Moods 1K 1 min. ... Russians consider abandonment of a child, suicide and homosexuality to be the most immoral acts. Polygamy and extramarital affairs are also disapproved: even more than, for example, the death penalty, which only 21% of respondents consider unacceptable. Tax evasion causes outrage among only 53% of Russians, and giving a bribe - among 56%. Source: Levada Center

The government is preparing incentives for hard-to-recover oil fields The Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Finance and Rosnedra have prepared a model for stimulating the development of hard-to-recover oil fields. It is planned to introduce a differentiated reduced mineral extraction tax rate depending on the complexity of the field and receive more than $62 billion in the budget by 2032.

The parliamentary elections in Belarus were held openly, democratically and in accordance with the law, said Sergei Lebedev, head of the CIS observer mission, on September 24. “The elections in Belarus were held in accordance with the constitution and electoral code of the country, complied with generally recognized norms of democracy, were free, open and ensured the free expression of the will of the citizens of Belarus,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposes to discuss tightening liability for road accidents committed while intoxicated, RIA Novosti reports on September 24. “We have recently had a series of terrible road accidents, unfortunately, the vast majority of them are committed in a state of strong alcohol intoxication, in this regard our picture is worse than in any other country. United Russia deputies raised this topic today.

On September 24, the court handed down a guilty verdict in the case of St. Petersburg resident Alexei Tereshchenko, who was detained in December 2011 while trying to throw several unaccounted ballots into a ballot box for the State Duma elections in the Leningrad region, reports the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Leningrad region.

537 1 min. ... The bill, which gives the Central Bank the right to introduce restrictions on the interest rate on deposits, will be adopted in October in three readings at once and will come into force in November of this year, Anatoly Aksakov, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, told Kommersant. Now the Bank of Russia can only recommend that the bank reduce the interest rate.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs published statistics on violations of the election law The Ministry of Internal Affairs has published statistics on violations of election legislation in the regions of Ukraine. As of September 21, a total of 886 such violations were recorded. The leaders in their number are Kyiv and the Kiev region - almost 30% of the total. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the most common type of violation is illegal campaigning.

A combine harvester is replacing a jackhammer, investors are replacing Stakhanovites. Over the past year, a record amount of coal was lifted to the mountain in post-Soviet Russia. The stereotype that this is a fuel from the past is shattered by statistics: global coal consumption has increased by one and a half times in ten years. Read the report from underground in the next issue.

Reducing the investment program by 10% Oleg Deripaska's Rusal has obtained from the management of MMC Norilsk Nickel, where it owns a blocking stake, a cost reduction plan. We are talking about reducing the 2012 investment program by 10%. This will save about $300 million. But analysts note that the mining and metals industry’s investments go mainly to existing projects and it will not be possible to significantly reduce them without loss of production.

CJSC Metallurgical Investment Company, 100% owned by the deputy of the legislative assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Anisimov, consolidated 100% of the shares of OJSC Chusovsky Metallurgical Plant (ChMZ, Perm Territory), according to a statement from ChMZ.

Place 122 1 min. ... On September 29, the choir of the Main Political Administration of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China will perform at the closing of the VIII International Autumn Choir Festival in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. 80 Chinese men and women in military uniforms decorated with ailets will perform works by Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Bizet and Chinese classics. A year ago, restoration work was completed at the BZK.

With the onset of autumn in Italy, the question is becoming louder about what will happen to the country after April 2013, when Prime Minister Mario Monti is supposed to resign. The technical prime minister is doing his job too well, allowing the EU and the whole world not to think about Italy's problems.

Before the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had time on Friday to demand that “purposeless stops” of drivers to check documents be eliminated, on Saturday a drunk driver crashed into a bus stop on Minskaya Street and killed seven people, including three children. Political commentator for Kommersant FM Stanislav Kucher understands how difficult it is for Mr. Kolokoltsev now and considers it appropriate to give him advice.

Cossacks from the village of Raguli march behind Ataman Dmitry Denisenko. A good half of them are his grandchildren: the leader of the rural Cossacks has five children Photo: Pavel Kassin, Kommersant

NEW ARRIVALS 201 1 min. ... From October 24, 2012 to April 29, 2013, the famous painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch "The Scream" will be exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The painting, which has been in a private collection for several decades and has not been exhibited anywhere, will be placed in the first gallery on the fifth floor along with prints by Munch created during the same period (1893-1910).