Until this year, only two tourist destinations were accepted monthly in the summer of more than 100 thousand Russians: Türkiye and Egypt followed him with a great lag. When in February-March the Russians made a ban on visiting Egypt, in June he first lost his second place, letting Spain forward. In August, the tourist flow in Egypt, completely recovered, Kommersant writes today. The local statistical service already in August recorded an increase of 24%, to almost 193 thousand people.

On November 22, a popular vote ended on the Internet as part of the Big Book literary Prize, according to the official website of the event. The largest number of votes were given to the writer Mikhail Shishkin with his novel “Writer”. The second place was taken by the publicist and prose writer Dmitry Bykov with the novel "Ostromov, or the student of the sorcerer." And on the third line was the work of the writer and editor of the Kommersant Publishing House Yuri Buida “Blue Blood”.

The Ministry of the Interior will not introduce a temporary standard for the arrival of road inspectors to the scene of the accident. About this today, November 23, writes the newspaper Kommersant . Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office made a statement that the introduction of such a standard will help to fight traffic jams, which, according to prosecutors, arise due to motorists who are waiting for the police.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation instructed the Russian branch of Interpol to prepare an application for the announcement of the former President of the Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin and his ex-deputy Dmitry Akulinin, RIA Novosti reports. Where the former bankers who left Russia in the spring of 2011 are reliably unknown. Earlier, the media published data according to which Borodin could be in the UK, but in May 2011 he himself denied this information.

November 23 in the club "Pir.G.I. On Sretenka ”, the results of the Apps 4 Russia contest and the award of prizes to the authors of winning projects took place. A competition for the developers of applications and websites to create projects based on open data and data collected from citizens (crowdsourcing) was organized by private individuals by analogy with many similar competitions around the world.

Attention! Lecture season "Polit.ru" 2011 - 2012. It will be held on a new site - in the club "Pir.G.I. on Sretenka". Driving scheme. "Public Lectures" Polit.ru "are held with the support of: The Public Lectures Polit.ru project began work on March 25, 2004. This is a platform of substantive communication on problems located in the forefront of science, culture and public discussion. Particular attention is paid to the history, modernity and the future of Russia and the world.

The Olympic Anti-Narrot-concert “No drugs! Boys, you do not need it! ”, The official and inspirer of which was Vladimir Putin, gathered less than a third of the sports arena and passed without the participation of the prime minister and other leaders of the country, Interfax reports.

The Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (Code of Civil Procedure of the RFU) decided to suspend the disqualification of the Brazilian legionnaire, the striker of CSKA Wagner Lava, imposed on him for a rough game in the match of the 29th round of the Premier League, reports Sport-Express . As noted in the committee, the trial period for the football player will be five months instead of three - it was increased due to the winter break in the championship.

State Duma deputies on Wednesday, November 23, ahead of schedule terminated the powers of their colleagues, "United Russia" by Alexander Chuhraev and Arthur Chingarov. Both parliamentarians switch to another job. Arthur Chinkarov, Hero of Russia and the Soviet Union, will now work in the Federation Council by the representative of the Governor of the Tula region. Earlier, he was elected as a deputy of the municipal meeting of the village of Solopenskoye, Aleksinsky district of the Tula region.

The famous TV presenter Alexei Pushkov, who represented United Russia on the pre -election debate with the Communist Party of the Communist Party at the Mayak radio station, answering the opponent’s question, said that he did not see the contradictions in the idea of ​​the Eurasian Union and the Russian entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). “There are no contradictions here. Reception of the Russian Federation in the WTO does not mean the automatic action of its norms.

The Government of the United States decided not to provide Moscow about its usual weapons in Europe, thus suspending its obligations to Russia as part of an agreement on ordinary armed forces in Europe (DOVS). This, according to AFP , the press secretary of the US State Department Victoria Nuland, announced on Wednesday, November 23. Russian President Vladimir Putin imposed a moratorium on the execution of the contract in 2007.

The European tracking stations were able to communicate with the Russian Stobos-Gront station, the head of the representative office of the European Space Agency in the Russian Federation Rena Pishel told RIA Novosti . “So far, we can say that one of the stations got in touch. But this is the very beginning of the process, telemetry has not yet been obtained, and we are working in close contact with our Russian colleagues, ”he said.

President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law on improving the fight against corruption, which, in particular, obliges the banks to provide data on officials of officials, the RIA Novosti website reports. Medvedev noted that senators, members of the Federation Council, deputies of all levels, regional and municipal officials will also be in the revenue. Currently, State Duma and Senators are published information about their income on a voluntary basis.

The head of the Moscow Culture Department, Sergei Kapkov, believes that libraries must be re -equipped, multimedia centers are created on their basis. He stated this in an interview with Izvestia newspaper. The official noted that there are 440 libraries in the city today. Most of them are in Arbat lanes. “Previously, actors, journalists, internationalists, party nomenclature lived there.

The Center for Political Studies of the Institute of Economics (CPIIE) RAS held the first round table from the modern military-political situation in the post-Soviet space on the topic of the problem of war and peace in the modern era: theory and practice of the issue. " The discussion was devoted to the alignment of forces in the world arena, the emergence of new forms of war, determining the main threats that Russia may encounter.