Newsweek correspondent traveled all over Tajikistan in search of the real enemies of President Emomali Rahmon At the Dushanbe airport, after customs officers and border guards, you get to a gloomy Tajik with a portable photocopier. This man is from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and appears simply as Misha. He copies passports, asks where and why he came, weeds out suspicious ones and sends them to the ministry for a more thorough interrogation.

An unknown killer at 01.50 Moscow time shot two people sitting in a Mercedes car near a restaurant in the center of Staraya Russa (Novgorod Region), RIA Novosti reports. The foreign car was standing at the Ilmen cafe when a man approached it and shot two men sitting in the car with automatic weapons. They died on the spot from their wounds. Details are unknown. The Ministry of Internal Affairs also does not specify the type of activity of the killed.

A criminal case has been initiated against a resident of Moscow under the article “Murder”, RIA Novosti reports. Valentina Khrapova is suspected of murdering her two-month-old granddaughter. The investigation found that on Wednesday morning Khrapova, while intoxicated, beat and then strangled her two-month-old granddaughter. She threw her corpse into the garbage chute, located on the landing of the 16th floor near her own apartment on Warsaw highway. Khrapova was arrested.

A journalist from the website of the Rossiya-24 TV channel mistakenly published on the Internet on Friday morning information that the president had chosen Sergei Sobyanin as a candidate for the post of mayor of Moscow. A few minutes later, the information was deleted, but the news got into the seven-hour newscast of the Vesti FM radio station, was quoted by Interfax, and then by the Mayak radio station.

The Russian Proton launch vehicle was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in order to launch the American telecommunications satellite Sirius XM-5 into a predetermined orbit. At about 08.05 Moscow time, the satellite successfully separated from the upper stage and was transferred to the control of the Americans, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the press service of the Khrunichev Space Center, Alexander Bobrenev. Starting weight Sirius XM-5 - 5983 kg.

A resident of the Kuvandyksky district of the Orenburg region found the body of a boy in the forest on Thursday evening, who committed suicide, RIA Novosti reports. It turned out to be a 13-year-old teenager, teaching the eighth grade of a local rural school. The investigation found that the reason for the suicide was a quarrel with parents due to poor school performance. As the mother of the deceased child said, the boy got on a bicycle at lunchtime and left with a package in his hands.

The director of the film "Stoker" told Elena Mukhametshina that the best era to display in cinema is from the mid-80s to the late 90s What kind of audience reaction to "Stoker" do you expect? I don't expect anything. It's nice when people like it, because I make films for people. If people like it, then I made a film, if they don’t like it, then it didn’t work out. Is this film a test for the viewer? No, it's such a quiet movie. Not scandalous at all.

The Stoker, a new film by Alexei Balabanov, is being released. Everything according to the usual recipe: colorful bandits, few words, many corpses, a huge public outcry Director Alexei Balabanov fell on the head of the Russian people like a curse. There is no way to get rid of him. He does not want to calm down, spit, wave his hand. You won't be able to miss his films past your ears and eyes (even if you haven't seen them).

"Formula 1" goes to the East. Russia should be next in the race The executive director of the Russian Automobile Federation (RAF), Sergey Ivanov, will not even remember the last time there was such an automobile boom in the country. First, Vladimir Putin drove a yellow Lada, then Dmitry Medvedev got behind the wheel, and at the end of September, Putin was already joking on automotive topics with participants in the Silk Way Rally at a bivouac near Maikop.

A resident of Veliky Novgorod was arrested for two days for improper parking, the website of the FSSP administration for the Novgorod region reports. The incident happened on June 25th. The driver left the car on Bolshaya St. Petersburg Street in Veliky Novgorod, where parking was prohibited. The inspector issued him a fine of three thousand rubles, but the man did not pay it within 30 days.

Moscow authorities denied reports that allegedly on Thursday afternoon on Tverskaya-Yamskaya there was a failure of soil up to four meters deep, RIA Novosti reports citing Igor Pergamenshchik, spokesman for the capital's urban complex. “The information about the failure of the soil on Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in the area of ​​house 29 is not true. There are small cracks there, but there is no question of any failure, ”Parchmenter said.

The sports facilities built for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi should be effectively used after the Games, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. He stated this today at a meeting with representatives of the Russian business community, partners of the Russian Grand Prix. Putin said that it was for this reason that the idea arose to hold the national stage of the World Motorsport Championship in Sochi.

The deputy head of administration of the Vyksa municipal district, where this summer 17 people died and 695 houses burned down as a result of the spread of forest fires in seven settlements, was accused of negligence, RIA Novosti reports.

The Chechen prosecutor's office has canceled the decision of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs not to open criminal cases on the fact of shelling women without headscarves in Grozny, according to a letter from Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Sydoruk, published on Thursday by the press service of Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.

The ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev will have their sentence commuted, as his case falls under the editorship of the relevant laws of 2010, which, taking into account the president's amendments, commuted the punishment for economic crimes, RIA Novosti reports. This was stated today by the representative of the prosecutor's office. Recall that they are accused of stealing 350 million tons of oil.