Every fifth Russian (20%), or about half of those whose labor is officially paid, would give a positive response to the employer's proposal to issue part of the salary with "gray" money. This is evidenced by the survey of the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM).

In addition to preparing a joint “Venus-D” mission with the United States, Russia plans to send its own mission to the second planet from the Sun. This was announced on September 15, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. “We have a topic for the resumption of Venus’s research. Firstly, it is, together with the Americans, the Venus-D project. We are also considering a separate mission to Venus. We believe that Venus is a Russian planet, so there is nothing to lag behind.

Airlines are asking the Federal Air Transport Agency to allow them to fly to countries that are still closed to international passenger messages. Znak.com found reports about this on the department’s website. The received requests will be considered by the Interdepartmental Commission of the Federal Air Transport Agency at the correspondence meeting on September 17. This is the first such meeting after the introduction of restrictive measures due to the pandemic of coronavirus.

The insurance company Alfastrakhovania introduced the rating of the most steady cars in Russia in March-August 2020. The models of the machines included in it were sorted by the frequency of theft (the ratio of the number of stolen machines to the total number of cars insured according to the CASCO of this model). According to the company, Toyota became the leader in the number of theft - two models of the Japanese brand, RAV4 (14%) and Camry (13%), occupied the first lines of the rating.

The American company GMC (part of the General Motors concern) announced that the official presentation of an electric SUV under the Hummer brand will be held on October 20. The company also published a short video dedicated to the novelty on its YouTube channel. Judging by the video, the car will receive the "crab mode" in which the electric Hummer will be able to move diagonally due to the simultaneous rotation of all four wheels.

Russia opens the border with South Ossetia, and also removes coronavirus restrictions on entry into the country and departure from it for some specialists. The corresponding order was signed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Restrictions are removed for crew members of sea and river vessels located in Russian ports. They can use road, air, rail and sea transport for movement.

Microsoft released the results of the two-year testing of the underwater data center, which were held in Scotland as part of the NATICK project. This was reported on the Microsoft blog . Recall that in 2015, Microsoft successfully experienced the first prototype of the underwater data center. Then a relatively small cylinder with one server counter was placed at the bottom off the coast of California and worked a little more than a hundred days.

In the capital of the barge with a lifting crane, the Crimean bridge touched and tore off the metal rail, along which the observation cradle moves. The Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office began a check on this fact. The accident occurred at about 6 in the morning on September 15, Interfax reports. No one was injured. The bearing structures of the bridge are not touched. According to prosecutors, the metal rail touched the inappropriate mast of the barge crane.

The Saratov Regional Court justified the local resident Aslim Salimov, previously sentenced to 7.5 years in colony for the murder of her husband who had attacked her. This was reported on the court website . In June, Salimov was found guilty of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm that resulted in death (part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). As the regional court established, in the evening of August 31, 2019, the husband Salimova returned home drunk.

The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the lawsuit of the film company "Phenomenon Filmz", which asked to oblige the Ministry of Culture to issue rental certificates to the films of the Dau project, director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. This was told by the project representative in Russia Daria Vioolina, whose words are quoted by Interfax . “Today, the Moscow Arbitration Court voiced only the effective part of its decision. The court promised to voice the motivating part of its decision later.

The former chairman of the Finance Committee of the Vyborg District of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Bracaevsky, arrested the day before, said that he spent part of the stolen money for employment at the Moscow City Hall. Branduevsky takes place in criminal cases of fraud on an especially large scale and an official forgery, the administration of the Vyborg region was recognized as a victim on them. He has already been dismissed in connection with the loss of confidence, Interfax reports.

The Kazakhstani fighter of mixed martial arts (MAA) Kuat Hamitov was taken to the Alma-Ata police for calls for riots against the background of reinforcement of measures to prevent coronaviral infection in the country. In the video published on social networks, Kuat called for beaten with stones and sticks of disinfectors, "poisoning people", as well as shooting from the machine guns at helicopters, which, according to the athlete, spray coronavirus.

A criminal case was opened against the former Russian national team football player Roman Shirokov under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on intentionally causing easy harm to health. This was reported by the Izvestia newspaper with reference to the lawyer of the athlete Vadim Lyalin. The punishment under this article provides for a fine, mandatory or correctional labor for a period of up to one year, as well as arrest for up to four months.

A group of foreign lawyers prepares documents to bring the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko accountable in the International Court of The Hague. This was stated on his YouTube channel an unregistered presidential candidate Valery Temprin. We are talking about the actions of the security forces regarding protesters in the first days after the presidential election on August 9. Tsepkino noted that now there is a collection of evidence and testimonies of injured citizens.

The leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya published a column in the Washington Post , which expressed the conviction that Alexander Lukashenko’s regime was short -lived, and reported the steps that the opposition intends to make his defeat. Among them - the continuation of mass rallies, the boycott of the state apparatus and official media, as well as the search for support from the world community. "Belarusians are united in an unprecedented mass movement for democracy.