Day: March 2, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti The American side argues that the preparation of the meeting between the head of the White house Donald trump and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the moment is not conducted. This was reported Tuesday in its electronic version of the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, citing an unnamed representative of the U.S. government. The publication cites in his article the words of Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who said that being practical preparations for the meetings between leaders of the two countries, however, the understanding regarding the date and place of such meeting no. “The senior official said that preparations for the meeting between trump and Putin is not conducted”, – stated in the material edition. On Tuesday, Ryabkov, speaking at a round table in the state Duma, devoted to Russian-American relations, commented on a meeting held in Bonn, the foreign Minister of the Russian Federation

Photo: RIA Novosti The Prosecutor’s office of Omsk found evidence of numerous irregularities in the spending of budget funds by the city Council members who hired their own relatives for the posts of assistants and paid for their days of absence from work, reports TASS. “The majority of deputies of the Omsk city Council in the timesheet time his assistants (including relatives) as of the periods actually worked improperly included the days on which assistants were located outside the region and sometimes outside the country. And these days were paid from the municipal budget,” – said the Prosecutor’s office. The Prosecutor also stressed that the Omsk city Council has taken the decision to increase the Fund of remuneration of assistants of deputies on 15 February, despite objections from the Department and if there is significant underfunding of socially significant issues. Earlier it was reported that the Omsk deputies have forbidden

U.S. attorney General responded to the accusations in concealment of contacts with Moscow U.S. attorney General Jeff sessions has stated that it is not met with anybody from the Russian officials to discuss issues regarding the presidential campaign, the Associated Press reports. “I have no idea where these baseless accusations. It’s not true”, — quotes Agency the statement and Roman sessions. Earlier, The Washington Post, citing sources in the U.S. justice Department reported that last year, during the election campaign sessions twice met with the Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak. According to the newspaper, sessions, as a Senator from Alabama, met with Kislyak in July and September 2016, which U.S. intelligence agencies believe the “midst of a Russian hacking campaign” that aimed to influence the race. As the newspaper notes, during the hearings in the Senate before his appointment to the post of Prosecutor General sessions hid

The Russian Embassy has not commented on the information about the meetings of the Ambassador with the US attorney General Moscow. March 2. INTERFAX.RU — the Russian Embassy in Washington reports on the meetings of the current head of the justice Department Jeff and Roman sessions with the Russian Ambassador in Washington Sergey Kislyak has not commented. “The Embassy has not commented numerous contacts with local partners, which are carried out on a daily basis in accordance with diplomatic practice,” — said the “Interfax” press Secretary of the Russian Embassy of Nikolai Lahonin. Earlier, the Washington Post reported that the head of the justice Department Jeff sessions when he was a Senator twice met with the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak and did not mention it when his candidacy was approved in the Senate. According to the newspaper, citing unnamed officials in the U.S. Department of justice, one

Press Secretary of Prime Minister Natalya Timakova © Vladimir Rodionov/TASS MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Press Secretary of Prime Minister Natalya Timakova called propaganda and pre-election attacks Internet publishing opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “Bulk material has a pronounced pre-election character, as he himself says at the end of the video. To comment on the propaganda attacks of the opposition and the convict character, who said that he already has some campaign and fighting with the authorities is pointless,” – said Timakova TASS.