Photo: RIA Novosti Vice-speaker of the state Duma Pyotr Tolstoy (“United Russia”) became the head of the Russian delegation in the parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA), reports “Interfax”. This decision was taken on Friday, January 27, at the meeting of the delegation. Earlier it was reported that the speaker of the state Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin has distributed responsibilities among its Vice-speakers. Peter Tolstoy will coordinate and monitor the committees on culture, information policy, information technologies and communication, for physical culture, sport, tourism and youth Affairs. He also organizes the cooperation with the European Parliament and the European Commission, inter-Parliamentary Union and the OSCE PA.
Day: January 30, 2017
Putin discussed with Russian security Council relations between Russia and the United States
Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the current state of Russian-American relations with the permanent members of the security Council of Russia. This told the press Secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, according to the Rambler/news citing TASS. “They exchanged opinions on the current state of Russian-American relations,” he said. The President also discussed the results of the held in Astana on 23-24 January of Syrian peace talks, the future efforts of the Syrian political settlement and the issues of domestic socio-economic agenda. Previously Peskov said that for the coming weekend planned telephone conversation of Putin with the President of the United States Donald trump, during which the leaders will discuss on the basic parameters of the current state of bilateral relations.
Sands: the Kremlin knows nothing about trump’s decision to lift the sanctions
Photo: RIA Novosti Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin know nothing about the plans of U.S. President Donald trump to lift sanctions against Russia. This is reported by the Rambler/news citing TASS. Peskov said that information about the intentions trump the lifting of sanctions, “impersonal”, so he doesn’t know “how it is true.” Earlier the journalist of the American edition of Politico, Susan Glasser wrote in his Twitter that several of its sources have reported on the preparation of the team trump the decree lifting the sanctions against Russia. She noted that the document allegedly referred to a unilateral lifting of the measures. In January, trump said in an interview that he is ready to consider lifting sanctions in exchange for the agreement with Russia on reducing nuclear weapons. The Kremlin said that such proposals were not received.
In Juzhno-Sakhalinsk can pass a gay pride parade
Proud to the mayor of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk for the first time received an application to conduct the city’s gay pride parade, informs a portal “the island.Info”. The author of the complaint to the mayor was the Moscow LGBT activist Nikolai Alekseev. According to organizers, the main goal of the event is to attract the attention of society and government to respect the human rights of homosexual people and alleged homophobia. The participants of the gay parade planned to pass through the center of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on 10 February. It is expected that the parade will be attended by 300 people. Photo: Sergey Krasnouhov / RIA Novosti
Ukrainian security forces continue shelling Yasinovataya: video
Ukrainian security forces continued shelling of residential areas on Yasinovatskiy direction, after the night was repulsed by the attempt of a breakthrough in the industrial area of Avdiivka, according to “Russian spring”. It is noted that due to the multiple hits in the pipeline in the Kiev region, without gas remained one of the local boiler houses. Without heating were seven houses. In addition, as reported by the office of the people’s militia of the DPR 152-mm shell was destroyed one house. Also, when the projectile 122 mm on the shop hit man. Video: Sergey Belous / facebook
Nationalists in the center of Kiev “destroyed” “Muscovites” and staged a torchlight procession
At the metro station “Arsenalnaya” in Kiev there took place reconstruction of fight of forces of the UNR against the Bolsheviks in the factory “Arsenal” at the end of January 1918, the “Politnavigator”. After that, the participants and the audience walked with a torchlight procession in the Ukrainian capital. “Politicians believed that the army did not want that this is not a war, and ATO, that needs peace. Today the same thing. We will fight – be a strong Ukraine. We will talk about the truce-Minsky – will be another tragedy,” – told reporters the Deputy kiyevsoveta from “Freedom” Yury Sirotyuk. In the torchlight procession was attended by several thousand people. The posters, which carried the protesters were calling: “Glory to nation – death to enemies!”, “Poland on gilyaku” and other nationalist slogans. Also in the procession glorified the memory of nationalist Stepan Bandera. Video: Polit Navigator /
Police said the number of victims of the shooting in Quebec
The number of victims of the shooting in Quebec has risen to six. On Monday, January 30, reported the press-Secretary of police of the province of Coulomb Christine (Christine Coulombe), reports ABC News. Another eight people were wounded in the attack. As noted by Coulomb, the remaining 39 are present at the Islamic center at the time of the attack did not receive any injuries. The Prime Minister of the canadian province Cuyar Philippe (Philippe Couillard) called the incident a terrorist attack. “After the attack I went to the National Assembly of Quebec, with the request to lower the flag of Quebec,” wrote he in his Twitter. Three armed criminals broke into the Islamic cultural centre in Quebec city, which is called “great mosque” of the city during evening prayers on January 29. The attackers, shouting “Allah Akbar!” opened fire. At this point in the room, according to various estimates,
The Prime Minister of Canada called the shooting in the mosque cowardly attack
Continued: Police said the number of victims of the shooting in Quebec The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau has called the attack on the Islamic cultural centre in Quebec cowardly attack. The incident he commented in his microblog on Twitter. “Today, Canadians mourn the victims of the cowardly attack on the mosque in Quebec. My thoughts are with the families and friends of those killed in the attack,” wrote Trudeau. The head of government of the province of Philip, Cuyar, in turn, urged residents to unite against violence. Three armed criminals broke into the Islamic cultural centre in Quebec city, which is called “great mosque” of the city during evening prayers on January 29. The attackers, shouting “Allah Akbar!” opened fire. At this point in the room, according to various estimates, there were from 40 to 100 people. According to Reuters, the victims were five people in police information
Secretary Goebbels died at the age of 106 years
Brünnhilde Posel In Munich at the age of 106 years died brünnhilde Posel Secretary to the Minister of public enlightenment and propaganda of Germany Joseph Goebbels. According to the Associated Press, the woman died on Friday, January 27, in his home. Death Posel confirmed Director and producer Christian Cranes, starred on her documentary called “the Life of one of the Germans,” notes The Washington Post. According to him, the woman died in her sleep. In August 2016, Pomsel first told details about his work on Goebbels. According to the Germans, she had to follow the stocks of alcohol in Hitler’s bunker. Alcohol was used by the inhabitants of the shelter in order to preserve the “insensitivity”. Among its tasks was also to changes in the statistics of the fallen soldiers, whose number she downplayed, and exaggeration of the number of rapes of German women by Soviet soldiers. Brünnhilde Pomsel was
In Bavaria found the bodies of six young people
In the German town of Arnstein (Bavaria) discovered the bodies of six young people aged 18-19 years. On Monday, January 30, reports Spiegel Online. It is known that on Saturday, January 28, they went to the party. The father of two of the victims (boys and girls) began to worry about the lack of news from the children and went to the country house where the company intended to spend some time. Here he found the bodies. The man called an ambulance, but it arrived on the scene, the doctors only verified death of teenagers. Traces of violent death on their bodies not discovered. According to investigators, the victims were kindled in the house of a wood-burning fireplace, but has the cause of death carbon monoxide poisoning, remains to be seen. On August 14 last year in one of the centres for refugees the fire broke out. It has affected