Top News November 23

Digest "Polit.ru" is a brief selection of the ten most noticeable news of the outgoing day. Today, the details of the trip to France Suleiman Kerimov appeared, where the Senator was charged with non -payment of taxes and money laundering, Sobyanin refused claims to the premier chair, and presidential grants were handed out to non -profit organizations.

The Kremlin promised to protect Kerimov

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov commented on the situation with the charges of Russian Senator Suleiman Kerimov in France. Peskov said that the Russian side would continue to defend the interests of Kerimov: “He protects his interests himself, of course. The necessary steps were taken through our diplomatic departments. ”

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Sobyanin rejected the claims to the premier chair

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said he did not claim the post of head of the Russian government. Sobyanin noted that the premiere post is not for him, and recalled: “ I worked in the presidential administration, I worked in the government apparatus. I believe that this is such hard, ungrateful work. ”

The competition of the presidential grants was won by former foreign agents

Biker in the jacket of the club "Night Wolves" / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Vedyashkin Sergey

The Coordination Committee of the Presidential Grants Competition under the leadership of the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko summed up the results of the second and last competition of the presidential grants in 2017. It is noteworthy that 12 organizations previously excluded from the register of NCO-foreign agents took part in the competition-at the same time, seven of them received grants. Without a grant, the biker organization Night Wolves again remained, which submitted three applications for a total of about 14 million rubles. However, the interregional organization “Russian motorcyclists”, the founders of which are Alexander Zaldostanov and Evgeny Strogov from “Night Wolves”, will receive almost 2.4 million rubles for “the development of public diplomacy and support for compatriots”.

Timakova called the themes of the anniversary interview Medvedev

Transfer "Talk with Dmitry Medvedev"

Press Secretary of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev Natalya Timakova told what the traditional annual interview with the head of government will be devoted to Russian television channels. Timakova recalled that Medvedev has been using such a format of communication since 2008, this year “Talk with Dmitry Medvedev” will be held for the tenth time - respectively, will become anniversary.

Russian Forbes refused to publish a rating of salaries of top managers

For the first time since 2012, the Russian edition of the Forbes magazine has not been a rating of the highest paid leaders of Russian companies . In the December issue of the magazine, instead of the traditional rating of the salaries of top managers, the top of the leading managers was published , which was based on the cost of packages of shares belonging to the heads of companies.

Chubais was summoned to the court in the case of the ex-head of "Rusnano"

The Cheremushkinsky court of Moscow summoned the head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais for testing in the case of the ex-head of the corporation Leonid Melamed and the former financial director of the organization Svyatoslav Ponurov.

Mutko accused the IOC and WADA of doping violations on OI-2014

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and the former Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko said that the responsibility for violations by Russian athletes of anti-doping requirements at the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 should be carried out, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency ( WADA ).

Farewell to Dmitry Hvorostovsky will be held on November 27

Concert Hall to them. Tchaikovsky in Moscow / mskagency.ru

The farewell ceremony with the opera singer Dmitry Hvorostovsky is scheduled for November 27 and will be held in the Tchaikovsky hall in Moscow. The dust of the legends of the opera scene will be buried both in Moscow and in the artist’s homeland in Krasnoyarsk.

The employee of the Black Sea Fleet was detained on suspicion of espionage

The civil servant of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia was detained in Sevastopol on suspicion of espionage. Details are not specified - in particular, they do not call the state in whose favor the detainee led to spy activity.

Pharmaceutical producers warned of the risk of disappearance of cheap drugs

Medicines / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Mazenov Pavel

Ten Russian producers of inexpensive drugs sent the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev to the speaker of the State Duma in which they warned of the risk of disappearance from the market of cheap pharmaceuticals.