The real owner of a passport, found next to the body of the terrorist at the Stad de France stadium in Paris, can be a soldier of the Syrian army killed a few months ago. This was reported by the AFP agency with reference to the source close to the investigation. After the attacks in Paris on November 13, the document was discovered by the corpse of one of the terrorists.

The seven detainees in Germany on suspicion of involvement in the attacks in Paris were released on the evening of November 17, Die Welt reports citing the police. As the representative of the authorities said, the police have no data that the detainees are related to a series of terrorist attacks in the capital of France. The detention of several people in the city of Alsdorf in West Germany became known on the day of November 17. There were no details.

Russian airlines received a recommendation to prevent foreigners abroad to maintain aircraft, a source in one of the airlines told Interfax . “It is recommended, if possible, to organize the maintenance of aircraft by the forces of their own technical compositions or crews, having reduced the number of types of ground services at these airports without prejudice to the safety of flights,” the agency’s interlocutor explained.

VTB net profit in the third quarter of 2015 amounted to 6.2 billion rubles, in nine months the loss reached 10.9 billion rubles, follows from the bank's report published on November 17. Reserves for reserves in the third quarter amounted to 57 billion rubles, of which 16.4 billion are reserves associated with Transaero, said the deputy chairman Herbert Moos. It is reported by Interfax .

France attacked the positions of the Islamic State in Syria, Reuters reports the French General Staff. It is emphasized that the Air Force twice a day attacked ISIS in Racke - a city that is called the main stronghold of the militants. As a result, a training camp and a command post were destroyed. NBC sources reported that ISIS attacked France three times in two days.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, investigating the crimes related to Euromaidan, said that the then President Viktor Yanukovych made a decision on the dispersal of the protest campaign on November 30, 2013. This was reported by the 112 Ukraine channel.

The Committee of Civil Initiatives (KGI), led by the former Minister of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, prepared a report on the work of law enforcement agencies for the protection of public order, the Vedomosti writes . According to experts, paperwork takes too much time from the police.

The first transit of the American reduced gas will take place in Lithuania. Deliveries are scheduled for February 2016. Reuters told about this by two sources in the gas field. Gas will enter the independence terminal, which has been working in Klaipeda since January. It is expected that by 2019, gas exports will be 60 million tons per year. While deliveries there are carried out by the Norwegian company Statoil.

The Federal Air Transport Agency sent a telegram to Russian airlines with a recommendation to provide information about the level of security at Turkey airports, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Tunisia and European countries. This was written by Kommersant with reference to sources in the leadership of three Russian airlines.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said the process of changing the Syrian regime can be launched "in the coming weeks." According to AFP, he spoke about this as a result of negotiations with France President Francois Holland in Paris. The statements were made the day after the end of the G20 summit in Turkish Antalya, where the issue of Syrian settlement was discussed , in particular, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American colleague Barack Obama.

More than half of the governors of the US states opposed the reception of refugees from Syria, CNN reports . It is clarified that the chapters of at least 27 states announced the refusal to receive refugees, and, with the only exception, they all are in the Republican Party. The channel gives a list of these states.

Law enforcement agencies detained a member of the Public Supervisory Commission of the Vladimir Region Irina Kitaev on suspicion of fraud, TASS was told in the regional department of the FSB. According to investigators, she promised for money to the relatives of convicts to help with the provision of parole. Earlier, Kitaeva was engaged in the search for ex-official of the Ministry of Defense Evgenia Vasilyeva, who was sentenced to five years in prison.

The French police published a photo of an unidentified terrorist, who is believed to explode at the Stad de France stadium. It is reported by Reuters . https://twitter.com/pnationale/status/6666694438345940992 Since November 15, the French authorities detained 16 people on suspicion of involvement in Parisian terrorist attacks. According to investigators, they were attended by eight terrorists, five of whom were identified. Among the attackers were two brothers.

The number of residents of Uzbekistan, detained over the past weeks on suspicion of relations with the Islamic State (terrorist group, prohibited in a number of countries, including Russia), exceeded 160 people. This was reported by Radio Ozodlik (local Radio Liberty service). These people were detained in Tashkent and the Tashkent region.

The former soldier of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ruslan Mukhudinov, accused of organizing the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, will be sought in Dubai. This was written by Kommersant with reference to the participants in the investigation. Earlier, Mukhudinov was put on the international wanted list. According to Kommersant, the search will be oriented primarily on Dubai, where, as the investigation believes, the accused was hidden in the spring.