photo Getty Images Alliance leaders are developing a long-term response to Russia's actions in Ukraine, while the conflict between Moscow and the West is hampering the fight against fundamentalists in Iraq The NATO summit in Wales focused on two very different conflicts. The war in Ukraine was a return to the past, to the Cold War and an attempt to revive the Russian Empire in one form or another.

The protection system detected equipment malfunctions in the turbine compartment and stopped power unit No. 3 of the Kalinin NPP in the Tver region, reported . the press service of the nuclear power plant “According to the International Nuclear Event Rating Scale, this malfunction is rated “off scale,” that is, it is not significant for safety,” the press release notes.

Canadian Defense Minister Rob Nicholson accused Russia of provocative military aviation actions in the Black Sea, during which two Russian Su-24 front-line bombers and one An-26 reconnaissance aircraft made a low-level flight on the Canadian Navy frigate Toronto, taking part in joint Ukrainian-American maneuvers Sea Breeze 2014.

The Moscow City Court found no grounds for recognizing the Golos association as a “foreign agent,” follows from the resolution posted on the court’s website.

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, September 9, by decree removed Nikolai Denin from the post of governor of the Bryansk region due to loss of confidence, according to the Kremlin website. was appointed acting governor . Alexander Bogomaz , who has been a State Duma deputy from United Russia since 2012, Nikolai Denin first took the post of governor of the Bryansk region in December 2004, receiving 77.83% of the votes in the second round of elections.

The searches at the office of the National Reserve Bank (NRB) in Moscow are being carried out as part of a criminal investigation into large-scale tax evasion, said on Tuesday. official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Vladimir Markin According to him, investigators, in order to identify those involved in the evasion, are seizing documentation from the office about the bank’s activities for 2011.

Businessman Alexander Lebedev reported that representatives of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) are conducting searches at the National Reserve Bank (NRB) in Moscow. “In the office of the National Reserve Bank on 60 Let Oktyabrya Avenue, a group of Investigative Committee investigators has been conducting a search for more than an hour. Everything is normal,” wrote on his Twitter on Tuesday, September 9.

reports on Tuesday, September 9, citing the By November 1, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science will prepare proposals for the government to expand the school course “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” to middle and high schools - from grades 2 to 10, Interfax press secretary of the Minister of Education and Science Anna Usachev. The press secretary clarified that this initiative belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church.

The United States is completing preparations for a new package of sanctions against the energy, financial and defense sectors of the Russian economy, Reuters reports citing a statement by US State Department spokesperson Marie Harf. According to her, the prepared package should “deepen and expand” the sanctions already imposed by the United States. "We have the tools ready.

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Orhan Cemal Author A truce has been signed, but fighting continues. Photo report from the outskirts of Mariupol A truce has been in force in Ukraine since Friday evening, but the fire has not stopped everywhere, shelling continues. In particular, on Saturday evening, the militia came under artillery fire at the 14th checkpoint near Mariupol, which blocks the main road to the city.

VNIImetmash (All-Russian Research and Design Institute of Metallurgical Engineering), controlled by the Moscow government, sent a proposal to Iran for the supply of rail and beam material, ITAR-TASS reported on Tuesday, September 9, citing the VNII press service. A representative of the enterprise explained that the rail production capacity could be up to 600,000 tons per year. The proposal is to be considered on September 9 at a meeting of the Russian-Iranian intergovernmental commission.

reported on Tuesday, September 9 Russia and Iran can increase trade turnover 10 times to about $15 billion per year, ITAR-TASS . Iranian Minister of Oil Bijan Namdar Zanganeh stated this at the Russian-Iranian business forum . Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, for his part, added that both countries can successfully cooperate in the fields of metallurgy, transport and communications.

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in the Donetsk region on July 17 “disintegrated in mid-air, likely due to structural damage caused by multiple fast objects that hit the aircraft from outside the aircraft,” according to a 34-page report on preliminary results of an investigation published by the Dutch safety board on Tuesday, September 9.

Suppliers of products from Belarus may be exempt from having to pay “bonuses” to get on the shelves of retail chains in Russia in connection with the ban imposed by Moscow on food imports from a number of Western countries, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday .