Israel periodically conducts military operations in Syria. This was stated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at a conference in Acre. “From time to time, we conduct operations in Syria to prevent this country from becoming a front in the war with Israel,” Netanyahu said. He also said that Israel pays special attention to preventing accidental clashes with the military from the Western anti-terrorist coalition and from Russia, reports The Times of Israel.

Opposition protests began in Yerevan against the constitutional reform. The action began at about 18:00 local time (19:00 Moscow time) with a rally on Freedom Square, which grew into a procession through the central streets of Yerevan. After that, the activists returned to Freedom Square and announced the start of a round-the-clock rally. Special Forces forces have been pulled into the center of the city, reports . the "Caucasian Knot" During the rally, two activists were detained .

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to spend 99 percent of his company shares on “improving the world for the next generation.” He announced this in a letter to his newborn daughter Max, which he published on his Facebook. Zuckerberg estimates it's about $45 billion. He intends to distribute these funds throughout his life.

The decision to close the Russian-Turkish Research Center at the Library of Foreign Literature is "only partly" a political one, driven primarily by economic considerations. According to the website of the library, since the opening in 2013, the center has been funded by the Turkish side, but all this time funding has been declining. In October and November, it stopped completely, and against the background of the aggravated Russian-Turkish relations, a decision was made to close the center.

A text dedicated to the World AIDS Day appeared on the website of the Ryazan administration. The material first tells about the history of the appearance of such a day and is given statistics on HIV-infected people in Russia and the region. The final part of the text is devoted to HIV transmission routes and methods of protection from them. True, in terms of protection, the city administration offers only two radical measures - to abandon sexual contacts and drug use.

Russia has suspended negotiations with Turkey on the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline and the Akkuyu nuclear power plant. This was reported to Interfax by an unnamed source. Current gas supplies, according to the interlocutor of the agency, will be carried out in accordance with contracts. Turkish Stream is a gas pipeline project that will run along the bottom of the Black Sea from the Krasnodar Territory to Turkey and from there to Greece.

RBC was invited to the annual meeting of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with journalists from Russian TV channels. The holding will be represented by editor-in-chief Elizaveta Osetinskaya, a source close to the press conference organizers told Meduza. The meeting will be held on December 9, it will be broadcast live by federal TV channels. It is not known whether RBC-TV, which is part of the RBC holding, plans to broadcast the meeting.

Photo: Alexey Nikolsky / Sputnik / Scanpix Comban Gennady Khazanov celebrated his birthday in the Kremlin-the president invited him to a tea party in honor of the 70th anniversary of the artist. During the meeting on Khazanov’s head, the crown was, which he himself gave to Putin. First, Putin “on behalf of the multimillion -dollar army of fans” awarded the birthday man the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the 1st degree, and also presented him with the 1910 culinary book.

Alexey Navalny's group publishes startling revelations linking the Attorney General's son to the mob Screencap: Pomegranate Wellness Spa Hotel / YouTube The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), run by opposition activist Alexey Navalny, has published a large investigation into the illicit actions of Russian Attorney General Yuri Chaika and his family.

The Kremlin has not seen an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation about the family of Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said. FBK published a film and a large text about the business of the sons of Yuri Chaika on the afternoon of December 1. The protagonist of the investigation is Artem Chaika, the eldest son of the Prosecutor General.

As an “unwanted organization” saved Russian science, education and culture Photo: Pascal Lauener / Reuters / Scanpix The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the Open Society and Assistance funds founded by American financier George Soros, “undesirable organizations”. According to the Russian authorities, the activities of these funds threatens the country's constitutional system.

Shot: Detsl Aka Le Truk / YouTube The musician Detsl Aka Le Truk (Cyril Tolmatsky) shows his new video for the song “Traffic jams, construction, dirt” on Medusa. In the track recorded in the spring of 2015, Le Truk is toughly passing through the vices of modern society: “propaganda spam”, “resource vandals”, “difficult childhood - poor old age”, “hungry people are well -fed power”.

near a metro station in Istanbul A bomb exploded , said the head of the Bayrampasa district where the explosion occurred. As a result, five people were injured. The explosion occurred at the Bayrampasa station. An explosive device was planted on the overpass. This can be seen on the video from the surveillance camera. What kind of transport moves along this overpass is unclear.

The Pentagon will send a special forces unit to Iraq to fight the militants of the Islamic State (the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and banned). This was announced by US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. According to Carter, the tasks of the special forces will be the release of hostages, the collection of intelligence information and the capture of ISIS leaders. The US military will operate jointly with the Iraqi government army and Kurdish armed groups.

"Medusa" - about the best publications of the month The news in November 2015 obscured large texts: a month ago it was impossible to imagine that the Turkish Air Force would drive a Russian military aircraft, and the Sinai terrorists would be passenger, after which Russia would forbid tourists to go to Egypt and begin the anti -Turkish campaign.