Investigators of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug opened a criminal case against a senior employee of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), who is suspected of drug trafficking. 80 grams of heroin were found and seized from the suspect.

The first hour of trading on the Moscow Exchange on Wednesday began with the strengthening of the ruble, the dollar and the euro updated minimums from the beginning of September, RIA Novosti reports. The first US dollar transactions went to the ETS on Wednesday in the range of 66.37-66.68 rubles per dollar, on average in a minute one and a half minutes the dollar amount was 66.42 rubles, which is 28 kopecks below the level of the previous closure.

Ensuring the balance between the work on the development of the Arctic and the preservation of its nature is one of the priorities of Russia in the Arctic zone. This is stated in the greeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin to participants on Wednesday in Arkhangelsk V International Scientific Conference on Security and Sustainable Development of the Arctic. The forum is held at the initiative of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Putin himself did not come to the meeting.

The flow of refugees to Western Europe does not stop, despite the attempts of European countries to control it. So, Hungary, which closed the border with Serbia, from where migrants basically arrive, was able to reduce the number of crossing the border by 25 times, but because of this, about five thousand people accumulated at the Horgosh checkpoint. Refugees are already looking for alternative routes - many have noticed many in Croatia, which borders on Hungary and Slovenia.

A resident of Novosibirsk appealed to the prosecutor with a request to check the Bible, some places in which, in his opinion, may violate the federal law "On the protection of children from information causing harm to their health and development," the Sib.FM portal reports. As examples, he cited pieces of text from the Old Testament.

The St. Petersburg Zenit won a guest victory over the Spanish Valencia in the match of the first round of the UEFA Champions League group tournament. The dramatic meeting in the arena of the "Retel" ended with a score of 3: 2 in favor of the visits, who led to a break with an advantage of two goals, but then almost missed the victory.

The Financial Times, the newspaper, believes that when the Pope Francis will arrive on the coming week with his first visit to the United States, the media interest in his stay beyond the ocean will eclipse interest in Donald Trump, who leads the presidential candidate from the Republicans, Inopressa.ru reports, referring to the British edition.

“At the beginning of the meeting, they included an excerpt from an NTV story. On Friday, I already spoke on my Facebook page about what I think about this fabricated story and those who prepared and broadcast it. But, to put it mildly, I am surprised that “jaundice” films have begun to be shown in the State Duma. This is something new in our political arena.

In the town of Rio Rico of the Santa-Crushes of the American state of Arizona, a house has been put up for sale, in which there is not a single window, which probably takes off some problems, given that this real estate is in the desert. Konni Mogan, the daughter of the owner and author of the project of the house of Marion Rice, who recently died, assures that such a lack of any kind is even to the benefit of the house - there is still nothing to look at, but there is less heat inside.

In the Moscow region, six more cities will receive the status of historical settlements of regional significance. This is Volokolamsk, Zvenigorod, Klin, Sergiev Posad, Noginsk and Serpukhov. According to Roman Vasiliev, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Moscow Region, last year, a project of the subject and security borders of the territory of Mozhaisk was developed, documentation is being prepared for it for approval by the Moscow Region by the Government.

More than 170 citizens of Russia who fought on the side of the Islamic State terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation, died in Syria, TASS reports. Such a figure on Wednesday, September 16, was named on online meetings with the regional chambers in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation the chairman of the scientific-consultant council at the anti-terrorist center of the City Parties Marianna Kochubey.

In Britain, a campaign started, the initiators of which demanded that technological companies abandon the development of sex robots endowed with artificial intelligence, the newspaper The Independent writes. Many designers work on the creation of such robots who believe that equipping various sex dolls and toys with artificial intelligence will make them more “human” and attractive for buyers.

Dorogomilovsky court of Moscow sentenced Denis Mirzoev, a native of Chechnya, who had shot down a biker on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in May of this year. In addition, he will pay his relatives Vitaly Grishin 1.2 million rubles - despite the fact that they required compensation in the amount of 8 million rubles and five years in prison for the culprit of the tragedy.

“To the direct question: “Are we a republic?”, the average Russian will probably shrug his shoulders. As well as to the question: “Are we a federal state or a unitary one?” Isn’t everything the same, and why these formalities? Over the past couple of decades, the list of these formalities has been steadily growing, and today it seems to already include all state and public institutions and establishments. There was simply nothing real and non-camouflage left around.

The Board of Directors of the World Bank approved the allocation of a loan in the amount of $ 500 million in the framework of the project "Second Program Loan for the Development Policy of the Financial Sector" (FSDPL2), Interfax reports. "New financing will support a number of priority measures to conduct reforms in the banking sector in response to the financial crisis in Ukraine," the bank said. The agreement on this loan will be signed on Wednesday in Kyiv.