The head of the TFR, Alexander Bastrykin, considers it a low chance of returning to Russia assets belonging to a businessman Boris Berezovsky, who have died in the UK. It is reported by Interfax . “Berezovsky, the kingdom of heaven, was never given to us. Now the struggle for his assets is being conducted, but the chances (for their return to Russia) are extremely small, ”Bastrykin said on September 23 at the joint collegium of the TFR.

The United Arab Emirates confirmed the participation in air strikes on the positions of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria, Reuters reports citing a statement by the UAE Foreign Ministry. According to the application, the UAE Air Force took part in the air operation together with other forces participating in the international coalition to combat IGS. The first combat sorties took place on September 22, confirmed the foreign policy.

58.8% of the inhabitants of Catalonia support the idea of ​​transforming autonomy into a sovereign state, reports Europa Press with reference to the results of the survey conducted by the Center for Public Opinion Omnibus. Only 31.9% of respondents spoke out against the independence of autonomy. At the same time, 11% of respondents said that they were very afraid of gaining the status of a sovereign state by catalonia.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill to restrict the share of foreign shareholders in the authorized capital of the Russian media. It is reported by Interfax . The document introduced on September 17 by representatives of three opposition factions received support for the parliamentary majority and the specialized committee on information policy. The authors of the bill were the deputies Vadim Money (LDPR), Vladimir Parakhin (“Fair Russia”) and Denis Voronenkov (Communist Party).

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with the UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon, the Kremlin press service reports . According to the report, President Putin pointed out the inadmissibility of striking at the positions of IG militants in Syria without the consent of the official Damascus.

The United States nevertheless struck the positions of the “Islamic state of Iraq and Levant” in Syria. Aviation was used for the bombardment, including unmanned, as well as Tomagavk cruise missiles. The Syrian government was warned about the operation - through the representative of the country to the UN. In the operation, emphasized the representative of the Pentagon Vice Admiral John Kirby, other countries participate, but how and which ones did not specify.

One of the largest British banks Barclays was fined 37.7 million pounds ($ 62 million) for improper handling of client funds. This is stated in the September 23, a message on the financial supervision of the United Kingdom. It is reported that from 2007 to 2012, Barclays repeatedly violated the rule of storing customer funds separately from the bank’s own assets and was fined 1 million pounds ($ 1.6 million) for a similar abuse.

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine registered 690 candidates for deputies in the extraordinary elections on October 26 to Verkhovna Rada. This was reported on September 22 by the press service of the CEC of Ukraine. According to the press service of the commission, the deadline for nomination of candidates for deputies of the Ukrainian Parliament from political parties expired on September 15.

The US Air Force and partner states struck the first strokes of the positions of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria, Reuters reports with reference to the representative of Pentagon Rear Admiral John Kirby. According to Kirby, a bomber and a fighter participate in the operation. Tomagavk missiles are used, designed to defeat ground targets. The Pentagon representative refused to reveal other details, referring to the fact that the operation was ongoing.

The Irkutsk transport police establishes the personality of a man who rushed under the wheels of a train at the Irkutsk -Passenger station. According to the press service of the East Siberian Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in transport, the incident occurred on the evening of September 22. According to eyewitnesses, during the departure of composition No. 362 by the Irkutsk -Naushka message, the man rushed under the first car.

At the new station of the Moscow Metro "Spartak" a video surveillance system is installed that does not leave plots outside the zone of visibility of the cameras. This is reported on September 23 by Interfax . The system includes more than 120 video cameras at the new Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya station of the capital's metro uses modern digital equipment and is designed so that the system operator sees the entire station entirely.

The National Guard announced its non -involvement in the murders of civilians, whose burial was discovered near Donetsk. This was reported on the website of the National Guard. “This information is not true, since not a single unit of NSU was based in the indicated area and near it,” the report said. Earlier it was reported that in the area of ​​the village of Kommunar on the territory of mine No. 22, 60 kilometers east of Donetsk, local militias discovered a burial.

Some time ago, work was published in the journal PLOS ONE, the authors of which believe that they have found a way to distinguish scientific publications based on real data from publications that use fabricated data. At least this was achieved for the texts of one particular author.

On September 30, 2014 (Tuesday), as part of the film lecture of the Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology “Intermediary Camera”, candidate of art criticism, director of the festival Evgeniy Vasilyevich Alexandrov will give a lecture about the classic of documentary cinema Robert Flaherty - “Flaherty’s Prediction: Freedom Above Professionalism.” After the lecture, a screening of R. Flaherty’s film “Man of Aran” (76 min., 1934) is planned.

The Medical Committee of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) proposed supplementing the rules of competition with the opportunity to stop matches for 3 minutes if a football player is suspected of concussion. This was reported on the FIFA website. The proposal has already been sent for consideration in the FIFA Executive Committee, whose meeting will be held on September 25.