This week Russia celebrates Constitution Day. The holiday doesn't stop you from asking questions. The main one is: isn’t it time to update our Basic Law, written two decades ago in a specific historical situation? Doesn't the current Constitution hinder the country's democratic movement?

Event of the week 77 1 min. ... Last week, football took the first step in what some believe is a dangerous and game-killing direction: at the Club World Cup, FIFA introduced the use of two systems for determining goals, Hawk-Eye and GoalRef. The first system is actively used, for example, in tennis and helps the referee determine whether the ball has crossed the line or not. GoalRef technology was specially invented for football and was first tested in the Danish Super League.

Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC Gazprom Alexey Miller, by decision of the Kamchatka Regional Court, will pay an administrative fine of 30 thousand rubles. As the department's press service told Kommersant, Mr. Miller will be held administratively liable for Gazprom's failure to comply with the terms of the license for the right to use the subsoil of the West Kamchatka site, located in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

On December 10, the Leninsky District Court of Perm postponed until December 17 the consideration of the criminal case about the fire in the Lame Horse club due to the absence of the main accused, businessman Anatoly Zak, from the trial and the illness of the lawyer of one of the defendants, RIA Novosti reports. Let us remind you that a fire in the club occurred at the establishment’s anniversary party on the night of December 5, 2009.

The Federal Air Transport Agency has decided to terminate air navigation services for all flights of the Ukrainian airline AeroSvit in Russian airspace, the agency said in a statement.

The Presidium of the Perm Political Council of United Russia today agreed on the list of members of the future governing body. Sources in the party told Kommersant about this. Let us remind you that a regional reporting and election conference is scheduled for December 12, at which a new composition of all governing bodies should be formed. The size of the political council will remain the same – 80 people.

244 1 min. ... From 20 to 50 rub. For each voter's vote, state funding will increase for parties that received at least 3% in the State Duma elections. The corresponding law was signed by President Vladimir Putin. The difference between the salaries of civil servants and similar specialists in business should be 10-15% , says Minister Mikhail Abyzov. In the civil service, a person should receive a little less, because the state does not create added value and consumes taxes.

The taxi driver had to stop at a gas station. He honestly warned me about this. He chose a good, expensive gas station Andrey Kolesnikov He drives under the brick, I tell him: - This is not just a “brick”! It turns out that we are driving in the opposite direction. “Exactly,” he agrees after thinking. Having refueled the car, he begins to drive out and it turns out that he is driving again under the “brick” - along the path along which he was supposed to enter.

The prosecutor's office of the Ilishevsky district of Bashkiria achieved in court the dismissal of the manager of the district administration. According to the official website of the republican department, the employee held a position that required higher professional education, which he did not have. The violation was discovered during a prosecutor's investigation.

Tomorrow the airport will stop servicing the carrier's flights Sheremetyevo Airport (MASH) and the Ukrainian airline Aerosvit could not agree on repayment of the carrier’s debt in the amount of 165 million rubles. Starting tomorrow, MASH suspends servicing Aerosvit. On the first day of closure of flights, the airport, together with Aeroflot, will provide assistance to passengers in their flights, but from December 12, all responsibility for their delivery will fall on Aerosvit.

123 1 min. ... Raphael Santi's drawing "Head of an Apostle" was sold at Sotheby's "Old Masters and British Painting" auction in London for £29.7 million ($47.8 million). Now it is the most expensive work on paper sold at public auction. The final price exceeded the auction house's wildest expectations: they hoped to fetch between £10 million and £15 million for the drawing.

Kuban Airlines, part of the aviation sector of Oleg Deripaska's Basic Element holding, will cease flights from December 11 due to the difficult financial situation, according to a message posted on December 10 on the company's website .

JSC ANK Bashneft annually registers an increase in oil pollution by 15%. “Since 2009, unfortunately, we have a negative situation, there is an increase of 15% every year,” said Radik Fakhretdinov, director of the department of labor protection, industrial safety and ecology of the company at a meeting at the Ministry of Natural Resources on the prevention and elimination of environmental pollution caused by spills of oil and petroleum products.

The column is led by Dmitry Polonsky The authorities of the Chinese capital allow citizens of 45 countries, including Russia, to stay in Beijing for 72 hours without an entry visa . The resolution will come into force on January 1, 2013.

She will receive Russian money despite refusing to fulfill privatization promises The EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund will allocate the fourth tranche of the stabilization loan to Belarus, despite the fact that Minsk did not fulfill its privatization obligations this year. According to the head of the Russian Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov, privatization will be taken into account when issuing the next, fifth tranche.