The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposes to increase excise taxes on tobacco and strong alcohol in 2015 by 12 percent, which is twice as much as the predictable inflation rate, Interfax reports. As Deputy Minister of Finance Sergey Shatalov said on Friday, in 2013 and 2014, the growth rate of excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco products is proposed to be left at a previously planned level. This will be more gentle growth rate compared to previous years.

From April 17 to 19, 2012, the LenExpo exhibition complex will be held in St. Petersburg, the forum of suppliers of the nuclear industry “Atomex North-West”, held at the initiative of the Rosatom State Corporation. The purpose of the forum is the development of a competitive environment, attracting more suppliers of equipment and services, to continue the established dialogue between suppliers, representatives of contracting organizations of the nuclear industry and customers.

Innovus, the annual innovation forum, which was held in Tomsk, was postponed from the end of May to the end of November in 2012, RIA Novosti told April 13. Deputy Governor of the region for scientific, technical and innovative policy and education Alexei Pushkarenko. Earlier it was reported that Innovus, the theme of which will be the integration of Russia into the global economic space, was planned to be carried out in late May.

The head of the police of the Kemerovo region, Alexander Elin, was removed from office by the decision of the Minister of the Interior. It is reported by RIA Novosti . The removal is associated with the investigation of a loud murder in which a local policeman is suspected. At the time of the audit, Major General Kutykin will lead the Kuzbass police. The operative of a threat in the city of Belovo Kemerovo region is suspected of killing a 52-year-old man, Lifenews reports.

In the Tver region, a scandal is flared up around the construction of the Seliger youth camp, which the authorities are allocated to the Nilo-Stolobenskaya deserts monastery, Izvestia write on Friday. The Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko sent a letter to the Tver governor Andrei Shevelev with a request to transfer 18.76 hectares of land near the village of Sveshkovsky district to transfer Seligeru.

Julian Assange's current-toe show, the founder of WikiLeaks, will be aired on the Russia Today on April 17. This was reported by the press service of the channel on Friday. According to RIA Novosti , the World Tomorrow program The World Tomorrow will be aired simultaneously on three RT channels in English, Arabic and Spanish. Filming the program is held in London, where Julian Assange has been under house arrest for more than a year.

On April 13, the Tula Regional Court refused to let go of 1 million rubles of ex-governor of the region Vyacheslav Dudka, accused of receiving a major bribe, RIA Novosti website reports. Thus, the pipe will remain under house arrest until July 6. The ex-governor was placed under house arrest on September 6 last year.

Syrian troops supporting President Bashar al -Assad entered the battle with the rebels near the border with Turkey. This was announced by the Syrian Monitoring Center for Human Rights "(Syrian Observator for Human Rights), Ruters reports. This is the first armed conflict in the country after the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement.

In the Trans -Baikal Territory, there was an automatic disconnection of two power units at the Haranora GRES, reports Interfax . “Specialists of the branch on the command of the regional dispatch department are introduced graphs of temporary disconnection of electricity,” the Chitaenergo branch said in a statement by the IDGC of Siberia. According to the press service, the restriction of consumers in the entire Trans-Baikal Territory amounted to about 150 MW.

The governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev decided to resign all senior officials of the administration of the region. He announced this on Friday, April 13, in his microblog on Twitter. “I thought for a long time and made a very difficult decision. The solution is: all senior officials of the administration of the region will resign, ”wrote Tkachev. He explained that his deputies, advisers and leaders of all regional departments and departments will be dismissed.

The deputy head of the Oktyabrsky district of Yekaterinburg, arrested for bribery, was the sibling of the State Duma deputy Alexander Burkov. According to investigators, an official who oversees the issues of improvement, extorted 224 thousand rubles from the management of the asphalt company. The company won the tender for the supply of asphalt, crushed stone and other road construction materials last year. “The competition was large, four enterprises have submitted applications.

There will be no referendum on the WTO - the CEC did not allow. Not surprising: there have been no referendums in Russia for 20 years. The authorities are inconvenient to bring their initiatives to the court, because then the risk of failure is great. The same with the elections and with other mechanisms of “feedback” - our popular government is afraid of the voice of the people.

There will be no referendum on the WTO - the CEC did not allow. Not surprising: there have been no referendums in Russia for 20 years. The authorities are inconvenient to bring their initiatives to the court, because then the risk of failure is great. The same with the elections and with other mechanisms of “feedback” - our popular government is afraid of the voice of the people.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the governor of the Kostroma region Igor Slyunyaev. The head of the region, as stated in the decree , left of his own free will. The President appointed Sergei Sitnikov as a temporarily acting governor. Now Sitnikov is held by the post of head of Roskomnadzor. Sergey Sitnikov was born in 1963 in Kostroma. He headed Roskomnadzor in December 2008. Before that, he was the deputy head of Rossvyaznadzor.

At Petrozavodskmash OJSC, a new site was launched for the production and assembly of steam generators for nuclear power plants, which will produce 1.5 sets of this equipment per year. The launch of the site was the completion of the first stage of the implementation of the investment program of the enterprise to increase the volume of production and the development of the production of equipment for the nuclear industry of Russia.