Lieutenant General Valery Asapov died as a result of a mortar attack by IS militants. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The militants attacked the command post of the Syrian army, where Asapov was located. The general helped manage the operation to liberate the city of Deir ez-Zor and "was mortally wounded by a mine explosion," the ministry said. Asapov was posthumously nominated for the award, reports .

Chechen singer Zelimkhan Bakaev, who has been looking for his mother since August, said that he had gone to live in Germany. The video where he talks about this was published on YouTube by a certain Artem Lebedev, but the Chechen state channel Grozny was the first to pay attention to it. On the recording, Bakaev says that “already somewhere in mid-August he got to Germany” and settled with a friend. The video is addressed to a man named Islam, who, according to Bakaev, lives in Holland.

A Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet crashed in Terracina, Italy during an air show. The plane crashed into the sea, performing one of the aerobatics. According to La Stampa, the pilot did not have time to eject and died. At the helm was 36-year-old Italian Air Force Captain Gabriele Orlandi. In addition to the pilot, no one was injured in the crash - the plane crashed at a distance from spectators and ships located off the coast.

The far-right Alternative for Germany party won 94 out of 709 seats in the Bundestag (13.3%). These are the preliminary results of the vote count in the September 24 elections. The turnout was about 76%. The ruling bloc CDU/CSU won 246 seats (34.7%) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 153 (21.6%). The Free Democrats received 80 seats (11.3%), the Left 69 (9.7%) and the Greens 67 (9.4%) each.

Soviet hockey goalie Viktor Tolmachev found murdered in Moscow. This is reported by Moskovsky Komsomolets and Interfax with reference to unnamed sources . According to the agency, Tolmachev was found “with signs of violent death” in an apartment on Open Highway. MK reports that Tolmachev's 55-year-old daughter has been detained on suspicion of murder.

In the village of Ropsha in the Leningrad region on the evening of September 23, during the registration of a traffic accident, a woman's corpse was found in the trunk of one of the cars. According to the Investigative Committee, the car was stolen. The driver was detained. The car belonged to a local woman. Whether her corpse was found in the trunk is not specified in the report of the Investigative Committee. A criminal case has been initiated under the article on murder.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Is Orthodox terrorism possible? The authors of the text about the radical Orthodox movement “Christian state - Holy Russia” Daniil Turovsky and Alexander Borzenko discuss this organization with Olga Kuzmenkova and talk about the history of Orthodox fundamentalism in Russia.

The creditors paid for VIM-Avia flights only until noon on September 25th. Such an agreement, according to The Bell from unnamed sources, was reached on Saturday, September 23. Financing, according to the publication, was provided by structures close to the government of Tatarstan, the government itself and the Zenit bank close to it. This is due to the fact that VIM-Avia is registered in the republic.

Electric cars capture the world. Every year more and more new models appear, and manufacturers and entire countries promise to completely abandon gasoline engines in a couple of decades. But the developers of machines with an internal combustion engine do not think to give up: they also offer new technologies and increase efficiency. We tell how gasoline engines respond with electric. Squeeze The internal combustion engine has gone far from the invention of the 19th century.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced that US special forces are in Syria in territories controlled by the Islamic State and feel "completely safe." This, according to the Russian department, follows from satellite images of the area east of Deir ez-Zor.

Donald Trump quarreled with American athletes. Short Evan Vucci / AP / Scanpix / Leta Donald Trump during a performance in Alabama. September 22, 2017 US President Donald Trump criticized American athletes protesting during the Games against police arbitrariness in relation to blacks. In particular, Trump expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that some players of the National Football League refuse to get up during the performance of the American anthem.

In Moscow, they will show the premiere of "Old Man and the Sea" according to Hemingai Pavel Antonov / MTF named after A.P. Chekhov The founder of the "School of Dramatic Art", director Anatoly Vasiliev since 2006, has been living in France since 2006 and has not been working in Russia, but this summer he made an exception for the Chekhov festival and staged the performance "The Old Man and the Sea" based on the story of Hemingay on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater.

The US Army has published a manual on the tactics of the Russian troops of the "new generation". The document was posted on the Public Intelligence website, and drew The National Interest magazine attention to it. The authenticity of the document has not been confirmed, but a link to it is given by the US Army Asymmetric Warfare Group. The manual says that by observing the actions of the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia has successfully reformed its armed forces.

Brazilian Neymar for a month and a half in PSG The most expensive transfer in the history of football took place on August 3 - Brazilian Neymar ( with a scandal ) moved from Barcelona to PSG. More than a month and a half has passed since then - Neymar plays, clogs, quarrels with teammates. "Medusa" tells how he is doing. Nicolas Messyasz / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta Neymar earns 100 thousand euros per day.

American strategic bombers B-1B with an escort of F-15C fighters flew over the borders of North Korea. On September 23, the Pentagon reported. Bombers flew over the Sea of ​​Japan along the coast of the DPRK. The US Department of Defense noted that in the 21st century, American aircraft were flying missions so far north of the demilitarized zone for the first time.