Saudi Arabia announced the creation of a military coalition of Muslim countries to combat terrorism, the state news agency Saudi Press Agency reports. The coalition will include 34 states, ten more countries “expressed support” for this initiative. The coalition command center will be located in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon, in an interview with local TV channel VTM, announced the prevention of a terrorist attack in Brussels on November 22. According to Yambon, the attack was planned for late evening. It was prevented during police raids on November 21-22, which were accompanied by an increase in the level of terrorist threat in the city to the maximum (and a request not to tweet about police actions ).

The budget of the Russian Federation for 2016 may be revised due to the fall in oil prices and the ruble exchange rate. This was announced to Dozhd by State Duma deputies Vladimir Fedotkin and Mikhail Yemelyanov. According to Fedotkin, a member of the Communist Party faction, the budget will have to be revised downward at least three times - in March, in June and after the elections to the State Duma, which will be held in September 2016.

The police released Alexei Navalny after a check in connection with photographing the dacha of Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Gennady Lopatin. Navalny was stopped on the evening of December 14 in the Moscow district of Maryino, when he was returning home by car. The police officers demanded that he “write an explanatory note” regarding the photographing of Gennady Lopatin’s dacha in Malakhovka, Moscow Region.

Iran will sell Russia ten tons of enriched uranium, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. In exchange, Iran will purchase 140 tons of uranium raw materials from Russia. The deal will take place if the IAEA Board of Governors approves a resolution closing Iran's nuclear file. The council meeting will take place on December 15. The adoption of the resolution will allow us to move on to the implementation of the agreement on Iran's nuclear program, concluded in July.

The head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, was detained in Moscow near his home in Maryino. He announced this on his Twitter. According to Navalny, the police stopped his car and demanded an explanation about the photography by his associates of the dacha of Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Gennady Lopatin in Malakhovka near Moscow.

The representative of the Syrian Democratic Forces Alliance, Talal Salu, denied the cooperation of the Russian military with the Syrian Free Army. Salou told Reuters that during a recent battle between the Free Syrian Army and the Islamist groups Ahrar ash-Sham and the al-Nusra Front north of Aleppo, Russian aircraft did strike at the Islamists, but this was done without coordination with "Army". “There was no contact, no agreement, no cooperation between us and the Russian army,” Salu said.

Photo: @ leon.shpion / Instagram Two men in a city outside Moscow found out this weekend what it is to drive a car on thin ice. According to the website Zelenograd.ru , a young man decided to prove to his friend that one of the city's ponds had frozen over sufficiently to support an automobile's weight. He was wrong, it turned out, and his car ended up at the bottom of the pond.

Photo: Moovel Lab The designer group Moove Lab from Germany portrayed on the map all the roads leading to Rome. First, the designers analyzed the European map and found 486713 starting points, then laid the routes to Rome from them. The more routes passed along the same street or road, the fatter it is depicted on infographics. Photo: Moovel Lab The interactive version of this card can be viewed here .

Photo: Mike Ehrmann / Getty images / AFP / Scanpix A series of decisions of officials led to the fact that from January 1, 2016 in Russia in hockey on ice, a gate from hockey on the grass, which are much larger, should be used. An unusual transformation was discovered by the publication “Championship.com”. It all started from the list of products to be required - it was approved by the Russian government in 2009. In April 2015, it also entered the “hockey gates” in this list.

Interview of the deputy of the Georgian parliament Levan Berdzenishvili Photo: Ilya Zhegulev / "Medusa" For three years, the team of entrepreneur Bidzina Ivanishvili, who shifted Mikhail Saakashvili, has been in power in Georgia. A criminal case has been opened on the former president who accepted the citizenship of Ukraine; Some of his associates are in custody, others left the country. They expected a lot from the Ivanishvili team - “restoring order”, “breakthrough in the economy”.

Photo: Nogina Square Vkontakte group With 2015 coming to a close, Russians have reason to look back and hang their heads in shame, when it comes to restorations of cherished bas-relief sculptures. In the past several months, several repairs to these works of art have been so awful that they've made news headlines. Sculptures have been destroyed, distorted, and made ugly. Meduza pauses to remember the three most egregious examples from the year.

Paramount Pictures published a trailer for the third part of the film Startrek (in the original - Star Trek Beyond). The director of the picture was Justin Lin, and Jay Abrams, who shot the first two parts, acted as a producer. The film will be released in June 2016. Paramount Pictures Star Trek Beyond - Trailer (2016) - Paramount Pictures

The Supreme Court proposed to exclude the article “Battery” from the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and move it to the Code of Administrative Offenses. For beatings, it is proposed to punish with a fine of five to 30 thousand rubles, or arrest for 10-15 days or compulsory labor for 60-120 hours.

Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Scanpix The Russian tourist agency Megapolis is planning to sell tours to Syria, where travelers will have the opportunity to visit the front lines of the ongoing civil war, according to the newspaper Novaya Gazeta , which spoke to Anatoly Aronov, the president of a patent company. Aronov told Novaya Gazeta that Megapolis has applied to register the trademark "Assad Tours," which would arrange customized tours lasting 4-5 days for groups of 3-5 individuals.