The highest-grossing film in Russia in September was “Twilight” in 2008, the first part of the vampire movie saga starring Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart. RBC drew attention to this. The film was re-released in Russia on September 17 and has already collected 340 million rubles. In terms of box office receipts, it overtook the new films “How Ivan Got into a Fairy Tale” (296 million) and “The Ninth Planet” (183 million).

Now establishments are wondering how to change the menu Miles Willis/Bloomberg/Getty Images GLP-1- based weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy have created difficulties for food service establishments in the United States, The New York Times writes . This is forcing restaurants - both large fast food chains and high-end establishments - to change their menus to accommodate such customers. We retell the most important things from the publication of the publication.

The deal to sell foreign assets of the oil company Lukoil became part of negotiations between Russia and the United States to end the Russian-Ukrainian war, sources told The New York Times (NYT). According to the newspaper, on September 5, Vladimir Putin personally raised the issue of selling Lukoil assets in negotiations with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, special envoys of US President Donald Trump, who are involved in resolving the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

On October 2, in the city of Novomoskovsk, Tula region, a car of a participant in the war with Ukraine was blown up, reported the Ukrainian monitoring telegram channel Exilenova+. According to the anonymous channel "VChK-OGPU", the bomb was planted under the bottom of the car. The dead driver's name was Roman Syromyatnikov. The death of a man with that name was confirmed by the Novomoskovsk Today publication.

LMK Media / Scanpix / LETA The film “Digger” by Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has been released worldwide. This is his first English-language work since The Revenant (Bardo, released in 2022, was in Spanish). The main role in the film, billed as a black comedy, was played by Tom Cruise. How Iñárritu’s new film turned out, says film critic Anton Dolin. When a film is compared to a dream, it is usually a compliment - and applied to the best: Buñuel and Tarkovsky, Fellini and Lynch.

1683rd day. Russia began to attack one of the most important transport arteries of Kyiv - bridges across the Dnieper Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Russian jet drone against the background of one of the Kyiv bridges, October 2, 2026 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.

Over five years they have decreased by 20%. Photos Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world. Against this backdrop, the famous glaciers in the Swiss Alps, which have existed for centuries, are melting at an accelerating pace, according to the results of a study by Swiss scientists ( .pdf ). They found that in the hot year of 2026 , 5.5% of the ice disappeared, and over the past five years, starting in 2021, the volume of ice in Switzerland has decreased by almost 20%.

The administration of the city of Baikalsk in the Irkutsk region published a post on Telegram urging people not to travel to Shelekhov, a satellite town of Irkutsk, where a hospital patient could have died from pneumonic plague , and two hours later deleted it. “People of Baikal” drew attention to this. The publication also noted that the federal channel REN TV removed five posts from its social networks that spoke about the spread of the plague in Shelekhov.

The director of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov, presented the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, with the shoulder straps of an army general and a maroon beret, TASS reports. Zolotov said that Kadyrov was promoted by Vladimir Putin. He, Zolotov, is tasked with “bringing” Putin’s decree to Kadyrov and presenting the gold shoulder straps of an army general. “But that's not all.

The German Embassy in Moscow refused to issue a study visa to a graduate of the Design program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, who entered a similar specialty at the German University of the Arts. This was reported by the human rights project for students “Molniya”, which reviewed the letter of visa refusal.

Television healer Anatoly Kashpirovsky died at the age of 87, reported journalist Andrei Malakhov. The cause of death was cardiac arrest, his director told TASS. Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS / Profimedia Anatoly Kashpirovsky is a Soviet psychotherapist who studied hypnosis techniques. He became widely known in the USSR in the late 1980s, when his “healing sessions” began to be broadcast on television.

During Vladimir Putin’s trip to the Chelyabinsk region on October 2, the presidential motorcade was accompanied by a helicopter, presumably a military one. This follows from the video of the motorcade passing. The video was filmed by one of the local residents and published by the Chelyabinsk of the Future telegram channel. Prior to this, a helicopter in Putin’s motorcade was noticed in May 2026, during the Russian president’s visit to Kazakhstan.

A surgeon, actor, singer and other Meduza readers tell WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Getty Images We recently asked you if you know how to stop a sneeze if the situation is not at all conducive to it, and we received 600 answers! In them, you talked about how you cope with not sneezing, as well as when this important skill comes in handy and how you learned about it. Several of the methods described turned out to be very popular, but there were also quite rare ones - choose according to your taste.

The bodies of a woman and a newborn child were found in the toilet of the arrivals area of ​​Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow. A criminal case has been opened, the press service of the Investigative Committee’s department for the Moscow region reported. Law enforcement agencies clarified to TASS that, according to a preliminary version, a 30-year-old woman gave birth to a child in the airport toilet and then strangled him.

And he has already been suspended from flying because of his radical views. Abir Sultan / EPA / Scanpix / LETA The attack by the co-pilot on the captain on a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was an attempted terrorist attack. This was stated by the Attorney General of the United Arab Emirates, Hamad Saif al-Shamsi, reports WAM, the UAE state news agency.