The Canadian sports television channel TSN published a rating of the best players of the upcoming season of the National Hockey League (NHL). The best of the Russians is the forward of Pittsburgh Evgeny Malkin, who takes fourth place. Immediately behind him, on the fifth line, the striker "Tampa-Bay" Nikita Kucherov is located, Sport-Express reports.

The voice of the deputy and world-famous physicist Zhores Alferov, who received a seat in parliament on the lists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, was taken into account against his will as submitted for a project on changes to pension legislation. This happened due to the curious awkwardness of his fellow party member, who accidentally touched the voting button with a bottle of water, Vedomosti writes.

US intelligence agencies yesterday arrested Chinese citizen Ji Chaoqun in Chicago, Illinois, on charges of espionage. "Ji Chaoqun, a 27-year-old Chinese national residing in Chicago, was arrested today in Chicago on charges of allegedly operating in the United States as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China," the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.

On October 1, Samsung will launch a program for Russian users, in which the flagship smartphones Galaxy S9, S9+ and Note 9 can be leased. With the help of this program, the company wants to expand the audience of users of flagship devices and speed up their replacement, they write Vedomosti . As the representative of Samsung told the publication Elena Kruchina, the leasing program participants will be able to get smartphones in Samsung stores.

The 81 -year -old black comedian Bill Cosbeis, found by the guilty court of jury in April 2018 in the rape case, was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of three to ten years, although he threatened him up to 30 years of imprisonment - 10 years for each criminal case. In 2004, Cosby, according to the investigation, pumped up drugs of the former administrator of the Basketball team of the Temple University of Pennsylvania Andrea Constand, and then raped it.

The capital's authorities have summed up the results of the international architectural and urban planning competition for the development of concepts for five experimental sites for the renovation of the housing stock in Moscow, Interfax reports.

The human rights activist Zoya Svetova received a message from the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov on Wednesday, who was convicted in Russia for terrorism and holds a hunger strike in the colony for 136 days. The text of the letter of Oleg Sentsov Zoya Svetova published on a page on Facebook. “Thanks to those people who still, despite this prolonged endless marathon, continue to support me, and most importantly and all the other Ukrainian political prisoners,” Sentsov writes.

Over the eight months of this year, traffic police officers drew up 20% more administrative protocols for drivers for violations of traffic rules than during the same period last year. As TASS reports, this was announced by Acting Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Road Safety Organization Alexander Bykov during the round table “Administrative responsibility as part of the road safety system.

The news agency The Insider and the Bellingcat site managed to establish the identity of one of the "Salisbury Tourists" , who uses the pseudonym Ruslan Boshirov and is accused by British investigators of poisoning Sergei Skripal and his daughter. According to the conclusions of the authors of a journalistic investigation, Colonel GRU and the newly -minted Hero of Russia Anatoly Chepiga, for Boshirova.

On September 26, a law came into force in Russia that introduces fines for Internet search engines for issuing links to prohibited sites. The law, which is a package of amendments to the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO), was signed by the president at the end of June.

The Chairman of the CEC of Russia Ella Pamfilova said that the head of Khakassia Viktor Zimin will have to pay the costs of transferring the second round of the governor's elections if he does not provide a good reason for refusing him. She added that two million rubles will be required to transfer the second round of elections in Khakassia. “The Governor of Khakassia Zimin literally refused at the very last moment ...

The American chips manufacturer for mobile devices, Qualcomm, accused Apple of theft of a large volume of confidential information about its modems and the transfer of its Intel company, whose modems are also used in Apple devices. This was announced by the CNBC channel with reference to the materials of the lawsuit filed by Qualcomm to the court of San Diego (California).

Representatives of the Secretariat of the 39th session of the Council of Human Rights of the UN tried to prevent the use of the word "Crimea" in reports of Russian human rights activists. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the head of the working group on international legal issues with the Presidential President Alexander Molokhov. The day before, Molokhov made a report on the UN site in which he paid attention to the "Crimean sanctions" from Washington, Brussels and Kyiv.

In Makhachkala, the chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture, Youth Affairs, Sports and Tourism of the People’s Assembly of Dagestan Rajab Abdulatipov, the brother of the ex -head of the Republic of Ramazan Abdulatipova, was detained. "He was detained and delivered to the Republican FSB," TASS said a source in the power structures of Dagestan. In addition, about the detention of Rajab Abdulatipov writes RBC with reference to a source in the government.

Official sales of the iPhone XS and XS Max smartphones presented by Apple on September 12 in Russia will begin on Friday, September 28. Without waiting for this day, Apple fans who are ready to purchase smartphones at prices ranging from 88 to 128 thousand rubles began forming a queue at the re:Store on Tverskaya Street on Monday. As RIAMO reported the day before, several dozen people lined up outside the store on Tuesday, and new arrivals were added to a special list.