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On November 11, at an extraordinary meeting of the Samara Provincial Duma, deputies adopted at once in two readings the regional law "On the procedure for the election of the heads of city districts of the Samara region". The project was submitted for consideration at the end of October by Governor Nikolai Merkushkin. Under the new law, residents of the Samara region will no longer choose the heads of their city districts themselves.

On the sidelines of the Ekho Moscow radio station, journalist Irina Vorobyova told me that in vain I am raising the topic of medicine as part of the election campaign, since in my (Basmann) district its level is high. However, doctors in the clinic to which I have been attached are unhappy with wages. Both visitors to the clinic and the doctors with whom I talked as part of the June picket I organized for affordable healthcare, supported the demand to increase the reception time of each patient.

Cemetery in the Pskov region with fresh graves The Constitutional Court forbade hiding data on the dead Russians under the heading of "state secrets" The Constitutional Court of Russia ruled that the investigating authorities have no right to hide information about the dead Russians under the pretext of preserving state secrets.

Ukrainian police will turn into a police The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov published the final documents agreed with the government on the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The reform is designed to optimize the structure of the department, improve the activities of its bodies and, as a result, create the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the European model. Providing approximately 30%reduction in the number of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin puts a shawl on the shoulders of the first lady of China Pan Liuan The gesture of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Beijing forced Chinese censors to act after he wrapped a shawl around the shoulders of the first lady of China - Pan Liuan.

History and theory of luxury Philip Perrault. Luxury: the wealth between splendor and comfort in the 18th -19th centuries / Translation from French A. N. Smirnova. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of Ivan Limbakha, 2014. - 288 p.

The failure of the US anti-drug struggle in Afghanistan, the difficult meetings of Barack Obama in Asia and Australia, the new tactics of the fight against the Islamic State, an increase in the number of executions in Iran and the search for the new and old presidents in Burkina-Faso

Consideration of a criminal case against the brothers Navalny The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow today is expected to continue to consider the case of fraud with the funds of the company Yves Rocher, in the framework of which the charges are brought to the opposition Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg. At the previous court hearing on Friday, one of the main witnesses in the case, according to Navalny, gave testimonies.

Gunvor former co -owner Gennady Timchenko The Wall Street Journal announced the beginning of the investigation of the Gunvor oil oil engineer The official representative of the businessman Gennady Timchenko Anton Kurvin called the publication in The Wall Sreet Journal a provocation about the investigation of a number of transactions of the Gunvor Group oil industry related to Russia.

A few months ago, most Russians had no doubt about the stability of the ruble International sanctions and the ongoing drop in oil prices bring Russia closer to the new economic crisis Since the beginning of the week, the Central Bank of Russia has actually refused to support the national currency, announcing the transition to the free formation of its exchange rate in relation to the dollar and the euro.

After the flight of President Burkina-Faso, who ruled for 27 years, this state remains under the temporary power of the military In the West African state of Burkina-Faso, representatives of opposition parties, civil society activists and religious leaders agreed on a plan for preparing for the first free elections after the resignation and flight of the former President Blaz compass , who ruled the country for 27 years.

Chairman of the organization "Soldiers' mothers of St. Petersburg" Ella Polyakova The Ministry of Justice refused to exclude the non -profit organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg" from the register of NPO - foreign agents, citing the lack of the appropriate procedure.

Fragment of the match with the participation of the Algerian national team Morocco will not hold the 2015 African football Cup, and the national team of this country, which took place in the tournament as a host country, is disqualified. Such a decision on November 11 made a confederation of African football (CAF) . In October, Morocco appealed to CAF with a proposal to postpone the African Nations Cup from the winter of 2015 to a later time.

Chairman of the organization "Soldiers' mothers of St. Petersburg" Ella Polyakova Two St. Petersburg organizations - "Soldier Mothers of St. Petersburg" and the Freedom Freedom Freedom of Information challenged the warnings issued by him by the St. Petersburg Ministry of Justice.