The mayor of Tomsk, Alexander Makarov, was in the intensive care unit of the Tomsk Cardiology Research Institute with a heart attack that happened to him during a meeting with the FSB officers and the prosecutor's office. They presented Makarov for a search of his office. From his desktop, safe and wall cabinet, documents, notebooks and weekly were seized. Also, the operational-investigation brigade carried out seizures in several committees of the city hall.

In an article published by the British newspaper The Financial Times, Yegor Gaidar literally describes the events that occurred with him during a speech in Dublin on November 24. The politician concluded: the situation in which he found himself was carefully planned. As Polit.ru already reported, Gaidar practically has no doubt that he was poisoned, and believes that opponents of the Russian authorities, who are further worsening relations between Russia and the West, can be guilty of this.

Vladimir Putin signed the law on amendments to Chapter 23 of part two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation. This was stated today in the Kremlin press service. This law provides for exemption from taxation on individuals of “maternal capital” funds, RIA Novosti reports. Funds of "maternal capital" are allocated for additional support for families with children. In the case of spending these funds for training, construction or purchase of housing, tax deductions are not applied.

The writer and critic Olga Slavnikova is known as the author of artistic prose (the novel "Dragonfly, enlarged to the size of the dog", the novel "Immortal", etc.) and numerous articles in thick magazines, as the finalist of literary prizes ("Boker", Apollo Grigoryeva awards, "National bestseller") and as the organizer of the literary contests "Debut" Young writers under 25) and the "Russian plot". Born in Sverdlovsk, in 1957, in a family of defense industry engineers.

The US National Directorate for Aeronautics and Space Studies (NASA) reported that signs were discovered on Mars indicating the recent release of water to the surface of the planet. As Polit.ru already reported, in the photographs of the planet obtained from the orbital probe, grooves and recesses are visible, which, theoretically, could form if the last few years, water dragged along the rocks and steep slopes of craters.

A group of travel agencies requires the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RST) to change their position on amendments to the law on tourism activities in the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports.

Yesterday's investigative actions in the IT companies and the Pension Fund are interconnected and are carried out in the framework of the criminal case in which Articles 285 (exceeding authority) and 188 (smuggling) of the Criminal Code appear. This was announced by the newspaper Vedomosti a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Federal Space Agency offered NASA to participate in the program of joint development of the moon, and this proposal will be considered in the near future “An agreement on the joint development of the Moon can be reached within a few months, but I want to emphasize that Russia will join this project only on the terms of equal cooperation,” RIA Novosti told Roscosmos, Igor Panarin.

"Inertia politicians continue to talk about the national idea, ethnicity and traditional family as the main elements that define a social way. However, the personal, intimate sphere of human existence is the forefront." Read about the new concept of citizenship in the review of Ivan Nizhogoraev to the book of Ken Plaimer Intimate citizenship (Plummer K. Intimate Citizenship) intimate citizenship of Ken Plaimer.

France President Jacques Shirak and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were able to convince Polish Polish Lech Kachinsky to soften the position against Russia. Warsaw no longer raises the question of the immediate signing of the energy charter. The European Union promises to help Warsaw agree with Moscow on the issue of removing the meat embargo, reports Newsru.com .

Relatives and friends of the deceased Alexander Litvinenko arrived at the Haigeite cemetery to participate in the funeral ceremony of the ex-office of the FSB of Russia, RIA Novosti reports. It is not known whether Litvinenko is buried in the Christian or Muslim part of the cemetery - according to some reports, shortly before his death, Litvinenko accepted Islam, and the relatives of the former FSB officer said that he wanted to be buried according to Muslim customs.

In the Transnistrian city of Bender, an explosion occurred in secondary school No. 13. This was stated in the duty unit of the city administration of the internal affairs, RIA Novosti reports. The explosion thundered during the change after the initial military training lesson. A student of the 11th grade suffered - he was injured by a hip of moderate severity.

Julia Idlis “Opening this book, you experience a strange feeling” - I want to write about every second book acquired at the international intellectual literature fairy -literature. But about the first volume of Mikhail Kozyrev’s trilogy “My Rock-N-Roll” (publishing house “Livebook Gayati” ) I especially want to write like that.

On the eve of the 15th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR, the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin, who signed on December 8, 1991, together with the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus, the Belovezhsky agreement gave an interview in which he emphasized that the process of transformation of the Soviet Union in the CIS was inevitable.

At the Non/Fiction Intellectual Literature Fair, the first book of Mikhail Kozyrev’s trilogy “My Rock-N-Roll” (publishing house “Livebook Gayati” ) represented four human-like rabbits with ears sticking out from under microphone racks.