The winner of the Golden Lion, the main prize of the 83rd Venice Film Festival, was the film “The Unknown Woman” by Danish director Mai el-Touki. The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love. The Silver Lion award for best director was awarded to Ilya Khrzhanovsky for the film Dau. The Special Jury Prize went to the documentary film “NAZA” by Israeli directors Yuval Avraham and Rachel Shor.

The head of Anthropic, the developer of the Claude language model, Dario Amodei, stated the need to urgently slow down the pace of development of artificial intelligence. He published a corresponding post on his blog.

dts News Agency Germany / Shutterstock / Vida Press German journalist Angelike Geray posed on social networks as a fan of Vladimir Putin as part of an investigation designed to find out how secret Russian agents operate in Germany. A film about this was released on the German television channel RTL in early September. Geray spent several months creating a fictitious digital identity.

The special climate chamber in which the Trinity icon is located, transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2023, broke down several months ago. Echo writes about this, as does religion researcher Ksenia Luchenko, citing sources. According to Echo's interlocutor, after the camera broke down, a specialist from Germany was invited to repair it.

Because of her, bloggers are already talking about the phenomenon of “Tiktokization of reading” Xteink XTEINK X4 Classic An unexpected bestseller has appeared on the e-book market - Chinese Xteink. This is a pocket reader, slightly larger than a credit card and costing 69 euros, which can be attached to the back of your smartphone. According to viral advertising reviews, this miniature e-reader helps users break the habit of scrolling on social networks.

In the coming months, the FSB will undergo a major reorganization, writes “Important Stories” with reference to sources. According to the publication, the changes will affect both key services and their leaders, including department director Alexander Bortnikov. Bortnikov, the interlocutors of “Important Stories” said, has been “asking to retire” for a long time and increasingly his duties are being performed by First Deputy Sergei Korolev.

At MEPhI, students were promised three visits to physical education if they vote in the State Duma elections. The publication “Groza” reports this. The corresponding proposal was sent to the educational chat by one of the teachers of the physical education department, Egor Lazarev. The offer, Lazarev wrote, is valid only for students with Moscow registration. They are required to vote through the Mos.ru website on the first day of the elections—September 18.

1662nd day. Medvedev: Lithuania will disappear from the world map if it hosts US nuclear weapons. Putin: we do not threaten European countries and do not intend to Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war. What feelings are you experiencing?

This is an exquisite gothic tale of uninvited guests. 83rd Venice International Film Festival Casey Affleck’s “Company,” his third full-time directorial work, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. This strange film - with a leisurely pace and lack of action, a repetitive and deceptive plot - looks like a sophisticated example of American gothic, says film critic Anton Dolin. We warn you that at the end of the review there is a spoiler that you cannot do without.

In France, on the evening of September 11, a passenger train derailed. The incident occurred near the town of Kleon in the northern part of the country. There were more than 180 passengers on the train. As a result, 44 people were injured; one woman was hospitalized in critical condition, the rest had minor injuries.

Two people died as a result of the crash of a Cessna-172 light aircraft in Tatarstan, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports. The plane crashed into the garden of a private residential building in the village of Shemordan. There was no destruction or casualties on the ground, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. The dead were the pilot of the plane and a passenger. The causes of the crash are currently being investigated.

A fragment of the book “Dendrarium” - about the traveler Vladimir Dyagterev, a prisoner of Solovkov, who created a unique arboretum in the camp Alice Kusti Individuum and shell (f) publishing houses published Alice Kusti’s book “Dendrarium. Five gardens of prisoner Degtyarev." The author describes how he is looking for information about Vladimir Dyagterev, a prisoner of the Solovetsky camp, who created a unique arboretum during his term in the Far North.

The Russian woman refused to meet the military man. Two days later she was kidnapped, threatened with torture and demanded to confess her ties to Ukraine. A resident of one of the large border cities of Russia was kidnapped by people in military uniform - they threatened her with electric shock, gained access to her phone and demanded that she confess to possible ties with Ukraine. Two days before, the girl refused to meet a military man in the parking lot.

France has supported Slovakia in its proposal to lift sanctions against Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov, unnamed European diplomats told Euronews. EU sanctions are extended every six months, the current deadline is September 15. Slovakia has repeatedly called for Usmanov, as well as Mikhail Fridman, to be excluded from the lists.

Updated . According to updated data from the regional authorities, 35 people were injured, 13 of them were hospitalized. On the night of September 12, the Russian military launched a combined missile and drone strike on Odessa. As a result, a 25-story residential building was seriously damaged. According to local authorities, 23 people were injured, including an infant. Seven people were hospitalized.