Türkiye was not included in the coalition created in Baghdad as part of Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, since "does not recognize the legitimacy of the ruling regime in Damascus." This was stated on Saturday in an interview with Al-Arabiya's television, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria created a coalition to fight against the Islamic State terrorist organization and invited us to enter it.

The Center for the Training of the Olympians in Saransk, led by Viktor Chegin, is being closed, and a youth school will be created instead of it. The center of Chegin in Mordovia was in the center of the grandiose doping scandal, which jeopardizes the participation of Russian athletes in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The rally in support of the ex-mayor of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina gathered about 200 people on Saturday, reports Flashnord. The day before, the deputies resigned the opposition mayor. The event was held on a student boulevard. About 150 people approached the beginning of the action, later the number increased. Some participants held posters, for example, "For democracy! For Shirshin!" Among the gathered there were many students.

In a number of regions of Russia, operational headquarters are created to combat terrorism at sea and shelf. The corresponding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Interfax reports. The decree is published on the official portal of legal information. The headquarters will appear in the cities of Primorye, the Murmansk region, in Sakhalin, in Crimea and Dagestan.

Forest fires raging in the south of Australia on Christmas Day destroyed 103 residential buildings, Interfax reports. Firefighters are trying to fight fire, but their work is complicated by a strong wind. However, on Saturday the immediate threat decreased along with the air temperature. Fire destroyed more than 2.2 thousand hectares of land in one of the popular zone among tourists in Victoria. Due to raging fires, several tourist settlements in this state had to be evacuated.

The Siberian Surgut was unexpectedly called the hero city in the publication of the magazine "Thomas" , calling himself the Orthodox publication "for those who want to believe." This was reported by the official portal of the Surgut administration - cities in the Khanty -Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. Typically, 12 cities are called heroic cities, to which this higher rank was awarded after the Great Patriotic War for heroic defense from fascist invaders. The eastern city is Volgograd.

In Russia, a new missile for Buk-M3 was created, which will destroy military targets with a greater probability. This was told by the head of the air defense forces of the ground forces of Russia, Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov on the air of the Russian News Service . "The complex has become more productive. It is now in transport containers not 4, but 6 missiles. In addition, the rockets have become more compact, but, nevertheless, they fly further, faster and more precisely.

The Ministry of Emergencies advises the Russians on the eve of the New Year holidays to buy only certified pyrotechnics in specialized stores to avoid injuries. On Saturday, the department spread the fire safety memo in connection with the New Year. "The uncontrolled sale of pyrotechnic products and their use without observing the necessary fire safety measures become the causes of many fires, injuries and even the deaths of people, mainly children and adolescents," TASS quotes.

The permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov was appointed plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the contact group to resolve the situation in Ukraine. A source of Interfax said that Gryzlov will lead the team of Russian experts in the contact group. Earlier, the group agreed on the work schedule for January 2016. "To assign B.

The radical group "Jaish al-Islam" chose a new commander after its former Leading Allush leader was eliminated on Friday near Damascus. TASS with reference to the television of Al Mayadeen reports that Abu Himam Buyadan was elected the new leader of the rebels. Allaush became known about the death of Zahran the night before. According to preliminary data, the attacks of Russian aerospace forces were striking. The raid was committed at the Jaish al-Islam secret headquarters.

A criminal case was instituted against a person who caused the harm of a white bear on the island of Wrangel. This was reported to the Flashnord agency by a source in the administration of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Earlier, the sources of RIA Novosti claimed that mockery of the animal could turn into a prison term of up to three years. Flashnord does not specify what article a criminal case has been instituted. There is no official confirmation at the time of writing.

The leader of the Islamic State terrorist organization Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi published an audio recording with threats to commit terrorist attacks in Israel, Newsru Israel reports. In his appeal, Al-Baghdadi said that the Israelites in vain hoped that he and his assistants "forgot about Palestine", as it was completely wrong. According to him, the terrorists "for a minute" did not forget about the Palestinians.

The winner of the fourth season of the show "Voice" based on the results of the audience SMS voting was Hieromonk Photius, who performed the composition "Per TE" ("for you"), TASS reports. The final of the television project ended on Friday late in the evening on the air of the first channel. “My victory, I think, is not quite deserved. I bow to all the participants who were before me and left the competitive race. They are big professionals.

Activists of the “last address” installed a sign in Moscow in memory of the poet Osip Mandelstam in the place where the poet was arrested for the first time. Over the year, activists installed 166 signs in memory of the victims of the Stalinist repressions, according to the group on the group on Facebook . Mandelstam's memory came to honor about a hundred people, reports Polit.ru . The ceremony was held at the house in Nashchokinsky Lane (former Furmanov St.) in Moscow.

The Deputy Chief of the Police of the Omsk Region Rinat Nurgaliev, the nephew of the ex-minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs , was fired from the police. The relevant documents were signed by the head of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuri Tomchak, reports the Omsk edition of Commercial News .