US Defense Secretary James Mattis, having arrived in Macedonia on an official visit on Monday, September 17, demanded that Russia abandon attempts to influence the results of the upcoming referendum on an agreement with Greece on the new name of the country and on the issue of its accession to NATO and the European Union, reports Reuters. The head of the Pentagon visited Skopje for the first time in 14 years.

"All -powerful and ubiquitous intelligence services is one of the most amazing myths in which the state made us believe. They say that solid professionals work in the special services - they can find out anything, listen to anyone. And even kill anyone, with an injection of an poisonous substance that leaves no traces. And then dissolve in the morning fog," - writes Publicist in his Telegram channel .

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova decided to complete the current season ahead of schedule, having escaped from competitions in Beijing, Tianjin and Moscow. This was announced on Twitter by New York Times Ben Rotenberg. According to him, the athlete plans to return to the court only in early 2019. “Maria Sharapova ends the 2018 season,” the journalist wrote . “She withdrew from tournaments in Beijing, Tianjin and Moscow to relax and restore strength.

The solar observatory in the city of Sanspot, New Mexico, closed with the participation of FBI agents on September 6, will resume work on Monday. It is reported by the local publication Alamogordo Daily News . It was not previously reported the reasons for the hasty closure of the observatory, which gave rise to the theory about the intervention of aliens and the concealment of information about a disastrous flash in the sun among lovers of conspiracyology.

The Bank of Russia revoked the license to carry out banking operations from Kostroma Aksonbank as of September 17, according to the Central Bank website . At the same time, the regulator notified of the appointment of a temporary administration in Aksonbank until the appointment of a bankruptcy trustee or liquidator. The Central Bank notes that the main direction of Aksonbank was the financing of wholesale and retail organizations related to the business of its owner.

The editor -in -chief of the Life.ru portal Alexei Potapov and the general director of the company that owned by this portal Anatoly Suleimanov announced their dismissal. On Monday, Potapov wrote about leaving Life.ru on his page on the Facebook network, explaining such a decision with the abolition of restarting the updated Life.ru platform, announced about a month ago. “The shareholders decided to leave everything as it is. This is their right,” said Potapov.

The leadership of the Japanese city of Sapporo informed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that it had withdrawn its bid to host the 2026 Winter Games. According to the IOC press service, the city aims to host the Winter Olympics in 2030. The plans of the city leadership were changed by the earthquake that occurred on the island of Hokkaido in early September. In 1972, the Winter Olympic Games were already held in Sapporo.

“Well, as always, the fool does, whatever he does, he does everything wrong.” In the midst of a grandiose scandal with falsification of the elections in Primorye, the Russian Ministry of Defense suddenly crawls out (which has just become largely screwed up with the “spies of the GRU” in England) and begins to bleed something about the “Ukrainian missile” in the steppes in the steppes in the Donbass, which seemed to have “knocked down boobs”. writes a social psychologist in the "Live Journal" .

The period of prolonged summer heat in Moscow will end next week, after September 23. However, calling it Indian summer is incorrect, since no serious cold snap was observed in the capital in September. “At the beginning of next week, a decrease in pressure and a change in atmospheric circulation will begin, which will provoke a cold snap.

The Argentine judge Claudio Bonadio opened a case against the Senator and ex-president Christina Ferenades de Kirschner on charges of corruption. He also asks to deprive her of parliamentary inviolability for detention, reports Todo Noticias . The former head of state was charged with a “criminal collusion” leadership in order to receive bribes, TASS reports.

In the city of Mednogorsk and in the Kuvandyk city district of the Orenburg region on Monday, an emergency regime was introduced in connection with the fire of dry grass. There are four foci of fire: in the area of ​​the settlements of Rysaevo, Sarbaevo, Idelbaevo, between the village of Idelbaevo and Mednogorsky. In some settlements, the evacuation of the population has passed or continues.

The Swiss commune of Rheinau (canton of Zurich) with a population of 1,300 people will take part in an unusual experiment. Each village resident who agrees to participate in the project will receive 2,500 Swiss francs (2,215 euros) monthly free of charge for a year. The newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung writes about this. 848 people have already agreed to become the subject of the study. The project, initiated by director Rebecca Panian, is aimed at exploring human behavior.

In the evening of September 16, it became known about the new poisoning in Salisbury. This time two visitors to the Italian restaurant - a man and a woman suffered. According to some data, they are both Russians, according to others - only one of them. The local police unequivocally claims that the nervous paralytic poison of the Novice, which was poisoned by the ex-colonel of the GRU Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia, and follow them, two British in Eimsbury were not involved here.

Olympic champion Alina Zagitova in an interview with the press service of the figure skating of Russia (FFCKR) admitted that she did not give free rein to emotions after winning at the Games in Pyeongchang because of Evgenia Medvedeva, which became the second there. The champion did not want to hurt the feelings of the partner on the command, as she saw that she tried very hard to conquer gold.

The famous football agent Dmitry Selyuk, who was engaged in the transfers of the Ivoarian Yay Ture and Andrei Arshavin, accused the head coach of the Wings of the Soviets Andrei Tikhonov of racism and intolerance to black football players. After the Saturday devastating Volzhan, in an exit meeting with the Tula Arsenal (0: 4), Selyuk unpleasantly commented on the work of the wings mentor on social networks. Arsenal - Wings of the Soviets - 4: 0.