The Construction Committee of St. Petersburg announced a competition for the reconstruction of the building of the Center for Contemporary Art named after Sergei Kurekhin on Middle Avenue of Vasilyevsky Island. Work should end by the end of 2017. The project, developed by the VIPS design bureau, provides for the building of the building up to three floors and the arrangement of the terrace.

The Canadian art rocker Viet Cong has announced its intention to change the name of the team after a flurry of criticism and cancellation of the concert in the American city Oberlin (Ohio). The musicians reported this on their page on the social network Facebook . The message notes that, choosing the name of the team, the musicians did not plan to arrange any provocations or harm anyone.

In Moscow, they launched the "Do not park the child" information campaign, designed to remind parents that young children should not be thrown alone in a parked car. The campaign implies the placement of posters on the streets of Moscow and in the subway, notification in shopping centers, flash mobs and much more, TASS reports.

At least 54 people became victims of a series of explosions in the city of Maiduguri in the northeast of Nigeria. Initially, 8 dead were reported. In addition, about 90 people were injured. According to Reuters with reference to the local military, three explosions thundered in total. One of the bombs was laid in the main mosque of the village.

Analysis of the results of a survey of heads of 6.6 thousand construction organizations conducted by Rosstat in the II quarter of 2015 revealed a slight improvement in the vast majority of the main operating indicators characterizing the state of the business climate in the industry. This is stated in a review prepared by the Higher School of Economics (HSE).

The permanent leader of the Aquarium Boris Grebenshchikov twice exceeded the plan to raise funds to record the new album. The required 3 million rubles were collected on the Craundfanding Planet platform in a little more than more than more than more than more than more than more than more And according to the results of three weeks, the amount of donations exceeded 6.1 million rubles.

At a meeting with the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov announced the idea of ​​preparing a macro-proprietary scenario for 2016. The “most negative scenario” of falling oil prices in 2016 will be taken as the basis: up to 35-40 dollars per barrel. The government plans to tell Putin about its proposals on the forecast and budget on September 22, RBC reports with reference to sources in the government.

The American military leadership, after Crimea was annexed to the Russian Federation, again began to develop probable scenarios for the development of the situation in the world, taking into account the fact that Russia will be the aggressor. Foreign Policy magazine learned that in the Pentagon have already drawn up several plans for the capture of the Baltic territories, which, according to Washington, are the most suitable goals for the Russian Federation.

Photos of the largest sailing yacht in the world, known as Super Superior "A", have become the public. A vessel worth more than 260 million pounds was built by the Russian billionaire, co -owner of the Eurochem Andrei Melnichenko at the shipyard of the Nobiskrug shipbuilding company in Germany, writes the British tabloid The Daily Mail . On Monday, the yacht left the keel bay for the first test swimming.

A documentary about the events on the Maidan in 2013-2014 became the winner of the International Film Festival in Toronto (TIFF), receiving a prize of spectator sympathies in the documentary cinema category. This was reported on the website of the film festival. The documentary of the director Yevgeny Athenaevsky entitled "Winter in the Fire" (the full name is "Winter in fire: the struggle of Ukraine for freedom") - joint production of the United States, Great Britain and Ukraine.

The Bank of Russia extends anti -crisis measures for banks until January 1, 2016, including a preferential currency exchange rate for calculating standards. This, as reports RIA Novosti , said on Monday the chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina at a government meeting with President Vladimir Putin. “Decisions were made to mitigate banking regulation so that our banking system was adapted.

In Buryatia, the last forest fires are extinguished in the Eravninsky, Tarbagatai and Barguzinsky districts for a total area of ​​about 4.5 thousand hectares. This was reported by the press service of the Republican Forestry Agency. In the territory of the Irkutsk region, it was also possible to cope with the fire element: not a single forest fire was registered in the region on Monday, September 21, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies said.

Relatives of the killed in 2010 in the village of Kushchevskaya by the gang of Sergei Tsapka will receive monetary compensation in the amount of 250 million rubles. This amount is five and a half times less than the one that the victims in the Mass Murder case indicated in their claims. In March 2015, it was reported that relatives of the dead filed claims for compensation for moral and material damage in the amount of about 1.4 billion rubles. In total, 12 people went to court.

The City Court of Vyborg sentenced Vladimir Lapin and Dmitry Rodionov, who, according to investigators, sold firearms to members of Bourn (combat organization of Russian nationalists), by three years and three months in prison. Another defendant in the case Igor Seleznev received three years and four months of the colony. All defendants fully pleaded guilty, and the criminal case against them was considered in a special manner without researching evidence, Mediazon reports.

“They say that someone is trying to “rehabilitate” this or that historical era. In this case, we are talking about the 90s. The eras that we personally lived through can neither be rehabilitated nor blamed. The only adequate perception of any era is both objective and subjective. My parents, whose youth was in the 30s, remembered them as both scary and happy. Scary, I can see why.