On September 29, three government departments at once - the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Federal Antimonopoly Service - proposed in 2017 to significantly reduce the price of vodka. So elections are coming soon. If the government wanted to reduce male mortality, it would do exactly the opposite: it would lower the excise tax on beer and raise vodka. Vodka has long played a big role in Russian politics and economy.

The government is considering selling it to Rosneft without bidding as one of the options for privatizing Bashneft, Kommersant reports. According to the publication, the Cabinet of Ministers is discussing two options for the privatization of the state stake in Bashneft. The first assumes that VTB Capital's investment adviser will interview applicants for a package within a week and find out how much they are willing to pay for it.

Sometimes the word of truth is more expensive than gold, and sometimes gold - on the contrary, silence. Examples of speeches that it was not worth pronouncing, and words that should be said, collected The New Times Dear pleasures The deputies - now elected deputies - were suffered during the campaign: I had to think through every word so as not to offend voters and not to angry the bosses. Fortunately, all this is in the past, and there are five years to talk, without thinking about anything.

Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the mechanism of autophagy, TASS reports. Osumi gained fame for his research on the process of autophagy - the destruction of intracellular debris and rejuvenation. In 1993, Osumi was the first in the world to discover the genes that are responsible for the process of autophagy. Yoshinori Osumi was born in 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1974.

The Russian military campaign in Syria is a year. What do we have? On September 30, it has been exactly a year since the moment the first squadron of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) flew out to carry out a combat mission in Syria.

Since October 5, Vyacheslav Volodin is a new speaker of the State Duma.

On September 29, the prosecutor’s office, at the request of the Penza lawyer Yevgeny Moiseev, checked the article by Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov, in which the latter compared atheists with the “circus bears”. According to the prosecutor's office, the text contains a “negative attitude towards atheists” and the statement about the “advantage of Orthodox Christians in front of them”. In principle, this is a corpus delicti.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine denies that Ukrainian Roman Sushchenko, detained by the FSB in Russia on charges of espionage, is its employee. The press service of the department also stated that "in every citizen of Ukraine who is on the territory of the Russian Federation, the Russian special services see a spy." The Ukrinform agency, where Sushchenko works, reports that he disappeared after going to Russia to visit relatives.

The meeting was scheduled for 10 am, but it started much later - a crowd of journalists was not allowed into the court building for a long time. Foreign journalists, poorly understanding what was happening, asked their Russian colleagues why the bailiffs were shouting and pushing everyone away from the frames.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree suspending an agreement with the United States on the disposal of weapons-grade plutonium. The corresponding document was published on the official portal of legal information.

The blogger Anton Nosik, who threatens two years in prison for extremism, in his last word, remembered the trial of Stalin's times, criticized the prosecution and thanked the court "for a long time spent on this simple case." The New Times publishes the main theses from the speech of the nose “On one case from Soviet history”: “The arrest of economist Nikolai Ivanov happened in those days when the Molotov -Ribbentrop Pact still acted, according to which the parties pledged to stop hostile

The Boeing Malaysia Airlines is shot down by the Earth-Air Class Rocket, released from the ZRK-RAM (air defense system) of Bukhi. The rocket is launched from a territory controlled by the Donbass separatists. The murder gun of 298 people, including 80 children, was brought from Russia and after less than a day sent back.

Summer calm unexpectedly turned into autumn troubles: the government, back in June, confident that everything is fine with the budget, discusses alternative options for the already ready - and very tough - budget and possible increase in taxes.

July 21, 2014 . Four days after the catastrophe of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, he publishes satellite photographs and other images from which it follows: Boeing is shot down either by a Ukrainian missile or a Ukrainian fighter.

The story of the struggle against the exhibition of Jok Rodes in dates and quotes September 8. In Moscow, in the center of the brothers Lumier, an exhibition of American Joka Rodges opened. The event does not cause any excitement. September 12th. NT is one of the first to publish material about the exhibition ( see the article “Naked People” in No. 29 ). September 24, 11:00.