Society

• Authorities 19 December, 09:00 Yury Koptelov: ‘The CB’s key rate is nothing but a ‘beautiful number’ in reports’ Entrepreneurs don’t borrow money from banks because they don’t understand where and why to invest and how to pay it back
• 18 December, 09:00 ‘Our science has been suspiciously stable: costs have risen, while the knowledge intensity of the economy hasn’t gone up’ Konstantin Fursov on the fight with pseudo-scientists and the state of Russian science in the world
• Authorities 17 December, 09:00 Dmitry Oreshkin: “Luzhkov thought he could consolidate the interests of governors” Election results depended on governors in the ‘90s in Russia, so the Kremlin had to negotiate with regional chiefs

• Medicine 18 December, 09:00 Boris Mendelevich: ‘Let’s be honest with our people!’ How the doctor and patient can agree with each other
• 18 December, 09:00 “Many of those who built the Soviet state were not originally atheists” Elena Besschetnova about revolutions in Russia and religious feelings of Russians. Part 2
• Authorities 17 December, 09:00 Putin at KAMAZ: ‘People from all over the USSR arrived here, a unique staff was created” A solemn meeting dedicated to KAMAZ’s 50th anniversary with the president of the country in Naberezhnye Chelny

• Infrastructure 16 December, 09:00 Russian museums overcrowded due to Chinese tourist influx Tsarskoye Selo and Hermitage are considering timed tickets
• Authorities 16 December, 09:00 Deputies against, businessmen — for: whether it is necessary to do on a day off in Tatarstans on December 31? Despite the president's promise to consider it, not everyone believes that Russians need another day of rest on New Year's eve
• Authorities 13 December, 09:00 Kazan mayor: ‘We don’t have that much land to spawn these landfills’ The citizens are urged to sort waste, while reverse vending machines will help with it — they will offer citizens of Kazan discounts on utility bills or transport

• Authorities 16 December, 09:00 ‘Nobody has called me, nobody has cancelled anything.’ Will Kazan keep big sports competitions during WADA’s ban? Kazan Kremlin, Ministry of Sport of Tatarstan and State Duma believe that scheduled competitions in the city will take place
• 13 December, 09:00 Omar Nessar: ‘The Afghans don’t consider Russia a reliable ally’ Expert in Afghanistan on forty-year-old events and their today’s echo
• Infrastructure 13 December, 09:00 ‘Zambezi River’ in Kazan to ‘flow’ next week Developers of Tatarstan have reported on the work on the republican programmes and the construction of large significant objects