Great Britain and the European Union agreed on the draft agreement regulating the procedure for the exit of Britain from the Union.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing a Council for the implementation of state policy in the field of family and child protection. The corresponding document is posted on the official portal of legal information. The Council will serve as an advisory and advisory body. The new structure was headed by Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko.

In the near future, the board of directors of Channel One plans to instruct its CEO Konstantin Ernst to apply to the government on the allocation of 46 billion rubles. subsidies. Writes about this "Kommersant " . The audit and consulting company PwC, in a report commissioned by Channel One, concluded that subsidies from the federal budget in 2018-2021 should amount to 6.5 billion rubles, and in 2022-2025 - 5 billion rubles. in year.

Social discontent, fueled by pension reform, will influence the outcome of next September's elections. This conclusion was made by the experts of the Committee of Civil Initiatives (CGI). According to their analysis, the situation in Russia is now generally calm, including due to the “pre-election financial pumping”. However, experts noticed that in the first half of 2018, against the background of a general decrease in protest activity, the number of actions on social topics increased.

In 2019, the quota for issuing temporary residence permits to foreign citizens and stateless persons in Russia will decrease by 6,880 to 83,480. “The decrease in the quota compared to 2018 is due to the continued implementation of the State Program to Assist Voluntary Resettlement to Russia of Compatriots Living Abroad, participants of which do not need to receive a quota.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a policeman planned to transfer classified data to the United States, but abandoned this idea. He was given a warning. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the regional department of the FSB. Patrol officer Mikhail Semkov was dissatisfied with his life in Russia and dreamed of moving to the United States.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office as Defense Minister. In his address , he stressed that now is not the time for early elections in the country, Kommersant reports . The prime minister expressed hope that "all coalition partners will show responsibility and will not seek the resignation of the government." The previous head of the Ministry of Defense, Avigdor Lieberman, resigned amid the latest shelling of Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip.

Vladimir Putin will take part in the congress of United Russia scheduled for December 7-8. This will be the first visit of the president in six years to a congress of the ruling party not timed to coincide with the elections, RBC writes . The last time Putin attended such a congress was in May 2012, when Dmitry Medvedev was elected United Russia leader.

The Russian rank in Interpol, of course, will turn a blind eye to absurd Russian requests even more actively. A lot is being written about the possible choice of the head of Interpol, Major General Prokopchuk, and often without much understanding of the topic. It is important to understand three things.

Many years ago, in 1994, in Izvestia, I published a note “Face to Face with an American Bureaucrat” - it was in the form of an open letter to the then US Ambassador to the Russian Federation and concerned the work of the visa service.

What Putin counts on, what to expect from him - Columnist NT Ivan Davydov continues the discussion The question “what Putin is counting on,” or even, in a stronger form, “what Putin hopes for,” seems quite legitimate (the first article from this series Andrei Kolesnikov is here ). However, its production itself involves the presence of a questioning picture of the world in the head of a completely formed picture, which makes such a question possible.

The Ministry of Digital Development proposed to establish subsidies for preferential loans to Russian companies operating in the field of information technology at the level of 50% of the market bank rate. This was announced by the deputy head of the department Evgeny Kislyakov, RBC reports . The draft federal budget for 2019-2021 provides for the allocation of 1.71 billion rubles to subsidize rates on such loans in 2019, 3.66 billion rubles in 2020, and 7.124 billion rubles in 2021.

In Russia, a new criminal case has been opened against the founder of the Hermitage Capital fund, William Browder, for creating a criminal community; he had a motive to kill Sergei Magnitsky, the Prosecutor General's Office says Browder will be placed on an international wanted list and his property will be seized.

Carlos Ghosn, head of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, has been arrested in Japan. This is reported by the Yomiuri newspaper . Gon is suspected of violating the law on financial instruments and exchanges. It is reported that Nissan conducted an internal investigation against the head of the alliance and handed over the results to law enforcement agencies. The defendants in the investigation also became one of the top managers Greg Kelly.

The founder of Hermitage Capital, William Browder, regards the accusations against him in Russia of creating a criminal community as Moscow's response to the Skripal case. “In response to the Skripal poisoning, I am accused of four murders, including the poisoning of Sergei Magnitsky,” Browder wrote on Twitter. He noted that the accusations of the Prosecutor General's Office were made on the eve of the discussion of the expansion of the "Magnitsky law" to the European Union.