A no-fly zone will be introduced in Rome from December 8. “The flight ban will apply to almost the entire airspace above the capital,” TASS quotes Prefect of Rome Franco Gabrielli as saying. The flight ban will also apply to drones.

From November 23, tolls and new discounts will apply on the M11 The state company Avtodor and the North-Western Concession Company have revised tariffs on the section of the M11 highway from the Moscow Ring Road to Solnechnogorsk. The fee will be charged for travel from November 23, and a complex system of discounts will apply.

Belgian police are conducting six anti-terrorism operations in Brussels to find accomplices of the suicide bombers who carried out a series of attacks in Paris on the night of November 14, AP reports. As the television and radio company RTBF clarifies, one person was detained during searches in the north of the city early on Thursday morning. The police operation is currently ongoing.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko supported a petition proposing to remove from Ukrainian passports the page that duplicates citizens’ data in Russian, replacing it with a page in English. “I support the indignation of Ukrainian citizens regarding the duplication of printed information in the passport of a citizen of Ukraine in the language of the state, which the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has recognized as carrying out aggression against Ukraine.

According to an Interfax source, a request to seize the accounts of former Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia Alexei Bazhanov in Switzerland was sent by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office. Swiss authorities seized the relevant accounts in the amount of 12 million Swiss francs. Earlier, Kommersant reported that in Switzerland, in connection with suspicions of money laundering, the accounts of former Russian Minister of Agriculture Elena Skrynnik were seized.

The Ministry of Health will discuss the possibility of introducing an excise tax on electronic cigarettes, department press secretary Oleg Salagai told M24.ru. He emphasized that this and other possible options for reducing the number of nicotine users will be considered as part of the formation of a new anti-tobacco concept. In addition, another increase in excise taxes on tobacco products and, accordingly, prices for cigarettes is possible.

"Watch Me Move" in the "Radio Engineering" pavilion at VDNKh Exhibition animation Photo: Elena Gorbacheva, Kommersant / buy photo The project of the London art center Barbican was first shown in 2011, traveled to several European and Eastern countries and was finally localized in Moscow. The brief but stunning history of world animation hypnotized VALENTIN DYAKONOV.

New charges have been brought in the case of theft of government funds under the guise of paying translators. The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) has charged the former head of the judicial department at the Supreme Court of the Moscow Region, Valery Kuzmich, who was recently extradited from Belarus, with particularly large-scale fraud.

The fund invested in an online platform for luxury watches The venture fund InVenture Partners of Sergey Azatyan and Anton Inshutin has become a co-owner of Chronext, an online platform for trading luxury watches based in Germany. Together with partners, the fund invested $5.3 million in the company. This is a high-margin business, and the potential market is huge, experts note: the two largest online sellers of expensive watches alone account for about $2 billion annually.

Resorts The fall of the ruble and the general decline in incomes of Russians have led to the fact that during the New Year holidays, Russian tourists choose ski resorts that are more affordable than in traditional France, Switzerland and Austria. In particular, they are increasingly turning their attention to slopes in Germany, Italy and Bulgaria.

Moscow airports ask for state support for infrastructure As Kommersant found out, Moscow airports did not support alternative options for the development of their airfield infrastructure with the involvement of extra-budgetary sources. Airport operators are ready to develop airfields only if there is serious government support - in particular, subsidizing the interest rate on loans attracted for 20-30 years from state banks.

The Government Commission, chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, will consider the issue of building the Zvezda shipyard in Primorye, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev said during the meeting.

Novosibirsk OJSC Sibmost won the competition for the construction of a bridge across the Markha and Mar rivers in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The cost of the contract will be 4.7 billion rubles, the company’s press service reported. “The future bridge crossing will be located on the 756th km of the Vilyuy highway, which is being built from the M-53 Baikal highway through Bratsk, Ust-Kut, Mirny to Yakutsk.

In Volgograd, the former head of a government agency was arrested for pressuring a witness In Volgograd, the preventive measure was changed for the former director of the Regional Research and Production Center for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments Larisa Dubina, against whom a case of fraud on an especially large scale was opened. As the press service of the regional prosecutor's office reported, the state prosecution requested this.

A criminal case has been initiated against the First Deputy Head of the Administration of the Sosnogorsk District of Komi, Alexander Martyn, under Part 1 of Art. 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of official powers), Interfax reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to investigators, in the fall of 2014, the suspect offered a company working under a government contract to buy equipment for one of the municipal institutions.