A defiantly implausible legend, a deliberately poorly removed interview - all this was done so that the world understood: “Yes, this is our guys poisoned by the Skripals. And what?" Well, they joked, and enough! The jokes in social networks were funny, an interview with tourists-entrepreneurs-too. But all this is sad. So many lies for 25 minutes of etheric time!

Former Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort made a deal with the investigation and pleaded guilty. According to Bloomberg, Manafort pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy against the United States. Reuters writes that the number of episodes of Manafort's crime was reduced from seven to two. At one of the previous meetings, he was also found guilty of tax fraud.

The publisher of Mediazona, Pyotr Verzilov, regained consciousness for the first time since his hospitalization on September 11. This is reported by Meduza with reference to Verzilov's relatives. “Petya regained consciousness. He already recognizes me and my mother. Although he is now hallucinating and delusional, the state is still agitated. But he is no longer in intensive care, and I can’t give further forecasts.

The Kremlin is discussing the transfer of the capital of the Far East from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok. According to the Dozhd TV channel, the decision can be made if the current head of the Khabarovsk Territory, Vyacheslav Shport, does not win the second round of elections. about this The TV channel was told by two sources close to the Kremlin. According to them, they do not want the main region of the district to be headed by an LDPR candidate.

The Bank of Russia raised its key rate by 0.25 percentage points to 7.5%. The Central Bank raises rates for the first time since 2014. The department's website reports that it has also decided to extend the moratorium on the purchase of foreign currency under the budget rule until the end of 2018. This ban was introduced in August due to the sharp depreciation of the ruble. Against the background of the decision of the Central Bank, the ruble goes up.

The Russian Orthodox Church suspends participation in episcopal assemblies, theological dialogues, multilateral commissions and all other structures chaired or co-chaired by representatives of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. This was stated by the head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk at a briefing after the meeting of the Synod in Moscow, Interfax reports .

The US Treasury is considering imposing sanctions against the Sukhoi company, as its aircraft could be used in chemical attacks in Syria.

The Committee of the World Doping Agency (WADA) recommended not to reinstate the rights of the Russian agency RUSADA. According to the BBC, the decision was made at the end of August. WADA believes that Russia has not fulfilled all the requirements in order to restore the powers of its anti-doping committee. Among other things, it was required to recognize the involvement of officials in fraud and to allow international experts to access certain materials from a sealed Moscow laboratory.

New traces of a drill were found on the skin of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to the ISS. The screen of the anti-meteor protection was damaged. This was told to TASS by a source in the aerospace industry. According to him, this screen shows the state of the ship from the outside and is installed 15 mm from the pressurized hull. The traces of the drill on it were found after they studied the pictures taken by the astronauts after the discovery of the first damage.

Russian agents may have been monitoring the Swiss laboratory Spiez, which deals with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. According to the Swiss edition Tages Anzeiger, the men were detained in the Netherlands during a special operation and sent home. Law enforcement authorities confirmed the information about the operation, saying that they managed to prevent the threat to the "critical infrastructure" of Switzerland.

Yabloko Chairman Emilia Slabunova appealed to Vladimir Putin with a demand to dismiss the head of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov. The reason was that the official challenged opposition leader Alexei Navalny to a duel.

TheBellingcat and The Insider claim they have confirmed the involvement of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, suspected by Britain in the poisoning of the Skripals, to the Russian special services A joint investigation by The Bellingcat and The Insider has confirmed that Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, suspected by Britain of poisoning the Skripals, are indeed members of the Russian intelligence services, the authors claim.

A resident of Ivanovo became a defendant in a criminal case for failure to report a crime. He did not tell law enforcement about his friend who is fighting in Iraq and Syria. According to Interfax, citing the regional department of the FSB, the 21-year-old man communicated with a friend on social networks and found out that he was taking part in terrorist activities in Iraq and Syria. The young man did not go anywhere about this.

The Bank of Russia decided to raise the key rate by 0.25 percentage points to 7.5% per annum “Changes in external conditions that have occurred since the previous meeting of the Board of Directors have significantly increased pro-inflationary risks.

The head of VTB Andrey Kostin spoke about the plan to abandon the US currency. In an interview with Izvestia , he said that the plan consisted of four points. Accelerated transition in settlements with foreign countries on export-import transactions to other currencies - euro, yuan or ruble. Transfer of legal addresses of the largest Russian holdings to our jurisdiction.