It is necessary to separate the typological and genetic ties of cultures. We can trace some simple similarities with the Inca Empire and ancient China, where such basic concepts as power and property are equally difficult to correlate. Russia is often compared with Byzantium, especially when it comes to omnipotence of the bureaucracy, about the need to give bribes, about the intentional complication of laws.

The amendment on the declaration of expenses from the presidential anti -corruption package will receive retroactive force, a source in the presidential administration told Izvestia . Officials will be obliged to report for transactions with property that they were carried out throughout 2012. Officials must report all significant purchases - real estate, cars, securities and shares. Moreover, this also applies to their spouses and children, including minors.

The head of Kalmykia, Alexei Orlov, sent Kikboxer Batu Khasikov to represent the interests of the republic in the Federation Council, the government website reports . Ex-Senator from Kalmykia Yuri Alpatov was recalled from the post of senator for health reasons. Khasikov is already a deputy of the Parliament (People’s Khural) Kalmykia of the fourth convocation and at the same time manages to perform in the ring. Batu Khasikov was born in 1980 in Moscow, but grew up in Kalmykia.

The State Duma on Wednesday approved the amendments to the law on advertising in the first reading, which, in particular, establishes a ban on outdoor advertising on the walls and sidewalks, Interfax reports. The bill prohibits the application of advertising images or inscriptions on the outer walls, roofs and other designs of buildings, structures, buildings, on public transport stops, the surface of cycling and pedestrian paths, sidewalks, and the roadway.

In the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center, Oppositionist Leonid Razvoszhaev comes postcards and letters with threats, where unknown people threaten him with a meeting with Ivanovich, Interfax reports with reference to the lawyer of the opposition Dmitry Agranovsky.

A Siberian crane found on October 7 in the Akmola region, which had fallen behind the flock during its flight to the south, was handed over to Russian ornithologists, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported on November 21. Ornithologists will take the crane back home to the Oka Nature Reserve.

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Today in Norilsk, a new collective agreement was signed between Norilsk Nickel GMK OJSC and employees. A new collective agreement regulating social and labor relations between the company and its employees for the period from 2012 to 2015 was signed by the CEO of the General Director-Chairman of the Board Vladimir Strelkovsky, by employees-chairman of the Norilsk Nickel trade union Mikhail Chizh and the chairman of the company's social and labor council Roman Lyashko.

The best online projects in the Russian Internet sector today have become laureates of the most prestigious Runet Prize. The ceremony of presenting the IX Runet Prize IX was held on November 21 in Moscow in the Arena club. It was broadcast on the Russia 24 television channel and the official portal of the event . This year, the Runet Prize was awarded in 10 nominations - six main and four special.

In Ingushetia, 16 militants went to the turnout with a confession using a telephone line, which the head of the republic Yunus-Bek Yevkurov opened for those who want to return to a peaceful life, RIA Novosti website reports. “Just yesterday I listened on the phone, and yesterday I also appeared alone. They really appear, leave the forest, ”Yevkurov said on November 21 on the air of the Rossi of Russia radio station.

On November 21-23, Moscow will host the Global Partnership of the Eight Global Partnership: Assessment and Prospects for further cooperation in the field of nuclear and radiation safety. ” In 2012, the International Global Partnership Program of the Eight Group turned out to be 10 years old.

Investigators were an additional charge of robbery to the opposition Leonid Razvoszhaev, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the words of the official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin. The charge was charged under Article 162 of the Criminal Code "Robbery". According to him, we are talking about a crime committed in 1997 in Angarsk.

The Commissioner of the Prochrevsky movement “Our”, the head of the “Fund for Supporting Youth Initiatives” (FPMI) Alexei Borisek is suspected of embezzlement of more than 1.5 million rubles in preparing the Interra-2010 Innovation Forum.

The authorities of India on the morning of November 21 executed the terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving participant in the attack on Mumbai in 2008, AP reports. Casab was hanged in a prison of the city of Puna, located near Mumbai. Pakistan citizen Mohammed Ajmal Casab was one of the participants in the armed group, which attacked Mumbai on November 26, 2008. Ten terrorists reached Mumbai by sea on a fishing boat.

New members of the Human Rights Council propose to head the HRC personally to President Putin, Kommersant reports. The new member of the HRC, the head of the Center for Strategic Research of Religions and Politics of the Modern World, journalist Maxim Shevchenko said that the HRC is “the Council under the President, and not under Fedotov and Shevchenko,” and his chairman should not replace the Commissioner for Human Rights.