Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic resigned. He announced this in a public address on the evening of September 27. “I am grateful to the citizens who have twice placed their trust in me. Today is the day I resign,” he said . Vučić added that he will participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections “like an ordinary citizen,” as noted by the Associated Press and France24 , to try to become prime minister.

The Swiss government intends to provide Nestle, whose Russian assets Vladimir Putin has placed under temporary management, with “diplomatic support,” writes Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) am Sonntag. Currently, contact with Nestle is maintained by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (EDA) of Switzerland. The aim is to give Nestle the opportunity to present its case to the Russian authorities and seek the removal of external control.

OpenAI said it has suspended training of its latest artificial intelligence models after reports that AI agents were once again out of control, Fortune writes. The decision came shortly after the company released a technical report on September 25 citing a new incident. During it, an agent who was tested in an isolated environment without access to the Internet found a way to contact a public chatbot.

At Tivat airport in Montenegro on September 23, two Russians were detained who were planning to fly to Tel Aviv with 19 suitcases with various electronics, including for surveillance, writes Vijesti. According to journalists, the detainees are a married couple, Alexander (31 years old) and Alexandra (42 years old) Kruglyansky. They also had Israeli passports with them.

Protocols were drawn up against Pavel Talankin for failure to submit a “foreign agent” report (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code) and for participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code), Mediazona drew attention. The protocols were received by the Kyshtym City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region. Both cases were assigned to a judge on September 24.

What happened to one of the most ambitious projects in Russian commercial space exploration? Tim Rue / Bloomberg / Getty Images The Odyssey platform is being prepared for transportation from the United States to Russia. February 23, 2020 On September 27, 2016, exactly 10 years ago, one of the most ambitious deals in Russian cosmonautics took place : the S7 company bought the Sea Launch floating cosmodrome to launch commercial cargo from a platform in the Pacific Ocean.

A referendum was held in Switzerland in which citizens voted on the issue of a stricter definition of the principle of the country's neutrality. According to preliminary data from the Swiss government, 69.99% of voters voted against tightening neutrality, and 30.01% voted for it. In addition, not a single canton supported the initiative.

We tell you why, according to the division of composers into “hedgehogs” and “foxes”, he is definitely a “fox” Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images Dmitri Shostakovich, probably the most famous Soviet composer, was born on September 25, 1906. Forced to cooperate with the state and at the same time suffering from the campaign against “formalism,” for many he embodies the fate of the humanities intellectual in a totalitarian state.

In Moscow, Varvara Kosheleva, an activist and former head of staff of Anna Shatunovskaya-Burno, who was running for the State Duma elections from Yabloko in a single-mandate constituency, was attacked. Kosheleva told RusNews about the attack.

1677th day. Europe is preparing its population for emergencies. The German Foreign Minister, after a meeting with Lavrov, was convinced that Russia was not ready to end the war 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?

Providing Starlink data for strikes deep into Russia would be “a very disastrous, potentially dangerous and reckless step,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Vesti correspondent Pavel Zarubin. According to Peskov, he also expects that the Rassvet system, the Russian analogue of Starlink, will soon become more efficient.

Updated. Police detained five people who are also suspected of preparing a terrorist attack. Deputy Chief Richard Okone said a call was received at about 12:45 a.m. "in reference to three suspicious vehicles" traveling in the direction of Fairford Air Force Base. After this, the police arrived at the scene. In the area near the airbase, about 85 houses were evacuated.

The United States and Russia have struck out of the agreement on the use of lethal autonomous weapons systems the clause on human verification of targets assigned by AI for strike, three sources told The Washington Post. The agreement was discussed in early September in the UN meeting room in Switzerland. WP notes that this is the first treaty that defines the rules for the use of lethal AI weapons.

If you know how to hold back a sneeze, tell us how—and save other readers! Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group / Getty Images “Fred Ott. Sneezing." Stills from one of the first films in history. It was filmed by William Dixon in Thomas Edison's laboratory in 1894. We developed the ability to sneeze for a reason: it helps get rid of foreign particles that are in the nose. But besides the benefits, sneezing has one more property - often people simply enjoy doing it.

The conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was “tense”, and it was not possible to reach agreement on key issues, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful said in an interview with Tagesschau and ZDF . The foreign ministers of Russia and Germany met yesterday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York for the first time since the start of the great war.