The Russian government has proposed to allocate 210 million rubles to the TASS agency. to create a children's channel of a socio-political orientation, RBC reports . The money is planned to be redistributed from the item of expenses for higher education. By "specialized channel" is meant a children's newsfeed. The channel will target children aged 8-16. 70 million rubles will be allocated for its activities. annually.

Entrepreneur Sergei Polonsky, after the court refused to toughen his punishment in the case of embezzlement, said that he would run for the presidency of Russia, Interfax reports on Wednesday, November 8 . The Moscow City Court did not begin to toughen the punishment for a businessman who was released in the case of embezzlement due to the statute of limitations. The prosecutor's office insisted on toughening the punishment.

Russia's Supreme Court upheld a life sentence for former Yukos security officer Alexei Pichugin, Dozhd reports on Wednesday, November 8 . Thus, the Presidium of the Supreme Court agreed with the position of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. Pichugin's defense insisted on the complete annulment of the sentence. Pichugin was convicted in 2005 on charges of organizing the murder of entrepreneurs Olga and Sergey Gorin.

The Saudi government intends to confiscate up to $800 billion in cash and other assets as part of an investigation into massive corruption among the state elite, reports The Wall Street Journal . Mass detentions in Saudi Arabia took place on November 5 as part of an anti-corruption campaign. 11 princes, current and former ministers of the kingdom, as well as big businessmen came under the attention of the investigation.

The German Constitutional Court ordered to allow residents of the country to indicate the third gender in their documents, writes Republic with reference to the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. This applies to those people who identify themselves as neither male nor female. The new rules should be introduced by the end of 2018. Then German citizens will be able to indicate in their documents a gender other than male or female.

The founder and director of the charitable foundation for helping convicts and their families, Olga Romanova, announced her move to Germany after the leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service wrote a “denunciation” against her. “At the end of March 2017, the Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service - in the recent past, Major of the Missile Forces - Comrade Rudy A.A. denounced me. He wrote that I stole budget money on an especially large scale, ”Romanova said on Facebook .

reports on Wednesday, November 8 Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky appealed to the rector of the Moscow Art Theater School Igor Zolotovitsky with a request to explain the appearance of a naked actor on stage during a student performance by Dmitry Brusnikin's workshop, Rain . Medinsky said he had not seen the performance, but had read about the appearance of a naked actor in the media.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov reacted to the message that the head of the charitable foundation for helping convicts "Rus Sitting" Olga Romanova left Russia. According to him, this is not the level of the president, RBC reports . Peskov also recalled that it is necessary to maintain strict control over the spending of budget funds. “We have many public and non-governmental organizations that are engaged in the provision of social services ...

Amendments to the rules of the road, according to which the driver of a car, entering a roundabout of equivalent roads, is obliged to give way to cars moving in a circle, entered into force today, November 8, the traffic police reported . “If priority signs or a traffic light are installed at a roundabout, then the movement of vehicles on it is carried out in accordance with their requirements,” the department clarified.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on November 16 may decide to break off diplomatic relations with Russia. According to Kommersant , this item will be additionally included in the law "on the reintegration of Donbass." “In the law on the reintegration of Donbass, which is to be considered by the Rada in the second reading, Russia will be recognized as an aggressor country - I hope that votes will be gathered for this.

The social network Twitter on Wednesday, November 8, announced a two-fold increase in the maximum number of characters in one message. Long tweets - 280 characters instead of 140 - are now available to everyone except for those who write in Korean, Chinese and Japanese, according to Mashable .

Syria, Iran, North Korea, Ukraine and disarmament issues: what will Putin wear to meet with Trump The set of key topics that the presidents of Russia and the United States can touch upon during the announced meeting at the APEC summit in Vietnam this week is obvious - these are Syria, Iran, North Korea, Ukraine and disarmament issues.

Roskomnadzor will analyze the work of the social network for its compliance with Russian legislation regarding the processing of personal data, Interfax reports . “In the near future, Roskomnadzor will plan a number of supervisory activities aimed at analyzing the activities of the administration of the Facebook social network in processing personal data of Russian users, the procedure and conditions for the provision of user services, and the content of local acts,” the message says.

Journalist, producer, head of the Open Elections project of the Open Russia movement Timur Valeev joined the team of Ksenia Sobchak, at the headquarters he will build a regional network in Russia. This was reported on the website of the candidate "Against All". “We invited Timur to engage in regional construction in our election campaign. During the elections, he will go on vacation from Open Russia and focus on regional headquarters and signature collection,” Ksenia Sobchak specified.

“And you, disrespectful gentlemen, who sold their refereeing birthright for lentils, is waiting for a real court” Photo: Flickr / Lithuanian ministry Of Foreign Affairs The Supreme Court refused to send the case of Alexei Pichugin to revise. What can be said here: Both sentences against Alexei should be revised, since during them "the right to fair trial was violated." But the court cannot be unfair, then this is not a court at all.