The State Duma adopted a law extending the freezing of the funded part of the pension until 2024 The State Duma adopted a law according to which the freezing of the funded part of the pension of Russians is extended until the end of 2024, TASS reports. The financial and economic justification for the document states that the implementation of the bill will reduce the transfer from the federal budget to the budget of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) by 772.9 billion rubles. The funded pension has been frozen since 2014. In other words, contributions to the funded part of the pension in the amount of 6 percent of wages are sent to the insurance part for payments to current pensioners. Initially, it was assumed that the freeze would be one-time, but since then the rule has been invariably extended.
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In the Russian forest, skiers stumbled upon a grenade tied to a tree
In the Yakut forest, skiers stumbled upon a stretcher with an ammunition tied to a tree which was tied to a tree, according to REN TV. Vacationers did not check whether the ammunition was working. The Russians did not rule out that someone is protecting their lands in this way. Currently, a grenade found in the forest was handed over to law enforcement officers for study. Earlier in the Moscow region, unknown attackers mined the door of an apartment in a multi-storey residential building with a grenade. The incident occurred in the city of Kolomna on Spirina Street. According to specialists working on the site, the ammunition looks like an RGD-5 hand grenade. A few hours later, sappers removed the charge from the doorknob. Forensic scientists examine the prints to establish the identity of the miner.
The Federation Council assessed the likelihood of disconnecting Russia from the global financial system
Senator Dzhabarov called it impossible to disconnect Russia from SWIFT. since it is one of the largest players in the global economy, said Federation Council Senator Mikhail Dzhabarov. In a conversation with “Lenta.ru” he added that there are too many people interested in such a system in the United States. Washington admits the option in which Russia will be completely isolated from the world financial system in the event of an invasion of Ukraine. This was announced by Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. As the diplomat noted, the United States is discussing such a scenario with its allies. She warned that the de facto isolation would have repercussions for Russian business and Russians themselves, as well as their opportunities for work, travel and trade. Maidan ideologue Dzhabarov suggested that Nuland passes off his personal opinions and desires as the official position of the United States, which has nothing to
German Ambassador spoke about relations with Russia
German Ambassador von Geir: relations between Berlin and Moscow are complicated, but there are positive signals Despite the fact that relations between Berlin and Moscow complex at the moment, both sides emanate positive signals of readiness for dialogue. This was stated by the German Ambassador to Russia Geza Andreas von Geir, RIA Novosti reports. The diplomat stressed that disagreements remain in relations between Germany and the Russian Federation. He noted that the governments of the two countries adhere to different positions on a number of important political issues, and it will take a lot of time to find a common point of view. “But at the same time, both in Moscow and in Berlin, I hear signals indicating openness and readiness to discuss global problems and challenges, develop joint approaches, which is already being carried out, ”the ambassador said. According to him, on the German side, this readiness is reflected
The first festival of the national book of Russia will be held in Dagestan
The first festival of the national book of Russia will be held in Dagestan in December This is reported by TASS with reference to the Ministry of Culture of the republic. As explained in the department, the event will be held in Makhachkala from 9 to 11 December in conjunction with the book fair “Tarki-Tau”, which has been held in the region since 2012. It is expected that it will be attended by representatives of the leadership of the Association of Russian Book Publishers, the Council of National Book Publishing, the Writers' Union of Russia, the Russian Book Chamber, as well as various Russian publishing houses. As planned by the organizers, the festival will be divided into several thematic blocks. All publishing houses and bookselling organizations operating in Dagestan are planning to take part in it. In October it was reported that since the beginning of the year, the Center
The term for the refusal of the Baltic states from Russian electricity has been announced
Ministry of Energy of Lithuania: the Baltic electricity system will be disconnected from Russia by 2025 The Baltic electricity system will be completely disconnected from Russia by 2025. Such terms of refusal from Russian electricity were named by the Minister of Energy of Lithuania Dainius Kreivis, Delfi reports. Kreivis said that on Saturday, December 4, the Lithuanian operator of the electricity transmission system Litgrid successfully connected to the Polish operator Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE) and worked synchronously with the European system. “The Baltic power grid has shown that it can work with continental Europe in the event of problems with Russia and will be completely disconnected from it by 2025,” Cravis said. “We can say that on Sunday, the three Baltic countries woke up safer than on Saturday night when they went to bed,” said Litgrid CEO Rokas Masiulis. Now the country is receiving electricity from BRELL – the electric
Astronaut explained the absence of Americans on the moon
Astronaut Fischer: US postpones sending humans to the moon due to other priorities on the Moon. In his opinion, the United States is postponing sending people to a natural satellite of the Earth due to the presence of other priorities. “Our country has certain priorities that crowd out other things. Since the Moon is not a strategic priority as much as others – especially in a pandemic – they are postponing it a bit, “said the former astronaut. In November, Space.com, citing a report from the US Inspector General Paul Martin's space agency reported that NASA will spend $ 93 billion on the Artemis lunar program by 2025. The publication notes that the estimate of $ 93 billion covers the period of work being carried out from 2012 to 2025 fiscal year. By comparison, from 1960 to 1973, the United States spent $ 280 billion on the Apollo program (at
The details of the case of the ex-head of the Federation of free-style wrestling of St. Petersburg about the murder have been disclosed
The investigation suspects the former head of the St. Petersburg Freestyle Wrestling Federation of a double murder committed in 1993. Then a businessman nicknamed Kuvalda and a law enforcement officer Kirill Ugolnikov were shot. An informed source told Interfax about this, disclosing the details of the criminal case. According to him, together with Kulibaba, the security forces detained two more suspects in this crime – the director of the company “Voskhod Neva” Vladimir Karpinsky and the head of the organization “Magic Menu “Anatoly Motyl. According to preliminary data of the investigation, in August 1993 Karpinsky with an unidentified accomplice in a car driven by Motyl arrived at the house on Frunze Street in St. Petersburg and there they shot the entrepreneur Igor Savin (Kuvald) from automatic weapons and Kirill Ugolnikov. Their bodies with multiple gunshot wounds were found in the courtyard of the house. The investigation suggests that the customer
Political scientist spoke about the conceptual restoration of the Soviet Union by Putin
Political scientist Salin: Putin is restoring the Soviet Union, but not in the literal sense Russian President Vladimir Putin is restoring the Soviet Union, but not in the direct political analyst Pavel Salin told Lenta.ru in a conceptual sense. “If we approach the issue not literally, but conceptually, then this is the way it is, and Vladimir Putin confirmed this when he spoke about the red lines in the post-Soviet space, “he said. But this is not about the territorial annexation of the former Soviet republics, but about the restoration of Russia's influence on parts of the post-Soviet space, the political scientist noted. “Let's say we are not talking about some former republics that are irrevocably lost, like the Baltic states, and as for Ukraine and a number of other former Soviet republics, then, relatively speaking, the restoration of the Soviet Union means that Moscow requires the West to recognize