Lieutenant General Valery Asapov died near the city of Deir ez-Zor in Syria during a mortar attack on the positions of Syrian government troops by militants of the Islamic State terrorist group, TASS reports the Ministry of Defense. “The senior group of Russian military advisers, Lieutenant General V. Asapov, was at the command post of the Syrian troops, assisting the Syrian commanders in managing the operation to liberate the city of Deir ez-Zor.

The missing Chechen singer Zelimkhan Bakaev, whose mother asked the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to help with the search for her son, appeared on two videos on YouTube , in which he says in Germany. The first to report their appearance was the Grozny CHGTRK. In the video, a smiling Bakaev turns to a friend Islam living in Holland, and says that from about mid -August it has been in Germany. He says that he settled with a friend, without specifying in which city.

The former deputy head of the Investigative Committee's own security department, Alexander Lamonov, began to cooperate with the investigation, several knowledgeable sources told Rosbalt. According to the publication, Lamonov spoke about the circumstances of the transfer of money for the release of Andrei Kochuykov, nicknamed “Italian,” an assistant of thief in law Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy).

At the marine mammal research base of the Primorsky Oceanarium on Russky Island in Vladivostok, one of the beluga whales died - she became entangled in gear brought in by a storm, a representative of the oceanarium, Elena Molchanova, told Interfax. “The animals live here in open water, fenced with coarse mesh. The enclosure is regularly cleaned by divers. But the day before a storm came, and a foreign object was carried into the reservoir.

The main page of the YouTube channel “ Movement ”, the authors of which publish videos about violations of the rules of the road, turned out to be blocked for users in Russia. The lock was spoke about the lock and periscope, the project coordinator Andrei Filin. At the same time, the channel videos themselves were available to users from Russia.

The editor-in-chief of the Novosibirsk publication SIB.FM Sergey Samoilenko left his post, explaining the decision to delete the news of anon on a rally with the participation of Alexei Navalny at the request of the owner of the publication. He himself informed Radio Liberty himself. The publication writes that SIB.FM posted the news about Navalny’s performance before supporters at a rally in Novosibirsk on September 22.