The Executive Director of the Starbucks Coofen network Howard Schulz leaves his post, he will be replaced by Kevin Johnson technology director. The changes in the management structure are reported on the company's website. Changes will enter into force on April 3, 2017. Schulz will remain the chairman of the board of directors of the company, he will deal with innovations, design and developments at Starbucks' Reserve Roasteries and will focus on increasing retail sales in the coffee houses.

On board the ships are four thousand naval infantrymen The landing ships of the US Navy WASP (LHD 1) and the Whidbey Island (LSD 41) passed the Suez Canal and entered the Mediterranean Sea, according to the US Navy. On board are four thousand naval infantrymen as part of a landing group of high readiness (ARG). On ships there are 22 expeditionary detachment of the Marine Corps.

The State Duma in the first and final reading adopted a law that increases the “cost” of the electoral vote in the parliamentary elections from 110 to 152 rubles. The broadcast of the meeting was conducted on the website of the parliament. The initiative will maintain state financing of parties at the same level. The authors of the law note that the adopted changes will reduce the dependence of parties on private sponsors.

The third stage of demolition of self -construction will begin in Moscow on December 5. This was reported on the website of the State Inspectorate for Monitoring the use of Real Estate objects of the capital. As the head of the inspection Sergei Shogurov noted, those objects of self -building will be demolished by which there were no applications for voluntary dismantling. He also noted that the mass night demolition of buildings, as it was during the previous stages, is not supposed this time.

The government instructed to hold an auction in 2017 for the right to use the subsoil of federal significance, which includes one of the largest gold deposits in the world of Sukhoi Log in the Irkutsk region. The corresponding order is published on the government website. The order was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. It was prepared by the Ministry of Natural Resources in accordance with the Law "On Subsoil".

Russia does not show seriousness and delays negotiations with the Syrian opposition to liberate Aleppo. One of the opposition leaders told Reuters about this. “She [Russia] is completely frivolous. If the countries of Europe and the USA do not intervene, a real tragedy will occur here, ”he said.

Unknown armed people detained ecologists from the “Ecological Watch of the North Caucasus” who conducted an inspection at the alleged cottage of billionaire Evgeny Prigozhin. https://twitter.com/ewnc_org/status/804687591241084928 Among the detainees was the freelance journalist "Rain" Sergey Petrov, as well as the ecologist Dmitry Shevchenko. The fact that Prigozhin has a cottage near Gelendzhik, in October told the Fund for the fight against corruption of Alexei Navalny.

Our relations with things are problematic. But not because things become reasonable, rather, even the opposite. If you dial in Google the phrase "Unpleasant Design", you will receive more than 25 million results. This phenomenon, behind which the name “inconvenient design” was fixed in Russian, although it would be more accurate to say “hostile”, not only academic articles, but also large volume books are already devoted.

How Washington will resist Moscow since 2017 Graffiti in Vilnius. Photo: Sean Gallup / Getty images The US is preparing to create a committee to combat the influence of Russia. The bill of representatives of Congress has already approved the bill about this, and by the end of 2017 it will be considered by the Senate. The same structure fought with Soviet propaganda during the Cold War, and, according to experts, did this effectively. How will they fight?

The Presidential Office for Internal Policy (UVP) will prepare a report on the effectiveness of the work of regional managers for President Vladimir Putin. This was reported to the "rain" by sources in the Kremlin.

The house, according to the investigation of Alexei Navalny, belonging to the deputy general director of Rostekhnologies Igor Zavyalov. Photo: corrupcia.net Modern Russia, with an example of the Soviet Union, does not have its own architectural style. It seems that Vladimir Putin even never pronounced the word “architecture” in official speeches.

Russian oil companies will need compensation measures to reduce production. This was stated by the vice president of Lukoila Leonid Fedun, Interfax reports. Fedun noted that any reduction in oil production requires technological costs, but it is beneficial for everyone. The representative of Lukoil expressed the opinion that the real decrease in the volume of the extracted raw materials will begin in the second quarter of 2017.

Krasninsky court of the Smolensk region arrested 9.3 billion rubles in the accounts of the Russian representative office of IKEA. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the court. Thus, the court satisfied the requirements of the former IKEA partner in Russia by businessman Konstantin Ponomarev. Earlier, at the end of August 2016, Ponomarev sued IKEA more than half a billion rubles in connection with the short -lived diesel generators, as well as the costs of paying for the state duty.

The Moscow Exchange registered the Rosneft ten -year -old bonds for more than trillion rubles. This was reported in the press release of the stock site on December 2. Securities of the oil state-owned company assigned the number 4–00122-A-001P-02E. The validity of the Rosneft bond program is unlimited. Rosneft spokesman Mikhail Leontyev refused to name RBC the deadlines for placing bonds, indicating only that the program is long-term and phased in nature.

Former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev came before the detention at Rosneft at the request of the head of the company Igor Sechin. It is reported by Rosbalt with reference to a source familiar with the situation. According to the source, before the transaction for the purchase of Rosneft, Bashneft, Ulyukaev, was unhappy that he and his device did not receive any gratitude for the work and preparation of documents in an accelerated manner.