More by RFE/RL's Tom Balmforth on that killing in Moscow:
Prominent Ukrainian Anti-Maidan Activist Killed In Moscow Restaurant
By Tom Balmforth
MOSCOW -- Russian investigators say a prominent Ukrainian separatist has been shot dead in an upscale restaurant outside Moscow by a gunman disguised in a fake moustache and a panama hat.
Investigators said the most likely motive in the September 19 slaying of 40-year-old Yevhen Zhylin, who is sought by authorities in his native Ukraine on terrorism charges, is a business dispute, although they added that they were exploring other possible motives that include personal enmity. http://mosobl.sledcom.ru/news/item/1067819/
Authorities said the gunman waited 20 minutes at a neighboring table for Zhylin, who arrived with another man for a business meeting. After they placed their order, the suspect rose, approached them, and opened fire.
Zhylin reportedly died on the scene, while the second man, identified by local media as Andrei Kozyrev, is hospitalized in critical condition.
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Ukrainian lawmakers consider Russian parliamentary elections illegitimate:
The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada has branded Russia's parliamentary elections illegitimate.
In a resolution passed by 264 votes in favor on September 20, the lawmakers said they do not recognize the legitimacy of the elections because they were also held in the forcibly annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea -- the first time since Moscow's takeover of the territory in March 2014.
The lawmakers also urged the international community to follow their example.
The September 18 vote strengthened the ruling United Russia party's grip on the State Duma, the lower house of parliament. (Interfax, TASS)
Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (click to enlarge):
