The State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses on calculating fines in rubles, and not in the minimum wages (minimum wage), RIA Novosti reports. Today, fines in the code are registered in the minimum wage. At the same time, one minimum wage for fines is 100 rubles. Legislators propose to refuse to calculate fines in the minimum wage, replacing them in the entire code with a similar amount in rubles.

The third Russian-Chinese-Kazakh oil and gas forum opens in Shanghai In Shanghai, the third Russian-Chinese-Kazakh oil and gas forum opens. The key aspects of the event will be the state and prospects of the oil and gas markets of Russia, China and Kazakhstan, cooperation in the field of exploration, production and processing of hydrocarbons, transport and logistics, investment climate and trade.

In the Russian office of IBM, located on the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment in Moscow, searches began. It is reported by CNews with reference to a source in IBM. Law enforcement officers conduct similar inspections in Russian companies Lanin and R-Style. According to Gazeta.ru, an employee of one of the companies included in R-Style, people in camouflage, masks and machine guns appeared in the holding’s offices on Wednesday.

The prosecutor's office of the Leningrad Military District checks information about the facts of abuse by officials of the 6th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense. According to the investigating authorities, they could assign 16 million rubles for themselves, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. The representative of the prosecutor’s office said that the rules for conducting competitions for the placement of orders for work for state needs were violated.

Today, the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the first reading adopted the law on the creation of the new state holding "Atomprom". According to the deputy chairman of the State Duma of the State Duma on Energy, Transport and Communications, Yuri Sentyurin, a large preparatory work was carried out on the bill, he was constantly in the discussion of the working group, in the activities of which, in addition to the deputies of the State Duma, the management of Rosatom took part.

Valentina Matvienko was tired of answering provocative questions and refuting rumors that she was leaving the governor’s post, and she agreed with the arguments of the envoy Ilya Klebanov about the need to appeal to the President of Russia with the issue of trust, Fontanka.ru reports. This step, she noted, will remove speculative conversations. According to Matvienko, the next year will be very difficult.

On Tuesday, the Donetsk club played with a score of 1: 1 with the Greek Olympiacos. Thus, the Ukrainian team took third place in its group and reached the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup following the results of the Champions League group tournament. In the 27th minute of the match, the Brazilian defender of Shakhtar was opened by Matuzalu, and in the 54th minute the second goal in the match was scored by the striker of Olympiacos Castillo.

The bill, which grants the president, the right to introduce economic sanctions by international emergency conditions has passed the first reading in the State Duma. The United Russia project gives the president the right to impose economic sanctions against any persons or states on the proposal of the Federation Council and the State Duma, as well as the Government of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports.

Yesterday in Brussels a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Foreign Affairs ended. Russia and the West diverged on it on all key issues: on the role of the OSCE and its future chairman, on the monitoring of the elections and the "frozen conflicts". It came to the point that Russia first raised the question of the future of the OSCE and its membership in the organization. This threatens to return Europe and the world to the split of the Cold War, Kommersant writes today.

According to Science magazine, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astronomers for the first time discovered negatively charged molecules in space. To date, there are about 130 types of neutral molecules in the interstellar space and 14 - positively charged. Negatively charged molecules, or anions, have not yet been discovered. The find was made using the Robert C.

An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of RAO "UES" of Russia will today consider in absentia in absentia the issue of reorganization of the company in the form of the allocation of open joint-stock companies "OGK-5" and "TGK-5". The shareholders will also discuss issues about the election of directors of OGK-5 Holding OJSC and TGK-5 Holding OJSC, vote on issues of reorganization of OGK-5 Holding OJSC in the form of joining OGK-5 OJSC and reorganization of TGK-5 Holding OJSC TGK-5.

The largest Russian retail chains selling household electronics, on the eve of the New Banking Paper, decided to refuse to sell Panasonic products in their stores, said the heads of the largest sellers of the Euroset and Svyaznoy mobile phones, as well as networks of Eldorado, M. Video and Mir household appliances. This was reported by Reuters . "This decision was dictated by an unscrupulous, and sometimes illegal business company Panasonic in Russia," a joint press release said.

The UN will impose sanctions on Iran in connection with the refusal to terminate the nuclear program, reports AR . According to Foreign Minister Filip Dust-Blazy, their volume has not yet been determined. This decision was supported by France, Germany, Great Britain and Russia, which supported the introduction of sanctions during negotiations at a meeting of ministers of the foreign ministers of the OSCE countries.

In Vladivostok, motorists conducted an action against the ban on the import and operation of cars with the right wheel. According to Echo of Moscow , about 500 people drove a column along the city highways with the headlights turned on. According to eyewitnesses, some owners of the right -wing vehicles also included the near light of headlights in the support of the protesters and gave a sound signal.

At a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OSCE, Russia's demand for ratification of the adapted agreement on ordinary armed forces in Europe (DOVS) was rejected by OSCE members from NATO and the EU. The NATO said that they would go to ratification of the adapted DOVS only after the full withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Georgia and Moldova, the Kommersant newspaper writes.