Russian television channels completely ignored the concert on Red Square dedicated to the anniversary of the annexation of Ukrainian territories in their news releases. The Agency drew attention to this. There was no mention of the show in the evening newscasts of Channel One, Rossiya 1 and NTV. Instead, they talked about events with the participation of President Vladimir Putin, as well as a meeting of CIS defense ministers in Tula, and elections in Slovakia.

Armenia filed a lawsuit against Azerbaijan at the International Court of Justice, accusing Baku of violating the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination due to the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.

In the center of Moscow, a Mercedes hit a group of people. TASS reports this. The incident occurred at the intersection of Nikitsky Boulevard and Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reported that as a result of the accident, five people received injuries of varying severity. According to preliminary data, the driver lost control, TASS notes.

The number of ethnic-Armenian refugees who were forced to flee from Nagorno-Karabakh, in the wake of Baku’s military assault on the region, has reached 97,735. This figure was reported by Nazeli Baghdasaryan, press secretary to Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. In recent years, Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian population was estimated to be 120,000.

Las Vegas police have made an arrest as part of the investigation into the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Associated Press reports The man arrested is 60-year-old drug dealer Dwayne Davis, also known as Keef Dee. He has already been charged with murder. AP notes that about two months ago, police searched the home of Davis' wife as part of the investigation into the murder of Tupac Shakur.

American journalist Evan Gershkovich has spent six months behind bars in the country his parents fled 38 years ago Evan Gershkovich in the defendant’s box of a Moscow courtroom, before an appeal hearing on his detention and espionage charges. September 19, 2023.

After the defeat of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, 97,735 people arrived in Armenia from the Nagorno-Karabakh after the defeat of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Night Baghdasaryan reports News.am with reference to the press secretary of the head of the government. The number of Armenian population of the Nagorno -Karabakh in recent years was estimated at 120 thousand people.

Here’s what’s happening at the front as Ukraine’s summer offensive draws to a close Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments in the battlefield, based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start, and our detailed military analyses are part of our commitment to objective reporting on a war we firmly oppose.

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency in New York City due to heavy rainfall. In addition to New York, the state of emergency will be in effect on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley region adjacent to the city. On Friday, September 29, more than 11 centimeters of rain fell in Brooklyn in a few hours, which is approximately the monthly norm. In Manhattan, half a month's worth of precipitation fell in just one hour.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed an executive order to draft 130,000 eligible men into the army as part of the seasonal conscription drive conducted by Russia this fall. Fall conscription will take place between October 1 and December 31. It’ll be the last military recruitment campaign when the upper age limit for mandatory conscription will be 27 years old. Starting in 2024, that age bracket will expand to the entire 18–30 age group.

The second wave of blocking of one of the most popular VPN protocols, WireGuard, has begun in Russia, the Agency reports, citing the project for monitoring restrictions on the Internet, Na Svyazi. According to the project, in the last week of September, complaints about blocking were received from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sverdlovsk, Yaroslavl, Rostov, Lipetsk, Kaluga, Penza, Samara, Ryazan, Belgorod, Voronezh, Vologda and Vladimir regions.

A live concert has started in Moscow’s Red Square, in celebration of Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian territories last year. Its slogan, “One country, one family, one Russia,” is consistent with Moscow’s official rhetoric, which presents the annexation of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions as a “reunification” with Russia, propelled by the people’s right to self-determination.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the autumn conscription into the army. The call will last from October 1 to December 31. As part of it, 130 thousand people aged 18 to 27 will be sent to the army. The Russian General Staff previously announced that it does not plan to send conscripts to the combat zone in Ukraine. This conscription will be the last one, when the conscription age will be limited to 27 years.

In the Nizhny Novgorod city of Zavolzhye, a former prisoner who recently returned from the war in Ukraine, during a quarrel “over an insignificant reason,” doused his sister with gasoline and burned him alive, reports Nizhny Novgorod Online with reference to the press service of the department of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod region. The department clarified that the woman died from her injuries. The suspect was soon detained and confessed to his crime.

Updated . The concert on Red Square has ended. Vladimir Putin did not appear. A concert entitled “One Country, One Family, One Russia” is taking place on Moscow’s Red Square, dedicated to the anniversary of the annexation of four Ukrainian regions. According to the schedule, the concert will last two hours. It will feature performers who regularly participate in such events - "Lyube", Shaman, Polina Gagarina, Grigory Leps, Oleg Gazmanov and others.