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The Russian federal government approved a regional government bill governors are elected for more than two consecutive terms. RIA Novosti reports.

On Sakhalin, more than three dozen servicemen were convicted of bribes for a business trip to Syria for bribes they tried to go on a business trip to Syria. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to an informed source. Privates and sergeants had to pay 20 thousand rubles for the trip, and officers and warrant officers – 30-40 thousand rubles. The military transferred the money to the card or transferred it in cash to the lawyer Ivan Zharkov, who worked in the local units as a legal adviser. He assured that he could organize a business trip through acquaintances in the personnel department of the Eastern Military District (VVO). For service in Syria, the military would receive the status of a veteran of hostilities with monthly life payments, additional leave and increased monetary allowance. However, none of the servicemen left on a business trip. But all the participants in

After the formal dissolution of parliament, Fumio Kishida was re-elected as Prime Minister of Japan the post of prime minister of the country after the formal dissolution of parliament on November 10. Reuters writes about this. Both the LDP deputies and her junior partner in the ruling coalition, the Komeito party, which hold the majority of seats in the lower house of parliament, voted for Kishida's candidacy, RIA Novosti notes. > Voting continues in the upper house now. However, its result is predictable, experts point out: the ruling bloc has a majority there too.

FOM: 24% of Russians called their financial situation poor, 7% are satisfied with it More than half of Russians, 57 percent, consider their material middle position; 18 percent are satisfied with it; and almost a quarter, 24 percent, complain about poverty. This is evidenced by the poll data of the “Public Opinion” Foundation, published on the organization's website. Over the past two or three months, 24 percent of respondents said about the deterioration of their financial situation, 7 percent noticed an improvement, 67 percent indicated that nothing has not changed. For the next year, optimistic and pessimistic expectations are almost equally distributed. Thus, 19 percent of respondents believe that their financial situation will improve, and 18 percent are preparing for a worsening. Young people are most in a positive mood (35 percent expect improvement), negative prognosis is more often given by people aged 46 -60 years old and residents of

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan “Interfax”: countries-guarantors of peace in Syria may meet in Nur-Sultan in Syria, the guarantor countries – Russia, Turkey and Iran – can meet in Nur-Sultan. Interfax writes about this with reference to the message of Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi. As part of the “Astana process” on Syria, the foreign ministers of the listed countries – “guarantors” of peace in the Arab Republic – may meet separately. The meeting may take place in mid-December. Tleuberdi added that Nur-Sultan has already thought about the format of the upcoming negotiations: they will probably be held offline. “We are agreeing on the format, the issues on the agenda have not been approved,” he explained. In addition to the guarantor countries, the official government of Syria and the armed opposition are participating in the negotiations of the “Astana format”. Until 2018, the United States also participated in them

Daily Mail: US hitchhiker sexually harassed in New Zealand American woman hitchhiking in New Zealand sexually harassed from the driver's side and was thrown on the track alone. The Daily Mail writes about this. According to the newspaper, the incident with 25-year-old Marina McKenzie from California took place in the vicinity of Christchurch. The tourist was planning to catch a ride to get to the neighboring town of Greymouth – after a while a man offered to give her a ride in a BMW car. “I immediately realized that something was wrong. He had a creepy look, as if he had a plan, and he didn't just want to give me a lift, ”said the American and added that she got into the car anyway, since the area was deserted. According to her, the driver from the first minutes of the trip began to ask her inappropriate questions. For example,