Aman Tuleyev, who has headed the Kemerovo region since 1997, according to preliminary data, after processing 18.2% of the protocols, gains 97.04% of the votes in the elections for the governor of the region, follows from the data of the Central Election Commission. The second place is taken by the LDPR candidate Alexey Didenko, he gains 1.52% of the votes. The remaining candidates gain less than 1%.

The death toll in the sinking of a ship carrying illegal migrants off the coast of the Greek island of Farmakonisi has risen to 34 people, Reuters reports , citing a coast guard official. As a result of the incident, 15 children, including four infants, died, the agency’s interlocutor said. A boat carrying illegal migrants capsized off the coast of Farmakonisi on September 13. Information about the nationality of the dead has not yet been received.

The head of the Scottish government and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon, is considering the possibility of holding a second referendum on independence from Great Britain. This was reported by the Sunday Herald newspaper . The SNP leader wants to include a referendum in his party's election platform. However, its implementation will be considered only under a number of circumstances, the politician says, for example, when the UK leaves the EU.

Deutsche Bank is moving most of its local business out of Russia. RBC's interlocutors link this decision with sanctions, the decline of the Russian stock market and an investigation into money laundering by Russian clients Photo: AP Relocation and layoffs Deutsche Bank AG plans to close the main business in its Russian subsidiary - securities trading (55% of revenue). A source close to the bank’s head office in Frankfurt am Main told RBC about this.

Participants in a mass protest in the center of Chisinau adopted a resolution on Sunday, September 13, calling for a general strike, reports the Moldovan publication Jurnal.MD . “The document was adopted taking into account the wishes of representatives of all social segments who joined the platform,” said Andrei Năstase, chairman of the Council of the Grand National Assembly, created a week ago.

According to Ukrainian activists involved in the exchange of prisoners, informal negotiations took place in Minsk, during which Russian representatives proposed exchanging “GRU fighters” for director Sentsov and activist Kolchenko Evgeny Erofeev (Photo: REUTERS 2015) In Minsk, informal negotiations were held between representatives of Russia and Ukraine, at which the possibility of exchanging the so-called GRU fighters Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Erofeev was discussed.

Plot Single voting day 2015 Kostroma region is the only region in which candidates from the democratic coalition Alexei Navalny and Mikhail Kasyanov, running on the list of the PARNAS party, were allowed to participate in the elections to the legislative assembly. The area has become a focus of attention for observers and the media. The election monitoring organization Golos reported a record number of reports of violations coming from the Kostroma region.

According to the Central Election Commission, about a million Russians voted early in the September 13 elections. At the same time, about 59 million people are included in the voter lists, elections are held in 83 regions A resident of the village of Volno-Nadezhdinskoye during voting at polling station No.

More than 4 thousand Hungarian soldiers were sent to the border with Serbia due to the influx of migrants, the reports . BBC As Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced, tough immigration laws will come into force in Hungary on September 15, and those migrants who illegally cross the Hungarian border will be arrested. The soldiers will help the police control the border.

British musician Elton John, who is on a visit to Ukraine, expressed a desire to meet with Vladimir Putin and discuss gay rights with him Musician Elton John (Photo: AP) British musician Elton John has announced his desire to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discuss with him his, as he put it, “ridiculous” attitude towards gay rights. The musician made this statement in an interview with the BBC .

The construction of the Otkritie Arena stadium cost the owner of Spartak Leonid Fedun 14.5 billion rubles.

Decision-making procedures on refugees can be significantly accelerated by changing the German Constitution, said European Commissioner for Energy Günter Oettinger.

Ukraine has at its disposal a recording with the voice of Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov, who reported on the operation in Crimea and military operations. In Kyiv, Gerasimov is accused of starting an armed conflict Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios (Photo: Ina “Ukrainian Photo”) Ukraine has documentary evidence of the direct involvement of the head of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, in military operations on the territory of the country.

Acting Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko, based on the results of processing ballots in 47 election commissions (in total, about 960 election commissions were opened in the region), received approximately 80% of the votes. The head of the regional election commission, Vladimir Zhuravlev, told reporters about this, Interfax reports.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that during the Minsk agreements, 2,911 people were released from captivity, 112.ua reports . “During the validity of the Minsk agreements, we freed 2,911 people from military captivity and hostages,” Poroshenko said. According to him, there was not a single negotiation at which the issue of releasing the hostages was not raised. The Ukrainian leader also said that a large-scale demobilization process has been taking place in Ukraine since September 2.