The government and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are discussing the adjustment of legislation in terms of legalizing the turnover of cryptocurrencies with open code, including bitcoin. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to the documents of the department.

Zenit fans depicted Semak's coach in the image of Mickey-Tsygan from the "Big Kush" Before the start of the Zenit - “Molde” match, the fans of the St. Petersburg team arranged a performance based on the film Big Kush. In the stands, a banner was stretched, on which Zenit coach Sergei Semak is depicted in the image of Mickey-Tsigan in the corner of the boxing ring. Big Kush!

On Sunday, September 2, in 16 Moscow bars a free Science Bar Hopping Science Festival will be held. Young scientists will give 32 lectures on “Red October”, “Bakery” and “Fleet”. The festival is held by the Fund of Infrastructure and Educational Programs (Rusnano group) and Paper .

New Gazeta published a second video of beatings in the Yaroslavl colony No. 1. The recording of the publication was transferred by the Human Rights Fund "Public Verdict". The footage shows how prisoners are beaten in the corridor of the colony. Presumably, this happened in December 2016. The video was shot on the camera of the DVR, fixed on the lapel of one of the colony employees. "New Gazeta" writes that on the frames you can find out the colony officers who fell into the previous video.

On August 23, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested two alleged organizers of the attack in the St. Petersburg metro Sirozhiddin Mukhtarov and Bobirzhon Makhbov. It is reported by TASS. According to investigators, it was not possible to find Mukhtarov and Makhbov. They are on the federal and international wanted list and is hidden from the investigation. Mukhtarov and Makhbubov were charged with terrorism, illegal storage and manufacture of explosives - in total 12 episodes.

The American Sitkom “Big Bang Theory” will close after the 12th season, which starts in September 2018 and ends in the spring of 2019. This was announced by the CBS television channel, which is distributing the series. Sitk does not break, namely, it will end, the creators emphasize. They note that the audience is waiting for an “unusual and creative finale”. Earlier, they wanted to extend the series for 13 season.

Due to the bill of the Ministry of Communications on pre-trial blocking for the “rationale and justification” of terrorist and extremist activities can close access to 19 million sites. This was written by Kommersant with reference to the review of the working group "Communication and IT" under the Government of Russia. “Communication and IT” notes that the concept of “justification and justification” has an abstract character, which is why wide interpretations and abuse are possible.

From the beginning of September, tours of the Passage trading house have been launched. They were prepared by the Masters school together with the management of the shopping center. In addition to the “Passage” itself, visitors will be given a tour of the V.F. Komissarzhevskaya Theater. Participants will be told what shops could be visited in the 19th century “Passage” and why there were apartments in the trading house. Visitors will also be shown behind the scenes of the theater.

On the afternoon of August 23, the Central Bank set the official dollar exchange rate at 68.52 rubles. Because of this, the department suspended the purchase of foreign currency for the Ministry of Finance until the end of September. At the same time, the official euro exchange rate is 79.25 rubles. The last time the currency reached this level was in April 2018.

At the beginning of the week, more than 50 large VKontakte communities opposed criminal cases for reposts. Among the signed were the representatives of Dvach, the Lentachi and other communities with an audience of 56 thousand to 4.8 million subscribers.

In the village of Popovka, the Saratov region is the former Old Believer house of the late 19th century with unique paints from floor to ceiling. Seven years ago, having learned that it could be destroyed, the building was bought by the St. Petersburg art critic Julia Terekhova - and the Museum “ House with Leo ” was opened there. Tourists began to come to the museum, and volunteers helped with cleaning the site.

Blogger from St. Petersburg Sammy Dzhabrail, who lost her leg in a car accident, launched a flash mob #prostheticsat will in support of people with disabilities. Participants post photos with prosthetics on social networks. “Paper” collected eight posts from the flash mob. Posted by Dmitry Koshechkin (@dmitry_koshechkin) Aug 22, 2018 at 11:48 am PDT #DENTHESESATWILL Posted by Valentin (@valentinalauk) Aug 20, 2018 at 11:34 PDT \

As the apartment building of the Smolensk cemetery appeared in the film by Alexei Balabanova “Brother”, which the writer Tatyana Moskvina recalls the building, who spent a childhood here, in whose story it is mentioned and what rare design elements can be found without going inside the house? “Paper” collected the most interesting facts about the Popovsky house on Kamskaya Street, 12 from the mailing list of local historian Alexei Shishkin about Petersburg houses.

In the fall, the Lev Lurie House will hold a series of free excursions dedicated to Sergey Dovlatov in St. Petersburg. The action will take place on the eve of the writer's birthday - September 1 and 2. The excursion is pedestrian. Participants will be told about how Dovlatov lived in Lambrad, and also show his apartment on Rubinstein Street. You can sign up for a tour on the site . The number of tickets is limited.

In St. Petersburg, the head of the metro logistics service, Denis Rudenko, was detained. This was reported to the Investigative Committee. The criminal case is related to a contract for the modernization of equipment, which the metro signed in December 2015. According to the investigation, with the assistance of Rudenko, the general director of MK Diesel-Energo JSC, Alexey Lazarev, “misled” the metro management by supplying counterfeit products at an inflated cost.