Human rights activists from the Zone of Law for five days of the federal “hot line” accepted 50 complaints from 20 regions of Russia about coercive school settings for the needs of educational institutions. In particular, the leadership of schools requires students' parents for textbooks, workbooks, protection and cleaning of the premises.

Sergey Parkhomenko “About the memorial sign on Malaya Ordynka, where Boris Nemtsov lived. Tonight he disappeared from his place, and the mayor’s office has absolutely nothing to do with it,” the journalist writes on his Facebook page. “The sign was taken down by people from the SERB group, and their leader was Igor Brumel , a former municipal deputy of the Zamoskvorechye district. This Brumel cruelly blew the elections on Sunday, the residents of the district pushed him out of the deputies.

Experts from Palo Alto Networks have discovered a vulnerability in the Android mobile operating system that allows them to seize full control of a device, install applications on it that attackers need, or disable it. As CNews explains, the attack described by experts is a variation of the attack called “Cloak and Dagger,” which was described this spring by specialists from the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in Russia on charges of terrorism, was transferred from pre -trial detention center N1 in Irkutsk in Chelyabinsk, Interfax reports with reference to the Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) of the Irkutsk region. Nothing is known about the reasons for the translation of Sentsov.

The International Union of Skatytsy (ISU) plans radical changes in figure skating, aimed at achieving the best balance between artistry and technology. This was reported by the Iceenetwork portal with reference to the head of the committee on single and paired skiing Fabio Bianchechetti. According to the official, the reforms will help to return this sport to the former popularity that has recently been declining.

North Korean hackers attack the South Korean exchanges of cryptocurrencies, stealing bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, which are believed to help the Kim Jong -un regime to survive the UN sanctions, Bloomberg reports with reference to the study of the American company Fireye Inc.. Cryptocurrencies are interested in the North Korean dictator because they are not adjusted, which makes them a convenient tool for laundering money and a way to get cash.

In October last year, the social network VKonakte, which celebrated its tenth birthday, announced a joint project with Roscosmos, within which it was planned to send a spacebot to the ISS, designed to communicate between users of the social network and the ISS crew. It was then assumed that the robot, named Spotty, would go into space this spring, but the date was postponed. Now Mail.ru Group, which owns the social network, has announced that Spotty will fly into orbit in October.

The European Union does not recognize the elections in Crimea and Sevastopol on September 10. This is stated in a statement by a representative of the European foreign affairs service published on the organization’s website. "The European Union did not recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia and therefore does not recognize the elections on the Crimean Peninsula.

Four of China’s largest bank controlled by the state stop servicing citizens and organizations of North Korea, including the opening of new accounts, Reuters reports. True, some senior employees of these banks with whom the agency talked are not sure that the restricted restrictions will be carefully executed.

Rosneft filed five claims to the Moscow Arbitration Court of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). Oil state -owned companies disputes the orders of the department for the procurement of pipe products, TASS reports. The amount of purchases in the amount of more than 52 billion rubles was called.

The director and screenwriter of the original “guards of the Galaxy” and the sequel James Gann published this year made it clear that the third and final part of the franchise should be expected in 2020. The new film will be dedicated to Raccate Rocket. “We will learn something new about the rocket, but its story will be slightly different from the comics. We already know who he is and where he came from.

The general director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin in the near future intends to discuss the fate of the premiere of the Nureyev ballet with his director Kirill Serebrennikov, who is under house arrest on charges of fraud with state funds for a total amount of 68 million rubles. “In early September, I asked the IC of Russia with a request to allow me to meet with Cyril. I talked on the phone with the investigator, and he said that he was ready to allow, I sent an official request.

Sberbank explained that nothing has changed in serving the bank cards. Changing the status of cards from a debit to an overdraft, i.e., allowing overrun for funds and automatic provision of a loan, in a mobile application is dictated exclusively by technical necessity, the Vedomosti newspaper reports.

“A large Moscow cinema chain refused to show the film “Matilda” because it cannot guarantee the safety of its viewers,” writes Elena Zelinskaya, president of the All-Russian public organization of media workers “MediaSoyuz”, on her Facebook page. “It always seemed to me that the cinema network is the last organization that should care about our safety.

For six months, the number of loans with signs of fraud was 525.9 thousand. Compared to the second half of 2016, this indicator decreased by 15.1%, but in relation to the same period in 2016 - increased by more than a third (+34.4%), the National Bureau of credit stories (NBBA) reports . Loans with signs of fraud are usually called loans for which not a single payment was made within three months from the date of issuance.