The aircraft of the Russian aircraft groups made almost 670 sorties in Syria, destroying more than 450 terrorist facilities, said Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Main Operational Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. “Over the past week, the situation has undergone quite significant changes.

The number of Russians who want to emigrate to the United States reached a historical record in 2015, quotes the State Department Bloomberg. This year, 265086 applications from Russia were sent to the State Department for Green Cart, giving the right to permanent residence in the United States, despite the fact that a quota of 4 thousand such documents was allocated to Russia.

Scientists investigated the chemical composition of the tusks of the young mammoths and found that hunters were to blame for the extinction of these animals. Scientists voiced their conclusion at the conference Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting . 15 tusks belonging to young mammoths aged 3 to 12 years were subjected to study, and their age ranged from 40 to 10 thousand years.

At the CIS summit, Vladimir Putin told his colleagues that on the side of the Islamic State are fighting from five to seven thousand immigrants from the countries of the Commonwealth, after which the leaders of the countries supported measures to combat terrorism. It is reported by RBC. “According to various estimates, ISIS is already fighting from five to seven thousand immigrants from Russia and other CIS countries.

The Insider offers a complete translation of Bloomberg about how Putin’s close associates pump billions of dollars from Russia through fraud with “mirror transactions”. The US Department of Justice is investigating the question of whether the largest Bank of Germany has checked the transactions with a volume of $ 6 billion, which can mask the withdrawal of money from Russia, a source familiar with the situation reports.

About a hundred armed militants cross the Syrian-Turkish border under the guise of refugees every day, said the chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov, RIA Novosti reports.

Su-30 fighters, set by Russia Iraq, are already striking the positions of the militants of the Islamic State, Iraqi media write with reference to the press center of the Iraqi Army Media War Cell (MWC). According to MWC, “a“ dry ”fighter destroyed the three shelters of the militants in the province of Salaheddin and their motorcade, which was heading to the city of Mosul.” The information that the Iraq Air Force received Su-30 fighters for the first time.

The US state budget deficit in the fiscal year 2015, which ended on September 30 last year, has become minimal over the past eight years - during the presidency of Barack Obama, Interfax reports citing the Ministry of Finance of the country. The negative balance for the past Fingod amounted to $ 438.9 billion (2.5% of GDP), which is 9.2% lower than the previous year. This is the lowest deficiency since 2007 both in dollar terms and in relation to GDP.

The Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak and the Minister of Oil and Natural Resources of Pakistan Shahid Hakan Abbasi in Islamabad signed an agreement on the construction of the North-South gas pipeline from Karachi to Lahor, which will be implemented by the Russian RT Global Resources, which is part of the Rostec State Corporation. This was reported by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

News Transaero cancels more than 70 flights on October 17 16 October 2015 Transaero Airlines cancels 73 flights on October 17, the Aeroflot website said in a message in the operational department of which is the Transaero. “Transportation of passengers of canceled flights will be carried out by flights of Aeroflot groups under the SU code (except for the 3000-4999 range of the partner companies).

According to the first scientific data on the results of the study of the dwarf planet Pluto, he has a thin atmosphere that manifests itself with a scattering of sunlight on the smallest particles of felts, organic substances suspended in it. NASA scientists published these conclusions in the journal Science . Scientists suggest that despite the size and remoteness from the sun, Pluto can be active and show volcanic activity.