Jerusalem. Employees of the Israeli security service on the way to the synagogue attacked by Palestinian terrorists. 11/18/2014 Vladimir Kara-Murza: This morning, alarming news from Jerusalem began to come: at 7 in the morning, two inhabitants of the Arabic quarter burst with knives in the synagogue in the Har-Nof region and attacked the worshipers, killing four people. All the dead were rabbis and had dual citizenship: three of them turned out to be US citizens, one - Great Britain.

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Trading in stock markets in the USA on Tuesday ended with the next records. The Dow Jones index - the main indicator of business activity in the United States - grew to the mark of 17687.82 points. The S&P 500 index, including shares of 500 companies in the American exchange market, increased by more than half a percent and also updated the record, reaching 2051.80 points. The NASDAQ electronic exchange index also rose.

Promotion of the Perm civil coalition "For direct Perm elections" Residents of Russian cities lose the opportunity to choose their own mayors In Russia, some other elections of city mayors are canceled for others. What is behind this? Astrakhan The Astrakhan regional parliament canceled direct elections in the mayor of the regional center. Local representatives of Fair Russia and the Communist Party tried to prove that it was necessary to "ask the people", but the forces were unequal.

Fighter of a detachment of separatists in the Luhansk region In Donetsk, volleys of artillery guns and explosions are heard. This was reported on Tuesday on the website of the Donetsk City Council . According to UNIAN, the separatists attacked the positions of Ukrainian units near five settlements of the Lugansk region. UNN reports that the military was returning fire.

Alexey Devotchenko performs at a rally in St. Petersburg in 2011 In St. Petersburg on Wednesday, the funeral of actor and public figure Alexei Devotchenko will be held on Wednesday. He will be buried in the cemetery in Komarovo, next to other famous Petersburgers. Devotchenko was found dead on November 5 in an apartment on Altufevskoye Shosse, which he rented in Moscow.

Jens Stoltenberg In the areas of the operation of government forces against separatists in the east of Ukraine, six military personnel died over the past day, another 9 were injured. This was announced on Tuesday at a briefing in Kyiv by a representative of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Andrei Lysenko.

Foreign Ministers of Germany and Russia - Frank -Walter Steinmeier and Sergey Lavrov Russia hopes that the “point of no return” has not been passed in relations with the European Union, said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov during a visit to Minsk. Lavrov emphasized that the Moscow considers the EU as an important partner and is interested in developing cooperation on a mutually beneficial basis.

The confrontation between the police and demonstrators in Ferguson during protests after the murder of Michael Brown August 18, 2014 The American state governor Missouri Jay Nixon gave an instruction on the introduction of an emergency regime in anticipation of the decision of the large jury in the case of the death of the 18-year-old African American Michael Brown in the city of Ferguson this summer.

Daria Polyudova - organizer of the march for the federalization of the Kuban The court in Krasnodar extended until January 21, 2015 the arrest of activist Daria Polyudova. This was announced on Facebook by the activist of "Solidarity" and "Ecological Watch in the North Caucasus Viktor Chirikov. Polyudova - the organizer of the march for the federalization of the Kuban - was detained on August 15.

Students leave the school building after the explosion (Alma-Ata, November 17, 2014) In Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), a teacher of primary military training was detained at the Fashion and Design School-in connection with the investigation of the grenade explosion, as a result of which a 16-year-old student died on Monday, several more students remain in hospitals with injuries.

25 years of the "velvet revolution", unexpected results of the election of President Romania, no less unexpected successes of the Economy of Spain

A meeting of the EU Council for Foreign Affairs, at which, in particular, the situation around Ukraine was discussed, passed the day before without surprises. Foreign ministers discussed several problems. This is, first of all, the possibility of fulfilling the Minsk agreements on the ceasefire and control at the borders in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine. Another topic of discussion related to Ukraine was the implementation of administrative and political reforms promised by Kiev.

Editor -in -chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station Alexei Venediktov The editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow Alexei Venediktov appealed to the court a warning of Roskomnadzor to the radio station about the events in Donetsk. Venediktov reported this on Twitter. The court accepted my protest for the warning of Roskomnadzor. Here.