Correspondents from Lifenews and Rossiya 24 left Luhansk for Syria. “So the war is over,” the locals concluded. 2 October. I'm near Luhansk, I'm taking some medicines to old people I know. And some sweets for their grandchildren. All this is already in the "LNR". Only the prices here are Russian at best. And pensions are “republican”. Grandmother Alena, for example, has 900 hryvnias. This is 1800 rubles. (The rate is now simple, one to two.) 1800 is still a high pension.

From the cycle "Citizen Poet" We are rushing to the denouement, we are going to fight in order to give the land in Damascus to Assad. In fact, does it really matter? - We didn’t give a damn about Bashar, but it’s important for us to move the world army, to leave the blat-hut, to go to war. Other people's affairs beckon behind the fog. Again, Russia is small for Russians. Let you be a paralytic in your native country - but a geopolitician in everything that is outside.

Voting in the elections to the Zhogorku Kenesh, the local parliament, has ended in Kyrgyzstan, reports . Interfax At 20:00 local time (17:00 Moscow time), all polling stations in the country closed. Voter turnout was about 42 percent. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the Kyrgyz Central Election Commission, 514 thousand votes were counted, in total about 2.7 million people could take part in the voting.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the Russian military campaign in Syria unacceptable, reports Agence France-Presse. “The steps that Russia is taking and the airstrikes in Syria are in no way acceptable to Turkey. Unfortunately, Russia is making a fatal mistake,” Erdogan said. The head of state made this statement in Istanbul before a two-day visit to the European Union, where he will discuss refugee issues and the war against Islamists.

Oppositionists clashed with police near the parliament building in Chisinau, Interfax reports . The conflict occurred when the police did not let a group of delegates from a rally taking place in the Great National Assembly Square into the parliament building. There was a scuffle between the protesters and the police, as a result, several people were tied up and taken to the side of the road.

Over the past day, Russian aviation made 20 sorties, striking 10 militant targets in Syria. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. The ministry claims that the planes are bombing the positions of the so-called Islamic State (a terrorist organization banned in Russia). In particular, in the province of Idlib, SU-25 planes carried out airstrikes on a militant training camp and destroyed a workshop for the production of "martyr's belts".

Strategic consequences of the war in Syria Strategic consequences of the war in Syria Having decided to enter the war in Syria, Vladimir Putin again forced Western leaders to talk to him and diverted the attention of the Russian quilted jacket from the slowly dying Donbass. Tactical mission accomplished. The question is, what will be the strategic consequences of this war for Russia? In order to evaluate them, I think four points must be kept in mind. First.

A protest action has begun in the center of Chisinau on the Great National Assembly Square, reports . RIA Novosti About 2-3 thousand people gathered on the square in front of the government building. At the same time, Notebook Moldova reports about 7-8 thousand people.

At least 13 people have died as a result of flooding in the south of France, reports Agence France-Presse, citing emergency services and local authorities. It is reported that three drowned in a nursing home, five more drowned in their cars. A severe storm hit the Alpes-Maritimes region late Saturday evening, receiving two monthly rainfall for three hours. As a result, several rivers overflowed their banks. The streets of Nice and Cannes were flooded.

On the night of Sunday, October 4, in Rostov-on-Don, an intoxicated driver of a Hyundai SUV knocked down three traffic police officers on Nansen Street and rammed a company car, the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . reports “Two employees tried to stop the intruder, as a result of which the Hyundai Solaris dragged them and hooked several more cars, after which it rolled into the bushes and crashed into a tree,” the message says.

The national carrier was able to avoid a disadvantageous purchase of a competitor, but will still take on the "problems of the industry" The national carrier was able to avoid a disadvantageous purchase of a competitor, but will still take on the "problems of the industry" Photo: RIA Novosti The fate of the second largest airline in the country has not yet been finally resolved.

The main result of the war in the Lugansk region: the old elites retained power in full The main result of the war in the Lugansk region: the old elites retained power in full The hot phase of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which, according to the UN alone, has claimed more than 8,000 lives, is close to ending.