The Presidential Council of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) approved the suspension of the powers of the head of the organization Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. A meeting of the FIDE Presidential Council, which gathers once a quarter, was held on Sunday in Athens. At the end of November, it became known that the US Ministry of Finance imposed sanctions against Ilyumzhinov , calling him his connection with the head of the Syrian Central Bank.

The Chinese runner of Yao died during a half -marathon distance on Saturday in the city of Shangen, without reaching a finish of 400 meters, the Sinhua agency reports with reference to the organizers of the race. The 33-year-old athlete lost consciousness shortly before the end of the race. He was immediately provided with medical assistance, then the surrounding doctors tried to reanimate, but after a quarter of an hour he died.

In Berlin, a man who threatened to attack Chancellor Angel Merkel was detained, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Bild . The 39-year-old man, as it turned out, has a rich history of dangerous exits. According to the German tabloid, the man was detained on Saturday in front of the Reichstag building. Shortly before the detention, the man wrote on Facebook about the planned attack on the Chancellor of Germany using Kalashnikov and explosives.

A 12-year-old boy died on board the aircraft landing at the Vnukovo Moscow airport, Lifenews reports. The emergency occurred on board the flight of Lawcoster "Victory" from Makhachkala. According to the publication, a teenager who died on board the aircraft was seriously ill and flew to Moscow with his parents to undergo an examination in the clinic. According to sources, during the flight, the child fell asleep on his father's knees.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), proposed to temporarily suspend his powers until the next presidential council, said the director of the FIDE representative office in the Russian Federation, Berik Balgabaev. The meeting of the FIDE presidential council is being held on Sunday in Athens. "FIDE President offers to temporarily suspend his powers until the next presidential council," Balgabaev wrote on Twitter .

The once the best scorer of the Russian national football team Vladimir Besovnis was not surprised by the Saturday dismissal from the post of head coach of the youth personnel of the Moscow club Spartak, since the specialist warned that they were "impended". “I don’t know about the reasons for the dismissal: they didn’t explain to me, and I myself was not going to find out. The dismissal was not a surprise to me: they had already warned me that one person“ lies ”me.

The head of the Odessa Regional State Administration, Mikhail Saakashvili, once again accused the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, headed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk, as well as the country's largest businessmen of involvement in large -scale corruption. During the presentation at the anti -corruption forum in Odessa, he showed slides in which he estimated losses from corruption of $ 5 billion a year, Interfax reports.

Pavel Astakhov, Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation for the Rights of the Russian Federation, after the tragedy in the Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug, where eight teenagers celebrated the birthday of teenagers in the sunbathing bath, announced the need to update the program of lessons of the basics of life safety in schools. Earlier, the Governor of the Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug called on local authorities to organize evening leisure for adolescents.

Swiss tennis player Roger Federer will play in a duet with compatriot Martina Hingis in the mixed couples tournament at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, Le Matin reports. Thus, the ex -first racket of the Hingis world and the third number of the world ranking Federer will perform at the Olympics in all types of program - in a single category, pairs and mixture.

The Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Chavushoglu commented on the scandalous photos of a Russian sailor, who posed on the bridge of the Caesar Konikov landing ship with MANPADS on his shoulder. As Sabah reports, Chalus called the incident a provocation and expressed the hope that this would not happen again in the future. RIA Novosti later published a more detailed quote.

The next round of negotiations on Syria will take place this month, and New York was chosen with a platform for them, US Secretary of State John Kerry said at the US-Israeli Conference in Washington. “Representatives of states involved in the solution of this problem will meet in December to continue moving this process forward,” Reuters quoted Kerry as saying.

In Azerbaijan, the authorities officially recognized 30 people missing as a result of a fire on an oil platform in the Caspian Sea. The list of rescued and missing ones was presented by the state -owned company SOCAR, which the day before only reported on the course of the rescue operation, not indicating how many people could not leave the burning platform or disappeared after evacuation in the boat with a strong storm in the region of emergency.

One of the two military satellites of the Russian Federation launched on December 5, did not separate from the Volga accelerated block, says RIA Novosti agency with reference to an informed source in the space industry. On the eve of the Ministry of Defense , it was reported to successfully launch with the help of a new Soyuz-2 launch vehicle. In the absence of official comments around 19:00 Moscow time.

Syrian President Bashar al -Assad called the British Air Force strikes on the positions of the Islamic State group (IG, also Daesh , is prohibited in Russia) in Syria illegal and warned that they would be doomed to failure, not having support in the form of a terrestrial operation in coordination with the Syrian army. “You cannot cut off part of the cancer tumor. You must remove it. Such operations are how to cut off part of the tumor.

Poland considers the possibility of contacting NATO with a request to place nuclear weapons on its territory, according to the British newspaper The Guardian with reference to the deputy Minister of Defense Tomash Shatkovsky. If the decision is made, dozens of tactical bombs may appear near the border of Russia.