- 1. - The referendum on the entry of the Lugansk People's Republic into the Russian Federation was declared valid, since more than 50% of voters voted on it. This was announced on Sunday in an interview with TASS by the head of the Central Election Commission of the LPR, Elena Kravchenko. “There is a high turnout throughout the entire territory of the Luhansk People's Republic. On the third day of voting, more than 50% of the referendum participants took part. Thus, the referendum is considered valid,” Kravchenko said. As of September 23, 1,360,768 referendum participants were included in the voting lists in the LPR. The CEC noted that the turnout on the third day was 76.09%. “The turnout in the republic at the end of today was, this is our third day of voting, 76.09%. According to the lists of voters in the republic, 1 million 35,422 ballots were received,” said the head of the CEC of the republic.
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2. - The centre-right coalition leads the early elections to the Italian parliament, gaining 41-45 percent of the vote, according to the first exit poll data shown on the Rainews24 channel. It is specified that Giorgi Meloni's Brothers of Italy movement, which is in the coalition, receives 22-26 percent of the vote. This is the best result of individual political forces. Its allies, the League and Forward Italia parties, gain 8.5-12.5 percent and 6-8 percent, respectively. The center-left coalition, according to polls from polling stations, can count on 25.5-29.5 percent. Its leading player, the Democratic Party, tentatively garners between 17 percent and 21 percent of the vote. The third most popular political force is the 5 Star Movement, which can count on 13.5-17.5 percent of support.
Deputy Speaker of the European Parliament Katarina Barli is concerned about the center-right coalition's leadership in the elections in Italy and believes that George Meloni (leader of the Brothers of Italy party), who is tipped to be the Italian prime minister, will follow the example of politicians such as the former US president in the new post Donald Trump and current Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. "George Meloni will become a prime minister whose political role models are Viktor Orban and Donald Trump," Barley told the German newspaper Welt, adding that the center-right coalition's leadership was "worrisome." MEP Thomas Weitz, co-chairman of the European Green Party, in turn, believes that the EU can only function as a unity, and Meloni in this sense "could be a disaster for Europe." “The foundations and shared values of the EU will be threatened if Italy, the EU’s third largest economy, is ruled by a coalition of post-fascists and far-right parties,” Weitz said.
Anti-Russian sanctions have caused much more damage to the economy of Europe and led the economic state of the continent into recession. This was stated by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Sunday, September 25. “Sanctions have hurt Europe much more than Russia, and are doing great damage to the European economy, as European inflation, utility bills, natural gas and food prices have skyrocketed, all because of the sanctions, and the continent's economy has fallen into recession. ”, he said on the radio Kossuth. Earlier, on September 23, Szijjarto expressed the opinion that the European economy is moving towards a recession, which is contrary to the interests of Europe and its peoples. Therefore, Hungary sees no point in chasing a new package of anti-Russian sanctions.
3. - The order to restrict the entry of Russian citizens into Poland came into force on Monday at Polish air and sea border checkpoints. Previously, these measures were introduced at pedestrian and automobile checkpoints. Now sea and air carriers who have taken on board a person who has no reason to enter Poland will have to send him back at their own expense. On September 19, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland, Mariusz Kaminski, ordered to tighten the rules for entry into the country for Russians following the results of reaching relevant agreements with the authorities of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, who decided to limit the possibility of entry into the Schengen zone to Russian citizens traveling for tourism, cultural, sports and business purposes, and as well as international cooperation programs. The employees of the Polish border guard, as well as the Baltic countries, refuse entry to the territory of Poland for the above reasons, including Russian citizens who have Schengen visas issued by third countries.Representatives of the Mechanism of the Integrated Political Response (IPCR) of the European Union will meet on September 26 to discuss the issuance of humanitarian visas to citizens of the Russian Federation. This was announced to Izvestia on September 26 at the European Commission. The discussion will also continue on September 27 at the Blueprint Network meeting (meeting of member states and relevant agencies). “Now the members of the association are trying to work out a common approach (on issuing humanitarian visas). The management of the external borders of the EU should be carried out in accordance with the legislation of the association, including respect for fundamental human rights and ensuring access to asylum procedures, ”the agency’s press service told Izvestia.
4. - Belarussia should update the Security Concept of the Union State, taking into account new challenges and threats, Alexander Volfovich, State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, said on Sunday. “Last year, a new National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation was approved. This year we are completing work on the National Security Concept of the Republic of Belarus. Of course, the time has come to correct and make changes to the Security Concept of the Union State,” Volfovich said on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel. The State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council motivated this initiative by the fact that "together we are developing mechanisms to counter today's modern threats to the national security of our countries."
5. - In the Zhambyl and Alma-Ata regions (in the south-east of Kazakhstan), from September 26 to October 8, exercises of the collective rapid reaction forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will be held: "Interaction-2022", "Search-2022 ”, “Echelon-2022”, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported. “During the movement of military contingents, issues of commandant service, air defense and comprehensive support will be worked out,” the defense department added. Earlier, the CSTO joint headquarters reported that the command and staff exercise with the CSTO CRRF "Interaction-2022" provides for working out the issues of preparing and conducting a joint operation to localize the armed conflict in the Central Asian region of collective security. It was noted that for the first time a new unit of collective forces would take part in the exercises - the joint formation of the RCB for protection and medical support of the CSTO.
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