The Iraqi authorities may turn to Russia with a request to strike at the positions of militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization (prohibited in the Russian Federation). This was in an interview with Interfax said the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Baghdad Ilya Morgunov. According to the diplomat, Iraqi politicians do not explain under what conditions Baghdad will turn to Moscow with the appropriate initiative.

Since the beginning of the Russian air operation in Syria, the military contingent of the Russian Federation in this country has increased to four thousand people, reports Reuters with reference to sources in the American special services. In addition, this information is confirmed by some independent experts. We are talking about the doubling of the contingent, which at the time of the beginning of the operation (September 30) was about 2 thousand people.

Most participants in the thematic survey “Polit.ru” on the social network “ VKontakte ” said that they do not consider the holiday the Day of National Unity, which is celebrated in Russia every year on November 4.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that customers of attempt on him hid in Syria, NTV reports. “Customers or there are the organizers of all this - they are sitting today in Syria today,” the head of the region said in an interview with the television channel. On November 3, it became known that law enforcement agencies prevented the attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov, against which the attack in the boiler room of the Argun Mosque was being prepared.

The Chinese authorities announced their intention by 2020 to open most sectors of their financial system for foreign investors. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the economic plan of the PRC for 2016-2020. In addition, the government of the republic is going to cancel quota for foreign investors when buying Chinese assets on the exchange.

Deutsche Bank AG will pay $ 258 million as part of the settlement of the case of violation of the sanctions imposed by the United States against Iran, Libya, Syria Myanmas and Sudan. This was reported by Bloomberg with reference to the management of the financial services of New York. According to American financial regulators, from 1999 to 2006, Deutsche Bank used “opaque schemes” in more than 27 thousand transactions totaling over 10.8 billion dollars.

On Wednesday, November 4, Russia celebrated National Unity Day. This holiday was established only 10 years ago, in 2005, so the tradition of its celebration is just taking shape. But in the public space, the holiday was almost immediately “captured” by nationalists, who have been holding a “Russian March” on this day for ten years.

The rating of the International Football Federation (FIFA), taking into account the matches held over the past four years, was first headed by the Belgian team, according to the Federation website. According to the rating of November 5, in addition to Belgium, Germany, Argentina, Portugal and Chile entered the top five. The Russian team rose from 26 to 23. Recall that last month, Russian football players defeated the Moldova and Montenegro-2016 qualifying cycle in the qualifying cycle matches.

A single tax on imputed income (UTII) for small business enterprises will be increased in 2016 by 15.9%, RBC reports with reference to the draft relevant order of the Ministry of Economic Development. Already next year, the agency involves an increase in the coefficient of the debtor used to calculate the UTII to 2.083. In this case, the growth of the coefficient will be 15.9%, which will be the biggest increase in the entire existence of UTII.

The Ministry of Defense of Latvia opposed the holding of the concert of the Concert of the Song and Dance of the Russian Army named after Alexander Alexandrov in the capital of Riga, reports LSM.LV. According to the representative of the department, Daina Ozolin, “the Ministry of Defense does not see the opportunity to allow this orchestra to arrive in Latvia,” because the Aleksandrov ensemble belongs to the RF Armed Forces.

Ilya Karpyuk On Wednesday, November 4, Russia celebrated the Day of National Unity. This holiday was established only 10 years ago, in 2005, so the tradition of its celebration only develops. But in public space, the holiday was almost immediately “captured” by nationalists who have been spent on this day “Russian March” for ten years.

The Russian Ministry of Economics has developed a bill that will allow officials to take part in the management of the “daughters” of state corporations - their joint -stock companies. The bill clarifies that we are talking about gratuitous activities of civil servants, Kommersant writes.

The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the situation with the review of the certificate for the operation of Boeing 737 aircraft in Russia will be thoroughly analyzed, TASS reports.

The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the third consecutive in a row, Vladimir Putin’s recognition by the “man of the year” according to the Forbes magazine is explained by the high activity of the Russian leader in the world arena, RIA Novosti reports. “He (Putin, - approx.“ Polit.ru ”) he himself repeatedly set out his attitude to ratings: if you follow the ratings, there will be neither the time nor the opportunity to engage in real work ...

The rector of the Higher School of Economics, Yaroslav Kuzminov, criticized the prepared budget for 2016. Let the bill have not yet been adopted, but it has already been submitted to the Sovereign, and the parliament, as practice shows, has been involved only in the budget process in recent years only nominally. A detailed analysis of the report was presented by RBC.