President Vladimir Putin will take part in the December Congress of United Russia-it is necessary to support the party due to a decrease in its ratings. The head of state for the first time since 2012 will visit the congress that is not timed to the election. RBC, citing his sources, reports that Putin will come to the event on the second day of the congress, December 8. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov did not deny the possibility of president’s participation in the congress.

The maximum amount of the monthly childcare allowance to 1.5 years from January 1, 2019 will be increased from 24 thousand rubles to 26 thousand 152 rubles, Kommersant writes on November 19. The minimum amount of the monthly allowance will grow from 4.4 thousand rubles to 4.5 thousand rubles, the press service of the Federal Social Insurance Fund (FSS) said. In addition, the maximum size of pregnancy and childbirth for 140 days of vacation will also grow.

Scientists from the University of Helsinki and the Institute for Research of the Solar System of the Max Planck Society under the leadership of Sebastian Porceddu believe that the ancient Egyptians 3000 years before European astronomers established that the Algol star (Beta Perseia) is a variable star. Algol is located at a distance of 92.8 light years from the solar system, and its visible star size is 2.12.

The acting governor Oleg Kozhemyako manually allowed the impending heating crisis. Or, in any case, this is how the problems of non -payments between one of the main heat supply enterprises of the Primteploenergo region and the Far Eastern Energy Company (daughter RusHydro) are presented . It is alleged that it was after the order of the head of the Primorsky Territory Primteploenergo that DEKU paid 90 million rubles to pay off the debt for electricity.

The Russian investigation is studying the version of the violent death of the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergei Magnitsky in the interests of the British financier William Brauder, Interfax reports. As the State Councilor of Justice of the 3rd grade Mikhail Alexandrov, the founder of Hermitage Capital, William Brauder, “had a motive for the physical elimination of Magnitsky in order to conceal the crimes committed”.

Large retail banks, fearing new international sanctions against Russia and continuing the outflow of population funds, included the dollar vacuum cleaner, almost synchronously increasing the dollar deposits. In the first two weeks of November, 10 from the top 30 banks in terms of portfolio of the attracted funds of the population increased the profitability of dollar deposits, Writes Vedomosti. The best bets in some of them are already selected by 4% per annum.

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation supported the idea of ​​introducing an excise tax on redesigned red meat - sausage, sausages and bacon, and therefore prices can grow by almost 30%, Izvestia write with reference to a source in the expert council under the government.

Japanese law enforcement agencies detained one of the most successful managers of the global automobile industry - the head of the international automobile alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Carlos Ghosn, RBC reports . Earlier, The Asahi Shinbun newspaper reported, citing sources, that Ghosn would be detained on Monday, November 19. It later became known that investigators had already begun interrogating Ghosn at the headquarters of Nissan Motor Co.

The modernized version of the reserved seat car for Russian railways will be represented by Russian Railways at the 12th International Exhibition “Transport of Russia”, which will be held from November 20 to 22 in Gostiny Dvor in Moscow, TASS reports. “The renovation of wagons has been planned since 2019, they will become an alternative to the old reserved sector wagons,” the company said.

The Government of the Russian Federation reduced by 8% of the quota for the issuance of permissions for temporary residence in Russia in 2019 to foreigners. The corresponding order is published on the government website. “For 2019, a quota is established for the issuance of 83480 permissions for temporary residence in Russia to foreign citizens and stateless persons - 6880 permits are less than in 2018,” the disposal said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the creation of the Presidential Council for the implementation of state policy in the field of family and children. The new structure will be headed by the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, according to the website of the head of state.

Vasily Vlasov The work of the meat department in the Bratislavsky market / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Vedyashkin Sergey The Ministry of Health of Russia supported the introduction of excise taxes on reducing red meat, which proposed to establish the expert council under the Government of the Russian Federation. The amount of excise tax may be such that sausages, sausages, bacon and the like products rise in price by almost 30%, the Izvestia newspaper writes.

The share of illegal cigarettes, during which the excise tax was not paid to the budget, over the past year has almost doubled in Russia, the results of a study conducted by the independent research group Nielsen, reports RBC . According to experts, in the third quarter of 2018, the share of such cigarettes, which include, in particular, counterfeit and smuggled products, increased to 8.4% of the total volume of the Russian market against 4.5% in July-Seti 2017.

The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC -KP) Filaret informed the Patriarchate of Constantinople that he would not apply for the post of head of the autocephalous church in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports “I decided not to nominate my candidacy at the cathedral to election the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” Filaret wrote in a letter Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.

In the port of the city of Pvek (Chukotsky AO), the unloading of the last ship was completed, which delivered the next and final batch of building materials for the only floating atomic thermal power plant (PATES) built in Russia. On November 10, 2018, the last vessel-the Arctic-2 ship arrived in the port of Pvek-the place of future base of the PATES, and its unloading ended on November 14.