They left Syria for the third time

Everything you need to know early in the morning of December 12

Good morning!

Let's start with mysterious. This stone in the death valley seemed to have drove along the sand. In fact, he rode on an ice floe that melted. Only a stone and a trace remained.

This sailing stone in Death Valley National Park Might Look Like It Walked Accross the Sand on its Own, But Its Actually Carried by Ice Thor LEAVING JUST THE ROCK and Its Track. (Image: lgcharlot) pic.twitter.com/tsk01qbgzo

- Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 11, 2017

Vladimir Putin suddenly arrived at the Russian base Khmeimim in Syria , announced that the Russian army, together with Syrian defeated the “most combat -ready grouping of international terrorists”, and added that it was time to partially withdraw Russian troops from Syria. The Minister of Defense Shoigu had already reported that they began to be withdrawn. The riddle is that Putin announced the withdrawal of troops for the third time (previously the troops were partially withdrawn in March and December 2016), but how they moved along the desert, it is unknown. According to official figures, from September 2015 40 Russians have died in Syria; According to media estimates, only this year the number of dead was at least 130 people.

Another of the molten:

• In Russia, the Open Russia website is blocked , working for the money of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. At the request of the Prosecutor General with the wording “calls to the riots, the implementation of extremist activity”, etc.
• The net outflow of capital from Russia in 2017 increased 3.4 times compared to last year, calculated the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

Fruitment of interethnic growth. The leader of the SERB movement accuses of this very incitement by the organizers of the Artdokfest film festival, in St. Petersburg young people who attacked the metro passenger shouting “whites for whites”, are accused under the article “Hooliganism”, and one of them generally managed to escape to Estonia.

The Estonian businessman Raivo Susi gave in Russia 12 years for espionage. The court was held closed, so we did not know what Susy did, but he did not admit guilt.

But back to Putin. From Syria, he flew to Egypt , where the start of work on the construction of the Dabaa nuclear power plant with the assistance of Russia was announced . But ordinary Russians, of course, are more concerned about the resumption of direct air traffic with the New Year health resort. Flights will resume, but only in February and only to Cairo.

Another transport breakthrough: Russia completed 137 km of the railway so that the southern trains could not call into the territory of Ukraine. And they have not stopped there since yesterday.

The court in Kiev rejected the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office on the imprisonment of Mikhail Saakashvili under house arrest. He is free. The Prosecutor General will appeal. The counter claim to the prosecutor general of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko was filed by Sergey Kurchenko - for slander. The Prosecutor General’s Office accuses Saakashvili of preparing riots for the money of this very Kurchenko (who is in Russia and criminally persecuted in Ukraine and the USA). Kurchenko claims that he does not know Saakashvili and does not want to know, but Lutsenko made his statement, “being in a drunken fucker after another drinking bunger with his Kum-boutist Poroshenko.” But these are not all courts: today the court in Kyiv will consider the lawsuit of Mikhail Saakashvili against the migration service - the politician believes that he was illegally refused refugee status.

In court, the former President of Ukraine, former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, testified to former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych . He said that Yanukovych “self” in 2014 and that, returning to Kyiv, no one would deprive his presidential powers.

It's time to return to Putin again. From Egypt, he flew to Turkey , where he met with Erdogan and criticized Trump's decision to transfer the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

The US president has other problems now: the three women who have already accused him of harassment decided to once again discuss their stories in the media - the situation has changed, #Metoo on the cover of Time magazine. Meanwhile, Trump took up the development of space and signed the “Directive on Space Policy”: a base for flying to Mars will be created on the moon. If there is, of course.

The explosion at the bus station in New York is officially recognized as a terrorist attack. There are no dead, four people were injured, including the failed suicide bomber - a native of Bangladesh. He was detained.

In Saudi Arabia - unprecedented liberalization, cinemas will be allowed there again . They have not yet been allowed, watch a short movie about Jordan : the Deutsche Welle correspondent asks passers -by in Amman, what would they do if their sister got a job. One says that he would have killed his sister. So you will love your work to unconsciousness.

Three links we will start with the broom -raised Venichka theme:

• Here is what Erofeev wrote in a letter to the Hungarian translator Erzhebet Varya: “Ymca-Press arbitrarily distorted the recipe for“ bitchy gut ”. There is no “means from sweating of the legs” in it. And there is (between the resolution and the disinsexectal): brake fluid - 25 g, glue BF - 8 grams. It’s really impossible to make mistakes in the recipes. ” Seven more curioses about“ mosquitoes ”.
• The publishing house Strelka Press published the book “New Spirit in Architecture” - a collection of two lectures by Le Corbusier. Read the passage in which the architect explains why walls and roofs no longer exist.
• The chapter from the book “People of the World. Russian Scientific Abroad” (“Alpina Non-Fixhn”): as the leaving scientists were saved from the “overtaking homeland” if the state borders constantly changed, where the first grants came from and where the first Russian academic diasporas appeared.

Sincerely yours,
Seven and forth