On November 17, the State Duma will discuss in the first reading a bill introduced by the deputies Andrei Lugov (LDPR), Nikolai Ivanov (Communist Party) and Sergey Chindyaskin (United Russia) and an information committee approved last week. He proposes to entrust the right to immediately extra -court blocking of sites to the heads of the Prosecutor General.

According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko can add his powers after the New Year. The main goal of this “maneuver” is to hold early governor's elections in the fall of 2014. At the same time, according to the sources of the publication, Poltavchenko will not necessarily be at all the candidate of the Kremlin in early elections.

Around Russia Yanukovych received generous and non -binding gifts December 17, 2013 Maxim Blut The fact that President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych goes to Moscow for money, without which the economy of his country will be in the pre -end state (at least without large -scale assistance from the EU and the IMF), no one particularly hid. And the expectations of the Ukrainian president were not deceived.

The Central Bank of Russia revoked the licenses of three more banks - Investbank, Smolensky Bank and Project Finance Bank (BPF). This means that the Central Bank, under the leadership of Nabiullina, has finally started working and has begun to clean out the Augean stables of the Russian banking system. Ignatiev, apparently, was simply afraid to do this.

In society Mediafiya. Conveyor production of values December 17, 2013 Igor Yakovenko The Russian information space last week was largely concentrated around two events with increased media gravity: the continuation of the Euromaidan and the Epistle of the President. But before moving on to the description of how these events were reflected in the media, I must admit in one sin.