Midfielder “Real Madrid” and the captain of the Croatian national football team Luk Modric was sentenced to eight months in prison for tax evasion in Spain, El Mundo reports . Modric admitted that in 2013 and 2014 he hid his income of 291 thousand euros and 580 thousand euros with the help of his wife, which was registered in Luxembourg. The football player was obliged to pay 400 thousand euros in addition to a fine of a million euros, which he paid at the beginning of court proceedings.

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as Putin’s cook, in 1981 was sentenced to 13 years in a colony of intensified regime under the articles “Theft”, “Fraud”, “The involvement of a minor in criminal activity”, “robbery”. This was written by Rosbalt with reference to documents and evidence of eyewitnesses. Prigozhin was born on June 1, 1961. On November 29, 1979, the Kuibyshevsky district People’s Court of Leningrad sentenced him to 2.5 years in prison on a conditionally for theft.

During a visit to Germany, Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to independently pay for the construction of Northern Stream-2 even if Western co-investors leave the project due to the threat of American sanctions, Süddeutsche Zeitung sources report . Putin’s working visit to Germany took place on August 18. During the negotiations with the Chancellor of Angela Merkel, including the topic of the gas pipeline.

In the center of St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt, the police detained seven people who conducted single pickets against pension reform, Fontanka reports . One of the picketers Anton Cherepov told the publication that at first the police photographed activists with posters and left, after a while they returned and filed a detention. They said that they received a statement stating that the protesters were allegedly involved in the criminal offense.

Today, the Fontanka publication has published a material in which it checked the hypothesis of The Insider and Bellingcat that the numbers of passports of Petrov and Boshirov, accused of attempt on Skripal, belong to a special “pear” series. Recall that this conclusion was based on the fact that both agents differed in only one figure and were very close to the number of another failed GRU agent - Eduard Shishmakov (Shirokova).

The Belarusian Belsat television channel, based in Poland, fired his SMM specialist Ivan Shilo after he published a photograph on his Facebook page from the official meeting of Polish President Andrzei Duda with the American leader Donald Trump. Shilo himself told about this on Facebook. Shilo posted a photograph with Duda and Trump with the text “On the left - President of Poland” on September 19. On it, presidents sign an agreement on strategic cooperation in the oval office.

About 10% of the Americans who voted in 2016 for Donald Trump would not do this again. It is reported by The Hill with reference to the Harrisx research company. The respondents were asked who they would vote for if the 2016 elections took place tomorrow. Among those who then supported Trump, 89% would have done it again, 4% would vote for a candidate from a democratic party - Hillary Clinton, the rest would have chosen another candidate or refrained from an answer.

The Chinese Ministry of Defense demanded that the US sanctions immediately withdraw in relation to the Department of Preparation of Troops and Supply of the Central Military Council of the PRC, which Russia bought Su-35 fighters and S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, and called this an egregious violation of international norms.

As a result of the crash of a ferry on Lake Victoria in the north of Tanzania, 207 people were killed, according to France-Presse with reference to the data of the local radio station. The ferry sank on September 21 between the islands of Yukor and Bulora a few meters before the mooring. On board there were more than 400 people. Lake Victoria shares three countries among themselves: Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. In 1996, the Bukoba overloaded with the ferry crashed on the lake. 500 people died.

Several people were killed, at least 20 were injured as a result of a terrorist attack at a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahhvaz. Press TV reports that among the victims is a woman and a child. The militants shot people for ten minutes. According to eyewitnesses, they opened fire from the park nearby. The shooters were dressed in military uniforms, clarifies BBC.

At least 24 people died as a result of an attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz in the south-west of Iran. This was reported by the IRNA agency. Law enforcement officers managed to eliminate two terrorists and arrest two more attackers. The militants shot people for ten minutes. According to eyewitnesses, they opened fire from the park nearby. The shooters were dressed in military uniform.

The FSB officers detained in Dagestan the acting deputy head of the administration of the head and government of the Republic of Ismail Efendiev. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to an informed source. Efendiev was detained as part of the investigation of the criminal case under the article “Excess of official powers”. Now he is interrogated in the Office of the FSB.

The church court started a case of a priest Alexander Gruzleev, who took 600 thousand rubles from a 78-year-old resident of Chelyabinsk to repay a mortgage. This was reported by the publication 74.ru with reference to the secretary of the Chelyabinsk diocese, Archpriest Igor Shestakov. The pensioner has no children, and in the summer of 2017 she issued a testament for Gruzleev. But the priest asked her to withdraw money from the account to pay for the mortgage, promising to return it.

The press service of Roscosmos denied a message about the exit from the joint construction project of the construction of the Deep Space Gateway orbital near-moon station, TASS reports. “Russia did not refuse to participate in the project of the orbital near -moon station with the United States. This is not true, ”said Vladimir Ustimenko, head of the press service of Roscosmos.

In India, biologists have discovered the mantis who hunts fish, reports Journal of Orthoptera Research. In a new study, scientists have described how the Central Asian Wood Maginals hunted the guppy fish. In five days of observation, he managed to eat nine fish - two a day. Basically, mantis hunts other insects, although there are cases of attacks on lizards, frogs, snakes, mice. They are also cannibals, females often eat males after mating in order to increase the chances of offspring.