Lithuania President Dalya Grigauskaite called the EU Energy Policy “Schrederization”-named after the ex-Chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schroeder, who heads the Northern Stream 2 company for the construction of a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The publication is 2Min.lt about this. “Northern Stream” and “Northern Stream - 2” are geopolitical projects.

The representative of the European Space Agency, Paolo Ferri, said that until the landing of the Schiaparelli module, the signal broke off to Mars, the Associated Press reports. “It is clear that these are bad signs,” Ferry stated. According to him, it is too early to draw conclusions about what happened , because the agency’s experts should carefully analyze the data they have and restore the picture of the module that was happening during the descent.

Today, at about 17 hours 48 minutes Moscow time, it is expected to land on the surface of Mars of the descent Skiaparelli module, prepared by the European Space Agency and Roscosmos as part of the Exomars project. If everything ends successfully, then it will become the ninth spacecraft, which successfully landed on Mars. Previously, this was achieved by the Soviet automatic station Mars-3 (1971) and seven NASA devices (Viking-1, Viking-2, Spirit, Sujorner, Phoenix, Opportyunity, Kuriositi).

Four Russian airlines filed applications for the implementation of international flights from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Egypt. This was reported by TASS with reference to the data of the department. Airlines "Yamal", "Azur Air", "Icarus" and "North Wind" submitted applications for Moscow flights to Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada. Azur Air and North Wind also submitted applications for flights to the same resorts from St. Petersburg. A year ago, a plane with Russian tourists crashed in Egypt.

The Supreme Court of the Komi Republic recognized the arrest in absentia of the former head of VimpelCom Mikhail Slobodin as legal, reports the local publication BNK . The businessman's defense argued that Slobodin was put on the international wanted list on September 12, and charges were brought against him on the 14th. At today's meeting, the prosecutor presented a resolution to place Slobodin on the international wanted list, dated September 14.

Simon Zhavoronkov Thinking over the grocery basket photo: Perri Scope The Central Bank has found new threats to reduce inflation in the country. Now the Central Bank drew attention to the drop in retail revolutions, which has been going on for 21 consecutive months, as well as to aggravate inequality, which can lead to the disappearance of families with an average income that are most sensitive to interest rates and prices.

Anna Sakoyan Belgian aircraft F-16 © Flickr/ US Air Force The Russian media , including English -speaking , write that the aircraft of the anti -terrorist coalition led by the United States struck the village of Khassajek near Aleppo. According to reports, six civilians became victims of this blow. In particular, it is noted that Belgian planes appeared there. American and British media do not write about this event. They are more occupied by the Russian-Syrian campaign.

The Russian short film "Brutus" dedicated to the Holocaust fell into an expanded list of nominees for the Oscar. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia, with the support of which the film was created. Brutus was removed by Russian director Konstantin Fama in Romania. The picture is about a German shepherd named Brutus. The dog was taken from the hostess and sent to work at the concentration camp.

One of the users of the VKontakte social network published a video of the resident Comedy Club Slepakov Semen. He performs a song about the TNT television channel, in which, in particular, he mentions the “Dom-2” project in the “all sorts of creatures”. He refers his appearance at the expense of the producer, "the little powder brought with him."

Samsung Electronics will open kiosks at Kioski airports, where owners of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones will be able to exchange them for other models. This was reported by BBC with reference to the company's statement. They reported that the first points of exchange were already opened at the airports of South Korea and in San Francisco. Soon they will appear at other loaded US airports, as well as in Australia. What phones are offered to replace NOTE 7, the company is not specified.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry said that media reports on the refusal of the government of the country from the entire southern part of the smoking in negotiations with the Russian Federation are false. It is reported by TASS . “This is not true. The position of our country has not changed: we advocate a solution to the issue of belonging to all four northern islands and the conclusion on this basis of a peace treaty, ”said the Japanese diplomat.

The Vice Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey Neverov said that the Duma factions have decided on a list of good reasons that they can refer to at meetings, RIA Novosti agency writes. “We jointly discussed the issue of those good reasons that can be accepted on the absence of deputies during a plenary meeting,” said the vice speaker. Neverov also reminded the deputies of the possible deprivation of the mandate for the absenteeism of the Duma meetings.

The Russian defense department reported that in the area of ​​the Syrian city of Khassajek, where six civilians died during the bombardment, Belgian military aircraft-two F-16s, RBC reports. At the same time, there were no aircraft of the Russian Air Force in the specified zone, the Ministry of Defense was specified.

Rosatom's competitive purchases have doubled in volume Rosatom's competitive purchases increased in volume by half - from 400 billion rubles to 800 billion rubles. The number of competitive purchases increased by forty times - from 20 billion rubles. up to 800 billion rubles. This was the opening of the VIII International Forum of suppliers of the nuclear industry "Atomex-2016" said the General Director of Rosatom Group of Companies Alexei Likhachev.

The authorities of Ecuador said that they decided to partially restrict the Internet access to the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assangeus. It is reported by Reuters . “Ecuador, using his sovereign law, temporarily limited access to part of communication systems in his embassy in the UK,” they said. At the same time, the authorities of Ecuador expressed confidence that these measures would not affect the “journalistic activity” of Assange.