Recep Erdogan Turkish President Recep Erdogan on Wednesday announced the "national mobilization" against "all terrorist organizations," reports Hurriyet Daily News. Ankara will fight against the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the organization of Fethullah Gulen, the left-and-radical revolutionary folk liberation party and the Islamic State extremist organization, whose activities are prohibited in Russia and a number of countries.

Polish Minister of Defense Antoni Machechevich and General Ben Hodges at a press conference in Zagan (Poland) The defense ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia again called on Wednesday to strengthen the participation of the United States in the defense of the Baltic region of the Baltic region against the backdrop of the position of the new administration of the elected president Donald Trump.

Russia - The Rosneft Logo Rosneft will appeal the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court in a lawsuit against the media holding of RBC due to insufficient compensation. This was announced on Wednesday by the official representative of the state corporation Mikhail Leontyev. On December 12, the court ordered RBC and several of its employees to pay Rosneft 390 thousand rubles of compensation for a claim for damage to the reputation.

The lower house of the France parliament voted for extending a state of emergency until July 15. On December 15, the Senate will consider the issue. Before voting, the new Minister of Internal Affairs Bruno Le Ru emphasized that the country's level of terrorist threat is still high in the country. The country's authorities fear acts of violence by extremists during the presidential elections in the country in April-May next year and parliamentary-in June.

Rick Perry The elected US President Donald Trump nominated the former Governor of Texas Rick Perry to the post of Minister of Energy. This was reported in the Trump transition headquarters. The statement states that as the Governor of Texas Rick Perry provided such conditions for doing business that allowed the state to create millions of new jobs and reduce energy prices. Trump’s headquarters believe that Perry will apply the same approach to the whole country, becoming a minister.

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Frame from the film of the Dardenn brothers "Unknown" Luke Dardenne. Behind our paintings / translation by Sergey Kozin. - Moscow: Rosebad Interective, 2016. The cinema of the Dardenne brothers, with leitmotifs, actors, characters, variations on the same topics converting from the picture, resembles Dante's divine and human comedies.

Screenshot of a video widespread by Islamists In Palmyra, jihadists of the Islamic State extremist group, which were banned in Russia, could capture armored vehicles and air defense equipment. This was announced on Wednesday by US Army lieutenant, Stephen Taunend, commander of the international coalition forces.

The director of the Moscow Kremlin museums Elena Gagarina supported the court decision in Amsterdam to return the Scythian gold to Ukraine, taken from Crimea before the annexation of the peninsula by Russia. Gagarina noted that the museum fund is the property of the state, and not a single museum, so the court decision, in her opinion, is justified. The Scythian gold collection was taken to an exhibition at the Archaeological Museum in Amsterdam in early February 2014.

Semacher, archive photo In the Nizhny Novgorod region, the investigation was resumed in the case of the use of torture to local resident Sergey Lyapin in the police department in 2008, the "Committee on the Prevention of Torture" reports . " The press release of a human rights organization says that the investigation was suspended in November, despite the fact that two months earlier one current police officer and one former received the status of suspects.

In Moscow, a ceremony of awarding the laureates of national nominations in the field of physical culture and sports 2016 took place. In the nomination "Pride of Russia" in the category of "Athlete of the Year," the 2016 champion in the pentathlon Alexander Lesuna became a laureate, the agency " R-Sport " reports. Until 2008, Alexander Lesun played for Belarus.

Recep Erdogan Turkish President Recep Erdogan said that Ankara continues attempts to create a corridor to evacuate people from the Syrian city of Aleppo, but the forces of Bashar al -Assad impede this. According to Reuters, the Turkish leader intends to discuss the situation in Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone.

The famous hockey coach Gennady Tsygurov died on December 14 at the 75th year of his life. Tsygurov dedicated to the coaching profession for 35 years and twice led the Togliatti "Lada" to the title of champion of Russia. Tsygurov - Honored Coach of the RSFSR (1981) and the USSR (1989), Honorary Citizen of Togliatti (1995) and Chelyabinsk (2006), cavalier of the Order of Honor (1981).

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Aleppo In the eastern part of Aleppo there are brutal battles between the government army and the rebels. The Syrian Center for Monitoring Human Rights reports about artillery shelling and air strikes. The agreement reached the day before, through the mediation of Russia and Turkey, an agreement on the beginning of the evacuation of Aleppo rebels and civilians was never implemented.