The water level in Venice, suffering from the strongest flood in half a century, will again reach peak values today. It is expected that the water level will rise by one and a half meters. This is higher than the day before, but lower than on Tuesday, when the water level rose to a record 187 centimeters. Venice, November 15, 2019 The authorities of Italy declared a state of emergency in Venice. 20 million euros were allocated for the initial elimination of the consequences.

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The Netflix video service will be up to the documentary series "The Devil next to" about the Ukrainian guard of Nazi concentration camps in the Second World War Ivan Demyanyuk. This will be done at the request of Poland Prime Minister Mateusz Moravetsky, who called the scene from the film "Coordinating History". The series shows a map of concentration camps on the territory of modern Poland, occupied by German and Soviet troops in 1939, paid attention to the Polish Foreign Ministry.

Residents of the Karelian city of Segezha began to publish photos of snow and birds that were yellowed from the fog, which fall dead on the fly. This was reported by North. Realiy. According to eyewitnesses, the streets of the city for many hours were enveloped in a poisonous fog, which painted snow in shades of yellow. It was impossible to breathe in the city for half a day.

The court in the Poltava region of Ukraine sentenced the former employee of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs to 12 years in prison for espionage in favor of Russia. This was reported by the website of the Security Service of Ukraine. He is found guilty under the article on state treason. The name of the convict is not called. According to the investigation, he was recruited in 2014 in the territory of the FSB, which worked before the annexation in the Crimean administration of the SBU.

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Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Valery Maksimenko will no longer comment on reporters-now his press service will do this. In an interview with Moscow, Lieutenant General says that this is "for the better", since sometimes he is ashamed to comment on the actions of his colleagues in the department. As an example, Maksimenko brought the head of the colony, who dipped his head in the toilet, and then went to increase, becoming the acting first deputy department.

The Security Service of Ukraine announced the detention in the Kiev region of a senior member of the Islamic State terrorist group Albara Shishani. He was called the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Group. What is known about him? The SBU does not call the name given to the detainee at birth. Earlier it was reported that a Georgian citizen, Caesar Tokhosashvili, is fighting for the IG under him. He joined the group in 2013, wrote the Kommersant newspaper.

The White House on Friday published a transcript of the first conversation of US President Donald Trump with Vladimir Zelensky. The conversation occurred in April 2019 immediately after the election of Zelensky by the President of Ukraine. New 🚨 ... as the Second Impeachment IS ABOUT TO GAVEL IN, The White House ReleASDET CONVO BETWEEN TRUMP and ZELENSKY.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

A resident of the village of Kuitun in the Irkutsk region Yuri Yamashkin claims that during the detention he was brutally beaten by the traffic police. He stated this by the editorial office of Siberia. Realities. The police, according to him, invited him to say that he received all the injuries "himself, in his car." Yuri Yamashkin admits that on the night of November 13-4, he got drunk on the wheel and tried to leave the police, but claims that he did not resist during the detention.

The mortality rate of the Earth’s population as a result of traffic accidents (accident) has almost not changed since the beginning of the century, WHO states. Although the UN programs involve its reduction by 2 times by 2020. Show more To curtail

The round anniversary of the velvet revolution came close. Many rushed to take stock, especially here, in the Czech Republic, in the homeland of "velvet". The revolution then, of course, turned out to be preferential, at a discount: not a single broken window, not a single educational poke in the face - what is this revolution? Initially, it was generally called "tender", but this did not take root in view of a clear bust.

On November 10, 1939, the People's Commissar of Defense Marshal Klim Voroshilov signed an order for No. 0059: "On imposing the penalties for the command of the 6th Army, commanders of a number of units for illegal actions in Western Ukraine." The first two zero in the order number meant the Grif “Top Secret”, which means that only the extremely narrow circle of people from among the highest command staff was supposed to know what these commanders of the “number of units” had done.

Camp in Shies At ShiES station, the police detained activist Dmitry Spirin for cleaning the ice from the steps, which were made in the mountain of crushed stone on duty opponents of the garbage training ground in the camp. This was reported in the community "Urdom Online". The Spirina drew up a protocol on arbitrariness and detained. The application for him was written by the guards of the training ground. The court will be held on November 15 in Yarensk.