Vladimir Yakunin, president of Russian Railways, promised to disclose information about his salary. He stated this in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. “My position is extremely open: as soon as a decision has been made, and I am an employee of a company in which the shareholder is the state, I, of course, will comply with this decision,” Yakunin said.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Igor Komarov to the post of head of the state corporation Roscosmos, according to the order of the Prime Minister. According to Interfax, during a meeting with Komarov, Medvedev expressed hope that the new head of Roscosmos would make the work of the industry and the corporation stable during the transition period.

Mongolian experience Mongolian experience The Mongolian Citizens Committee of Environmental Organizations held a press conference today in Ulaanbaatar's main square, near the Government House, demanding a freeze on mining licenses, an end to persecution of environmental activists, and a repeal of planned amendments to weaken environmental laws.

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill expressed hope that in 2015 the process of expanding the teaching of the school course "Fundamentals of Religious Culture and Secular Ethics" (ORKSE) will begin, Interfax reports . According to the patriarch, there is a “quite consolidated positive attitude” towards religious education in society.

Russia has attached not one, but two fundamentally different territories: the favorite “sacred Sevastopol” and the rest of the peninsula, which the Kremlin prefers not to notice Russia has attached not one, but two fundamentally different territories: the favorite “sacred Sevastopol” and the rest of the peninsula, which the Kremlin prefers not to notice Evgeny Feldman / "New" For politicians of the Major League and Media Proletarians working for the state, Sevastopol has always been an

Russian soldier Valery Permyakov pleaded guilty in the case of the murder of 7 people from the Avetisyan family in Armenian Gyumri, Interfax reports with reference to the Special Investigation Service of Armenia.

The Government of Ukraine has proposed to increase the number of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to 250 thousand people - by 66 thousand people, reports . Interfax-Ukraine “The Government of Ukraine is submitting to Parliament a law on increasing the total number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada.

The Ministry of Culture promised to consider the directors' proposal to allow the distribution of films with obscene language for people over the age of 18, reports . Interfax “The Ministry of Culture is currently considering a proposal by filmmakers to amend the current legislation, which provides for the possibility of issuing distribution certificates with an age limit of “18+” for such films,” the press service of the Ministry of Culture told the agency.

The head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Anne Brasseur, appealed to State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin to help in the speedy release of Nadezhda Savchenko, who is accused in Russia of involvement in the murder of two journalists near Luhansk. It is reported on Wednesday TASS.

As part of the Week of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow holds a theatrical excursion program “Remember Cannot Be Repeated” at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945

Russian scientists have suspended the development of an AIDS vaccine due to a lack of funding from the state budget, said Vladimir Uyba, head of Russia's Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA). “We dealt with this topic and stopped only because of funding,” is quoted by TASS. Uyba According to the head of the agency, the vaccine has already passed preclinical and clinical trials, but no money has yet been allocated for further trials.

The deputies found a way to deal with the threat of "color revolutions" - to ban any foreign organizations that do not correspond to the "fundamental values" of the Russian Federation The deputies found a way to deal with the threat of "color revolutions" - to ban any foreign organizations that do not correspond to the "fundamental values" of the Russian Federation On Tuesday, the State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill “on undesirable organizations”: deputies came up with a mechanism by

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the son of the head of Rosneft, Ivan Sechin, born in 1989, with a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree. The document is published on the portal of legal information. The presidential decree specifies that Sechin Jr.

To apply the anti-crisis plan in Russia, the government will need 1 trillion 357 billion rubles, including funds from the National Welfare Fund. This was stated by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov during a government meeting with the president, TASS reports . Earlier it was reported that on Wednesday, January 21, Vladimir Putin will be presented with an anti-crisis plan.

"New" and "Dissernet" continue to deal with the oddities of the dissertation of the governor of the Kaliningrad region Tsukanov "New" and "Dissernet" continue to deal with the oddities of the dissertation of the governor of the Kaliningrad region Tsukanov Tsukanov's dissertation card in the dissertation catalog In October last year, “New” published the material “Governor Paranormal” (No.