The chairman of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev and US President Barack Obama held a brief meeting on the sidelines of the summit in Malaysia. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the government apparatus Sergey Prikhodko. What was discussed during the meeting, the official did not specify. The summit of the Association of Southeast Asia (ASEAN) was held on November 21-22 in Kuala Lumpur. Earlier it was reported that Medvedev and Obama only shook hands.

Biologists from the University of Texas have found that fish are capable of masked in the open ocean, where, it would seem, there is nothing but water and there is nowhere to hide. The structure of the skin of the fish helps them reflect the sun's rays passing in the water so that at some angles of vision they become almost invisible.

Russian deputies and senators responded to the incident with the Su-24, shot down by Turkish fighters, a proposal to impose sanctions against Turkey. In particular, the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma from Fair Russia Nikolai Levichv proposed the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Neudko to stop the air traffic with Turkey, Kommersant writes.

The Turkish embassy in Moscow was thrown with stones and doused with paint. This is reported by eyewitnesses of the incident on Twitter. The passage to the embassy was closed https://t.co/gkk1yjnw9y - Philipp Kireev (@MYNAMEISPHILIPP) November 25, 2015 The embassy of Turkey in Moscow defeated glasses, threw it with stones https://t.co/0ldodyzbj - Shirokov (@yshirokov) November 25, 2015 It is noted that a group of young people in dark clothes performed unlawful actions at the embassy.

The President of the International Chess Federation Kirsan Ilyumzhinov called the reason why the US Department of Finance imposed sanctions against him, TASS reports. Ilyumzhinov said that the introduction of sanctions was a surprise for him, and noted: “I associate sanctions with the fact that I conduct a very active international policy. In particular, he was in North Korea, Syria, met several times with Bashar Assad.

The interdepartmental commission on countering extremism proposed to take a number of measures to tighten control over the sale and use of SIM cards. One of the proposed measures is to limit the validity of the contract between mobile operators and but -wide citizens of their time they are in the Russian Federation, Kommersant writes.

In Ulyanovsk, local activists attacked the office of the Efes Rus brewing company, owned by the Turkish company Anadolu Efes, the Ulyanovsk persons reported. The incident occurred the night before. The attackers came to the Efes Rus office on cars, tore off the Turkish flag and began to break the doors into the building.

Law enforcement agencies detained businessman Vladimir (Voldemara) Raizvikh, accused of financial fraud. He also takes place in the main victim in the criminal case of the alleged criminal community in the guinabipk under the leadership of the ex-head of the headquarters Denis Svugrobov, recalls Kommersant .

Turkey sent 20 tanks to the border with Syria, reports Anadolu . According to the agency, the tanks that were in the west of the country were transferred by rail to the south to Gaziantep. It is noted that from there the equipment, accompanied by the police, was sent to the border with Syria. In July, Turkish tanks fired at the village in Syria, which was controlled by the Kurds.

The Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Chavushoglu expressed condolences in connection with the collapse of the Russian Su-24, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. About this writes RIA Novosti . According to Lavrov, Chavushoglu, who was appointed to his post yesterday, brought condolences because of the death of the Russian military during a telephone conversation. At the same time, the Russian minister noted, he tried to justify Turkey’s actions by violation of airspace.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov said that Washington should refuse to conduct geopolitical games, RIA Novosti reports. Thus, Ryabkov commented on the decision of the US Department of Finance on the expansion of sanctions in connection with the situation in Syria. The American department included in the sanctions list the head of FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the Russian Financial Alliance bank.

The Turkish television channel FOX in the evening program demonstrated a record of warning to the Russian Su-24 bomber at crossing the border. Judging by the record, the Turkish pilot addresses the Russians with an appeal immediately to turn south, as they approach the airspace of Turkey. The plot says that F-16 fighter pilots began to warn the Russian plane 48 kilometers from the border, although this usually happens for 24 kilometers.

In one of the villages on the territory of New Moscow, unknown people robbed a house belonging to the son of a former assistant to the President of Russia Sergei Yastrzhembsky, TASS reports. The cost of the stolen amounted to a million rubles. According to the son of the diplomat of Stanislav, the criminals damaged the front door, after which they entered the house and steal. Yastrzhembsky Sr. in 1992-1996 worked as an ambassador of Russia to Slovakia.

The Israeli entrepreneur of Russian descent Arkady Gaidamak voluntarily surrendered to the French police, writes Kommersant . Gaidamak’s lawyer said that the businessman surrendered to the Paris police on the morning of November 24 and was placed in custody. “My client begins a new stage in his life and decided to complete all the calculations with French justice. He expressed a desire to become an ordinary French convict, ” TASS defender quoted the words.

The Nobel Laureate in Economics Douglas North died at the age of 95 in the United States, according to the website of the University of Washington in St. Louis. It is noted that the American economist died on November 23 in his summer house in Michigan gasoline. North was one of the founder of cliometric related to the use of economic theory and economical methods in research on economic history.