The militants of the "Islamic State" (the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia) took from the vaults of banks in Syria and Iraq from 500 million to a billion dollars. I stated this. O. U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Adam Szubin. IS's oil revenues Szubin estimated at about $40 million a month, and in total they managed to sell more than $500 million worth of oil.

Several students from Turkey were expelled from the Obninsk Institute of Atomic Energy (a branch of MEPhI University). Representative of the Association of Turkish Students in Russia Okan Yildiz told Dozhd about this. According to him, the police and the FSB conducted searches in the dormitory where students from Turkey lived for the presence of drugs. He also said that the FSB accused the students of supporting terrorism.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow denied the information about the spread of fire from a burning warehouse at the Tushino Machine-Building Plant to neighboring buildings, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the department. The Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed that household chemicals were stored in the burning warehouse.

On the campus of the University of Arkansas, some students were evacuated due to the appearance of an armed man on the territory. Entry and exit from the campus are closed, students were asked to take refuge in a safe place. An armed man entered the campus in an SUV, ramming a fence, according to Reuters. After a while he was surrounded by the police. It is reported that no shots were fired. The University of Arkansas tweeted . that the man had been arrested and taken into custody

The fire in the warehouse on the territory of the Tushinsky Machine-Building Plant has been localized. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow. No one was injured as a result of the fire. At 1:39 Moscow time, the Ministry of Emergency Situations announced that the fire had been extinguished. “We are currently extinguishing the fire, the total area of ​​which is 15 thousand square meters. m, continues.

Fire from a burning warehouse building at the Tushino Machine-Building Plant spread to neighboring buildings, RIA Novosti reports. Both buildings are also five-story, one of them, presumably, administrative, said an agency source in emergency services. Police have launched an investigation into the fire, reports .

In Moscow, a building caught fire on the territory of the Tushino Machine-Building Plant. There is no information about the victims. A five-story warehouse building on the territory of the plant is on fire, according to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow. The building partially collapsed, reports . Interfax The area of ​​the fire is 15 thousand square meters.

Shot: Rutube The developer of the World of Tanks, the Belarusian company Wargaming, shot a comic advertising video with Vadim Galygin: in it, the hero performed by the showman plays with his son hide and seek, and when the child is hiding in the closet, hesitates the door with nails and sits down to play “tanks”.

The so-called finance minister of the "Islamic State" (the organization is recognized as a terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation) Abu Saleh and two of his associates were destroyed by the forces of the international coalition led by the United States. This was announced by US Special Representative to the coalition Brett McGurk. Abu Saleh was killed in late November in an airstrike, AFP reported, citing US military spokesman Steve Warren.

Russia planned to spend $1.2 billion on the operation in Syria in 2016, Bloomberg reported, citing an unnamed Russian official. Since the beginning of the operation, Russia has been spending somewhere around $4 million a day, but after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered intensified bombing in mid-November, spending has doubled, the Royal Joint Institute for Defense Research estimated.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that Russian helicopters have not flown near the Georgian border over the past 24 hours. Thus, he rejected Georgia's accusations of violating its airspace.

The project of augmented reality Magic Leap received one and a half billion dollars without even showing the product Photo: Magic Leap Over the past year and a half, Magic Leap has been able to attract almost one and a half billion of dollars of investment. What investors give her money, no one knows. It is only known about the company that it is engaged in the development of a device for creating augmented reality (which will turn the world over).

The National Literary Prize "Big Book" for 2015 was awarded to the writer Guzel Yakhina, who was nominated for the novel "Zuleikha opens her eyes." The second prize was awarded to Valery Zalotukha with the novel Candle, on which the writer had been working for more than 12 years. The award for a novelist who died in February 2015 was received by his widow. Third place was taken by Roman Sechin with "Flooding Zone". On December 9, the reader voting for the Big Book award ended.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's press secretary, Külle Pispanen, said that his words about the inevitability of a revolution in Russia did not imply a call for a violent overthrow of the government. Thus, she commented on the statement of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, which suspected Khodorkovsky of calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order. “Khodorkovsky talked about a non-violent, democratic way of changing the regime, of course.

Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has been expelled from the French national team after being accused of blackmailing Lyon footballer Mathieu Valbuena. This decision was made by the French Football Federation. Benzema will not be able to play for the national team until the end of the investigation of the case. This means that he may miss the European Championship, which will be held in France in June-July 2016. Karim Benzema is an accomplice in an extortion case.