On September 28, it became known that the film by Andrei Zvyagintsev “Leviathan” will become a contender from Russia to Oscar. “Leviathan” is an author’s interpretation of the history of the biblical Job, which is in the realities of modern Russia. Cast - Alexey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova and others. In the traditional daily poll, Polit.ru offers readers to answer the question: will Andrei Zvyagintsev receive “Leviathan” “Oscar”?

Training in a driving school Photo: autotechkomi.ru The reform of learning drivers has led to a significant increase in prices for driving schools. According to Kommersant , this is due to the complication of educational programs and an increase in the duration of the course. At the same time, as practice shows, most driving schools do not comply with the new standards for the quality of learning drivers.

In the evening, in the Moscow Central House of the Journalist, the next evening of the Cycle “ Medicature Readings ” was held, which is jointly held by the Historical magazine “Highlight” and the project of the Proscience Portal Polit.ru. The lecture by Aleksey Venediktov was made by the editor-in-chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station, the publisher of the magazine "Diletant" and professor of the European University in St. Petersburg Alexei Miller.

As a result of the car with a car holder near the hospital in the Marebi Province east of the Yemeni capital, 15 people died, another 50 were injured, Al Jazeera reports. The medical institution near which the explosion occurred is the basis of the representatives of the Shiite rebels of the Khuti tribe.

On September 29, a suicide bomber attacked Kabula International Airport on September 29, as a result, at least four people were killed, eight were injured, reports ITAR-TASS . The terrorist put a belt with explosives at one of the security forces while trying to get into the airport. Earlier on Monday, extremists attacked a government building in the province of Pactia, located in the east of Afghanistan. The responsibility for the attack was taken by the leadership of the Taliban movement.

Lifenews journalists were beaten last Saturday on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. Last Saturday, the police received a message from the photographer of the News Media television channel that three unknown people in the north of Moscow were beaten by him and his colleague, took two flash cards, and then disappeared.

On September 29 (17), 1843 , Mikhail Skobelev, an outstanding Russian military leader, hero of the Russo-Turkish war, the liberator of Bulgaria, was born. Personal business Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev (1843-1882) was born in St. Petersburg, in the Peter and Paul Fortress, whose commandant was his grandfather. Father was a military man, the mother also came from the military family.

Among the participants in armed groups leading hostilities on the side of the “Islamic state”, there are Russian citizens. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mikhail Bogdanov in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant. The exact number of Russians fighting on the side of the militants, the deputy minister found it difficult to name, saying that we are talking about several dozen people.

The Moscow Helsinki group turns most of the projects due to lack of funds, reports Interfax . “We cut out the projects, exist minimally, we can say that we are simply surviving,” said Lyudmila Alekseeva, chairman of the ICHG. According to her, out of 17 employees, only seven were left in the organization, their salary had to be reduced. In addition, the ICG actively uses the help of volunteers.

For more than three weeks, an agreement on the ceasefire in the east of Ukraine has formally applied. The warring parties are still reporting to shelling on both sides, but the front line is really not changed lately. However, the main question for the residents of the region now is not even control over key airports and settlements, but an approaching winter. In theory, central heating is mostly provided with district boiler rooms operating on coal.

The International Skating Union (ISU) asked to include synchronous figure skating in the 2018 Olympic Games program, reports The Chicago Tribune with reference to the statement by ISU President Ottavio Chincanta. According to Chinquanta, with the corresponding ISU request, he applied to the International Olympic Committee after the ISU Congress approved the proposal to include synchronous figure skating in the Olympic program.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that he would never allow racial discrimination in the country, today.ua reports. “Ukraine will never again allow racial discrimination, restoration of fascism, pursuit on a national basis, a split in language, faith or any other basis,” Poroshenko said after a mourning ceremony in the memory of the victims of Nazism, in the Kiev memorial complex Babi Yar.

The secretary of the Public Chamber (OP) Alexander Brechalov proposed to clearly divide non -profit public organizations (NPOs) into social and political, Kommersant reports. The paragraph on the regulation of the activities of the NPO, the head of the OP believes, must be included in the annual report of the Chamber “On the state of civil society in the Russian Federation”, which should become a “road map” for the president.

Another monument to Vladimir Lenin was brought down today in the district center of Dergachi of the Kharkov region, on Monday the adviser to the Minister of the Interior of Ukraine Arsen Avakov Anton Gerashchenko said on Monday on his Facebook page. “The local monument to Ilyich has just fallen in the district center of Dergachi,” Gerashchenko wrote.

The State Duma deputy from the LDPR faction Mikhail Degtyarev sent a request to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request to clarify the status of lands of the former Russian settlement in California Fort Ross, the Izvestia newspaper writes. Degtyareva is interested in the legality of the location of this territory in the United States.