Day: March 7, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti Protection of the runaway Ukraine’s former state Duma Deputy, Denis Boronenkov, accused in Russia of fraud, appealed against his arrest in absentia, told RIA Novosti on Monday, the lawyer Andrei Grivtsov, representing the interests of former parliamentarians. “We appealed the decision of the Basmanny court of Moscow about election concerning Boronenkov of a measure of restraint in form of detention,” — said the lawyer. Thus, the warrant in absentia arrest of ex-MP has not yet entered into force. According to the court, Boronenkov will be placed in jail for two months after will be detained or extradited to Russia. According to the investigation, Ukraine, he left it for fear of being prosecuted. As noted earlier, the head of the RF IC Alexander Bastrykin, former people’s Deputy “has reached the abyss”, taking the citizenship of Ukraine. In addition, as reported, Boronenkov testified the Prosecutor General’s office of Ukraine

The ex-Governor of Sakhalin region Alexander Khoroshavin Photo: RIA Novosti Accused of several counts of bribery, ex-Governor of the Sakhalin region Alexander Horoshavin demanded from the investigation to explain where the evidence of his guilt, that is, the bribe, the correspondent of RIA Novosti news from the courtroom. “The charges are not clear to me, I will give evidences on all episodes for a number of episodes shown to me, I don’t even know people referred to by the Prosecutor. I do not understand where is the evidence? Where is the money? Was there a boy? Why they are not in the list of evidence? As there was no handles 36 million,” — expressed his position Khoroshavin. He also asked where one of the most active participants of criminal group — the former head of the Secretariat of the prizes Vyacheslav Gorbachev. “According to the investigation, he was holding the

Photo: globallookpress.com Blocking radicals in Konotop freight trains from Russia points to the collapse of power in Ukraine. This opinion was expressed in Facebook the head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev. “Reports that the organizers of the blockade of Donbass, organized one more post…, only reinforce the impression that in Ukraine for three years and have not established stable and recognized by all the authorities. Figuratively speaking of Bandera, the country drifts towards the Makhnovshchina. When virtually anyone can interrupt railway communication with the neighbouring state — this is a serious hint of the collapse of statehood,” wrote the Senator. Kiev, believes Kosachev, loses because of the actions of the radicals, for whom “will always be quite influential forces that divide either property or power.” “Unfortunately, it is impossible to leave “spiders in the Bank” to do with each other, because, firstly, thwart international agreement,

The US began deployment of the THAAD system in South Korea Moscow. March 7. INTERFAX.RU — the United States has embarked on a program of placing missile defence systems THAAD in South Korea, said on Tuesday the US Pacific command. “The continuing provocative actions of North Korea, including last night’s multiple launches of missiles, only validated last year’s decision of the Alliance on the placement of THAAD in South Korea”, — reads the statement of the command. As reported by South Korean media, the first batch of components of THAAD batteries has been delivered to the American military transport plane at a military base in South Korea. The agreement on the deployment of THAAD have been achieved in the past year to counter a missile threat from the DPRK. China strongly opposes the deployment of U.S. missile defense systems on the Korean Peninsula because, according to the statements of Beijing,

Russia has paid a contribution to the UN budget in the amount of $78 million UN 7 Mar. /Offset. TASS Oleg Zelenin/. Russia on Monday transferred $78 million in annual contribution to the regular budget of the UN. This was announced by the permanent mission of the Russian Federation at the world organization. “March 6, 2017 Russian Federation transferred the amount of $ 888 309 77 U.S. dollars as payment accrued on Russia’s contribution to the regular budget of the UN,” — said in a statement on the official website of the Embassy. Contributions to the UN budget (us$5.4 million for the 2016-2017 fiscal years) is determined based on the average of the country’s GDP over a 10-year period, given income per capita and external debt. Currently the largest sponsor of the United Nations are the USA, which cover 22% of the expenses of the organization. The share of Russia