What are they talking about this morning

- In Kyiv, a protest continues against the cessation of European integration of Ukraine. The participants of the Euro-Maidan, who broke the tent town in the square, fight off the police, she uses batons and tear gas . The protest was continuing from Thursday - then the country's authorities announced that they had paused integration with the EU for relations with Russia.

-Even the protesters did not even pierce the statement by Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov that Russia finally agreed to revise the terms of the “bonded” gas contract with Ukraine. There are no concrete agreements yet, but Kiev reckses for the promise supposedly given to him by Moscow.

- And in Odessa, the authorities decided to play it safe. On the initiative of the municipality , the court took and banned any shares of political parties, public organizations and ordinary Odessa residents until December 31. Odessaites on the streets have not yet reached, but why not forbid it, in fact?

- The Russian government decided that there was nothing to displeased to dispute the election results when the train left. According to the amendments made by the Cabinet of Ministers to the Duma , it will be possible to appeal the decision of the election commission within only 3 months from the date of the announcement of the voting results, and not the year, as it is now. At the same time, amendments will somewhat expand the list of grounds for canceling voting results: for example, for the first time it will be possible to complain about violation of the rights of not only candidates, but also voters.

-“Vedomosti” rummaged in the past “Master Bank”, which last Wednesday lost a license, and tell why the bank was covered only now. According to the publication, the FSB already had enough materials by 2007 to attack the company, but “the leadership suddenly said: Stop” - they say, its owners “everyone realized and now act in the right direction”. And after 6 years, it became clear that the “master” nevertheless completely fought off, “he did not listen to the regulator, drew and arose against obvious things.” The development of the plot is in the investigation of the newspaper .

- With perseverance worthy of better use, state -owned companies continue to convince the authorities that the freezing of tariffs is not for everyone, but only for those who were ashamed to ask. “Transneft”, for example, turned to Arkady Dvorkovich and informed him that when freezing tariffs, she would not be able to finance the expansion of the oil pipeline Eastern Siberia - the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, the company proposed installing an investment allowance of 16.6% with annual indexation not higher than inflation in an export tariff for oil, which goes to the port of Kozmino and PRC (336.2 rubles, or $ 10.2 per ton). From this, they say at Transneft, everyone will win: the oil industry workers will receive the VSO expansion to 80 million tons (i.e. almost double) and for this they will share over the overpowers with the budget.

- Russian metallurgists also reached for help to the government . The most instant of them - “Mechel”, “Rusal” and Evraz - should today chat with Dmitry Medvedev and come up with all together how to restructure industry and stimulate its development, if it is generally possible.

- A billionaire and businessman Richard Branson rushed to the cell market of Russia. His company Virgin Group asked the VB loan for the project of a virtual mobile operator (MVNO, provides services under its brand in the network of another operator, Kommersant explains ). The project is so far only in the bud; Whether they will give Branson for him, it will become known in mid -December.

- A month before the New Year holidays, the ONF started up and announced a new campaign against excessive bureaucratic expenses. The servants of the people next year can prohibit too expensive gifts and New Year's corporate parties in state -owned companies. Let them walk this year, but in the next-no.

- The LDPR also came to her senses and introduced the initiative of Alexei Navalny to the State Duma, offering to ban cars more than 1.5 million rubles to officials. This happened after the deputies adopted in the first reading a similar bill of United Russia, but with a bar of 3 million rubles.

-Repressive laws do not cause indignation among the Russians, they found out “Vedomosti” following the results of a survey conducted with the “Levada Center”. Fresh prohibitions (anti -Giyan, anti -pirate, protecting believers) approve of 44% to 68% of our fellow citizens, the share of protesters several times less. The Russians believe that prohibitive measures are good for us and stabilize the socio-political situation in the country. In Moscow, however, not everything is lost yet .

What else to read in the morning: Dmitry Peskov gave a short interview to The New Times ; Konstantin Sonin explains why Russia should become worse from the non -acceement of Ukraine with the EU; Telegraph talks about how a film about the inside of the pre -Olympic Sochi, shot at the expense from Germany, Austria and Israel, is blocked in Russia with all their might.