Background On October 29, 2010 , the head of the Constitutional Court (CC) Valery Zorkin wrote in an article for Rossiyskaya Gazeta that when “the decisions of the Strasbourg Court are questionable from the point of view of the essence of the European Convention on Human Rights itself, and even more so directly affect national sovereignty, the fundamental constitutional principles, Russia has the right to develop a protective mechanism against such decisions." On December 11, 2010, President

Arab countries will hold an urgent meeting after the Islamic State attack on checkpoints in Egypt. Armed clashes claimed the lives of more than 70 military personnel. At the same time, Israel is preparing for an attack by the Islamic State in the Gaza Strip, Kommersant FM’s interlocutors told. Photo: Amir Cohen, Reuters The League of Arab States will discuss the situation in the north of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt at an emergency meeting.

The Public Council under the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs will hold public hearings and an examination of amendments to the law “On the Police”, which, in particular, allow law enforcement officers to open fire in crowded places to prevent a terrorist attack, the head of the council, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, said on Thursday.

Petro Poroshenko begins decentralization of power Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft constitutional amendment providing for the decentralization of power while maintaining the unitary model of the state.

The institution of arbitration will be modernized. The relevant bills were adopted in the first reading by the State Duma. Their goal is to create a modern and effective mechanism for the legal regulation of the arbitration process. Lawyer, founder of the public organization "Moscow Human Rights Center" Mikhail Salkin answered questions from Kommersant FM host Svetlana Tokareva.

Banks Sberbank President German Gref announced yesterday that the bank is preparing a reform of the management system, which should be a response to the crisis and reduce costs. “We are talking about serious changes that will lead to an increase in our efficiency and a significant reduction in our costs,” said Mr. Gref, refusing to disclose details.

Yesterday, the Mayor of Voronezh, Alexander Gusev, and the General Director of RVK-Voronezh LLC, Andrei Brotsman, during a meeting, discussed the elimination of the unpleasant odor from the sludge beds of the city’s Right Bank wastewater treatment plants (located in the Sovetsky district on the banks of the Don, designed to treat household and industrial wastewater in the right bank part Voronezh).

Inflation in the Samara region in June amounted to 0.2% from the beginning of 2015 - 8.3%, Interfax reports with reference to Samarastat. At the same time, food products in the region fell in price by 0.2% over the month; the price increase for them since the beginning of the year was 12.2%. In June, prices increased for sour cream (2.8%), grapes (4%), chilled and frozen salmon fish (4%), beer (5.4%), potatoes (8.3%), carrots (9% ), beets (12.8%) and lemons (21%).

On October 14, 2004 , the German Constitutional Court ruled that international law could be disregarded in exceptional cases. Earlier in 2001, the court of first instance in Wittenberg ruled in favor of the plaintiff Kazim Gergülü, who demanded recognition of paternity of an illegitimate son given up for adoption by his mother immediately after birth. That same year, the decision was overturned by the court of second instance after a complaint from the adoptive family.

10% of TV viewers watch it Digital television is watched by 10% of TV viewers, according to iKS-Consulting analysts. The federal target program for the transition from analogue to digital format of terrestrial television started six years ago; to date, the digital signal is available in almost all regions of the country. Satellite TV is the most popular among Russians - it is watched in 33% of the country's households.

The Netherlands has prepared a draft report on the causes of the Malaysian Boeing crash in eastern Ukraine. The document was sent to the countries participating in the investigation: Russia, Ukraine, USA, Great Britain, Malaysia and Australia. They have 60 days to comment on the report, the Dutch Safety Board said in a statement. Member of the Association of Military Political Scientists Alexander Perendzhiev answered questions from Kommersant FM host Svetlana Tokareva.

The head of the Department of Transport and Development of Road Transport Infrastructure of the City of Moscow, Maxim Liksutov, said that there are about 7 thousand illegal taxi drivers left in the capital, while at the same time 53 thousand licenses have been issued to carry out this type of activity.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, during a meeting on budget expenditures for the social sector, said that mortality in Russia has begun to decline. Mr. Medvedev cited data according to which mortality in May 2015 decreased by 6%. “We also discovered alarming trends associated with some surge in mortality in the first four months of this year. The new data is more favorable: in May, according to Rosstat, we had a decrease in mortality by almost 6% compared to May last year.

State social services received a tax deduction The Ministry of Labor's bill on zeroing the income tax rate for organizations engaged in social services has been approved by the government. The Ministry of Labor hopes to attract private companies and investment into the sector, which is now 99% occupied by the state.

Metallurgical plant "Red October" sold the accounts receivable of the trading house of the same name CJSC Volgograd Metallurgical Plant Krasny Oktyabr (VMZKO) sold at auction through a public offering the receivables of CJSC Trading House VMZ Krasny Oktyabr for 2.7 million rubles, according to the website of the electronic trading platform uTender. In particular, the right to claim in the amount of 3.7 billion rubles was sold for 1.8 million rubles, with an initial price of 1.8 billion rubles.