Vladimir Putin and Valery Asapov. Photo: kremlin.ru Lieutenant General Valery Asapov, who headed a group of Russian military advisers in Syria, was killed in the area of ​​Deir Ez-Zor. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the Ministry of Defense. The forces of the Union Russia of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad have recently continued the battles for Deir ez-Zor, trying to knock out the Islamic State from there.

Sergey Samoilenko. Photo with personal FB page The editor-in-chief of the large Novosibirsk Internet magazine Sib.Fm Sergey Samoilenko has been leaving the post from October due to removal from the website of the News of the Party of Progress Aleksey Navalny to Novosibirsk. The journalist announced the dismissal on Friday at his FB page. The reason for this decision was clarified by Radio Liberty the next day.

The march march: the activist is forced to remove the flag of Ukraine. Photo: fontanka.ru In St. Petersburg, the police did not allow the participants of the disagreed march of the world to go along Nevsky Prospekt. It is reported by Fontanka.ru. The security forces blocked the demonstrators with the road and warned that when the march was trying to walk along Nevsky, they would begin detention. 200 people took part in the action.

Abbas Kuzhulov. Source: Operline.ru Former participant in the Chechen armed underground Abbas Kuzhulov, delivered from the colony for investigative actions, died in the forest in the vicinity of the village of Kharachi, Vedensky District, blown up with the police accompanied by him. This was reported on Saturday by the "Caucasian Knot". The incident occurred on the day of September 21. As “Caucasus. Realities” were transmitted , 60-year-old Kuzhulov turned out to be the only dead.

Demonstration for the independence of Catalonia in Girona, 09/24/2017. Photo: @mniumgirones In a number of cities of Catalonia, on Sunday, mass demonstrations are held for holding a referendum on independence prohibited by the Spanish authorities. It is reported by La Vanguardia. The largest of the shares is held in the capital of the Barcelona region. Demonstrators gathered in the city center with the slogans "We will vote!" And they handed out samples of ballots.

60 years ago, on September 24, 1957, US President Dwight Eisenhower sent 1,200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division to the racists of nine black schoolchildren visiting the local general school to the liter-rock (Arkansas). Previously, the National Guard of the state blocked their access to school for 19 days, since the governor was a supporter of racial segregation.

Angel Merkel at the polling station, 09/24/2017. Photo: Sky.com The Bloc of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union in the next elections to the Bundestag, which took place on Sunday, received, according to various sources, from 32.7 to 33.3 percent of the vote. It is reported by Deutsche Welle with reference to unofficial preliminary voting results, which ended at 18 hours local time (19 hours Moscow time). The official election results will be announced at night.

On the roof of the Bundestag. Photo: bundestag.de In Germany, the Bundestag elections began, RBC reports . 47 parties participate in them, if we consider the ruling bloc of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union as a single party. Four forces are represented in the current composition of the German parliament: the CDU/CSS, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Left Party and the Green.

The DPRK blow to the carrier carrier Carl Vinson. Frame of computer graphics The North Korean propaganda site DRPK TODAY published a video with the footage of American aircraft attacked by Pyongyan, as well as the atomic aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. It is reported by Yonhap. On edited videos, the B-1B strategic bomber and the F-35 super-transporter light up after shelling of the Puckgukonson medium-range ballistic missiles, and Carl Vinson from the hit of the North Korean submarine entering it.

"New Russian methods of war": a fragment of the cover. Source: PublicIntelligence.net The network has published an English -speaking brochure entitled "New Russian Methods of War." The document appeared on September 18 on the website of Public Intelligence; He attracted the attention of the media after Friday notes of The National Interest. It is claimed that this brochure is a manual for the US military, published in December 2016 by a group of asymmetric war of the US Armed Forces.

Travis Taigart. Photo: usada.org The head of the US Anti -Doping Agency (USADA) Travis Taigart criticized the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) for an insufficiently tough position in relation to Russian athletes. This was reported on Saturday by The Guardian. "WADA should recommend that Russia is forbidden to participate in the Winter Olympic Games, and Russian athletes allowed to speak under a neutral flag if they prove that they are clean (that is, they did not use doping.