Russian warships are transporting fighter-bombers off the coast of Norway, Reuters reports, citing a senior NATO diplomat. According to him, this is the largest deployment of Russian ships since the Cold War. “They are deploying all the ships of the Northern Fleet and most of the Baltic Fleet,” the agency quoted the interlocutor as saying. The diplomat noted that in two weeks the bombers would take part in the attack on Aleppo.

Deputies of the sixth convocation from United Russia, who did not get into the new Duma, did not refuse payments for the early termination of their powers, RBC reports with reference to parliamentarians. In a conversation with RBC, three deputies stated that they had not written an application for refusing cash payments. The accounting department of the State Duma confirmed this.

The government commission on legislative activity did not support the bill of the Federation Council member Elena Mizulina on excluding beatings against close persons from the list of criminal offenses, Vedomosti reports . According to the government, the amendments introduced by Mizulina do not take into account the fact that the change to Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (battery) was aimed at combating domestic violence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Vitaly Mutko Deputy Prime Minister. The corresponding document is published on the Kremlin website. The Ministry of Sports was headed by Mutko's former deputy Pavel Kolobkov. Earlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev invited Vitaly Mutko to take the post of Deputy Prime Minister and oversee sports, tourism and youth policy. Vladimir Putin also approved the candidacy.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) called unsubstantiated reports of the use of psychotropic substances against the former head of the internal security department of the Moscow Department of the Investigative Committee, Mikhail Maksimenko, reports . Interfax “No unacceptable measures of influence on him have been and are not being applied. The department considers allegations of this kind to be unfounded, which is confirmed by medical research, ”the department said.

In Moscow on the night of October 19, about a hundred unidentified people in black masks, who arrived on several buses, pushed back the residents of the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, Strogino and Shchukino districts by force, and helped the builders start cutting down trees on the territory near the Oktyabr sports complex. On a small plot of land at 21, Picturesque, it is planned to build an elite residential building, which activists oppose. Activist Elena Pisareva told Novaya Gazeta about this.

The Schiaparelli descent module of the Russian-European ExoMars mission (ExoMars) has landed on Mars, TASS reports citing Vladimir Nazarov, head of the department of ground-based scientific complexes at the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “We know for sure that the device is on Mars. But it is only unknown, unfortunately, what condition,” he said.

A helicopter of the Ministry of Defense of the country crashed in the Fergana region in the east of Uzbekistan, reports with reference to the national TV channel "Uzbekiston". RIA Novosti The Mi-171 helicopter crashed on October 18 during a scheduled flight. As a result, three crew members and six military personnel on board were killed. In connection with the incident, a special commission was created to investigate the causes of the crash.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin did not go on vacation, according to the Dozhd TV channel. According to Svetlana Petrenko, the first deputy head of the department for interaction with the media, the head of the Investigative Committee "continues to work." She also advised to “look at the site” of the department and recalled that on the eve of Bastrykin he met with the first deputy general director of RusHydro Vladimir Markin.

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Instead of Putin, Medinsky arrived at the ceremony In Paris, a majestic was opened-both in size and in cost-the Russian spiritual and cultural Orthodox center (RDKPCP). The long -awaited event at which President Vladimir Putin was to be present (and even, perhaps, President Hollande), as a result, took place under the supervision of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky.

The head of the Ministry of Sports, Vitaly Mutko, will become Deputy Prime Minister, who will oversee issues of sports, tourism and youth policy, reports TASS . This proposal was made to the minister by the head of government Dmitry Medvedev. Russian President Vladimir Putin also approved the candidacy. Mutko's current deputy, Pavel Kolobkov, was in turn offered to head the Ministry of Sports.

The Satyricon Theater may close due to financial problems associated with the reconstruction of the building, reports . TASS “For half a year we have been idle, I had to postpone the rehearsal and staging of a new performance, we have no money. This is a direct path to death, ”said Konstantin Raikin, artistic director of the theater.

The Minister of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities Mikhail Men said that in 2017 the government will not extend the preferential mortgage program, reports . TASS “In the form in which subsidies exist, up to 12%, today it does not make any sense, because, in fact, market rates, taking into account the reduction in the key one, are approaching 12%,” says Men. According to him, the government will review the support program.

The deputy head of the Investigative Committee, General Igor Krasnov, did not appear today at the Moscow District Military Court for questioning on the circumstances of the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov. Krasnov was the first head of the investigation team in this case. Both the lawyers of the defendants and the representatives of the victims, the families of the murdered politician, insist on his interrogation in court.