Photo: Alexey Nichukin/RIA Novosti Text: Roman Fishman The team of Austrian mathematician Stefan Turner has proposed new statistical methods for detecting fraud in political elections. Having tested their approach on the example of recent elections in different countries, the authors came to the conclusion that in at least two cases the fact of fraud is obvious: in Russia and in Uganda.

One of Hong Kong's wealthiest residents, Cecil Chao Shejun, has announced a $63 million reward to any man who can win the hand of his lesbian daughter Gigi Chao, local newspaper South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday. “It doesn’t matter to me whether he is rich or poor. The main thing is that he is generous and has a kind heart,” the billionaire told reporters.

British writer JK Rowling does not deny the possibility of writing original versions of two books about the young wizard Harry Potter, the BBC reported on Wednesday. "I know for a fact that a couple of the Harry Potter books need some work. While writing them, I had to work under tight time constraints, sometimes it was really difficult. I re-read them and think: 'God, maybe I should go back and write the author's version " said Rowling.

Even the chintz at the Communists was a means of propaganda. It must be admitted that in the early years, Bolshevik propaganda was very effective. Original

In their desire to remove the Drug-Free City Foundation and Roizman himself from solving an important problem, the authorities of the Sverdlovsk region went to the very end. They decided not only to seize the initiative, not only to put the fight against drugs under state control, which is good news, but a long-known problem for the authorities suddenly arose because of Roizman and his Foundation. For how many years this problem was not noticed, and suddenly an insight came!

Photo: ITAR-TASS Author of the article: Evgeniy Natelashvili At the independent press center, the Golos association presented media monitoring of election campaigns for the upcoming elections on October 14. On a single voting day, a new governor will be elected in five regions, a legislative assembly will be elected in six, and a series of mayoral elections, city councils and various elections of local district heads will also be held.

Russia today ranks 6th in the world in terms of the number of suicides per a certain number of inhabitants, and in terms of the number of child and adolescent suicides it has no equal . By and large, silence (both from government agencies and public organizations) on this issue is the main evidence of the true value of human life in our country. There is probably no need to sharply separate the problems of suicide between children and adults.

Relatives of adults who died as a result of a high-profile traffic accident on September 22 on Minskaya Street will receive 250 thousand rubles in compensation, the press service of the capital’s social protection department told Interfax on Wednesday. According to him, the burial of the Shirshovs will be carried out at budget expense. According to the Department of Social Protection, their funeral will take place on Thursday.

My son cannot take a ticket and come to me for the autumn holidays. All excursions and trips of schoolchildren throughout the country were in a suspended situation. The Russian Railways website sells tickets only until October 27 inclusive. The reason is that, as president, one innovator switched the clock to summer time, and now United Russia members cannot decide who should decide the issue of switching to winter time: the government or the Duma.

People often write to me asking where it is better to go and how to do it, so I decided to make a separate post about this. Of course, I cannot and do not intend to say anything. I can only speak from my personal experience. It is about the conclusions, based on my personal experience, that I want to write.

This afternoon, “criminals” poured water into one of the fountains located on Adm Street. Fokina dishwashing detergent. Due to the seething and flow of water, a huge “pile” of foam was formed... The wind blew it away deep into the Arbat... Summer snow... If detergent were added to all the fountains, this act could be considered a very funny flash mob. And so, simple, but not harmless hooliganism. Why not harmless?!

Photo: ITAR-TASS Article author: Alexey Sochnev In the Saratov region, at the height of the campaign season (elections will take place on October 14), the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was prohibited from holding meetings with voters without special permission from the authorities. A document with a ban was sent to the head of the center “E” of the Saratov region, S. Panteev, by a prosecutor’s office employee, senior justice adviser Inna Chernova.

The other day, in Moscow, in the Mitino area, there was a thousands of protest against the construction of the mosque. As a result, the Moscow City Hall banned the construction of a mosque in this area. Further, the “conflict” flared up on social networks, in Internet sites. Someone began to call Muslims of the SCFO to think about the need in the Caucasian republics of Orthodox churches. And in Chechnya they found their answer to the Moscow Anti-Mechetian uprising.

In the Omsk region, the circumstances of the death of an entrepreneur who stabbed himself with a knife after psychological training are being clarified. The press service of the regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee reported on Wednesday that the body of a 31-year-old man with stab wounds in the chest was discovered on September 21 at the dacha of the Ozernoye station in the Tavrichesky district.

Photo: Reuters Text: Polina Eremenko Return to the special project "Elections in the USA. Likbez" When Mitt Romnie represented his candidate for vice presidents at the election performance in Virginia, he made a mistake : "I represent you the next president of America, Paul Ryan!" Paul Ryan as if nothing had happened to the stage, smiled broadly at the present and did not correct his boss. Romny had to return to the microphone, move a young ambitious policy from him and fix his mistake himself.