Interview with the former head of the secret intelligence service for relations with the Jews of the USSR and Eastern Europe "Nativ" Yakov Kedmi On November 20, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Moscow. During the visit, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will perform his duties. After a high-profile criminal case, he was again sworn in.

The new Uralvagonzavod is coming on the literary field The new “Uralvagonzavod” is coming, only on the cultural field, and rightly, all other questions have already decided, it was time to come to understand, ask them in a party-with whom are you masters of culture, with a people or with a liberal detachment barking from the gateway?

Today, the State Duma adopted in the second reading the amendments to the constitution of the Russian Federation, introduced by the president, which relate to the unification of the Supreme and Supreme Arbitration Courts, Interfax reports . No changes were made to the bill after the first reading. Also, the presidential amendments on the procedure for appointing and dismissing deputy prosecutors and prosecutors in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation were read.

Brazilian Ana Paula Alminhana Masiel, who participated in the action near the Prirazlomnaya platform, was released from custody, ITAR-TASS reports citing a Greenpeace representative. In addition, the organization told the agency that "they do not know where Ana Paula will live, but even if they knew, they would not have been told." The head of the St. Petersburg branch of the environmental organization, Dmitry Artamonov, said that it is unlikely that any of the activists will be released today.

About people who fulfill the dreams of incurably sick children About people who fulfill the dreams of incurably sick children “On Thursday, Dima will have a birthday, it will turn five years old. Before that, he had never been satisfied with the holiday on his birthday: it seemed that Dima was still small, had not yet grown. But now the holiday will certainly be. Dima dreams that hedgehogs have performed at his birthday. ” This is a text from the November post in Live Lidia Moniava.

Catherine behind bars remains calm. She has to spend a few more days in captivity until Greenpeace transfers a guarantee to a special account ... Catherine behind bars remains calm. She has to spend a few more days in captivity until Greenpeace transfers a guarantee to a special account ... Photo - Evgeny Feldman “That's what the woman means - he got rid of it!

“We inform you that, in accordance with Article 10 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, state power is exercised on the basis of division into legislative, executive and judicial.” Thus begins the response of the Presidential Administration to the letter from the relatives of the defendants in the Bolotnaya case, which they wrote to Vladimir Putin.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ordered the case of Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova following complaints from lawyer Irina Khrunova and human rights commissioner Vladimir Lukin. This was reported on the website of the Sun. “If we were talking about an ordinary criminal case, I would say that this is a very good step and there is hope. The Supreme Court rarely reclaims criminal cases,” Irina Khrunova, the girls’ lawyer, told Novaya Gazeta.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma to limit the maximum age for the use of passenger aircraft by a group of five United Russia deputies, Interfax reports . The drafters of the law assume that it will come into force on January 1, 2017. These amendments will not affect state, experimental aviation, as well as general aviation. The explanatory note says that the high age of aircraft is the main cause of air crashes in Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with leaders of non-parliamentary parties, said that there should be no xenophobia towards homosexuals in Russia, Interfax reports . "By no principle should we create such xenophobia in society against anyone, including people of non-traditional sexual orientation," the head of state said. The President added that the issue of the position of homosexuals in Russia gave him a lot of inconvenience.

Because of the fire, the area of ​​which is 4,000 square meters, the roof of a one-story building in the town of Korolev, near Moscow, partially collapsed, RIA Novosti reports citing a representative of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

An internal voice recorder found among the wreckage of a Boeing-737 passenger plane that crashed in Kazan was damaged, Interfax reports . "Whether it is suitable for decryption, the IAC will say," said Dmitry Zakharov, senior assistant to the head of the Volga Investigation Department for Transport of the TFR. The plane crash happened on the evening of November 17th. The crash killed 50 people.

A fan who hung a Nazi flag in Yaroslavl during a match between Shinnik and Spartak received seven days of administrative arrest, RIA Novosti reports today with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Recall that during the match "Spartak" - "Shinnik" there were riots and fights on the podium, as a result, the Russian Football Union fined both football clubs, "Spartak" was punished by holding two games without spectators, and "Shinnik" - three.

The Moscow City Court today upheld the verdict, according to which Olga Alexandrina, who died in an accident on Leninsky Prospekt, was found guilty of violating traffic rules, RAPSI reports . So, the court rejected the complaint of the defenders of Alexandrina's relatives, who asked to cancel the verdict and reconsider the case itself. The father of the deceased in the accident, Sergei Alexandrin, said that the trial convinced him of the innocence of his daughter.

Novaya Gazeta has obtained a document confirming the worst fears of representatives of the Russian scientific community about the first consequences of the hasty “reform” of the Academy of Sciences pushed through by the authorities. This document is an order signed by RAS President V.E. Fortov on November 18 of this year and sent to everyone who will have to comply with it - directors of academic institutions, heads of Councils, Commissions and Branches of the RAS.