Meduza reports that journalists present at the trial in the case of former Russian Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukaev were asked to leave the courtroom. A decision was made to listen behind closed doors to the testimony of FSB General Oleg Feoktistov, who is called the "initiator of the criminal case" against the ex-minister.

RIA Novosti, citing the press service of the GUMVD in Moscow, reports: Nikolai Lyaskin, suspected of attacking Alexei Navalny's chief of staff, said that Lyaskin himself ordered the attack on himself and paid 150,000 rubles for it. “In his testimony, the detainee explained to the police that he had previously known the victim. When asked about the circumstances of the acquaintance, he explained that it happened at the headquarters, which the victim manages.

"Mediazona" reports: the capital's police detained a suspect in the case of an attack on the head of the Moscow headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, Nikolai Lyaskin. Last Friday, an unknown person at the exit from the headquarters (Gilyarovsky Street) hit Lyaskin twice with an iron pipe wrapped in a newspaper and disappeared. Lyaskin received a closed craniocerebral injury and concussion.

Former Utah Governor John Huntsman, who was nominated by President Trump to be the US ambassador to Russia, is sure that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in America. "There is no question about that," Huntsman said at a September 19 Senate hearing to consider his candidacy for a diplomatic post in Moscow, Reuters reported . Huntsman promised, if approved by the US ambassador, to discuss the situation around interference in the elections with the Russian authorities.

Russia paid an official $ 50 thousand for a “right” report on sanctions, the experts of Un Watch are sure Photo: Flickr.com / Alexander Jones On September 19, at the UN General Assembly in New York, members of the Russian delegation defiantly left the hall before the President of Lithuania: the first deputy chairman of the Russian Federation at the UN Pyotr Ilyichev and the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky did not want to listen to Dali Gribauskite, who

reported on September 20, Alexander Kalinin, the leader of the Christian State - Holy Russia organization, was detained, Gazeta.ru citing a law enforcement source. The reason for the detention was Kalinin's calls to set fire to cinemas in which the film directed by Alexei Uchitel "Matilda" will be shown.

Photo: *0642.ua * The Dutch government allocated €9 million to organize the trial of those responsible for the crash of the Malaysian Boeing, the Dutch newspaper Telegraaf reported on September 20, citing the published expenditure items of the Ministry of Security and Justice in the state budget for 2018. The document stipulates that these funds are allocated exclusively to finance the trial, including its protection.

Why did Lukashenko and Putin never appear together on the maneuvers "West-2017" Photo: Belta.by On September 20, the joint strategic exercises of the West-2017 ended the armed forces of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. The main result of the action is not even a convincing victory of the united troops over the insidious Veineria, Variabaria and Lubenia, and the wedge of distrust driven by the Russian military in the already difficult relations of Moscow and Minsk.