The government may allow the refund of value added tax, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during a meeting with deputy prime ministers. “According to the results of the Sochi Forum, I signed 15 instructions, including the proposal to return the value added tax, or the so -called Tax Free. This should reduce the tax burden and ultimately positively affect the investment climate,” Medvedev said. “Some of these orders should become bills.

On Sunday Mass on St. Peter Square in the Vatican on the eve there was an Honorary Pope Benedict XVI. The head of the Roman Catholic Church resigned in February 2013 was met by his successor Pope Francis. He thanked his predecessor for the presence on the Mass, which was dedicated to Grandfather's Day. “I thank the Pope Honor for the fact that he is with us here.

Anna Mokhova , a freelance correspondent for the first Crimean television channel, spent almost a month captivated by the Ukrainian special services and released on September 22 as part of the exchange of prisoners of war, talked about what she had to survive and see. In particular, she claims that she was beaten in Ukrainian captivity, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of the journalist herself, made at the press conference last Monday. “We were prisoners of war.

Rosavtodor and RT-Invest Transport Systems (RTITS, subsidiary "Rostec") signed a concession agreement on Monday on the creation of the operation of the charge of fees from heavy trucks. Since November next year, from each truck whose weight exceeds 12 tons, a new tax will be levied - 3.7 rubles per kilometer. For the first time in recent years, such a profitable contract was signed at all without a competition. The launch of this system will be financed by RTITS.

Aviation of countries included in the coalition against the Islamic State terrorist organization began to strike at the main infrastructure facilities located on the territory controlled by the militants. In particular, the attack of Coneco gas processing plant was subjected to attacks. Also, air strikes were applied to granaries in the west and north of Syria.

The European Film Academy will give the director of the Oscar -winning film "12 years of slavery" by Steve McKuin an honorary award for European achievements in world cinema at a ceremony in Riga on December 13, Variety reports. McQueen began as an artist, shot his first short work in 1993 under the name "Bear". Like a few more McQueen films, this tape was black and white.

On Saturday, Dagestan human rights defenders sent a native of the Murmansk region to Moscow Sergey Fraud, who has been busy with coercive work in the North Caucasus since the last century. The man made several shoots, but each time he was again turned into slavery, and he could not leave the limits of Dagestan. Activists of the Alternative public movement, which is engaged in the liberation of slaves throughout Russia, pulled out of Sergei's captivity, writes the publication “Cavpolite” .

"Let's tell those who don't know what kind of sisters they were. These are normal (and therefore abnormal) aristocratic Englishwomen, like from the series “Downton Abbey,” which I will mention here more than once. The daughters of an eccentric (what else?) lord, who boasted that he had read only one novel in his entire life - “White Fang” and decided to stop there, because it was impossible to write anything better anyway. There were six sisters.

As the insurers found out, in Perm a chance to get into an accident 33% higher than throughout Russia. The second city with the highest frequency of accidents this year was Krasnoyarsk, here drivers announce an accident on average once every 1.32 years. On average, motorists in Russia declare an accident once every 1.6 years, and in Perm this figure is 1.2 years. Moscow and the region by the number of accidents are indicated in fourth place.

Iranian intelligence tortured the Persian BBC service to steal historical documents from the Archival Center of the Islamic Republic. It is reported by the Iranian news agency FARS . According to the agency, a representative of the public relations department of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry, the British television and radio corporation BBC used its agents in Iran in order to carry out the aforementioned theft.

The monument to Vladimir Lenin, demolished in Kharkov, will be restored, said the mayor of the city, Gennady Kernes. The corresponding statement of the mayor is posted on the website of the Kharkov City Council. The mayor called the demolition of the monument "barbaric." "What happened tonight is a direct violation of the law in terms of ensuring the security of peaceful meetings of citizens of Ukraine," the mayor noted.

Russian human rights activists accused the security forces of "stripping" of the Dagestan settlement. According to the human rights center "Memorial", armored personnel carriers and trucks with armed security officials drove into the village of Temporary Untsukulsky district on September 19.

Western journalists argue that a peaceful revolution took place in society - preaching friendliness, beauty and tolerance of Twi, which La Voz de Galicia noted, unite Kurt Cobain, the group The Smiths, Walt Disney, Anna Frank, and even more different things, have replaced the hipsters. American journalist Mark Spitz recently published the book Twi: Soft Revolution in Music, Literature, Television, Fashion and Cinema (Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion and Film).

The billionaire and owner of the Interros group Vladimir Potanin did not allow his own son to fly to the United States, the former businessman Natalya said, who won a serious victory in the divorce proceedings last week.

As part of terrorist organizations on the territory of Iraq and Syria, including the Islamic State, immigrants from 70-80 countries, including Russians, said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mikhail Bogdanov. The fight against the activation of terrorist groups in the Middle East and North Africa has become the key topic of the “ministerial week” of the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly yesterday.