State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin instructed the leaders of the Duma factions to collect diplomatic passports from the deputies. They decided to take the documents away because of the “deterioration of relations” with the European Union and sanctions from Western countries. According to the rules, deputies must hand over their diplomatic passports after each official trip. In fact, they keep them in their possession and often use them for personal trips without visas to Schengen countries.

Parcels worth up to 500 euros will not be subject to duties. This was announced on October 27 by the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev. Previously, the possibility of lowering the duty-free threshold to 150 euros from the current 1,000 was discussed. “If you look at the online shopping schedule, then parcels worth more than 500 euros, which is 2% of all shipments, account for approximately 30% of the value.

Maxim Kashulinsky, general director of the publication, will temporarily act as editor-in-chief of Slon. The search for candidates for the post of editor-in-chief of the publication has already begun, Kashulinsky said. On October 27, it became known that Andrey Goryanov, who had headed Slon since 2011, was moving to the BBC Russian Service, where he would take the position of general producer. “For the time being, I will perform the functions of the editor-in-chief myself.

"Fair Russia" is preparing for the elections to the State Duma. Reporting Andrei Kozenko Photo: Kirill Kallinikov / RIA Novosti / Scanpix "Fair Russia" began to prepare for the elections to the State Duma of 2016. The coming campaign was the main theme of the meeting of the Central Council of the party, held on October 27 in Moscow.

Open lecture by Andrei Makarevich in St. Petersburg Photo: Grigory Sysoev / RIA Novosti / Scanpix October 28 in the library. Mayakovsky in St. Petersburg will be an open lecture by Andrei Makarevich. The topic is “what is beauty”: according to the musician, people have not agreed among themselves what it is.

Photo: © Evelyn Simak / Geograph.org.uk The British charity organization The Woodland Trust selected a list of candidates for the title of “Tree of the Year”. 10 plants entered the short list, and the winner will be determined as a result of Internet voting .

The FSB of the Russian Federation is conducting a large-scale operation on Russian territory to identify sources of financing and recruitment of fighters for the Islamic State in Syria.

The OK GO group published a video for the song “I Wonʼt Let You Down”, in which soloists are continuously skating on unitsylics - devices with one wheel that themselves hold the balance and move in any direction. The entire clip is shot in one continuous plan. The camera is sinking to the level of participants sitting on unitsyls, then it takes off to a bird's eye view. Ok Go Ok Go - I Wonʼt Let You Down At the end of the video in the frame, two thousand people synchronously move at once.

Russia has stationed an "extremely high" number of intelligence officers at its embassy in the Czech Republic over the past year. This is stated in the annual report of the Czech Security Information Service, published at the end of October. Russian intelligence officers also arrive in the country disguised as tourists, businessmen or scientists.

Poland will transfer "thousands" of its troops to the eastern border of the country. According to Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Semoniak, the redeployment is connected with the crisis in Ukraine. According to him, at least three garrisons, which are now manned by a third, will be filled by 90 percent by 2017. In addition, additional equipment will be transferred to these parts.

The Indian version of Vogue published a short film #StartwithTheboys (“Start with boys”), directed in defense of India women. The video is almost completely devoted to male tears (and upbringing under the slogan “Boys do not cry”), but in the final it turns out that we are talking about the violence of men in relation to women. Vogue India "Start with boys" “At the end of the video, the woman says:“ We taught our boys not to cry. It is time to teach them not to make the girls cry ”(English.).

In the PRC, it is planned to reduce the criminal articles providing for capital punishment. The document has been submitted to the Standing Committee of the Parliament, which prepares bills. If the law is passed, for some crimes (including smuggling of weapons, organizing prostitution and creating funds for the purpose of making a profit through fraud) they will not be shot, but planted for life.

The Liberal Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against the former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for the protection of honor and dignity. The party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky is demanding 10 million rubles from Khodorkovsky for accusing the Liberal Democratic Party of making money on voting in his book. In the book Prison and Freedom, Khodorkovsky, speaking about the financing of parties, wrote: “Since I myself did not engage in party building, I supported the forces closest to me.

The head of the "Guild of Driving Schools" - about the new rules for learning drivers Photo: navigator-tuapse.ru The Government of the Russian Federation approved the new regulations for obtaining a driver’s license - they will not be issued to those who have not attended a driving school.

The management of VDNKh is ready to conduct an additional working inspection with the participation of representatives of environmental organizations in order to confirm that killer whales are kept in proper conditions on the territory of the exhibition complex. In addition, VDNKh promised to publish photos and videos showing the conditions under which killer whales are kept.