In Moscow, on the Vorobyevs Mountains, pictures-candidates are presented to the talismans of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Sport-Express reports . The action took place as part of the international festival "Circle of Light". Talismans are offered to make a tiger, wolf or cat. Immediately after the presentation on the FIFA website, the All -Russian vote at the choice of the talisman started . It will end on October 21.

Photo: Anna Bessarabova / "New Gazeta" Agrariev of the Krasnodar Territory, participating in the tractor march, was invited to Moscow to meet with the President of Russia. The plans were changed on the spot: so far instead of Putin with farmers there were members of the HRC, representatives of the regional administration and already on Friday, September 23, a meeting at the Ministry of Agriculture took place.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia is preparing a resolution for the UN Security Council to combat the ideology of terrorists, . RIA Novosti reports According to the minister, there should be no room for double standards in the fight against terrorism. “A truly universal pooling of efforts is required here in the interests of forming a broad anti-terrorist front,” the Foreign Minister said.

Photo: Anna Bessarabova / "New Gazeta" Agrariev of the Krasnodar Territory, participating in the tractor march, was invited to Moscow to meet with the President of Russia. The plans were changed on the spot: so far instead of Putin with farmers, members of the HRC, representatives of the regional administration and already on Friday, September 23, said, - a meeting at the Ministry of Agriculture took place.

The governor of St. Petersburg, Georgy Poltavchenko, refused the mandate of a State Duma deputy, which he received following the results of the elections. This is stated in a message on the website of the regional branch of the United Russia party. “I am resigning my mandate as a deputy of the State Duma, I want to work with you as governor of St. Petersburg,” the mayor announced.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Major General Oleg Baranov to the post of head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, the reports . Kremlin press service In addition, Putin appointed Anatoly Yakunin, who previously headed the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, who retired, as the head of the operational department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky took away the right to manage budget funds from the directors of departments of the ministry and their deputies, writes RBC. According to Medinsky's order, the right to sign documentation on public procurement, conclude government contracts and additional agreements to them now remains only with the first deputy minister and ordinary deputies.

All employees of the city and district prosecutor's offices of St. Petersburg were transferred to a seven-day work schedule by order of the Prosecutor General's Office, writes . Fontanka.Ru The reason for the transfer of prosecutors to the seven-day schedule was a large-scale inspection that began in the city a few days earlier. The document on the abolition of days off was received by the office of the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg on Friday at 17:30.

The Ministry of Finance has abandoned the idea to introduce excises on palm oil. This was officially confirmed by the assistant to the head of the department, Svetlana Nikitina, TASS reports . At the same time, the concept of introducing an excise tax on sugar-containing drinks will be ready by the end of 2016, Deputy Finance Minister Ilya Trunin told TASS. “We are working on a concept for introducing excise taxes on soda. I think that it will be ready by the end of the year," Trunin said.

The Moscow City Hall will pay the families of firefighters who died the day before while extinguishing a fire in a warehouse, one million rubles each. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has already signed a corresponding order, it is published on the website of the mayor's office. The city authorities will also bear the cost of the funeral of the dead. “For all these purposes, 8 million 880 thousand rubles are allocated from the reserve fund,” the document says.

Andrey Rudomakha and Dmitry Shevchenko, leaders of the Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus, have been prosecuted under the article “slander,” reports citing lawyer Alexander Popkov. Mediazona The case was opened because of statements about the former vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Remezkov, who was elected to the State Duma from the Tyumen region in the last election.

Hackers from the Fancy Bears group have published the fifth part of the archive of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), convicting athletes of doping. The archive contains information about 41 athletes from Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Serbia, South Africa, Switzerland, Sweden and the USA. All individuals on this list have taken illicit drugs for therapeutic purposes during their careers with the permission of WADA.

Drivers of the Yandex.Taxi service, who oppose the change in tariff, staged a new protest, reports with reference to one of the organizers of the action, Sergey Kretov. Dozhd In the Ramenka area, taxi drivers turned on the Yandex.Taxi app, but refused to take orders. They stood in groups of 15-20 cars. Because of this, the coefficient in the area rose to 2.0. “In addition to 30 cars of our organization, those who did not know about the strike took part in today's action.

There are no objective grounds for bringing the question of the resignation of party leader Mikhail Kasyanov to the Parnas congress, said . Konstantin Merzlikin, deputy chairman of the party, According to Deputy Kasyanov, the issue of resignation is a personal initiative of Vadim Prokhorov, a member of the federal political council. Prokhorov had earlier demanded Kasyanov's resignation.

The Moscow City Court sentenced Vladimir Lapygin, an employee of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, to seven years in prison in a strict regime colony in a case of high treason, Interfax reports citing the press service of the institution. The verdict was announced on 6 September. Lapygin was detained in May 2015. Since then, he has been under house arrest. The 66-year-old scientist was charged with cooperation with one of the Asian countries.