110 years ago, Stolypinsky Agrarian Reform began According to the 1897 census, more than 77% of the population of the Russian Empire were peasants, and the fate of Russia depended on their well -being. And it, contrary to the expectations of the organizers of the reform of 1861, did not grow, the village was poor, and the reason was obvious: the reform freed the peasant from the landowner, but not from the rural world.

In the Tver District Court of Moscow, the consideration of the essence of the case of the RBC correspondent Alexander Sokolov, who, together with the publicist Yuri Mukhin and his associates, Kirill Drum and Valery Parfyonov, is accused of continuing the activity of an extremist organization banned by the court (Articles 282.2 Part 1 of the Criminal Code).

The FIU denied information that appeared on November 23 about plans to gradually increase the retirement age from 2019. “This issue is not being considered. I did not receive any instructions from the leaders of the social block of the PFR,” the spokeswoman for the PFR told TASS.

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said that Japan would consider taking "appropriate measures" in response to Russia's deployment of missile systems on the Kuril Islands of Iturup and Kunashir, Gazeta.ru reports. "I'm going to be watching this closely to confirm [the information] and respond appropriately [to Russia's deployment of missile systems]," he said.

Members of the European Parliament voted on Wednesday to adopt a resolution on counteracting the Russian media, the most dangerous of which are called the Sputnik agency and the RT television channel, RIA Novosti reports. Of the 691 deputies who took part in the voting, 304 people voted in favor of the document, 179 voted against, 208 abstained.

Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk paid $150,000 to the Trump Foundation in exchange for Donald Trump speaking at a conference he organized, Inopressa reports citing The Daily Mail. “The payment to the Trump Foundation, the current president-elect, was made in support of his appearance via video link at a conference called the Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting.

In the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance in Moscow there are two completely different expositions: the encyclopedia of the life of Sholom Aleicham and the abstract series of Gerhard Richter An exhibition dedicated to the classics of Jewish literature is “Sholom Aleichem. The writer and his heroes in art, theater and cinema ” - considers the writer’s biography in the context of his works and the theatrical and cinemas made on them.

A helicopter dropped 6,000 letters from children over Eastern Aleppo calling for an end to hostilities, TASS reports. Each letter contains a story about civilians and their lives in the territories that are under fire. It is emphasized that these leaflets are not a call for the militants to surrender. “My brother served in the Syrian army. The sniper's bullet hit the heart and went right through.