The Russian government has submitted bills to the State Duma on improving anti-corruption legislation. The documents were published on the website of the upper house of parliament. The bills refer, in particular, to changes in legislation related to acceptable gifts to civil servants. The government proposed to state in a new edition the rule on the permitted value of a gift. The list of acceptable gifts was proposed to be set out in the law “On Combating Corruption”.

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) has filed cases against Russian athletes Evgeny Ustyugov, Alexander Pechenkin, Alexander Chernyshov and Svetlana Sleptsova. This was reported on the website of the organization. The IBU notes that this decision was made after analyzing the doping samples of athletes taken between 2012 and 2015. The results are supported by the evidence that was disclosed in the report of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) expert Richard McLaren.

Mortality in Russia exceeded the birth rate: what is happening? Explanes the expert Photo: Mikhail Mordasov / TASS Is the implementation of the national project "Demography"? Anatoly Vishnevsky, Director of the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics, answers the questions of “New” Anatoly Vishnevsky.

In Yekaterinburg, at an air rifle shooting competition, schoolchildren were offered to shoot portraits of American soldier Robert Scales, reports. 66.ru The portraits bore the name of the military man with the note "enemy of the Russian people." Ashurbek Manasov, the organizer of the competition, chairman of the Assistance to Homeless Foundation, said that in this way he and his associates wanted to instill patriotic feelings in schoolchildren.

Crimean lawyers representing the interests of the Ukrainian military detained by Russian border guards off the coast of Crimea and arrested by the Kievsky District Court of Simferopol filed the first appeals against the arrest. Complaints were filed against the arrest of those military men whose preventive measure was chosen on November 25.

The Frunzensky Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee (IC) for the Vladimir Region opened a criminal case due to the use of violence against prisoners in the Vladimirsky Central prison, Roman Kayfajyan, head of the Center for , told Interfax.

Russian businessman Vladimir Lisin has been elected president of the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF), according to a statement on the website of the Russian Shooting Union. Elections were held at the organization's general assembly in Munich. Lisin's competitor was the Italian Luciano Rossi, who served as vice president of the ISSF. The current president of the organization, Mexican Olegario Vazquez Ranha, did not seek re-election for a new term.

On Russian screens - one of the best films of the year: “Systems Brothers” Jacques Odar, a prize in Venice for directing Frame from the film "Brothers Systemers". Kinopoisk.ru Oregon, 1850. Gold rush. Brothers Charlie and Ilai Systems, on the instructions of the mysterious and powerful commander (unexpected Cabbish Rutger Hauer), should express a certain Hermann Worm (Reese Ahmed), a gold and chemist invented a solution with which you can find gold in the river.

"New" continues to monitor the fate of a military pilot, to whom the state does not pay the due money for more than 40 years Mikhail Teplyakov with his wife. Photo from the archive In April 2018, we wrote about Mikhail Pavlovich Teplyakov, a military pilot, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Japanese and Korean wars, who was the first to meet Yuri Gagarin at the landing site in 1961. He is 92 years old, and for 41 years he does not receive an additional pension assigned to him.

The 23-year-old deputy of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg called the Gulag "a good thing." And fell under general obstruction Photo: RIA Novosti For a week in Yekaterinburg they have been discussing the words of young communists about repressions. Five young Leninists aged 15 to 23 told the Yekaterinburg edition of The Village that they approve of the Gulag and that the political persecution, which were subjected to millions of people in the Soviet Union, were justified.

President Vladimir Putin signed the law on the federal budget for 2019-2021. It was published on the official portal of legal information. A budget surplus is planned for all three years. In 2019, it will amount to 1.932 trillion rubles (19.97 trillion rubles of income against 18.04 of expenses, 1.8% of GDP).

From 2019, foreign warships will have to seek permission from Russia to pass through the Northern Sea Route, Interfax reported , citing Mikhail Mizintsev, head of Russia's National Defense Control Center. According to him, such changes are necessary to "eliminate the legal vacuum" in the use of the Northern Sea Route. Mizintsev also said that the number of concluded agreements in the field of activity of the Russian Navy has more than tripled recently.

The commission of the Ministry of Culture confirmed that the head of the ROSIZO museum and exhibition center Vera Lagutenkova issued awards to herself and her assistants in the amount of about 18.5 million rubles, so the ministry is preparing "personnel proposals." About this RBC said the director of the department of museums of the Ministry of Culture of Russia Vladislav Kononov.

The heads of the ministries of foreign affairs of the G7 countries expressed extreme concern about Russia's actions during the incident in the Kerch Strait and demanded that the arrested sailors and ships be returned to Ukraine. This is stated in their joint statement. “We call on Russia to adhere to international law and avoid further escalation of the conflict.

Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Varsonofy asked the acting. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov to transfer to the ROC the building of the Annunciation Church located on the territory of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. His appeal was published on Facebook by the deputy of the city legislature Maxim Reznik. The building of the church is now in the use of the Museum of Urban Sculpture.