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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the first string of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, through which Russian gas will go to Turkey, and then can go to southern Europe. According to RBC , Putin noted that Turkey is turning into a serious European hub, which will affect its geopolitical position. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed hope that in 2019 the gas pipeline will be ready for operation.

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.

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.

The monument to Joseph Stalin in Novosibirsk will be installed on the territory of the local regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, in the public urban space the mayor's office did not agree on its installation. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation will erect a monument before May 9 at its own expense, Interfax reports . Its round the clock security is not excluded.

Novaya Gazeta published an investigation into how the former bodyguards of Russian President Vladimir Putin obtained land on Rublyovka. “A joint investigation by Novaya Gazeta and OCCRP showed that by the time the former presidential bodyguards began to gain power in the country, they were already wealthy people.

In Russia, a new criminal case was opened against the founder of Hermitage Capital, William Browder, on the creation of a criminal community. It is reported by TASS with reference to the Prosecutor General's Office. Browder will be put on the international wanted list, and his property will be seized. by the Tverskoy Court of Moscow William Browder was sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison for deliberate bankruptcy on December 29, 2017.