Day: March 5, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin has demanded from investigators this year to deal with the nonpayment of wages, taxes, to curb abuses in the sphere of the state defense order and particularly warned against corruption in the ranks of SK. Speaking Thursday on expanded Board SK by results of work for the year 2016, Bastrykin set a task to identify together with the FTS hidden schemes of tax evasion and to take measures to redress the budget, as well as consistently and in a systematic manner to organize the work for the protection of honest entrepreneurs, to crack down on nonpayment of salaries, the wider use of the results of consideration of citizens ‘ complaints about abuses in the field of housing, education and health. In the field of counter-terrorism, he instructed to block channels of financing of extremists, of terrorists, and

Photo: RIA Novosti In the Chechen village of Ulus-Kert, a solemn opening ceremony of the monument erected in memory of soldiers of the 6th company, 76th guards airborne division (“Pskov”), took the fight with militants in the Argun gorge in 2000. In the opening ceremony participated the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, the Governor of the Pskov region Andrey Turchak, the command of the airborne forces, relatives of dead Marines, and members of the regional government. “Today we can proudly claim that they won the fight against international terrorism. And your children, fathers, brothers, together with the Chechen people defended the integrity of our country. It is the duty of everyone — not only the warrior but also of a citizen to defend the Homeland, protect the people,” — Kadyrov said. In turn Turchak thanked Kadyrov for the installation of the monument. “In 2015 we agreed on. And today we

The White house confirmed the US intention to reduce financial assistance to other countries The Director of the office of management and budget the White house said that the budget cuts are intended to increase military spending by $54 billion. NEW YORK, March 5. /Offset. TASS Kirill Volkov/. The administration of the President of the United States Donald trump is going to seriously reduce volume of economic assistance to other countries. This was confirmed on Saturday, the Director of the office of management and budget (OMB) the White house Mick Malvani. “We are going to offer to cut aid to foreign countries, and we are going to offer to spend the money here (in the USA approx. TASS),” he told TV channel Fox News. He said that the budget cuts are intended to increase U.S. military spending by $54 billion. “The overall message is pretty straightforward: less money to spend

Police raided the country house visit Investigators conducted a search in a country house of the candidate in presidents of France Francois Fillon. It is reported by French newspaper Le Figaro. Investigative actions were carried out in the mansion of the family Fillon in the municipality of sablé-Sur-Sarthe in the West of the country. According to the newspaper Le Parisien, in addition to a search, law enforcement agencies made an assessment of the value of property owned by the family of a presidential candidate. This was done as part of an investigation of embezzlement of public funds and embezzlement. Thursday, March 2, investigators raided the Paris home of Fillon. Then the candidate arrived employees of the Central office for the fight against corruption, financial and tax crimes (Oclciff). The investigation, the persons involved which are Francois Fillon and his wife, began on 25 February. The investigation accused Fillon of fictitious

The IMF will provide Ukraine a new tranche of one billion dollars WASHINGTON, March 4 — RIA Novosti. Experts from the International monetary Fund (IMF) has reached agreement with Ukrainian authorities on allocation of the next tranche of financial assistance, the decision can be made in the second half of March, according to a press release from the IMF. The consultations were held at expert level, which should provide its report to the Board of Directors of the IMF, which will make the final decision on the allocation of financial assistance. The IMF promised to complete this work in Ukraine and provide it to the Board of Directors in January of this year. As a rule, the decision of the IMF Board of Directors shall take into account results of work of mission of Fund. “IMF staff has reached agreement with the Ukrainian authorities on the updated Memorandum of economic