The St. Petersburg schoolboy created the union of students. He is threatened with a criminal case Photo: Elena Lukyanova / "New Gazeta in St. Petersburg" 17-year-old Leonid Shaidurov is an unusual teenager. This is noted both by his friends and teachers, even the police do not argue with this. He does not drink, does not smoke, does not swear obscenities, does not increase his voice at all. The guy is passionate about his business more than his peers - by any fun, characteristic of age.

MFF participants without optimism argued about how to get the Russian economy out of an impasse Photo: Artem Geodakyan/TASS The Moscow Financial Forum is not known as widely as a number of other sites of a close format (for example, an economic forum in St. Petersburg). But in the composition of the participants, this event is extremely representative: the entire top of the economic block of government, the head of state banks and representatives of large businesses is cosing here.

Former top manager of Roscosmos, who left the center named after Khrunicheva in record debts, went to construction Andrey Kalinovsky. Photo: RIA Novosti The former executive director of the quality and reliability of the Roskosmos State Corporation, the ex-head of the GKNPC named after M.V. Khrunichev Andrei Kalinovsky, almost six months after the dismissal, found work in the PIK group, heading the PIK-Industry in September 2018.

In St. Petersburg, the recalculation of the voting results continues Photo: Peter Kovalev/TASS On a single voting day, I was on duty as an observer on a site where six observers represented the opposition from nine observers, one of the members of the commission with the right of a decisive vote was an “apple tree”, the rest did not try to break something. In our site there was not a homeless vote at all - not a single statement.

The Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk sentenced three defendants in the case of the flooding of a floating crane off the coast of Yalta in 2016. This was reported on the website of the Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office. The captains of the two courts were sentenced to two years in prison, the head of the FBU "Marine Rescue Service of Rosmorrechflot" - to three.

New book festival. Now - and in Irkutsk Photo: Kirill Faleev vk.com/irkniga.ru The second International Irkutsk Book Festival was held at the turn of August and September. The organizers are the Film Delivee Foundation (founded by the industrialist Oleg Deripaska) and the Interregional Reading Federation. The book fest in the old capital of Eastern Siberia was founded in 2017. And he is designed to supplement the special, still full of white spots map of Russia.

Drone attacks have halved oil production in Saudi Arabia due to fires at Saudi Aramco's refineries. This is reported by Bloomberg and Reuters sources . Oil production was reduced by 5 million barrels per day. According to Bloomberg, the company did this as a precautionary measure after the attacks. The incidents also disrupted oil exports, according to Reuters. At the same time, local television reports that it continues.

Moscow protesters crackdown and elections scandals — Big Russia/Ukraine prisoners exchange — Mikhail Khodorkovsky on "Citizen K" Oleg Sentsov with his daughter. Photo: Andrew Novikov / Hromadske The new English language newsletter from Novaya Gazeta. Our newsletter brings you a weekly overview of our finest journalism covering and explaining key news events across Russia.

The US Central Intelligence Agency has declassified documents that describe the use of animals during the Cold War. It is reported by the BBC. In particular, pigeons were used, among other things, to photograph important objects, in particular, on the territory of the Soviet Union, ravens were used to drop listening devices on window sills, and dolphins participated in important underwater missions. The latter at a later time participated in various demining operations.

Oleg Badmaev, a protester in Ulan-Ude, was attacked by unidentified persons near his house. this to He himself reported OVD-Info. According to Badmaev, several people knocked him to the ground, beat him, and then tried to push him into the car. The protester was threatened to be taken to the forest, where he would dig his own grave. The attackers explained their action by the fact that Badmaev supports the former candidate for mayor of Ulan-Ude Vyacheslav Markhaev.

Uber California will be forced to register workers Broke of drivers in Spain. Photo: EPA When at the beginning of the zero various lovers of “Searching of themselves” seduced us with a beautiful picture “Happy freelancer works directly from the beach on a fabulous Bali”, no one even suggested what hell it would fail. Freedom from daily going to the office seemed to be the happiness of the few elected, mainly from among programmers and web designers.

In the Tula region, lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov was beaten twice a day - first in court, and then in the Investigative Committee Dmitry Sotnikov. Photo: Facebook On September 12, lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov came to the Novomoskovsky City Court of the Tula region at a meeting to his client - Eduard Dolgintsev.

The National Hockey League has suspended Washington Capitals forward Yevgeny Kuznetsov for three games. This was reported on the league website. Kuznetsov will miss three matches at the start of the 2019/2020 season. This decision was made after a personal meeting between the representatives of the hockey player and the NHL on September 9 due to the “improper behavior” of the athlete.

During the counter-terrorist operation, the son of the former leader of Al-Qaeda (the organization was recognized as a terrorist and banned in Russia), Osama bin Laden Hamza, was killed. This is stated in the message of the White House, reports Reuters. The US operation took place in the Afghan-Pakistani region.

Lawyer Nikolai Polozov - on the liberation of Ukrainian political prisoners and the help of Russian volunteers. Material "Gromadsky" Nikolai Polozov. Photo: Vyacheslav Ratin / UNIAN On September 7, 35 Ukrainian political prisoners (including Oleg Sentsov, Alexander Kolchenko, Vladimir Balukh, Pavel Mushroom, as well as 24 Ukrainian sailors captured in the fall of 2018 in the Kerch Strait), as a result of the exchange of prisoners, returned home.