Residents of the village of Loiga of the Arkhangelsk region learned in the suspect in the involvement of the Skripals in Salisbury Alexander Petrov of their fellow villager Alexander Mishkin, the Russian BBC service reports. The villagers Denis Krasnov and Nikolai Tulinov recognized Mishkin from previously published photographs from the passport and British visa Petrov.

The National Agency for the Elimination of the Consequences of Indonesia's natural disasters reported about the 2010 victims of the earthquake and the tsunami on the island of Sulawesi, Detiknews reports. The representative of the agency Sutopo Purvo Nugrokho said that 1601 people were killed in Pala, in Dungal –171, 222 in Sigi, in Paris Mutun --15 and 1 in Pasangkai - 1. The bodies of all dead were buried. Family funerals took place for 1076 people, 934 bodies buried massively.

The elections that have passed on September 9 showed that not all current governors can win the elections - so it is not surprising that the ratings of governors who show their electoral prospects are again attracted to themselves. The report “The Choice of the Heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation”, prepared jointly by the center of electoral practices and a political expert group, states that chapters 14 regions have ghostly chances of re -election.

US President Donald Trump approved Nikki Haley's resignation from the post of permanent representative of the United States in the UN, reports Reuters . The corresponding announcement was made during the meeting of Trump and Haley in the White House. By reporting on his Twitter about the upcoming meeting, Trump called Haley his friend. Haley’s resignation is her own initiative, sources previously reported, but the details are not specified.

The elections that have passed on September 9 showed that not all current governors can win the elections - so it is not surprising that the ratings of governors who show their electoral prospects are again attracted to themselves. The report “The Choice of the Heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation”, prepared jointly by the center of electoral practices and a political expert group, states that chapters 14 regions have ghostly chances of re -election.

Maxim Akimov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation for the Digital Economy, instructed to develop a bill on the gradual transfer of Russians from paper passports to electronic since 2021 by the end of 2018, Vedomosti write . According to the publication, the transition to electronic passports since 2021 was discussed at meetings on September 14 under the chairmanship of Akimov and September 17 - under the chairmanship of Dmitry Medvedev.

Experts called 14 regions, the heads of which are likely to be able to maintain their post after the next elections, RBC writes with reference to the report “The Church of the Communist Party Industry Index” of the Center for Electoral Practitioners and the Political Expert Group.

The Government of the Russian Federation approved the bill on the cancellation of the deferral from the draft for military service for alimony with the debt, Interfax reports.

The highest salaries are received by residents of Moscow, Salekhard, Surgut, Khanty-Mansiysk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, according to a study of data for the first half of 2018 in the hundred largest cities of Russia, compiled by RIA Novosti . The average salary in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk was 81.7 thousand rubles. You can use it to buy 3.58 fixed set of goods and services. The average salary in Salekhard is 3.55 sets, in Surgut - 3.2, in Khanty-Mansiysk - 3.09, in Moscow - 2.97.

The US Department of Finance called one of the conditions for lifting sanctions from EN+ Group PLC to the transfer of part of the company's businessman Oleg Deripaska of the company's shares in a blind trust running the American bank. Negotiations are confidential, the name of the bank is not disclosed, Bloomberg reports with reference to sources familiar with the situation. The representative of the businessman refused to comment.

In the city of Svobodny, Amur Region, a bridge collapsed onto the main track of the Trans-Siberian Railway, reports . the press service of the regional government The message clarifies: “ In the city of Svobodny at 10.33, the span of the overpass across the main route of the Trans-Siberian Railway on the street collapsed. Mikhailo-Chesnokovskaya, connecting the central part of the city with the non-linear part.

National Research University "Higher School of Economics" will replace lectures with online courses that its teachers will read, said the Rector of the Higher School of Economics Yaroslav Kuzminov. According to him, the transition to a new format will be held for five years. The rector told reporters the newspaper Kommersant about upcoming changes. In his opinion, lecturing has turned into profanity, since their attendance is very low, no more than 15-17% of students come there.

Since the beginning of the year, six terrorist attacks have been prevented in Russia, 50 members of illegal formations have been destroyed, 63 were detained, like 142 of their accomplices, but the threat of terrorist attacks is preserved, said the head of the National Anti -Terrorism Committee, the director of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bornikov at a meeting of the NAC.

The Central Bank recommended that banks charge a commission for transfers from the accounts of individual entrepreneurs and companies to private individuals, if the turnover exceeds 150 thousand rubles, writes The Bell . Currently, the commission of up to 300 thousand rubles per month is not subject to the commission. In September, the Avangard bank notified customers about the introduction of a commission of 1%, the bank said.

The Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted of terrorism, was among the three finalists to receive a human rights prize of the European Parliament named after Andrei Sakharov, TASS reports. The finalists decided on the results of the vote of the deputies of the European Parliament in the Foreign and Development Committee.