First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation Council's Committee on Defense and Security Frants Klintsevich considers the US military’s training manual to be useless in the case of an armed conflict between Russia and the United States, RIA Novosti news agency reports.

"No kind of manual will help them if they go crazy and start some kind of confrontation with Russia. Neither in military-technical terms, nor in moral-psychological training, are they capable of fighting the Russians," …

All movable and immovable property in Ukraine owned by former Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaliy Zakharchenko, as well as funds listed in his name in Ukrainian banks, have been seized as reported by the television channel Pryamoi, citing the press service of the National Police,.

"The arrest has been imposed on all the movable and immovable property of the suspect, [as well as] money located in banking institutions on the territory of Ukraine," the television station quotes the National …

On September 24, the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) organized the first anti-government action since the victory of its leader Igor Dodon in the presidential elections last fall.

As reported by NewsMaker news agency, this was the day that an advisory referendum on expanding the powers of the head of state could be held, which was initiated by Dodon in the spring. His decree was later annulled by the Constitutional Court of Moldova.

Socialists staged protest marches in …

The police did not allow an unauthorized peace march in St. Petersburg to pass along Nevsky Prospekt. A total of about 200 people participated in the march.

The march, scheduled for September 24, the International Day of Peace, was to start at 2 p.m.

According to the publication Fontanka, by that time the participants of the march had gathered near the Kazan Cathedral, and 40 minutes later were to head towards the Senate Square along the main thoroughfare of the city. The police blocked part …

Russian general Valery Asapov was killed in Syria, as initially reported by the radio station Govorit Moskva (Moscow Speaks) with a reference to a source in the headquarters of the Fifth Army of the Russian Federation. According to their information, Asapov did not respond to attempts to contact him after 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. It is assumed that he was killed in a mortar strike at the command post in Syria.

Later, information appeared on social networks stating that the incident occurred near …

As part of the criminal investigation against Oleksiy Azarov, the son of the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov, his property and bank accounts in Ukraine, Italy, and Switzerland were seized, as stated in the Prosecutor General's Office response to the request of UNN (Ukrainian National News).

"During the pre-trial investigation, the property belonging to O.M. Azarov was seized, namely land plots and houses in Ukraine and the Italian Republic. Vehicles, as well as cash in the …

In the separatist-held Luhansk, representative offices for the "Russian Community of the Crimea" and the “Russia – Donbas Committee” were opened. They are expected to be able to provide information on the registration of documents required by Russia, as well as Crimean information, in particular, about tourist routes to the annexed peninsula, as reported by RIA Novosti news agency.

According to the agency, the main goal of the representative offices will be the development of economic ties …

A group of Chinese tourists, representatives of think tanks and businesses came to the annexed Crimea for a vacation. On September 22, they met with the head of the Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov and the Speaker of the Russian Parliament of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov.

This was reported by the press service of the Crimean parliament. The Chinese tourists came to "study the prospects of educational tourism, including a gastronomic program."

"I am ready to show our achievements in the field of …