The Ministry of Finance offers to postpone the Ministry of Health proposed by the Ministry of Health a sharp increase in tobacco excise taxes in Russia, otherwise this will increase the illegal turnover of tobacco, warns the deputy minister of finance Sergey Shatalov in a letter to the deputy chairman of the government Olga Golodets.

The 42-year-old head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, Andrei Vorobyov, must change the chair to the governor. The proposal to become the acting head of the Moscow region made the head of state, the head of state Vladimir Putin - after he personally decapitated the region, appointing Sergei Shoiga the Minister of Defense instead of the resigned of Serdyukov.

Secretary of the General Council of United Russia, Sergei Neverov, in an interview with the Polit.ru correspondent, denied the possibility of his appointment to the post of head of the parliament of the fraction in parliament. “I am already the secretary of the General Council of the party. This work takes me 24 hours a day. The combination of this position with the position of the head of the faction - I believe that this will be ineffective, ”said Sergey Neverov, Polit.ru.

Four people were injured as a result of a grenade explosion at the Moscow nightclub on the night of Thursday, November 8, RBC reports. Three victims were eventually hospitalized, another received mild damage and refused to hospitalize. The incident occurred in the Lotos night club, located at Sofia Kovalevskaya Street , house 2. According to preliminary data, one of the visitors blew up a grenade.

A reversible strip is opened on Mira Avenue for the movement of vehicles on the site from the third transport to the garden ring (from metro station to metro Sukharevskaya) with an automated traffic control system, the Center for the Traffic Organization (Central Department of Internal Affairs) of the Moscow government.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia will tighten the rules for the acquisition and use of weapons due to the massacre at the pharmacy warehouse in Moscow. The department is preparing a draft amendments to the Law on Weapons, according to which the age from which it will be possible to purchase it will increase to 21 years, a ban on wearing traumatic weapons in public places will be introduced, and will also create a guilzothely for injuries and firearms, Izvestia reports.

Rosoboronkazy will conduct inspections of OboronService, whose management is accused of real estate fraud, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin gave instructions for verification after appointing Alexander Potapov, head of the dew Oboron order. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, not only law enforcement agencies, but also the “control bodies of Russia” will from now on checking the legality and efficiency of budgetary funds.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs revealed the theft of 93 million rubles in preparation for the Summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Vladivostok, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press release of the department. The fact of the theft of budget funds was identified by employees of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Combating Corruption. The press release does not specify what specifically stolen money was allocated for.

Former chief of the Department of Property of the Ministry of Defense Evgeny Vasiliev , who is a defendant in the case of Oboronservis, is in the hospital under the control of operatives. This was written on November 8 " Kommersant ". Investigators cannot yet interrogate it. Earlier, the media reported that Vasilieva, who is also a member of the board of directors of Oboronservis, could escape from the country.

Russian Anastasia Zavgorodnaya, accused of violence against her children, turned to the Russian Embassy in Helsinki with a request to provide asylum on its territory, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich. According to him, Zavgorodnaya motivated this by the fact that Finnish social services again intend to take her children from her.

On November 22, at 19.00, a creative meeting with the artist and journalist Grigory Kozlov will be held in the Lecture Hall of the Vinzavod. What is Provens and why the art historian is the ability to work in archives? Whom do journalists call artiskets? How do old accounting documents turn over ideas about the fate of museum treasures? What is ordinary restitution and how does it differ from moral restoration?

Nuclear technologies will continue to play a significant role in energy supply and stimulating socio-economic development, said the participants in the discussion of the IAEA report for 2011 at a meeting of the UN General Assembly.

The state support of domestic automakers at the expense of the budget until 2020 will be reduced from 60 billion to 45 billion rubles. This is stated in the materials of the Ministry of Industry and Trade sent to the government, the Izvestia newspaper writes on November 8. According to the document, in 2012, the volume of subsidies should amount to 3.9 billion rubles, in 2013 - 4.8 billion rubles, in 2014 - 5.6 billion.

Terrorist Anders Breivik, convicted of the murder of 77 people in Norway, sent a letter with a complaint about the conditions for his maintenance in the Ila prison, writes the Norwegian edition of VG . The letter was sent to the department of correctional institutions of the country. As it turned out, Breivik’s discontent caused a number of facts that in the complex violate his constitutional right to contact with the world.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed the head of the Duma faction of United Russia Andrei Vorobyov as a temporary governor of the Moscow Region, RIA Novosti reports. Putin said this at a meeting with Vorobyov, who accepted the presidential proposal. Vorobyov will lead the region until September 2013, when the elections will be held.