Day: December 12, 2016

Sverdlovsk Governor invited Mikhalkov in “Yeltsin centre”

Events

The Governor of Sverdlovsk region Yevgeny Kuyvashev invited the famous film Director Nikita Mikhalkov in Yekaterinburg “Yeltsin Centre”, with the criticism previously made by the master of domestic cinema. The corresponding message the head of region has posted on his page in Instagram.   “If I had known your movies only in the retelling, they would I didn’t like it. Life has taught me that you can only trust your own eyes and feelings. So come in Ekaterinburg, will personally conduct a tour of the “Yeltsin Centre”, go to the Museum of Boris Nikolayevich,” wrote Kuyvashev.   Earlier, Nikita Mikhalkov said that “Yeltsin centre” daily destroys national identity of hundreds of children, as it provides a biased assessment of the history of the country. The widow of the first Russian President Naina Yeltsin has called the allegations false and the Director recalled that he never visited the Museum. Photo: yeltsin.ru

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A large part of the capital of Tajikistan was left without electricity due to accident

Events

A large part of the capital of Tajikistan was left without electricity due to accident Moscow. 10 Dec. INTERFAX.RU — On the territory of the Tajik capital Dushanbe on the night of Saturday power outage. According to the duty service of the energy company “Barki Tojik”, in the accident that occurred in the network, without light remained a large part of the Sino district, partial areas of the TJS, Firdausi. Only in Dushanbe four districts. Energy promise to restore the power supply to the morning. According to experts, the accident occurred due to the sharp increase in electricity consumption due to cold weather. A power outage in Dushanbe takes place after the day before the holding company declared the easing of the limit on power consumption in the Republic, in connection with the launch of the second phase of the Dushanbe CHP-2. It was reported that a Chinese company constructed

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Lavrov called the journalist a retard

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Lavrov called the journalist a retard The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov before talks with German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier cursed one of the operators. Judging by the video posted on YouTube, Lavrov asked removing his press representative: “What do you want?” (“What you want”). Then he turned and, leaving, said in Russian: “Morons…”. From the video it is unclear to what exactly the journalist asked the Minister. December 8-9, the Russian foreign Minister takes part in the 23rd session of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Hamburg. In October of this year in an interview with CNN Lavrov drew attention that English is not his native language, said: “In your presidential campaign on both sides so many pussies that I prefer not to comment”. In August 2015, the Russian foreign Minister swore at a press conference. “Morons,” — said the diplomat and added obscene word.

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Congress passed the law on the financing of the government until April 2017

Politics

Congress passed the law on the financing of the government until April 2017 WASHINGTON, 10 Dec — RIA Novosti. The U.S. Congress passed a budget act that includes funding the government until April 28, 2017, according to the results of the vote in the Senate. Voting is still ongoing, but the law has already received required to pass 60 votes of senators. The house of representatives passed the bill on Thursday. Until midnight Friday the law was to take both houses, he must now be signed by President Barack Obama. The adoption of the law allows to avoid a “shutdown” (the interruption of) of the US Federal government funding which was meant to end at midnight on Saturday. The new budget will be developed when President Donald trump, who takes office January 20. The adoption of the interim budget by the Senate was delayed due to the fact that a

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The Syrian authorities promised to beat Palmyra in the near future

World

The Syrian army will return control of Palmyra in the near future. On Sunday, December 11, Talal al-Barazi (Talal al-Barazi), the Governor of the province of HOMS, in which is located the ancient city, said TV channel Al Mayadeen. He also said that the Syrian military are engaged in fierce fighting on the outskirts of Palmyra with the forces of the banned terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG). “Breakthrough militants in Palmyra will not affect the actions of government troops in Aleppo and near Damascus,” assured al-Barrasi, adding that the capture of Palmyra — only temporary success of those who support terrorists. According to the Governor, the IG has deployed to Palmyra from Raqqa and Deir-ez-Zor and Iraq reinforcements numbering about five thousand people, however, the Syrian military continues to fight, and the militants are losing. Also the head the province of HOMS said that government troops evacuated about 80 percent

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Nikita Mikhalkov suggested to check the exposure of the Yeltsin centre

Russia

Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Mikhalkov proposed to create a Commission to study the exposition “the Presidential center of Boris Yeltsin” (Yeltsin) in Yekaterinburg. He said this to RIA Novosti on Sunday, December 11. “As for the fee, it should include real experts on the country’s history, but devoid of biased view of events,” — said the Director. In addition, in his opinion, it is inexpedient to establish a branch Center in the Russian capital. “I don’t think we need to do a branch of the Yeltsin centre in Moscow, as more of those areas that takes the Museum to take inappropriate,” — said Mikhalkov. On 9 December the parliamentary hearings in Council of Federation Nikita Mikhalkov has criticized the activities of the Yeltsin centre. “It is a matter of national security, as hundreds of children get this poison every day. Should be a consistent policy addressed to ensure that children understand

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The number of poor in Russia in January-September remained at the level of 2015

Politics

Photo: Kommersant The number of the Russian population with incomes below the subsistence minimum in January-September 2016 remained at the level of 2015 in annual terms, reaching 20.3 million people. This is 13.9% of the total population of the country. About it reports Rosstat. The number of Russians with incomes below the minimum subsistence level increased in the third quarter of the year to 900 thousand people and amounted to 18.8 million people versus 17.9 million in the third quarter of last year. The subsistence minimum for the III quarter of 2016 made 9889 rubles, for able-bodied population – 10678 rubles, for pensioners – 8136 roubles, for children – 9668 rubles. The minimum wage in the III quarter of 2016 amounted to 7500 rubles against 5965 rubles in the third quarter of last year.

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