Day: March 17, 2017

Gennady Zyuganov The party “Communists of Russia” criticized the Chairman of the CPRF Gennady Zyuganov for refusing to participate in the rally on the Sparrow hills, on the three year anniversary of the reunification of Crimea with Russia. This is stated in the statement of the leader of movement Maxim Suraykin, published on its website on Friday, March 17. “Shame that the party that call themselves Patriotic, behave like that! The reunification with Crimea, as well as 9 May is a holiday, when you combine all the Russians, when in the same ranks and the centrists, and leftists, and the government and Patriotic opposition”, — said suraykin. In his opinion, the reluctance of the Communist party to attend the event talking about bring the organization closer to the “Pro-Western forces”. Earlier on Friday, Zyuganov said his faction is not planning to participate in the festivities on the Sparrow hills, as

Vladimir Putin The President of Moldova Igor Dodon brought Russian leader Vladimir Putin a few boxes of Moldovan wine. It is reported RIA Novosti on Friday, March 17. “You have your own collection in Cricova even with the 2002-2003 year, — he stated at the meeting with Putin. — A few dozen bottles from your personal collection brought.” The journalist of “Komsomolskaya Pravda” Dmitry Smirnov wrote on his Twitter page that the Russian President responded with a joke. “My I brought,” he said. As notes TASS, in the beginning of the meeting the leader of Moldova gave the Russian President one of the bottles. The two leaders agreed to discuss ways of resolving the situation in the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (TMR), as well as the issues of economic cooperation. Dodon, in addition, offered to raise the subject “unfortunate case of diplomatic demarche” (in early March, Chisinau withdrew from the

Bishop Mark Tichon The Russian Orthodox Church asked popular bloggers to help young people to love the Russian classics. On Friday, March 17, said the Chairman of the Patriarchal Council for culture, Bishop mark Tikhon at the meeting of the Society of Russian literature, reports RIA Novosti. He showed the audience a video in which teenagers are unable to continue the lines of Pushkin’s poems. “We did this in order to just get through. This is Shakespeare’s — out of joint times. We aliens. The question is not who is guilty and what to do?” — expressed his opinion Tikhon. The Bishop said that the only way to “reach out” to young people today is to attract those to whom they listen, that is bloggers. “Many of them have 10 million subscribers. They are ready in your format with us to work on instilling the taste for the Russian culture,”