In the coming days, the Tunisian Consulate General, which was closed in 2011 in the wake of the Arab Spring, will resume work in the Syrian capital, TASS reports. Tunisian diplomat Ibrahim al-Fawari has been appointed Consul General. In November 2012, the League of Arab States decided to recall Arab ambassadors from Damascus and suspend the Syrian Arab Republic's membership in this inter-Arab organization. Lebanon and Iraq did not comply with this decision.

The council of the regional branch of the political party “A Just Russia” in the Omsk region suggested that gubernatorial candidate Viktor Nazarov include Elena Mizulina among one of the candidates for empowerment as a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, according to Elena Mizulina’s website.

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party announced that the truce with Ankara had lost its meaning after an overnight airstrike carried out by the Turkish Air Force on their camp, reports Reuters . “The truce is meaningless, given the airstrikes carried out by the Turkish occupying army,” the agency quoted the party as saying. Earlier on Saturday, the Turkish Air Force launched a series of strikes against Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq.

Eastern Siberia may become one of the territories of priority socio-economic development (TOR) from January 2016, according to the State Duma website . A corresponding bill lifting the moratorium on the inclusion of regions not included in the Far Eastern Federal District in the priority development area has been submitted to the State Duma and sent for consideration to the Economic Policy Committee.

Agricultural Company Kumir LLC plans to build a greenhouse complex for growing vegetables by 2018 for 3.8 billion rubles. on the site of the bankrupt JSC Yubileiny. As follows from the regional government’s message, the site for the project has already been prepared, and the design and estimate documentation is “sent for examination.” The company plans to produce 7.5 thousand tons of vegetables per year.

Nizhnevartovskaya GRES in January-June 2015 increased electricity production by 38% compared to the same period last year - up to 6.5 billion kWh, the press service of the GRES reports. The increase in production is associated with the commissioning of the third power unit in the second quarter of 2014, as well as with an increase in the total operating time of the first and second power units. The installed capacity utilization factor in the reporting period was 75.3%.

The next parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan are scheduled for October 4, according to the president’s website. “President Almazbek Atambayev appointed elections of deputies of the new convocation of the Jogorku Kenesh (parliament) for October 4, 2015,” the message says.

Rostov basketball club declared bankrupt The Ataman basketball club, which played in the Russian Super League, was declared bankrupt, and arbitration opened bankruptcy proceedings for six months. The general director of the team, Andrei Gribenyuk, says that Ataman has long been unprofitable, and calls the main reason for bankruptcy an inconsistent financial policy.

Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine blocked the activities of a group of people who organized a financing scheme for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the SBU press center reports. As the department stated, back in 2014, DPR financiers participated in the creation of the Republican Bank, the Ministry of Revenue and Duties and the DPR Ministry of Finance.

The draw for the calendar of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying tournament among the national teams of the Confederation of South America (CONMEBOL) took place in St. Petersburg. The ceremony was conducted by the Secretary General of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Jerome Valcke, his assistants were two-time world champion Brazilian Ronaldo and the best player of the 2010 world championship, Uruguayan Diego Forlan.

The United States national soccer team will play against Trinidad and Tobago in the same group in the fourth round of the North, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF) regional qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. This became known following the results of the preliminary draw of the tournament, which takes place in the Konstantinovsky Palace in St. Petersburg.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the Russian Federation is ready to develop energy cooperation with the European Union and build alternative routes for gas and oil supplies to Europe. “We are ready to develop energy cooperation with the European Union and build alternative supply routes in order to meet the growing needs of European economies in the future.

The Turkish military carried out airstrikes on the positions of militants of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in Syria, Reuters reports, citing local television. Turkish fighters also fired at the positions of Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. Earlier, Kommersant reported that the Turkish authorities allowed the US Air Force and the international coalition to use the country's air bases to conduct operations against the terrorist group ISIS.

The District Duma will discuss its attitude towards the head of the administration Deputies of the municipal assembly of the Petrovsky district of the Saratov region will consider the issue of no confidence in the head of the local administration, Yuri Zaigralov. This proposal was made by deputy Vladimir Prokhorov, who believes that Mr.

The Center for Combating Propaganda of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group The Sawab has collected 6 thousand followers on Twitter in 17 days. The center, open in the United States and the UAE, hosts news about the fight against IS, statements by politicians and religious figures, eyewitness accounts and former members of the group.