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April 11. Trump promised Russia to strike Syria

The United States is preparing to strike Syria in response to a chemical attack, allegedly carried out by Syrian troops on April 7 in the city of Duma. As a result of the bombing, according to preliminary data from the World Health Organization, 70 people were killed, 500 have symptoms of poisoning. Russia claims that neither the dead nor the victims are.

Journalists and experts believe that the American operation can be larger than in a similar situation a year ago. In April 2017, the United States bombed the air base in Syria in response to a chemical attack in the city of Khan Sheikhun. For what purposes can a blow be dealt and how great is the risk of a direct collision of the United States with Russia? We have collected the main versions of the media .

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The SKaccused the negligence of the fire department, who extinguished the shopping center in Kemerovo. The investigation believes that Sergei Genin ignored the instructions of eyewitnesses on the shortest way to burning cinemas and lost "the time that could be used to save and evacuate people." SK assigned to Genin responsibility for the death of 37 people who were in one of the burned cinema halls.

In Algeria, the military transport Il-76 crashed , on board which were 257 people. All of them died. This is the largest in the number of victims of a plane crash since the crash of the Boeing of the Malaysian Boeing in the Donbass in 2014.

The euro on the exchange for the first time in two years exceeded 80 rubles. The fall of the ruble began on April 9, after the introduction of the US sanctions against Russian business. The official CB exchange rate for tomorrow is 79.28 rubles, the dollar is 64.06 rubles. This is how the euro has changed since the beginning of the year:

Mark Zuckerberg testified in Congress

Yesterday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for five hoursgave testimony in the US Senate , and today he came to the House of Representatives. He was asked about the security of user data in connection with the leakage of information to the company Cambridge Analytica and interference in the American elections. Zuckerberg's answers were predictable and did not always satisfy the congressmen - this is how it looked . Users of social networks were convinced that the founder of Facebook is a robot .

The opposition goes to the election of the Moscow Mayor

The opposition and head of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky district, Ilya Yashin, announced the desire to participate in the elections of the mayor of Moscow in order to "stop Sobyanin and" United Russia ", change the system and deploy the city with a face to people." He admitted that he was not the only contender for the role of an opposition candidate, and expressed his readiness to participate in the primaries.

Politician Dmitry Gudkov, who also declared mayor's ambitions and proposed to arrange primaries, criticized Yashin's statement. According to Gudkov, he promised “not to go to the polls against him,” but Alexei Navalny, who supports Yashin, turned out to be “above public”. Gudkov said he would continue to prepare for the elections.

Victor Davydov