The prosecutor's office of South Korea interrogated the head of the Samsung Strategic Planning Department, Chan Zhong Giv due to the scandal around the country's president Pak Kyn Hyu and her friend Choi Song Sil. It is reported by Yonhap. Earlier in the offices of Samsung Electronics and the Samsung Cheil Worldwide advertising unit, searches were held . According to sources of publication in law enforcement agencies, Samsung is suspected of providing financial assistance to Choi Song Sil.

The Bank of Russia is held in connection with the criminal case, which was initiated at the request of the regulator against the International Joint Stock Bank (MAB). It is reported by Reuters with reference to the statement of the Central Bank. “Today's law enforcement officers at the Bank of Russia are associated with the need to receive documents for the investigation,” the report said.

Kakha Bendukidze. Photo: Evgeny Dudin / Kommersant Kakha Bendukidze - a Russian entrepreneur and a Georgian politician, a reformer and thinker, a convinced support of a small state and priorities of private business - passed away two years ago.

A quota for foreigners for temporary residence in Russia in 2017 will amount to 110,880 permits. The corresponding order is published on the website of the Russian government. As specified in the document, this is 15 thousand permits less than it was by quota for 2016.

The Russians began to trust television, newspapers and radio. This follows from the Levada Center survey, the data of which cites RBC. Sociologists conducted a study at the end of October 2016. According to its results, they recorded that 56% of respondents believe in information broadcast on television. The publication noted that in July 2016, 61% of respondents announced confidence in this source.

More than half of Russians-60%-consider the necessary censorship on the Internet, Interfax reports the data of the Levada Center survey. Censorship in the survey was understood to prohibit access to individual resources and materials, the agency said. 25% of respondents opposed censorship. Among the respondents, 32% believe that the ban on access to Internet resources can be used to limit the activities of civil activists, to infringe on civil rights and freedoms.

American marine infantrymen at the top of the hill in the southern part of Okinava, May 31, 1945. Photo: Keystone / Getty images On November seventeen, the new film of Mela Gibson was released in Russian rental "for reasons of conscience." The original name of the film is “Hacksaw Ridge”.

The elected US President Donald Trump proposed a member of the House of US representatives Mike Pompeo to become the director of the CIA. It is reported by Reuters . According to the agency, Pompeo accepted the proposal. According to The Washington Post with reference to a source familiar with the situation, the post of US prosecutor general Trump proposed to take the senator from Alabama Jeff Seshn.

Now the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have the Coalition-SV complex with the "deserted military department" Russian artillery complexes will be completely robotic, said the head of the missile troops and artillery of the Armed Forces Mikhail Matveevsky. It is reported by TASS. According to Matveevsky, robotization is one of the priority areas of development of missile forces and artillery. As an example, Matveevsky cited the Coalition-SV complex.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkyavicius warned that Russia is organizing an offensive on NATO a few weeks before the inauguration of the elected President of the United States Donald Trump. It is reported by the BBC. “Russia is not a superpower, but a super -problem,” said Lithuanian Foreign Minister. Linkyavichyus said that he was “very worried” for the Baltic countries and the Syrian city of Aleppo.

The Moscow City Court recognized the decision of the lower instance on the destruction of the newspaper’s circulation and the removal of the article from the Vedomosti website about the house in Barvikha, which allegedly belongs to the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin, Interfax reports. Thus, the decision of the Ostankino court of Moscow comes into force. Igor Sechin himself spoke to destroy the circulation of the newspaper. The head of Rosneft did not have material requirements for “Vedomosti”.

By 2017, a sharp decline may occur in the production of agricultural machinery due to a lack of subsidies. About this "Kommersant" was told in the Rosagromash association. The interlocutor explained that in 2016, 9.9 billion rubles were allocated to support the industry, which allowed 10.5 thousand units of equipment in the amount of 42.01 billion rubles. In the budget for 2017, such expenses are not provided.

DDOS attacks on the largest Russian banks, which took place in early November, relate to "interstate relations", said the first deputy chairman of the government of the State Bank Lev Hasis. It is reported by Prime . “DDOS attacks that occurred last week, they were unusually powerful, coordinated, were conducted from different countries, but everyone was coordinated from one place. All this is established and documented. The country from which all this came is known to us, ”Hasis said.

The Volkswagen automobile concern plans to dismiss 30 thousand people around the world in order to save money after settling the scandal with the results of tests for harmful emissions. About this on November 18 writes the Handelsblatt newspaper with reference to unnamed sources. According to the publication, 20 thousand workplaces will be reduced at the factories of the company in Germany, another 10 thousand abroad, mainly in North and South America.

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