Alexander Khinshtein during his appointment to the post of acting governor of the Kursk region in the Kremlin. Screenshot The Kremlin published a video from the meeting between President Putin and State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein. Putin offers Khinshtein to head the Kursk region and says that there is now “crisis management in demand” there, and Khinshtein worked as an adviser to the head of the Russian Guard. Khinshtein agrees to lead the region.

The decree, which updates the procedure for paying for Russian gas for foreign companies introduced after the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, was published on the legal information portal. According to the original decree, Gazprombank is an authorized bank for making payments for gas: foreign buyers had to open special ruble and currency accounts of the “K” type with it, through which payments were made.

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The relevant amendments have already been approved by the Ministry of Transport, but the new rules will come into force only from September 1, 2025. For now, if a passenger bought a round-trip ticket and missed the flight, the airline can cancel the entire order, the department recalled. “Starting next year, there will be no such “option” - the return ticket will be retained by the passenger,” explained the Ministry of Transport.

Cover of the book “Odsun” by Alexey Varlamov, winner of the “Big Book” in 2024 * The main prize goes to Alexey Varlamov and the book “Odsun” (and a prize of 3 million rubles). Read Maya Kucherskaya's review of the winning book in Gorby magazine. Second place - Mikhail Shemyakin with the book of memoirs “My Life: Before Expulsion” (prize 1.5 million rubles). And we recommend reading Kucherskaya’s review of this important book.

Nailya Allahverdieva. Screenshot from video presentation Nailya Allahverdieva is leaving her position as art director of the PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art in Perm, Kommersant writes . Allahverdinova stated that she was connected with Perm by working at the museum. “I don’t see any prospects outside of it,” said the former director. On November 21, searches took place in PERMM. They were allegedly connected with a criminal case against gallery owner Marat Gelman**.

Leonid Kipnis. Photos from open sources Leonid Kipnis is leaving the post of head of the Novosibirsk Musical Theater on December 5, writes NGS, citing a source. Kipnis himself refused to comment on his departure from the theater, which he led for 30 years. During the year before his dismissal, Kipnis had a conflict with the pro-government actor Anton Lidman, writes Sibirmedia.

This proposal was made by presidential adviser Elena Yampolskaya at the congress of the Russian Book Union, TASS reports . She drew attention to the fact that book publishing in Russia “is almost the only industry that is not regulated by law.” “I never cease to be amazed that, say, a film in the Russian Federation must obtain a distribution certificate before appearing on the screen, but a book is simply published and goes to the store.

Alexander and Lydia Nevzorov*. Photo: “7 days”, archive Information that both the land and the house of Natalia Kolesnikova, Nevzorov’s mother-in-law, were confiscated in favor of the state following a lawsuit by the prosecutor’s office appeared almost two hours after the start of the meeting in the Telegram channel of the joint press service of the courts. "Court….

Top 10 November dope Photo: Kirill Kukhmar / TASS Are you really a doctor? The rector of the Chelyabinsk Alexander Nevsky Church, Archpriest Boris Krivonogov, called on the state to deprive families of state support who conceived children through artificial insemination. He accused such couples of promiscuity, which, in his opinion, became an obstacle to pregnancy.

Film directors wishing to receive government money spoke about their creative plans at the Ministry of Culture Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta The Russian Ministry of Culture has completed pitching events - events where filmmakers line up for money to produce children's, experimental and non-fiction films. Stepan Khalansky followed their applications, presentations, comments and the work of experts and tried to assess how much the Russian film space is now covered in propaganda.

Andrey Ermak. Screenshot of the Telegraph video broadcast of his interview Andriy Ermak, head of the Office of Ukrainian President Zelensky, said Kyiv would hold elections “immediately” and immediately after a “just peace” has been established. Elections must be held according to democratic procedures and be legitimate, that is, recognized in the world, and for this, Ermak said, all citizens, including military personnel and those who left the country, must take part in the elections.

Polls by sociologists show that Russians are not particularly afraid of a world war, because they have been convinced that Russia always wins Photo: Sergey Fadeichev / ITAR-TASS 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND/OR DIRECTED BY A FOREIGN AGENT OF THE LEVADA CENTER OR CONCERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF A FOREIGN AGENT OF THE LEVADA CENTER.

Russians are afraid of war in the West, and in the East, and in the South, and everywhere. And mentally we got used to it, hoping to survive and even win - no matter who Illustration: Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta What has been happening in the world around us lately most closely resembles gray, viscous jelly with blood gravy. Events on the Ukrainian front have collapsed into the autumn-winter mudslide, Russia is slowly pressing here and there, and the enemy is snarling in response.

The order of President Putin was published on the legal information portal. The text says that Putin agrees with the proposal of the Russian Foreign Ministry to sign a separate agreement on security guarantees between the Russian Federation and Belarus within the framework of the Union State. By the same order, Putin allowed the Foreign Ministry to edit the text of the treaty in “unprincipled” places. The prepared document must be signed at the highest level, Putin ordered.