The State Duma adopted in the third, final, reading a bill on toughening criminal liability for recruiting into the ranks of terrorists up to life imprisonment, TASS reports . The law increases the responsibility for financing terrorism, as well as for inducing, recruiting or otherwise involving a person in the commission of at least one of the crimes provided for by the articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on terrorism.

10 of the most significant answers of the president to journalists' questions Vladimir Putin on December 14, as part of a large press conference, answered questions from journalists from Russia and other countries. The New Times has collected the most significant statements from which it follows that the Russian president: I forgave tax debts The president assured that taxes in Russia will not grow before the end of 2018, while Putin said that tax debt needs to write off citizens.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Thursday, December 14, during a press conference, compared Alexei Navalny with former Georgian President Mikhail Saaakashvili. Putin drew an analogy when answering a question from Ksenia Sobchak, who asked the president about competition in elections.

What Putin was silent about, listing threats to the global world Photo: Tehnowar.ru Russia is not going to start a new arms race, the United States is violated by key agreements on this, Vladimir Putin complained at his press conference. So he answered a really fundamental question about the Erosion of the foundation of international relations - a system of contracts for monitoring weapons.

110 years ago, the great architect Oscar Nimeyer was born Cathedral in Brazilia (1960) Photo: Copa2014.gov.br The Brazilian Oscar Nimeyer, who is sometimes called the last architect of the 20th century, was born on December 15, 1907 in Rio de Janeiro. From 1930 to 1934 he studied architecture at the National School of Fine Arts (now the National Architectural Institute).

Alexander Mamut unites Cinema Park and Formula Kino networks with Rambler & Co Internet holding and Azbuka-Atticus publishing house. According to Kommersant , the company's projected revenue will be 25 billion rubles. It will be headed by Roman Linin. The companies are merging operationally and at the level of legal entities, the merger will be completed in 2018. Alexander Mamut, who now manages Rambler & Co as CEO, will be chairman of the board of directors of the combined company.

The Russian authorities ignored more than 50% of the recommendations on organizing elections given by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE), Vedomosti reported on Thursday, December 14, citing a report by the voter rights movement Golos. Experts from Golos came to this conclusion after analyzing the OSCE reports. Moscow partially ignored a third of the recommendations and only fully implemented 12%. The latter are mostly technical recommendations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin assessed satisfactorily the implementation of the May decrees. Putin said this on Thursday, December 14, during a press conference. According to the president, about 93-94% of the decrees have now been implemented. Putin promised that in 2018 all the declared indicators would be achieved. The President of Russia said that if the May decrees had not existed as guidelines, the growth of salaries in the public sector would have been worse organized.

Alisher Usmanov intends to sell his shares in Yu, Disney, Muz-TV, STS, Domashny, Che and CTC Love to partner Ivan Tavrin, writes RBC .

The head of the expert economic group Evsey Gurvich - about the differences between the real economy and the one that Putin is seen Photo: hse.ru ## Problems of growth NT: *The President said that GDP has grown by 75% since 2000. Is this really an achievement? * Evsey Gurvich: In fact, over 17 years (2000–2016) growth is even more - 88%. But this is still not so much. This is 3.8% per year, that is, it approximately corresponds to the average ICROUTIES.

The leader of the party "Fair Russia" Sergei Mironov 99% will not put forward his candidacy for the presidency of the Russian Federation and will support Vladimir Putin, writes "Vedomosti" . Putin has not yet chosen a way to participate in the election campaign. He can nominate his candidacy for the presidency himself or the United Russia party will do it. In the case of self-nomination, he must be supported by an initiative group of at least 500 people.

Vladimir Putin will run for the presidency as a self-nominated candidate. Putin said this at a press conference on Thursday, December 14. The President admitted that he had not yet decided on the members of his electoral headquarters. Putin also added that he is counting on the support of political forces that share his view on the development of the country. The presidential elections will be held on March 18.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, December 14, during a press conference, proposed to write off the tax debt of the country's citizens by 42 billion rubles. According to the president, some taxes place a heavy burden on citizens and do not meet the interests of the state. Among these, Putin ranked debts that arose due to circumstances not related to a person, but related to the imperfection of the tax system.

Ten years ago, December 16, 2007, the FSB did not let the New Times a journalist Photo: The New Times The scandal happened a few days before the professional holiday of the state security organs: so the Chekists celebrated the 90th anniversary of their corporation. From the very beginning, with the formation of the Cheka, state security in its various incarnations existed primarily as an institution of political investigation, repression, as an instrument of war with their own people.

In the Kremlin, they do not run telegram channels themselves, but others read and analyze them. The main conclusions are reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was stated by the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “We don't run telegram channels, we read them. We are trying to analyze them, and, of course, we report this analysis to the president. We are compiling separate digests of telegram channels... This is a new phenomenon.