Like Deripaska, Rotenbergs, Tinkov and other Russian businessmen are hiding from luxury tax Ladislav Karpov / TASS Value added tax (VAT) is paid by buyers of coffee and tea, milk and wine, machines and scooters; Do not pay - buyers of drugs, wheelchairs and ... private aircraft. How did the luxurious jets of the oligarchs turn out to be de facto equated with medical products? Island of Men. View from the aircraft. Photo: Wikimedia ...

How the events of 1917 are presented by textbooks of the countries of the former USSR Revolution or revolution? Who is good, who is bad? How was it possible? The key points of history in the countries of the former Soviet Union are taught in a completely different way. To make this short video about the events of 1917, the author studied 15 real school textbooks. In the following series: 15 Stalin and 15 decays of the USSR.

How "managers" ate experts and what happened to the norm Alexander Panov restores the temple “And the masters lived behind the river ...” - begins Alexander Popov, pushing the carpenter with an iron finger in the cracks of the green “house of lace” - as if just a restored monument of Russian wooden architecture in Vologda.

Why didn't the Soviet Union play the role that he claimed? Photo: RIA Novosti The Bolshevik state lasted almost 75 years - three generations. Too many - for those who were born, grew up or began to grow in the USSR. It is negligible from the point of view of history: and the more time it passes, the more obvious it becomes. All killed murders, Russia, Holded to your kingdom. Ivan Savin Revolution Why didn't the Soviet Union play the role that he claimed?

The global victory of the Internet is delayed Most of the newest dogmas cause heated discussions, which means they have supporters and opponents. For example, is global warming related to greenhouse gas emissions by industry and is artificial intelligence a threat to the existence of mankind. But there is a dogma with which practically no one argues. Newspapers are dead, the Internet has won. It is in this formulation: paper is the past, and digital is the future.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Nikolai Barinov, former deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), until December 31. He is suspected of taking bribes totaling 110 million rubles. this from the courtroom An Interfax correspondent reports . Barinov himself stated in court that he did not admit guilt. And he considers his criminal prosecution the result of a slander by other defendants in the case.

On the highway near Volgograd, Russian farmers baked the loaf of the world from Ukrainian flour Grain from 21 countries of the world and Russian regions for Karavay. Photo Alexander Grivin - especially for "New" On the Day of National Unity on the Volgograd highway - Moscow farmers and farmers from several regions of the country baked the symbolic loaf of the world. Grain was brought from all over the country all year, as well as from Georgia, Ukraine, Turkey and other countries.

The detained princes of Saudi Arabia were accused of bribery, money laundering, abuse of power and embezzlement. About this with reference to a Saudi official reports Reuters. In particular, one of the richest people in the world, Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, whose fortune is estimated at about $17 billion, is accused of laundering and extorting money, as well as bribery.

On November 5, the Moscow police detained 302 people and drew up 328 protocols on administrative offenses. This was reported on the website of the department. The detainees were seized "piercing and cutting objects, traumatic weapons, brass knuckles, aerosol cans with irritating gas, flammable liquids, masks, goggles, helmets", as well as symbols of the Artpodgotovka organization banned in Russia.

Six people died and one was injured in a fire in the north-east of Moscow, reports with reference to the representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Elena Markovskaya. RIA Novosti The fire broke out at about three in the morning in one of the household premises near the Moscow-Butyrskaya station of the Savelovsky direction. The identities of the dead are now being established. The victim was hospitalized with burns on 30% of the body surface.

Ekho Moskvy Deputy Editor-in-Chief Tatyana Felgenhauer gave her first interview after she was discharged from the hospital. She became a guest of the Morning U-turn program, which was held by Alexander Plushev and Irina Merkulova. She reported that she was feeling "much better" but that she would have a long rehab ahead of her. Now she is forbidden to speak.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma that would allow the National Guard to protect the heads of regions "and other persons." The document was published on the website "System for ensuring legislative activity" (CREATING GAS "Lawmaking").

After mass arrests in Moscow, 106 people were kept in police departments overnight. Five more people were left overnight at the police in St. Petersburg and one in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported by OVD-Info , as well as Open Russia .

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, presented an iPhone X to a third-grader who won the competition for the best poem about Russian President Vladimir Putin. this He announced on his Instagram. According to Kadyrov, the girl studies at school No. 7 in the village of Beno-Yurt, Nadterechny district. “All the participants of the competition commission and representatives of youth organizations came out to congratulate Khedi,” the head of Chechnya wrote.

The US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened an investigation against three banks - Russian VTB, Swiss Credit Suisse and French BNP Paribas. This was reported by the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the situation. According to the publication, the FBI is investigating whether the banks contributed to corruption by allowing Mozambican officials to take funds raised by selling $ 2 billion in debt.