On September 12, Frankfurt-on-Maine for the general public opened the International Motor Show IAA (International Automobil-ausstellung). Unlike previous years, it presents mainly compact models and electric cars. In addition, recently, the entertainment at the car dealership is much less than before - much more attention is paid to the environmental friendliness of new models.

“As part of the fake” case of laundering, the security forces are probably conducting the most large -scale police operation against the opposition today - searches in Navalny’s headquarters and their activists at home, ”Russian political scientist Kirill Rogov writes on his Facebook . "Searches are held in almost 40 cities, approximately 150 addresses with the participation of at least 1000 law enforcement officials. All fake business on washing for 82 million rubles.

A teacher of mathematics at the Moscow Financial and Legal Academy and programmer Dmitry Bogatov wrote in his telegram channel that he left Russia a year ago, is in the United States and was not going to return. He actually connected his departure with repressions and the war unleashed by the state against civil society. At the same time, Bogatov is pessimistic and believes that "the war has already been lost" and it will not be possible to change the political regime.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg registered a lawsuit from self-nominated in the municipal elections of Anastasia Kolb, who asks to cancel the results of the vote in the Smolninsky district in the central district of the city. As the United press service of the courts of St. Petersburg said on Thursday, the reason for submitting the application was the Smart Voting project, which, according to the plaintiff, is campaign.

"It is obvious that the unprecedented mass searches for Navalny's supporters - revenge for" smart voting ". But did these elections seriously change something? Most still have the same (OSB) of the Ross. Yes, and the" opposition "deputies who supported Navalny are mainly quite loyal to the regime. What is the case for him then?", The question of his Facebook sociologist.

The First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov criticized the assessment of the head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin regarding the prospects of the Russian economy, voiced during the Moscow Financial Forum. In particular, Kudrin doubted the forecasts of the Ministry of Economic Development on GDP growth, TASS reports. According to Kudrin, in 2019 you can count on GDP growth of 1%, and in 2020 - 1-1.3%.

The Twitter social network administration on Thursday blocked the accounts of the Communist Party of Cuba and the first secretary of its Central Committee (Central Committee) Raul Castro, Reuters reports. The daughter of the politician Mariela Castro, who is the director of the National Center for Sexual Education of Cuba, was also blocked.

The former world champion in the versions of the World Boxing Association (WBA) and the International Boxing Federation (IBF) in the weight category up to 90.71 kg, Russian Denis Lebedev can resume his sports career to stop the winning series of the Congolez Ilungi Makabu. Lebedev announced the completion of a boxer’s career in July at the age of 39. He planned to engage in political activities and "do big and small good deeds for his country," as well as provide support for sports and boxing.

A well-known scientist from Izhevsk, director of the Human Institute of the Udmurt State University, Albert Razin, committed self-immolation on the steps of the State Council of the Republic, protesting against the abolition of the compulsory study of the languages ​​of indigenous peoples of Russia in secondary schools. One of his posters read: “And if tomorrow my tongue disappears, then I am ready to die today.” As the SerpomPo telegram channel writes, “official comments are stingy.

The 21-year-old Student of the Higher School of Economics, Egor Zhukov, against whom a criminal case was instituted on the calls to extremism via the Internet after the protest on July 27, was included in the list of extremists and Rosfinmonitoring terrorists, MBH Media reports. This means blocking bank accounts and some other restrictions.

Roman Popkov "In connection with the carrier history of the deputy of Solovyov , the spoiler, the one -fan, who won the MGD elections, remembered one of his old publication -recall - about the election of the governor in my small homeland, in the Bryansk region in 2000. I will publish it again - just because it is ridiculous and beautiful," writes the journalist and human rights activist Roman Popkov on his own Facebook page.

The European Union extended for six months individual restrictive measures in relation to 170 individuals and 44 legal entities of Russia and Ukraine. This is stated in the statement of the EU Council, widespread in Brussels. It is quoted by TASS. "The Council extended restrictive measures in relation to actions that undermine or threaten territorial integrity, the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine for another six months, until March 15, 2020, it is noted in it.

In five regions, where the governor’s elections were held on September 8, their winners received more votes than Vladimir Putin in the presidential election in 2018 in the same territories. This follows from the data given in the report of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation, which is quoted by Vedomosti .

The Russian anthropomorphic robot Fedor (Skybot F-850) , returning to Earth on September 7 after unsuccessful days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), will not fly anywhere else , but its place in space will not be vacant long. Already in 2020, Russia will begin to collect prototypes of the new Russian TeleDroid robot, which will be able to perform work on the ISS in outer space.

The United States received reliable reconnaissance data, indicating that Russia has been testing the Burevetnik winged missile with nuclear power planting at least five times, and all these launches ended with accidents. All missile tests have been carried out since 2017. The longest flight took only about two minutes - the rocket flew 22 kilometers, after which the control was lost, and it collapsed.