The State Duma on Wednesday adopted in the first reading amendments to the Tax Code in terms of increasing the size of standard tax deductions for children. With the required 226 votes, the deputies voted unanimously for the adoption of the bill - 432. In accordance with the document, it is planned to increase the standard tax deduction for each child from 300 to 600 rubles per month for parents.

Mikhail Kostyaev, 21, from the city of Zelenogradsk in the Kaliningrad region, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday with a claim for damages caused as a result of bringing him to criminal liability for insulting Vladimir Putin.

Nowadays, Iranian women are not even allowed to watch how men compete on a football field, but 2 thousand years ago they themselves, perhaps, cut into pieces of guys on numerous battlefields. So, the study of traces of DNA on the 2000-year-old bones of a certain Persian-meado warrior showed that this broad-legged skeleton actually belonged to a woman. This was reported on Saturday by archaeologists working in the city of Tabriz, which is located in the north-west of Iran.

The NTV is empty. Frame NTV The host of the program "Country and Mir" on NTV Alexei Pivovarov was removed from the air for at least a month. According to Newsru.com, the cause of removal was the material that appeared in the program on Tuesday. In an interview, Alexei Pivovarov himself confirmed the fact of removal from the air, categorically refusing to name its cause. He also refused any comments.

Logo Bi Line from the site www.beelinegsm.ru The tax authorities presented the Vimpelkom (brand "Bee Line") tax claims totaling 4.4 billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports.

Ukrainian opposition on the streets of Kyiv. Photo by ar The Ukrainian authorities and the opposition managed to achieve a historical compromise: the Verkhovna Rada voted on a package of bills, approved changes in the country's constitution and the law on the election of the head of state. Thus, the road to a parting in the elections of the President of Ukraine is open, and the Ukrainian revolution is completed.

Viktor Yanukovych is becoming in opposition to the current authorities of Ukraine, said the head of Yanukovych's election headquarters Taras Chornovil. "We are now talking about Yanukovych as an opposition candidate," he said live on Channel Five of Ukrainian television, RIA Novosti reports. "The binding of Yanukovych to Kuchma played a very negative role for the candidate," Chornovil said.

The second round of elections for the governor of the Kamchatka region will be held on December 19. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the regional election commission. On Wednesday, the electoral committee summed up the final results of the first round of elections held on December 5. None of the fifteen candidates received more than 50% of the popular vote needed to win in the first round.

On Wednesday, the Federation Council approved the law "On Restrictions on Retail Sale and Consumption (Drinking) in Public Places of Beer and Drinks Made on Its Basis" developed by the Conciliation Commission. According to ITAR-TASS, 134 senators voted for this decision, two against, and two more abstained. The law was finalized by the parliamentary conciliation commission, taking into account the amendments made by the Federation Council.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, two schoolchildren were detained on suspicion of killing elderly people with disabilities. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Wednesday in the information department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Far Eastern Federal District. According to the press service, in a private house in the village of Oktyabrsky, Vaninsky District, the bodies of retired spouses born in 1928 and 1934 were found with craniocerebral injuries.

President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a bill on a new procedure for electing deputies. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the State Duma Department for Public Relations and Media Relations. In accordance with the draft, deputies of the State Duma will be elected not by a mixed (proportional-majority) system, but exclusively by party lists.

Website of the Prosecutor General. The emblem of the site On December 7, after an eight -hour interrogation, the deputy head of the legal department of Yukos Svetlana Bakhmina was detained in the Prosecutor General’s Office, Gazeta.ru reports. According to the company representative, the interrogation was stopped only after Bakhmina lost consciousness and was taken to a prison hospital. On Wednesday morning, the interrogation was continued.

Cassettes and DVDs of Andrey Nekrasov's sensational documentary " Distrust ", which included Mikhail Trepashkin's last interview before his arrest last fall, have gone on sale in several Russian cities. The film tells about the fate of the Morozov family, who lived in a house on the street. Guryanov in Moscow, which was blown up on the night of September 9, 1999. Trepashkin was a lawyer for the Morozov sisters, who, with his help, wanted to find the killers of their mother and housemates.

People can still have gills British scientists made an amazing discovery. They found out that people have not actually got rid of the gills that they inherited from distant market ancestors, who once crawled out onto land from the ocean.

The Federation Council on Wednesday approved a law establishing a new procedure for electing heads of regions, RIA Novosti reports. This law was proposed by President Vladimir Putin and then approved by the State Duma. in three readings. The law adopted by the senators cancels the current procedure for the direct popular election of the head of the region.