponding post on the telegra.ph platform. There will be no repeal of the law on foreign agents. For if it is canceled, Western partners will have a complete sense of impunity both in putting pressure on the Russian media abroad and in participating in political life through their agents of influence on the territory of our country.

Press Service of the Basmanny Court / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Maria Platonova during the hearing about the extent of suppression In Moscow, the Investigative Committee on the eve of the elections to the State Duma opened a criminal case of “declination to riots” through telegrams. According to the department, the defendants in the case created a network of channels in which they “posted publications and conducted campaigning activities aimed at organizing riots” during voting days.

Oliver Contreras / CNP / Zuma / Scanpix / Leta US President Joe Biden and Australia Prime Ministers Scott Morrison (on the screen on the left) and Britain Boris Johnson (right) announce the creation of the new triple military union Aukus. Washington, September 15, 2021 On September 15, Australia, Great Britain and the United States announced the creation of a new trilateral military union, which they called the abbreviation Aukus (Australia, United Kingdom, United States).

In the Rostov region, some voters who came to vote from the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR were given Russian passports right in front of the polling station, Dozhd reports. As one of the voters told the TV channel's correspondent, he received a passport upon arrival in the Matveyevo-Kurgan rural settlement. The man noted that he was very glad that he had the opportunity to vote.

Evgeny Feldman / Medusa in Russia continues a three -day election vote. In the first two days, special exit areas with portable boxes on which residents of remote settlements can vote throughout the country.

Everything that’s wrong with Pavel Durov’s explanation for disabling access to ‘campaign materials’ during Russia’s parliamentary elections Nadine Rupp / Getty Images Mere minutes before midnight on September 18 when the new policy he was announcing would take effect, Telegram founder Pavel Durov published a statement on his personal channel explaining that the network would begin blocking bots “involved in campaigning” in accordance with Russia’s “election silence” law.

The watch on Russian President Vladimir Putin's wrist showed the 10th when he voted in the election because no date was set, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told RIA Novosti. It’s just that Putin doesn’t have the date set on his watch, he doesn’t look at it, he doesn’t use the date on his watch, so, yes, he has a different date there. Putin, the Kremlin reported, took part in the vote on September 17.

We barely manage to follow the new data-and yet we collected everything that is Caroline Brehman / EPA / Scanpix / Leta vaccination at the University of California. September 16, 2021 A week ago, Medusa spoke in detail about the hottest scientific dispute on the topic of Covid right now - whether it is necessary to do a second, or “booster” vaccination.

After bowing to censorship demands a day earlier by disabling Russian users’ access to Alexey Navalny’s mobile app on its app store, Google has ordered Navalny’s associates to delete two documents now available on Google Docs that contain lists of election candidates endorsed by Smart Vote, the team’s strategic voting initiative meant to consolidate opposition against the political party United Russia.

Google demanded that supporters of politician Alexei Navalny remove two documents in Google Docs with lists of candidates recommended by Smart Voting. In a letter from Google, the screen of which Navalny's team posted on their Telegram channel, it says that links to these documents were included in the register of prohibited materials of Roskomnadzor. "If you do not remove said materials, Google may be forced to block access to them," the message says.

Nadine Rupp / Getty images Shortly before midnight Friday, September 17, in his personal telegram channel, the creator of the messenger Pavel Durov published a post in which he announced the blocking of the bot “smart voting” . He did not immediately approach this announcement, devoting the first three paragraphs of his post to criticizing Apple and Google, who shortly before that blocked the Navalny application for customers of their app stores from Russia.

Abdelaziz Butflik, the former president of Algeria, who headed the country for 20 years, died. Charles Platiau / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Buteflik died after a long illness. He was 84 years old. Buteflika became the president of Algeria in 1999 and for many years was very popular in the country. During the Arab Spring, the president carried out reforms, thanks to which, unlike other countries of the region, protest performances in Algeria quickly stopped.