Day: September 9, 2017

Dad Massat Diack, the son of the former head of the International Association of athletics federations (IAAF) Lamin dick, said the French Prosecutor’s office put forward allegations of corruption. His words leads Reuters. “These allegations — the biggest lie in the history of world sport. Sometimes I accompanied my father to help him in his personal Affairs, but to say that I bought votes… my job was to help the IAAF to choose the country for sporting events,” said Diack Jr. On 5 September, prosecutors in France have discovered a corruption scheme between the IAAF and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Papa Diack Massat caught in illegal payments made to members of the IAAF and the IOC in the framework of the election of the hosts of major sporting tournaments.

Elections at various levels in the single voting day on September 10 started in some regions of Russia. At 08:00 local time (23:00 MSK) opened the polls in the East. There will be a total of more than 5.8 thousand elections and referendums. Direct elections of heads of subjects will be held in 16 regions of Buryatia, Mari El, Karelia, Mordovia, Udmurtia, Perm Krai, Belgorod, Kaliningrad, Kirov, Novgorod, Ryazan, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk and Yaroslavl oblasts, and Sevastopol, which is the first ever direct elections of the city head. In addition, the election of deputies of the legislative Assembly will be held in six regions: North Ossetia, Udmurtia, Krasnodar, Penza, Saratov and Sakhalin regions. In the capital the elections of the councils of deputies of the 125 districts — all the districts of old Moscow, in addition to the Shchukin, and in the city district of Troitsk in the New Moscow.

The defeat, which Syrian government forces backed by the Russian space forces have caused factions of the “Islamic state” near the city of Deir ez-Zor, is a devastating, exceeding in its importance and scale of all previous victories over the past three years. This was stated by the Russian defense Ministry, RIA Novosti reported. “Syrian government troops after applying the Russian VKS massive air strike on the evening of 9 September, broke fierce resistance from ISIL militants in the area located in the South-East of Deir ez-Zor airport and broke through the encirclement of terrorists”, — stated in the message of the defense Department. Currently, as noted, the government troops under the command of General Hassan Suhel together with the units stationed in the surroundings at the air base, the Syrian military garrison formed extend the corridor between the airport and Deir ez-Zor, conducting successful military actions on the flanks.