In Russia, a system for evaluating the effectiveness of governors has been changed, and more evaluation criteria itself have become more. According to the decree signed by the President, their number increased from 12 to 24. In the apparatus of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, this change was explained by the inter-budget reform. The decree increasing the number of criteria for evaluating the work of governors by half, the President of Russia signed on November 15.

The Russian authorities propose to create a system of marking all goods and transfer control over it to private hands, write “ Vedomosti ” with reference to anonymous federal officials and sources close to the Center for Development of Promising Technologies (Central Central Center).

The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the possible participation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in the presidential election, TASS reports. When asked by journalists, whether Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev are discussing the possibility of nominating the prime minister, Peskov said: “Probably, you need to ask Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev. Actually, yesterday Dmitry Anatolyevich was asked, they asked a question, he answered him.

Catholic Christmas, which is celebrated on December 25, was declared the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as a day off. 238 people's deputies voted for this with the required minimum of 226 votes, reports 112 Ukraine . The explanatory note to the bill states that about 30% of Ukrainians profess Catholicism and Protestantism, and celebrate Christmas on December 25. Also, a non -working day in Ukraine remains January 7, when the Christmas of Christ is celebrated by Orthodox and Old Believers.

The official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Irina Volk denied the message of the “First Anti -Corruption Media” about the impending restructuring of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. She reported this to TASS .

At the auction of the Christie's auction house in New York, a painting by Leonardo da Vincer “Savior World”, belonging to the Russian billionaire and the owner of the Monaco football club Dmitry Rybolovlev, was sold for a record amount of $ 450,312,500. The Christie's report says that the auction began with $ 100 million and lasted 20 minutes. Two buyers claimed the picture, the name of the new owner is still unknown. Dmitry Rybolovlev bought the Savior of the World in 2013 for $ 127.5 million.

On November 16, 1937, Lev Nikolaev, physicist and limonologist, popularizer of science was born. Personal business Lev Nikolaevich Nikolaev (1937-2011) was born in the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban. He studied at high school, then at the Art College of the city of Krasnodar, which he graduated in 1954. In 1960 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. He worked at the Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, studied lakes.

Maxim Russo The molecular model of nivolumab associated with protein PD-1 Wikimedia Commons In the United States, at the annual conference of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, the University of Yale, the University of Yale Kevan Herold, spoke about several cases of the first type of diabetes, which , as doctors believe, have been the side effect of the new class of promising oncological drugs.

The St. Petersburg Administration of the FAS revealed signs of a violation of the law on the protection of competition in the transfer of the city of Sampsonievsky Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church. This is stated on the FAS website. According to antitrust, the law violated the St. Petersburg Committee of Property Relations. The St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church turned to the committee with a request to transfer the building of the cathedral to the Committee.

The State Duma deputy from the LDPR Boris Chernyshov sent a letter to the Ministry of Industry and Trade to the Ministry of Industry and Trade and to the RT channel to create a city for mining cryptocurrencies in Siberia. “Mining-city will help people earn money, buy apartments and other things they need. The state budget will also replenish at the expense of taxes.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugaba, whom the military was placed on house arrest the day before, appeared in public, reports Reuters with reference to a source in the country's special services. The 93-year-old head of state was taken under house arrest after resigned the vice president of the country, which was considered his successor. The military saw in this attempt to make a successor to Mugabe Grace's wife.

Deputy Andrei Svintsov informed RBC about the evacuation of the State Duma building, where reception deputies are located. “They don’t report to us, in connection with which. The work itself in the State Duma was injured, ”he said. More than 200 people were withdrawn from the State Duma, RIA Novosti told his own source. The interlocutor of the agency from emergency services said that the evacuation began after an anonymous call about the laid bomb.

The head of the Novaya Gazeta press service, Nadezhda Prussenkova, told RBC that five Ministry of Internal Affairs came to the editorial office today. “They said that they want to see how foreign employees are registered with us or with dual citizenship. Now they have the director, and everything is calm, ”she said. Prussenkova also refuted a message about searches at the editorial office.

The social network for business contacts Linkedin a year after blocking in Russia retained 60% of Russian users. This is indicated by Mediascope data, which are given by RBC . The service was blocked in Russia in mid -November 2016. In September of that year, according to Mediascope, 2.3 million Russians visited the resource. In September 2017, traffic amounted to 1.4 million people, thus decreasing by 39%.

The US State Department of the State Department of State said that in Russia they misunderstood the American law on the registration of foreign agents (Fara), TASS reports. “Fara does not limit the publication of materials, but only requires registration [as a foreigner], mentioning the distribution of materials that this is done on behalf of the foreign side and the accounting of information. Some countries claim that Fara is used as a means of limiting political freedom.