On the morning of September 11, the most large-scale military exercises in the modern history of the country, called Vostok-2018 , started in Russia, which involved about 300 thousand military personnel, 36 thousand tanks, armored personnel carriers and infantry combat vehicles, more than a thousand aircraft and helicopters and about a hundred ships.

Michel Barnier, the chief negotiator on the European Union, stated that the agreement on the conditions of Britain’s exit from the EU can be reached in the next six to eight weeks - by the beginning of November. The announcement of the optimistic prospects for concluding a transaction last Monday has already led to an increase in the funnel course by 0.8% in relation to the dollar.

The first Russian holder of the title of the Absolute Fighting Championship (UFC) Khabib Nurmagomedov harshly answered the singers Timati and Yegor Creed to criticize in his address. The fighter supported the decision to cancel Creed's concert in Makhachkala, and the artists turned to him on social networks. “Each creature will answer for its words, I just don’t have it to you, and if someone doesn’t like my calls, you can not answer them.

The Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova appealed to the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova and the head of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fedotov with a request to assist in organizing an examination of director Oleg Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike in a Russian colony for the 121st day , an independent medical commission. “I received terrible news again.

Forward of the Russian national football team and St. Petersburg “Zenith” Artem Dzyuba received the “Person of the Year” award according to GQ magazine . “The forward of the Russian national team, thanks to his goals, speeches (“Guys, I love you!”) and gestures (a textbook salute to the coach), turned into a living symbol of the World Cup, eclipsing all contenders for the title “Man of the Year” - even the wolf Zabivaka,” notes edition. Last year, rapper Basta was chosen as GQ's Man of the Year.

The remains of 1111 victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York in 2001 remain unidentified. Over the past five years, specialists managed to identify the individuals of the next five dead. The victims of September 11, 2001 during the destruction of buildings of the World Commercial Center as a result of the al-Qaeda terrorist attack* became 2753 people, including those who were missing and presumably dead. Only 1642, or about 60%, are identified to date, reports Reuters.

Two theater employees were detained in Iran over a production of William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. The fact is that in the comedy, women dance next to men, which is prohibited by the laws of a Muslim country. Director Mariam Kazemi and theater manager Saeed Assadi were detained on September 9 after publishing a video on the Internet showing work on the production, The Guardian reports, citing the Irna agency.

A whole flurry of indignation on the network was caused by a photograph of the actress Ingeborg Dapkunaite, published by her on September 7 on Instagram .

In the poisoning of the ex-colonel of GRU Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia in the British Salisbury, in addition to the two suspects of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, another four people participated. All six were part of a group called "Cleaners".

Boris Vishnevsky “The second consecutive previously agreed rally against “pension robbery” in St. Petersburg on Lenin Square near the Finlyandsky Station is in danger of being disrupted. The official version is due to a pipe break in the square and the need for repair work,” writes a member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg on his Facebook page.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is developing a bill providing for the introduction of a temporary passport for stateless persons. This was announced in an interview with Interfax by the head of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Olga Kirillova.

State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, who voted against pension reform on July 19, now risks losing the post of Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Security and Combating Corruption. Such a measure is threatened with colleagues in the United Russia faction.

The duration of the summer shutdown of hot water can be reduced to three days in a year, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation Andrei Chibis said in an interview with Kommersant . According to him, in a number of large sections of several cities it has already been possible to reduce the time for turning off hot water to three days.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, during a meeting with the US Ambassador on Special Orders on International Religious Freedom, Samuel Braunbek discussed steps to create a Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox Church. "President Poroshenko introduced the Brownbek ambassador to the steps that are carried out in the way of creating the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

The head coach of the Czech Football team Karel Yarolim was resigned in connection with the unsatisfactory results of the team. According to the press service of the football association of the Czech Republic (FACR), the name of the new mentor will be announced later. “The situation is insolvent and should be resolved immediately,” TASS quoted the head of FACR Martin Malik.