Senior Adviser of Justice Oleg Poluektov has been appointed prosecutor of the Baikonur complex. According to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region, before this, Mr. Poluektov headed the department for monitoring the implementation of anti-corruption legislation. Kommersant-Online

In the Altai Territory, a case of theft of funds from agricultural producers has been sent to court, the regional prosecutor's office reported. The Barnaul prosecutor's office approved the indictment in the case of the alleged organizer of the group, Alexei Puchinin, and his henchmen Sergei Akulin, Gennady Tukmachev, Denis Bylinsky and Andrei Bulgakov.

Attitudes towards Western countries have changed to negative over the past year As sociologists from the Levada Center found out, in 2014 the foreign policy preferences of the majority of Russians changed significantly. Citizens have a particularly good attitude towards China. And the positive perception of the United States, the European Union (EU) and Ukraine, around which the conflict unfolded, changed to negative.

The budget working group considered the remaining amendments to the draft budget of Perm for 2015-2017. Among the proposals discussed today was the transfer of funds for the construction of the zoo. The Perm administration came up with the initiative to transfer 50 million rubles. from 2015 to 2016. As Deputy Head of Administration Viktor Ageev explained, the total amount does not decrease (150 million rubles for three years - 100 million rubles in 2016 and 50 million rubles in 2017).

A helicopter with five victims of the Mi-8 accident took off from the disaster area to Naryan-Mar. According to the deputy chief physician of the Nenets District Hospital, Sergei Gmyzin, the condition of all five victims is serious. They have traumatic brain injuries, fractures of the chest and limbs.

On Monday, the American magazine Time will announce its "Person of the Year" according to its readers. Voting on the publication's website ended this weekend. Expert of the International Institute for Humanitarian-Political Studies Vladimir Bruter answered questions from Kommersant FM host Oksana Barykina. Photo: Anupam Nath, AP First place goes to Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi, second place goes to Ferguson protesters, and third place goes to Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong.

The Chinese government will lower the country's GDP growth target for 2015 to 7%. This forecast was announced by Bank of America experts. At the same time, in their opinion, no sharp changes should be expected in the monetary policy of the People's Bank of China over the next year. Exness analyst Sergei Kochergin answered questions from Kommersant FM host Oksana Barykina. Photo: Damir Sagolj, Reuters — Do you think the Chinese authorities can really deliberately reduce the country’s GDP growth?

Official opinion Military field exercises of the Russian Armed Forces, which began on December 5 in South Ossetia, caused a protest from Tbilisi. On Saturday, the Georgian Foreign Ministry issued a sharp statement.

The rehabilitation of Mosoblbank required another 16 billion rubles Six months after the start of the reorganization of Mosoblbank, which would already cost the state 117 billion rubles, SMP Bank applied for an increase in state support by about another 16 billion rubles, explaining this by the fact that there were more hidden deposits in the bank than initially expected. The Central Bank will resolve the financial issue.

67 1 min. ... Plus Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Manuel Neuer are competing for the 2014 Ballon d'Or (award for the best footballer of the year). The choice will be made on January 12, 2015 in Zurich by coaches and captains of national teams, the best sports journalists. Goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov signed a trial contract with the NHL club Anaheim Ducks, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 2006–07 season. The financial side is unknown, but, as the media jokes, this issue is not relevant.

Direct speech Oleg Kovalev, Governor of the Ryazan Region: — Under an agreement with the National Investment and Financial Corporation CJSC, an interregional textile cluster will be created on the basis of a spinning and weaving factory in the city of Korablino. The volume of investments will be about 5 billion rubles. The implementation of the project will open more than 1 thousand jobs.

Citizens are switching to public transport and bicycles Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo presented her plan to combat traffic jams and air pollution in the French capital. According to her initiative, the speed in the city will be limited to 30 km/h, and diesel cars will be completely banned by 2020. In Milan, they decided to fight traffic jams less radically: here citizens will be paid the cost of traveling on public transport if they leave their car in the garage.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Perm Territory will check for extremism the works of Perm Internet activist Anton Myrzin, exhibited at the “Kill Colorado” protest. State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein reported this on his Twitter . The exhibition “Kill Colorado” was held in Kyiv on December 2, and featured posters and photo collages on the theme of the conflict in south-eastern Ukraine.

347 NGOs will find how to spend it Another billion rubles allocated by the president to support non-profit organizations (NPOs) has found its winners. Presidential grants in the competition were won by 347 public organizations, which will now be able to engage in their educational projects, search work, promotion of youth initiatives and popularization of a healthy lifestyle. The competition was held for the third time this year.

The government must make the state economy economical Reducing real budget expenditures on non-defense expenditures by 5% per year and centralizing the planning of large budget expenditures and state-owned companies in exchange for a legislative promise not to increase all taxes - this is the formula for “thrift” in the published list of instructions from President Vladimir Putin following his address to the Federal Assembly.