Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has changed his forecast about the future of the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. Luzhniki will host the first and final matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The authorities say that the sports arena does not meet FIFA requirements, so Luzhniki is facing restructuring. “For the final we need a stadium with a net capacity of 80 thousand spectators. This means we need to do it for 87-88 thousand.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chelyabinsk Region, Alexey Sevastyanov, visited oppositionist Leonid Razvozzhaev in the Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center and did not hear any complaints from him about his detention or health problems. “During the conversation, arguments were heard and the details of the criminal case specified in the appeal were clarified.

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The Russian Gazprombank signed an agreement with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) on a credit line in the amount of $0.5 billion. In this case, JBIC's participation share will be $300 million. And the remaining $200 million will be provided by co-financing private foreign financial institutions with subject to the provision of insurance coverage by Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), according to a message published on the website of the Russian bank.

The Board of Directors of the Deposit Insurance Agency approved the early resignation of the head of the state corporation, Alexander Turbanov, and appointed United Russia deputy Yuri Isaev as the new general director. “Members of the board satisfied the request of DIA General Director Turbanov to relieve him from his position due to his retirement on December 31, 2012,” the DIA statement says .

photo by RIA Novosti The return of compatriots had to be organized back in the 90s of the last century A new round of the rich migration history of modern Russia: in a recent message to the Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin spoke about the accelerated procedure for granting Russian citizenship to “our compatriots, speakers of the Russian language and Russian culture, direct descendants of those who were born in both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.” Coupled with the announced tightening

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told reporters that the government opposes replacing the VAT with a sales tax, noting that this is the general position. “I just held a two-hour tax meeting, the collective opinion is no,” Interfax quotes the prime minister. At the same time, the prime minister noted that VAT is a more progressive tax.

The Federation Council's relevant committee on constitutional legislation, legal and judicial issues on Tuesday supported the ban on the adoption of Russian children by US citizens and recommended that the upper house of parliament approve the Dima Yakovlev Law. This can be done at a meeting to be held on Wednesday, December 26. “All those present voted “for”, Interfax ” quotes the statement of committee chairman Andrei Klishas following the committee meeting on Tuesday.

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A suspended ceiling collapsed in a shopping center on Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard in Moscow. The area of ​​the collapse was 150 square meters. So far, one victim is known to have received minor injuries, Interfax reports. In November, a major collapse occurred in a shopping center under construction in Vladivostok. The ceilings collapsed. There were eight people in the building at the time. Six were able to evacuate in time, two were trapped by debris and were later hospitalized.

barrel The head of the Russian Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov, expects that the budget rule introduced in 2013, based on the calculation of the base oil price, will allow government spending to be brought to a risk-free level. “We expect the budget rule to bring spending to a risk-free level,” the finance minister said in an interview published by the Kommersant newspaper on Tuesday. This means that government spending will fall from 21.2% of GDP in 2012 to 17–18% of GDP in 2020.

The AAR consortium (Alfa Group, Renova and Access Industries) will invest the bulk of the funds from the sale of 50% of TNK-BP to Rosneft in the Russian economy, but will also invest in foreign assets. This was stated in a statement by the AAP on December 25. “For AAR, Russia has always been and will always be the basic platform for investment, and it is in Russia that the consortium members plan to invest the bulk of the funds received from the sale of TNK-BP shares.

The patriotic deputy, who wrote a whole series of protective laws over the course of a year, did not find anything wrong with sending his daughters to study in elite foreign schools On Tuesday, Alexey Navalny published a post on his blog dedicated to the Vice Speaker of the State Duma, Deputy Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia Sergei Zheleznyak.

Investigators were able to identify the suspects in the murder of the rector of the Kabardino-Balkarian State Agricultural Academy Boris Zherukov, however, in the interests of the investigation, their names have not yet been named, reports the Investigative Committee .

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lukin, appealed to the Moscow City Court with a request to cancel the decision to recover 17 billion rubles from former Yukos leaders Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the first case. According to Lukin, we are talking about repeated recovery of damages.