The relatives of those who died in the airplane crash of Malaysian “Boeing” in July 2014, are being misinformed intentionally. The Chairman of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin announced it in “Lenta.ru” on September 28.

On September 28, 2016, a festive concert dedicated to the Day of Education and Science Workers was held in the Donetsk State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after A. Solovyanenko.

The Chairman of the DPR People's Council Denis Pushilin told “Urgent commentaries” about what in the DPR expect from the Primaries and about the preparations for straw ballot.

On September 27, the unveiling of the monument to the prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, which functioned during the Great Patriotic War, took place in Donetsk. The event was attended by the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin.

On September 26, the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin participated in solemn event on the occasion of 4 million tons of mined coal in Makeevka’s mine “Kholodnaya balka” since the beginning of the year.

On September 24, the grand opening of the festival “Ready for Labour and Defense” took place in Donetsk Central Park of Culture and Rest named after A. Shcherbakov. The event was attended by the Chairman of the DPR People's Council Denis Pushilin, Minister of Youth, Sports and Tourism of the DPR Michael Mishin.

On September 23, in advance of the DPR's Mechanical Engineers' Day in Donetsk a ceremony, which was attended by the Chairman of the DPR People's Council Denis Pushilin and Acting Minister of Industry and Trade of the DPR Alexey Granovsky, took place in Donetsk.

On September 21, 2016, the match of 1/2 finals of the Open Cup of Rostov region's Football Federation between “Novoshakhtinsk” (Russia) and “Oplot of Donbass” (DPR) took place. For the first time in the history of the Donetsk People's Republic, the FC “Oplot of Donbass” got a call and took part in the football tournament of international level.

On September 21, the meeting of the Contact group on the conflict settlement in Donbass was held in Minsk. The agenda included issues of compliance with armistice as well as discussion of the document on disengaging of sides.

On September 17, 2016, the exchange of prisoners took place between Donetsk and Kiev within the framework of Minsk Trilateral contact group’s work. The Donetsk People’s Republic handed allegedly an employee of the UN humanitarian mission in Ukraine, which gathered the intelligence information, to the Ukrainian side of the SSU colonel, Yuri Suprun. In exchange, 4 civilians were returned.