The bill “on a free hectare of land” in the Far East is a populist measure; institutional measures are needed for the development of the region, says ex-Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, head of the Committee of Civil Initiatives Alexei Kudrin. “I think that regarding the “one hectare” is a populist program.

The first training of the Sochi Olympic champion in figure skating in the team tournament, Yulia Lipnitskaya, under the leadership of her new coach Alexei Urmanova, was fruitfully. The lesson under the leadership of Urmanov was held by a 17-year-old athlete on Monday. The fact that Lipnitskaya decided to part with her first coach Eteri Tutberidze was declared on November 18. “Yesterday, the girl came to Sochi, and today she went through the first training.

More than 50% of the survey participants on the renaming of the Moscow metro station "Voikovskaya" advocate the preservation of the current name. This is the result of voting in the project "Active Citizen" , which ended at 00:00 Moscow time on November 23. The survey was attended by 304 038 people. 35% of them advocated renaming the Voikovskaya metro station, 53% against, 7% more difficult to answer, 5% believe that specialists should solve this issue.

The Ministry of Finance introduced a draft law for consideration, according to which the provision of housing for veterans of the Great Patriotic War and a number of other preferential categories of citizens is assigned to regional budgets, the materials on the federal portal of draft legal acts.

Last Friday, the Pope Francis accepted in the Vatican of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. During the meeting, the pontiff spoke out in favor of the fact that the conflict in Ukraine should be resolved in political means.

The Stavropol Regional Court sentenced the young mother, who is found guilty of detubaine. A woman and her accomplice beat a girl who was less than two years old. The baby died of injuries. By a court decision, the accused Antonina Rogulina will spend 15 years behind bars. The accomplice of the murder Sergey Grishchenko was punished for the 20th years of imprisonment, the official website of the regional prosecutor's office reports.

The Moscow Arbitration Court recognized Bankrupt by Investment-15 CJSC, which is one of the largest subcontractors of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. It is reported on Monday "Interfax" . The decision was made on November 11th. As stated in a court decision posted on the site, the court opened bankruptcy proceedings against the debtor for a period of six months and approved Valery Kubelun, the bankruptcy trustee, who was previously temporary manager.

Almost two -thirds of Russians (63%) this year will reduce their expenses for the celebration of the New Year. This is indicated by the survey conducted by the IRG marketing research agency, Kommersant writes. In particular, according to IRG, they will reduce their expenses for gifts of 40% of citizens (last year they were 30%), 35% (30%) will reduce the costs of the New Year's table, 20% (13%) will abandon the delicacies, 28% will refuse tourist trips.

In the Ulyanovsk region on Monday, mourning was announced for six employees of the Volga-Dnepr airline, who died on November 20 when attacking terrorists on a hotel in the capital of Mali Bamako. On the buildings of the state institutions, flags were lowered, entertainment events were canceled or moved. From a minute of silence, a traditional hardware meeting in the regional government will begin, Interfax reports.

The head of Sberbank, German Gref, criticized the system for charging from trucks for travel along the federal roads Plato. According to him, she was introduced in Russia with design errors. In addition, Gref believes that the contribution to the inflation of the new road collection from heavy trucks can be 1.5%. The Platon system in the current form called Gref "unacceptable", reports Interfax . “The way this is done - of course, this is unacceptable, simply unacceptable.

In Australia, at the age of 72, Leonid Guryevich Kulikovsky, the great -grandson of the Russian Emperor Alekjandra III, the great -grandson of the Russian emperor, said, said TASS.

The Taiwanese company HTC announced a promotion in the United States, in which from November 26 to December 2, everyone will be able to exchange the iPhone for the HTC One A9 smartphone for free, the Android and Me resource reports. Owners of a number of Android devices can also participate in the action, but for them the exchange conditions will not be so attractive.

In the Safari Park of San Diego (California, USA), Nola, one of the four northern white rhinos remaining on the planet. Veterinarians decided to put it to put it after a long struggle with a bacterial infection and problems caused by respectable age. Nola was 41 years old. “Over the past 24 hours, Nola surrendered greatly, and we made a difficult decision to put it to put it. We are absolutely devastated by this loss,” the Safari Park page said on Facebook .

Indian politicians are increasingly turning to the legacy of Sri Caitanya, seeing in it a recipe for peaceful existence. On the eve of the President of India Pranab Mukerji, he took part in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Sri Chatanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534) to the Holy City of Vrindavan, calling him one of the greatest saints in the tradition of Bhakti-the way of serving God with devotion and disinterestedness.

Serb Novak Djokovic became the first tennis player to earn more than $ 20 million per season. The record was brought to the Serb's victory at the final tournament of the 2015 season in London . The total amount of prize Jokovic over the past 12 months has reached $ 21.646 million. The previous achievement belonged to the Spaniard Rafael Nadal (14.570 million in the 2013 season).