The Federation Council as a result of discussion approved the bill on an increase in the tariff of insurance premiums for compulsory medical insurance to the budget of the Federal Fund of Compulsory Medical Insurance.

Lev Merklin , Mikhail Flint The accident that happened this spring on the BP oil platform led to one of the largest environmental disasters over the past decades. The amount of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico in almost three months is estimated at 1-1.5 million tons. The oil spill caused tremendous damage to the regional marine ecosystem, and also has become one of the causes of flowering toxic and harmful seaweed and protozoa, dangerous for both animals and humans.

“The development of the Far East is very important for the transport competition of Russia,” said the Minister of Transport Igor Levitin, speaking at the plenary meeting of the Federation Council on Wednesday. This was reported by the correspondent "Polit.ru" Lev Fainberg.

The Chinese authorities canceled the promotion of the musical with the participation of the winner of the Eurovision-2009, the Norwegian performer Alexander Rybak, AFP reports . Thus, China punished Norway for the award of the Nobel Prize of the world to the Chinese dissident Liuzavor. The premiere of the musical comedy "once a sunny night" was supposed to take place in November.

The Egyptian court found 11 employees of the Ministry of Culture guilty of negligence, which led to the theft of the picture of Van Gogh from the Cairo Museum, Life News reports . In particular, the Deputy Minister of Culture Mokhsen Shallan and the director of the museum were sentenced to three years in prison. The painting by Van Gogh was stolen from the Mahmud Halil Museum on August 21.

The number of people who died as a result of an environmental disaster in the West of Hungary increased to nine people. The ninth victim was an elderly resident of the village of Kolontar, who, among other victims, was taken to the hospital a week ago, where he died this morning, reports ITAR-TASS .

In 2014, the first in the history of the Russian Grand Prix in the Rounds of the Formula 1 Grand Prix will be held. As the public " Kommersant " informed, the promotional contract for the race will be signed tomorrow. To do this, the General Promoter of Formula 1 will arrive in Sochi Bernie Ecclestone, who previously noted that the terms of the agreement were discussed, and the final version of the contract was sent to the Russian side.

As you know, in the spring of this year, Polit.ru launched the project Goslyudi.ru ( www.goslyudi.ru ), which was also developed not by anyone, but with that small team with which we make Rosgosatratas , Gosseet and other projects. This project aggregates many blogs of state officials, deputies, heads of state -owned enterprises and other “state people”. At a certain stage of the project, there were also thoughts to collect blogs of politicians and political scientists, but then they refused it.

Peter Orekhovsky ... None of them have ever been to the extent as a Russian intellectual, alienated from his country, his state, no one, like him, felt so alien - not to another person, not society, not to God - but his land, his people, his state power. V. Cormer The Russian intelligentsia is again in demand: now it should become the subject of modernization.

By the second reading of amendments to the law "On GOSTIAN", the deputies excluded the norm from the bill in which any newspaper or television channel, which, transmitting information about the accomplished terrorist attack, reported details about its preparation and consequences, could be held accountable for disclosure. The first reading of the project took place in September.

Mikhail Fedotov, who was appointed on Tuesday as an adviser to the president and chairman of the Presidential Council for the promotion of the development of civil society institutions and human rights, promised to solve the problem of rallies on the triumphal square of Moscow. Fedotov announced this today at a press conference at Interfax. “I will try to do everything so that this conflict disappears from the field of public attention,” Fedotov said.

“400 million rubles are a lot,” said Mikhail Panin, director of the Executive Directorate of the creation and development program of the creation and development of NIYAU MEPhI. - This amount is equal to the money that this year this year gives the federal budget for the program of the creation and development of MEFI. In total it turns out 800 million rubles - this is a lot of money.

Mikhail Fedotov, who was appointed on Tuesday as an adviser to the president and chairman of the Presidential Council for the promotion of the development of civil society institutions and human rights, refused to contact UNESCO to solve the problem of freedom of assembly on the triumphal square, which he was called on Wednesday by representatives of the Russian opposition.

The acting mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin continues to "clean up" officials of the times of Yuri Luzhkov. This time, the assistant member of the Federation Council for work in Moscow Viktor Belyakov was fired - with the wording "of his own free will." According to RBC in the city government, the corresponding order has already been signed. According to the document, V. Belyakov was dismissed on October 11, 2010.

The Moscow City Court summoned the former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov to the process of the lawsuit of the Fair Russia party on the cancellation of the results of the elections to the Moscow City Duma, one of the participants in the process told RAPSI . Luzhkov was also called to today's meeting, since he is the defendant in the lawsuit, and, according to the law, all parties should be present at the meeting.