Sergey Naryshkin will head the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and Mikhail Fradkov, who currently holds this post, will soon head the board of directors of Russian Railways, Interfax reports citing Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. According to the press secretary, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Sergei Naryshkin and the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Mikhail Fradkov, at which he offered Naryshkin to head the Foreign Intelligence Service.

A group of former senior US diplomats have spoken out against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The Washington Post published their collective letter. According to 75 diplomats, including ambassadors and senior officials of the US State Department, in their address, Trump is called "a completely unsuitable candidate for the role of president and commander in chief." Diplomats say none of them will vote for a Republican candidate.

Irina Yarovaya is running for the post of head of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Vedomosti reports, citing a source in the lower house of the State Duma. Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya is called another candidate. Vladimir Pligin, who headed the Duma committee on constitutional legislation for about 13 years, did not get into the State Duma of the seventh convocation, since he was fifth in the regional list of the United Russia for St.

More than 4,500 people voted in PEC No. 8269 in Damascus, assigned to the Slavgorod single-mandate constituency in the Altai Territory. Most of them, according to RBC experts, are servicemen taking part in the military operation in Syria and stationed at the Khmeimim base near Latakia. Thus, classified data on the number of Russian troops in Syria become public. The CEC website does not indicate how many of those who voted in Damascus were military personnel.

The Swedish Right Livelihood Award Foundation has awarded Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina with the Right Livelihood Award. The winners of the award, which is considered in the human rights environment as an alternative to the Nobel Prize, were announced on September 22, according to the portal www.newsru.com with reference to Deutsche Welle.

"Seven Oblast years" - a new book of the main Israeli writer is published in Russia Etgar Keret is probably the most significant figure today in Israel's literature. Glory brought to him a 1994 collection “Longing for Kissinger”-it was included in the list of 50 of the most significant Israeli books of all time, and the author was awarded all conceivable Israeli awards in the 1990s, from the prize of the prime minister.

150 years ago, a jury began to operate in Russia As a result of the large -scale reform of Alexander II, the jury court was a new, unprecedented institute for Russia. “It was about the transfer of the court itself, pronouncing the sentence to other hands,” recalled the outstanding bailiff Anatoly Koni.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress unanimously approved a law providing for the provision of lethal weapons to Ukraine. The corresponding statement was published on September 22 on the website of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. The Ukrainian Stability and Democracy Support Act was introduced into the House by Congressmen Eliot Engel and Adam Kinzinger.

The defeat of the humanitarian convoy near Aleppo put a truce in Syria on the brink of a breakdown A three -hour meeting of the UN Security Council under the number 7774 on September 21 focused on an emergency - shelling of the UN humanitarian convoy, the promotion of which was agreed with all parties to the eastern areas of Aleppo.

Anatoly Yakunin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow, announced to the personnel that he would leave his post in the near future, Interfax reports, citing an informed source. According to him, Yakunin said goodbye to his subordinates and said that he would soon receive a new appointment.