The president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was chosen by the director of the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Applied Physics Alexander Sergeyev. It is reported by Interfax . Head of the Institute of Oceanology named after P.P. Shirshova Robert Nigmatulin scored 412 votes, and Sergeyev - 1045 votes. @widget type = post-home id = 86613 The election of the head of the Academy was to be held in March 2017, but all applicants removed their candidates.

Donald Trump provoked another loud scandal. At a rally in Alabama, he openly opposed the National Football League (NFL). The President said that players who refuse to get up when performing the anthem and demonstration of the flag (a series of such shares began a year ago with the demarche of the San Francisco player Colin Kapernik, who protested against black-backed discrimination) should be fired. The league itself, he added, pays for this with a fall in the ratings.

On September 25, on New Arbat, Mercedes-Benz shot down an employee of the traffic police, he died of injuries. Mash telegram channel posted a video from the scene of the incident on which the car number is visible: A896MR97. According to two sources of Republic, this number is assigned to the FSB. The car belongs to the military unit 44710 - this is a special garage in Lubyanka. At the same time, as the interlocutor noted, in the car there was only a driver without a passenger.

James Dyson, founder of Dyson, which produces vacuum vacuum cleaners, announced plans to create a “radical” electric car, reports Reuters . He plans to launch the production of electric cars by 2020. In total, Dyson will spend about $ 2.7 billion on the design of the car and on the creation of the battery. According to him, the secret team of engineers has been developing a car for more than two years for more than two years.

His place will take the first deputy minister of trade and industry Gleb Nikitin Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the head of the Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Shantsev. The decree is posted on the presidential website. Shantsev submitted a dismissal application of his own free will, the text of the decree said. The temporarily acting governor will be the first deputy minister of trade and industry Gleb Nikitin.

View of the building of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Sergey Bobylev / ITAR-TASS The Russian Academy of Sciences has chosen a new president, it became physicist Alexander Sergeyev. But the main result of the past elections in another: Academician Vladislav Panchenko, who is considered close to the Kovalchuk brothers, long -standing friends of Vladimir Putin, diverted from the struggle in the first round.

While Vladimir Putin and his administration are calmly preparing for a very predictable re -election, an extra -systemic opposition, deprived of a legitimate opportunity to participate in the presidential campaign, gropes his own tactics of actions. Mikhail Khodorkovsky called for an “active boycott”, Alexei Navalny is going to nominate himself, other liberals are still determined with personal strategies.

The main military investigative department of the Investigative Committee is investigating a criminal case of the largest bribe in the history of the Ministry of Defense. About this writes "Kommersant". In the case, the head of the department of maintenance of the food department of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel Alexander Vakulin, is held. He is accused of receiving a bribe in the size of 368 million rubles.

Last week, September 21, a post was published on the Google blog, simultaneously confirming and refuting the guesses of analysts about a possible transaction with the manufacturer of HTC smartphones. The search engine did not buy HTC as a whole. He cut off a small but important piece from her. Under the terms of the transaction, two thousand HTC employees who have already worked on the Google Pixel smartphone earlier are transferred to an American company.

The first laboratory of research and dying research opens in Russia-so far a small working group based on the Center for Independent Sociological Research in St. Petersburg. The name that sounds provocative in the West has long been an ordinary academic discipline-with its specialized magazines and conferences on Death Studies.

Having scored 12.6% of the vote in the elections on September 24, the law -Populistic “Alternative for Germany” became the third largest force and declared itself a “constructive opposition”. However, for the party itself, staying in the Bundestag can result in numerous problems and inevitable transformation. “We will hunt you! We will regain our country and our people! " - A solid elderly gentleman emotionally promises the government, shocking journalists and observers.

Students of Chechen universities complained that they were obliged to attend the Akhmat (former Terek) - Rubin match under the threat of deductions. This is written by "Caucasus. Reals" and "Caucasian Knot ". “We were warned that by seven o’clock in the evening we had to be at the Bilimkhanov stadium. Moreover, this concerned those who live in Grozny, and those who come to study from areas and villages.

The founder of Tinkoff Bank, Oleg Tinkov, will withdraw lawsuits against the authors of the Utuub-channel "Nemagia" Alexei Pskovitin and Mikhail Pechersky. He told about this in an interview with the host of the Khach Diary of the Khach YouTube channel. “They apologize, no - let's see what they will do. I do not want to beg an apology or begged. I take claims without condition, without conditions, ”Tinkov said.

The Russian economy could lose 500 billion rubles less if the state refused to reorganize some banks. This is stated in the presentation of Fitch “Regulation as the main factor in the transformation of the Russian banking system. Risks and prospects, ” writes Rns. “The losses for the state by at least 0.5 trillion rubles exceed those that would be in case of bankruptcy of these banks,” the rating agency notes. Analysts also doubted the choice of sanators for banks.

The Investigative Committee was interrogated by persons closely familiar with businessman Boris Berezovsky, in the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. About this writes Rosbalt with reference to the source. “The witness said that shortly before the crime, Politkovskaya came to London and met with Berezovsky. He asked her to prepare and publish a number of investigations, set out his thoughts.