And Türkiye instead sends troops to Libya to fight the Wagner PMC mercenaries Ghaith Al-Sayed / AP / Scanpix / Leta thousands of refugees leave the war zone in Idlib, December 24, 2019 US President Donald Trump wrote a tweet that accused Syria, Russia and Iran of killing thousands of civilians in the Syrian province of Idlib. At the same time, Trump demanded that Türkiye dealt with this. On December 28, it was reported that Türkiye did not save the civilians of Idlib.

Smoking rooms are back at airports Smoking rooms, banned in 2013, are returning to Russian airports. Burning garbage is now recycling Burning waste at factories that generate heat and electricity has been equated to recycling. The rules for resettling people from emergency housing have changed Instead of emergency housing, you can get either new housing or money.

15-year-old Anna Shcherbakova became the winner of the Russian figure skating championship with 261.87 points. She became a two-time champion of Russia in women's singles. The second place was taken by Alena Kostornaya (259.83 points), the third - Alexandra Trusova (226.34). Anna Shcherbakova and Alena Kostornaya showed results at the championship above the world record in the free program and in the sum of two programs.

Eight leaders of protests in Ingushetia became defendants in a criminal case on organizing an extremist community and participating in it, MBKh Media reports. The publication was told about this by the lawyer Magomed Bekov, who knows about the case from the lawyers of the activists.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law returning smoking rooms to Russian airports. The document, signed on December 27, is published on the portal of legal information. According to the text of the law, smoking rooms should be located in areas for already registered and pre-flight screened passengers, as well as in transit areas. Smoking rooms should be isolated from other rooms so that no one can see people smoking from the outside.

An account of a person using the phone number of the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov appeared in the Telegram messenger. This was announced by the editor-in-chief of the RT TV channel Margarita Simonyan. She published a screenshot of the Telegram notification that the user Zharov Roskomnadzor appeared in the messenger. The information was also confirmed by Ekho Moskvy journalist Alexander Plyushchev, who posted a similar screenshot taken by an acquaintance of Zharov.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the signing of an amicable agreement to settle the claims of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine against the Russian Gazprom for $7.4 billion. As reported on the website of the Ukrainian government, the settlement agreement must be signed by the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Denis Malyuska.

Sergey Karpukhin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The defendant in Moscow Affairs, 30-year-old IT specialist Sergei Surovtsev, who was accused of applying violence against the warrant officer of the Russian Guard, on December 12 declared a hunger strike in jail. As his lawyer Vasily Kushnir said , so Surovtsev achieved that the case, excited against him and other defendants, was discontinued.

The Airbus A320 aircraft of the Ural Airlines company successfully made an emergency landing at the Koltsovo airport in Yekaterinburg, E1.RU reports citing a source. According to the SC, no one was hurt. On the afternoon of December 28, the liner flew from Yekaterinburg to Simferopol, but the crew decided to return to the airport of departure. According to TASS, citing a source, an incorrect speed measurement sensor was triggered on board.

Why such a fate befell them, and how to look for something more suitable for life, ”explains Astrophysicist Sergey Popov Open University planets of the DMPP-1 system, some of them may relate to the so-called "Chtonic Worlds"-in the representation of the artist This week in Nature Astronomy, three articles were published, which describe the new method of searching for exoplanets and the finds that it brought.

Two-time world and European figure skating champion Evgenia Medvedeva has withdrawn from the Russian figure skating championship, which takes place in Krasnoyarsk. According to TASS, Medvedeva's name is not on the start list. After the short program, Medvedeva was in fifth place with 71.08 points. According to TASS, she performed in skates that broke in training. The athlete tried to perform in new skates, but eventually returned to the old ones.

A Ural Airlines A320 passenger plane is preparing to make an emergency landing at Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg. There are 149 people on board, E1.RU reports with reference to the press service of the airline. The plane had previously taken off from Yekaterinburg to Simferopol, after which it began circling over the city of Sysert. According to the source of the publication, the pilot decided to run out of fuel in order to return to Koltsovo.

Artificial snow brought to Moscow. On December 27, he appeared at the entrance to the Zaryadye park from the side of Vasilyevsky Spusk. Park employees urged Moscow residents and city guests to come "look at the snow" from December 28 to January 12. To create a New Year's atmosphere, Siberian fir trees were also installed in the park. On December 28, artificial snow appeared on Tverskaya Street, which was closed to traffic until January 6.

The film critic Yegor Moskvitin specifically chose the 50 best series for Medusa - and it included only the premieres of 2019. If you have not yet decided what to do on the holidays, try to choose a suitable show from this list! The series are placed in random order. Chernobyl AmediaTeka In addition to all his merits listed more than once, this series also proved that there are no other people's stories.

Absolutely exhaustive instruction "Medusa" In Russia, a boom of podcasts. It seems that now the podcasts are releasing everything - from schoolchildren to Chubais . We at Medusa, for example, in 2019 launched ten new podcasts . From the outside everything is simple: I took an iPhone, sat in the kitchen with a friend, discussed new series with it, posted a file in Apple Podcasts and woke up the famous podcast. And what really?