The working group of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art (leadership - head of the Presidential Administration S. Ivanov) approved the draft "Fundamentals of State Cultural Policy". The final version of the document will be approved by the State Council at a meeting on December 24. It's a long and fascinating story. In general, now there is some unexpected attention to the topic of education, and now culture.

The head of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova announced difficulties with the fulfillment of budgetary obligations in 2015-2017. It is reported by Interfax . “Today we are in a very difficult situation, and despite the fact that the budget of 2015-2017 has been adopted, we all understand that there will be difficulties with execution,” Golikova said.

The details of the detention of Hassan Zakayev, whom the investigation accuses of involvement in the Dubrovka attack in 2002, became known. According to the official representative of the TFR Vladimir Markin, he was detained in Crimea with fake documents, Interfax reports. Zakaev was detained while trying to enter Crimea from the territory of Ukraine according to fake documents.

There is no direct dependence between Vladimir Putin’s rating and the national currency course, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov is convinced. His words are given by Interfax .

On Tuesday night, the Board of Directors of the Central Bank decided to raise the key rate to 17%. The regulator, it seems, did not take any other noticeable steps, so the ruble strengthened in the morning, but then continued to fall, against the background of which yesterday’s charts look quite flat. Already at just over three o’clock a dollar cost 80 rubles, and a euro cost more than 100 rubles.

Denis Pushilin, the official representative of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, could not name the exact date of the next Minsk meeting to resolve the situation in Ukraine. It is reported by RIA Novosti . According to him, the DPR authorities do not yet know even in what year negotiations will be held in Minsk. “Nobody knows the day yet, no one knows the week yet, no one knows a year,” said Pushilin.

The Russian Ministry of Finance considers the ruble “extremely underestimated” and begins to sell its currency residues in the market. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the ministry. What amounts are we talking about is not reported. Meanwhile, according to the agency’s source, the Ministry of Finance has already begun the sale of currency in the market. According to the department, the amount of the balance is $ 7 billion.

Located in the Khimki NPO "Energomash" submitted a firm contract for the supply of the American Corporation Orbital Sciences Corp. 20 RD-181 engines for the first stage of the Antares private missile, and two options for 20 more units each. About this on Wednesday is written by Izvestia with reference to a source in Roscosmos.

The State Duma has prepared a draft law that makes a passport or another document confirming the identity when buying alcoholic beverages in Russia. This is written on Wednesday by Izvestia with reference to the author of the initiative - a member of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, Natho is opening. In her opinion, making appropriate changes to the legislation will be a real barrier to sell alcohol to minors.

Suppliers suspended the shipment of goods to retail chains before revising purchase prices. This was reported by RBC with reference to the largest retail chains. According to the representative of Auchan, Maria Kurnosova, part of the suppliers of both food and non -food goods sent a notification of readiness to stop the shipment if Auchan does not increase purchase prices. The manufacturing companies reported that the situation is also observed in Metro.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office made a new attempt to achieve the extradition of the former owner of Mirax Group Sergey Polonsky from Cambodia, sending a corresponding request to the ponom. About this on Wednesday writes " Kommersant " with reference to a source in the supervisory department.

The online publication Lifenews intends to reduce to half of his state. This was reported by TJ with reference to the company's employees. According to TJ interlocutors, the leadership decided to hold abbreviations about two weeks ago. The team became known about the first dismissals on December 16.

The editorial office of the News program, published on the Russia 1 TV channel, was banned from reporting the current ruble. A photograph of such a ban on his Twitter was published by the director of the Corruption Fund (FBK) Alexei Navalny Roman Rubanov. In the picture you can see the door with the sign "Evening Issue" Vesti ". On the right, a sheet with the inscription with a red felt -tip pen is pinned to the jamb: “In this room, it is forbidden to voice the current ruble course aloud!

Polit.ru publishes a video from the festival of public lectures #to know. The festival was a biologist, a researcher at the Institute of Problems of Information of Information RAS Konstantin Popadein. He made a lecture “Young and old genes in the human genome”, in which he spoke about the specifics of the “way of life” and “classes” of various parts of the genome. Over the past ten years, many publications have appeared about the age of the gene.

Ilya Karpyuk The State Duma for the first time seriously reacted to the collapse of the ruble. It did not work out to summon the management of the government and the Bank of Russia to the parliament to give an explanation, but in the second reading the bill on bankruptcy of individuals was adopted, and the document will begin to operate not a year later, as expected, but from July 1, 2015.