Day: January 26, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti The Chairman of the Duma Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications Leonid Levin believes the current idea of the regulation of messengers at the legislative level. “Now you can call the direction in the direction of regulation of instant messengers timely, as every day the number of users is growing steadily and is already tens of millions of people in our country,” Levin told reporters, commenting on the information in the media about the amendments to the law “On communication”, which are designed to regulate the messengers. However, he noted that the information policy Committee did not participate in the development and discussion of this bill. “Therefore, it is difficult to evaluate a proposed action,” added the MP. Levin pointed to the fact that there is a growing use of these services for illegal purposes. “Proliferation risks through instant messengers extremism, advertising drugs, gambling, and

Photo: TASS The leading countries of the West are still trying to falsify the history of Russia with the purpose of discrediting her as the successor of the USSR, declared to the Deputy chief of the Military Academy of the General staff of the Armed forces of Russia the General-Lieutenant Sergey Charkov. “Recent events show that Russia and its people became the objects of open information-psychological war with the leading countries of the Western world,” he said, noting that the falsification of history is part of it, and pursues the goal of “impact on the historical consciousness of Russians and their historical memory”, RIA “Novosti”. He noted that the West is also trying to undermine Russia’s potential through the formation of public opinion within the country that rejects the most important public historical value. As an example he cited the work of the parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, which in

Photo: RIA Novosti Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin congratulated Pedro Agramunt on his reelection as speaker of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and expressed hope that under his chairmanship, the PACE will confirm its pan-European status. This was reported on the official website of the state Duma. “We hope that under your leadership, the Assembly of all 47 member States of the Council of Europe will be able to confirm its special status as the most wide-ranging parliamentary organizations in Europe,” – said in greeting. The re-election of Agramunt occurred on January 23. Spanish politician was the only candidate for the post of President of the Assembly. His nomination caused no objections. Pedro Agramunt was first elected PACE President in January 2016, replacing Anne Brasseur. The PACE Chairman is elected for a term of one year, renewable on re-annual period. The first in the 2017