The Federation Council Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty and the Prevention of Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs has compiled a list of undesirable media outlets. It includes CNN, Voice of America, and Radio Liberty. This was reported to RBK by a source in the Federation Council, and was also confirmed by a member of the commission. A total of five media outlets were included in the list, the agency writes.

Russia May Reduce Taxes for Chinese Russia is ready to consider reducing the profit tax on dividends for Chinese partners of the Yamal LNG project in exchange for similar preferences for Russian companies operating in China, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said. Earlier, the Russian government received a request from the Chinese side to consider the possibility of reducing the tax from the current 10% to 5%, as is envisaged for the French partner of Yamal LNG, Total.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov believes that government spending on defense is justified. According to him, they make up about a third of all expenditures of the Russian budget. The minister said this during a speech in the Duma at a meeting with the A Just Russia faction. “This is absolutely justified by the fact that our state is a nuclear power, our state has to repel all the political attacks, one might say, that are on our country.

October 17, 2017, 19:00 / Business Kommersant: Coca-Cola lost the contract to sell Finlandia and Jack Daniel's in Russia undefined Vedomosti The Brown-Forman company is going to soon abandon the contract with Coca-Cola to sell its brands in Russia, Kommersant writes , citing a top manager of the alcohol holding. Coca-Cola HBC confirmed that cooperation between the companies will end on February 28, 2018.

A similar system could be launched in the new government – ​​and then, say, a successor could be chosen between the best minister and the best governor. Everyone has already seen the footage from the training of the new elite - where future governors jump off a cliff. It's not limited to that.

The Supreme Court of Slovenia has refused to extradite Anatoly Kaverov, former deputy general director for capital construction at Rosneft's Tuapse Oil Refinery, to Russia, Kommersant writes . The court upheld the same decision by the court in the city of Krško, where Kaverov had been held under house arrest for several months. The Russian is involved in a case of embezzlement of 137 million rubles from the enterprise. Croatia had previously refused to extradite him to Russia.

The Cinema Fund is checking the use of funds allocated for the production of Alexei Uchitel's film "Matilda." State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya told RBC about this. Earlier, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office stated that they had found no violations of the law in the production and distribution of Matilda, or signs of incitement to hatred in the trailer for the sensational film. The inspection by the supervisory agency was conducted at Poklonskaya's request.

General Motors (GM) is the first automaker to test self-driving cars in New York, reports The Wall Street Journal . GM intends to conduct tests in Manhattan on a 13 square meter site. km at the beginning of 2018. Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles will take part in the tests, with people in the driver’s seat to collect data and take control if necessary. The development of the autopilot is directly carried out by Cruise Automation, which GM acquired in 2016.

The United States is not ruling out the possibility of holding direct talks with North Korea, US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said after Pyongyang warned that a nuclear war could start at any moment, Reuters reports. "Ultimately, we do not rule out the possibility of direct negotiations," Sullivan said in Tokyo after talks at the Japanese Foreign Ministry. "Our focus is on the diplomatic path to resolve the problem presented by the DPRK.

Horror Movies Still Do Great Before Halloween / Still from Happy Death Day Horror films continue to do well before Halloween. The budget of Happy Death Day was $4.8 million, and the box office for the first weekend was $26.5 million. This is more than, for example, the comparable budget ($5 million) of The Visit by the genre classic M. Night Shyamalan in 2015, which ended its release with a box office of $65.2 million.

The Russian Hydrometeorological Center has announced that the first frosts may come to Moscow this coming weekend, Interfax reports. According to the department, on Saturday night in Moscow and the region the air temperature may drop to minus 3, on Sunday night - to minus 4 degrees. Earlier on Tuesday, the Meteonovosti portal reported that the influence of the anticyclone ridge will remain in the region until the end of the day. No significant precipitation is expected today.

The leaders of two public organizations representing the Catalan independence movement have been arrested by a Madrid court for inciting disobedience to the authorities, La Vanguardia reports . The leaders of the Catalan "Universal Culture" Jordi Cuixart and the head of the "Catalan National Assembly" Jordi Sanchez have been arrested. The judge has agreed to their pre-trial detention in prison without the right to bail.

Authorities have come up with a way to attract financiers to the Far East / Alexander Belenkiy / Vedomosti Putin instructed the government, together with the Central Bank, to submit proposals on the creation of a regional financial center in the free port of Vladivostok. The instruction (published on the Kremlin website) was given following a meeting of the State Council Presidium on September 6.

The Moscow Region Health Ministry did not find any violations in the operator's work when receiving an ambulance call for actor Dmitry Maryanov in Lobnya. This was reported to TASS by the department's press service. The agency was told that on Sunday at 18:49 Moscow time the call was received by the System-112 operator. After that, he connected the applicant with the Lobnya ambulance dispatcher to clarify additional questions. At 19:03 Moscow time, another call was received by System-112.

October 17, 2017, 10:06 / Auto The relevant Duma committee will reject amendments on fines for out-of-season tires Vedomosti The Duma Committee on Transport and Construction will not support and will recommend that the House reject the bill on fines for summer tires in winter and winter tires in summer. As explained to committee chairman Evgeny Moskvichev TASS, the amendments will not introduce anything new into the legislation.