340 years ago, on November 16, 1673, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, the favorite of Emperor Peter the Great, Generalissimus, and in the reign of Catherine I - “Polly Lord”, was born. It was rightly considered the first thief in the Russian state, for which he was repeatedly beat Peter, whose lover was rumored.

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Metropolitan Hilarion. Frame of the TV channel "Russia24" The head of the Synodal Department of External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion, proposed to postpone the baptism of babies born of surrogate mothers until they reached conscious age. “On the one hand, any born baby can be baptized - by the faith of those who intend to baptize him. In Soviet times, many were baptized by the zeal of relatives, secretly, without the knowledge of parents.

Protest of motorists. Photo from the website of the headlights Activists of the Russian car owners fed out a picket near the building of the Moscow Transport Department with a demand to transfer the terms for expanding the paid parking zone in the city center as of June 1, 2014, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the Moscow Flocus, Sergei Kanaev. "About 100 people took part in the picket. We formulated the main proposals for the introduction of paid parking lots," Kanev said.

Dmitry Peskov. Frame of the Rain The resignation of the government or individual officials in connection with recent criticism from Vladimir Putin was not discussed in the Kremlin. This was on the air of the Rain television channel by the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “This criticism concerns officials, and, in fact, the criticism sounded repeatedly. It sounded at the highest levels, and Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev himself voiced this criticism.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan. Frame of the TV channel "Russia" Member of the "Makhachkala bandit group" Dmitry Sokolov, possibly liquidated during a special operation in the capital of Dagestan, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. Previously, Sokolov said that he personally made an explosive device that led a suicide bomber in Volgograd.

Criminal case. Photo from the News Prim website The court arrested for two months the deputy mayor of Yaroslavl Yevgeny Rozanov, detained in the evening of November 15, on suspicion of receiving a bribe, the investigative committee said. Rozanov was arrested until January 15, 2014. After this period, the investigation will be able, if necessary, to petition for its extension.

Frame from the film "Sergey Magnitsky: Justice. Law. Fate" The United States is urging the Russian authorities to hold accountable of the guilty of the death of the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Management Foundation by Sergey Magnitsky and intend to support those who work on the implementation of this task. According to RIA Novosti, with such a statement, in connection with the fourth anniversary of the death of Magnitsky, the representative of the State Department Jen Psaki made.

Madonna at the GLAAD award. Frame of the video. The American singer Madonna supported Greenpeace activists and the crew of the Arctic Sunrise vessel arrested in Russia. An appeal with a request to release prisoners of ecologists is published on the singer's page on Instagram. “30 people are in prison in Russia for organizing a peaceful protest campaign in the Arctic,” Madonna said in a statement, “let your voices be heard.

Skolkovo. Photo: rg.ru The Prosecutor General of Russia lifted all claims to the Skolkovo Foundation, in which a number of serious violations were previously revealed. According to Interfax, the prosecutors considered that the fund took adequate measures to eliminate these violations. The report notes that now the prosecutor's office has no significant claims to the leadership of the fund.

November 16 at 19:00 in the Sakharov Center will host an evening of memory of Sergey Magnitsky. On this day, four years from the date of the death of Magnitsky in the pre -trial detention center "Sailor Silence" marks. “Unfortunately, despite all the efforts of the family of Sergei, human rights activists and opposition politicians both in Russia and abroad, no one has yet suffered the death of Sergei Magnitsky,” the organizers of the evening write.