Day: March 20, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti Members of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg asked the SC to launch an investigation into the legality of the Saint Isaac’s Cathedral in the use of the Russian Orthodox Church, reports “Interfax”. This was announced by the Deputy Oksana Dmitriev. According to the parliamentarians, the beginning of the transmission of the Cathedral authorities of the city to the official address of the Church can be an abuse of power by officials. At the meeting on 16 March, the representative of the state Museum “St. Isaac’s Cathedral” also reported that the Museum withdrew its waiver operational management of the building in connection with the proposed transfer it for the use of the Russian Orthodox Church. Earlier it was reported that the smolninskiy district court of St. Petersburg discontinued the proceedings in an administrative lawsuit to the city Committee of property relations of recognition illegal orders of this

Photo: RIA Novosti The Communist party does not plan on 18 March to participate in the rally on the Sparrow hills, on the three year anniversary of the reunification of the Crimea with Russia, as the faction is not willing to show unity with the government. This was announced by the leader of Communists Gennady Zyuganov, reports TASS on Friday, March 17. He explained that deputies from the Communist party regularly submit to the Duma draft laws that improve the lives of citizens, but they constantly reject the representatives of the parliamentary majority deputies from “United Russia”. “We made a proposal to fill the budget, the party in power refuses. We propose to support the children of war — they refuse,” he listed Communist. The presence of Communists at the event, according to Zyuganov, will become a manifestation of the fact that under the leadership of the EP is “stand

© AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, archive TOKYO, March 20. /TASS/. Developing common positions on international and regional security issues important for Moscow and Tokyo. This was stated by Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, opening negotiations with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida. “It is very important that we provide the regularity and intensity of contacts, the content, the Minister said. It is important to keep under personal control the implementation of the agreements reached during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tokyo in December 2016.”

Kishida and Lavrov discussed issues of cooperation between Russia and Japan TOKYO, 20 Mar — RIA Novosti. The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds on Monday a bilateral meeting with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida. As expected, the Ministers will discuss the outcome of the first meeting zamglavy the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Japan about the possibilities of joint economic activities on southern Kuriles. In these negotiations, which took place on Saturday in Tokyo, the governments of Russia and Japan, have introduced specific plans of cooperation projects in the field of fisheries, tourism and healthcare. The talks Lavrov and Kishida held in the eve of Russian-Japanese consultations of the heads of foreign and defense Ministers of the two countries in the format of “2+2”, which will be held on Monday in Tokyo.

Media: the Ministry of justice to draft amendments to the criminal code on violations at rallies MOSCOW, 20 Mar — RIA Novosti. The Ministry of justice is preparing amendments to the criminal code article on which the condemned Ildar Dading, the article provides for the punishment for repeated violations at rallies, the newspaper “Izvestia” with reference to the Deputy Minister Dmitry Aristov. “The Russian government instructed the Ministry of justice to study the question of possible adjustments to article 212.1 of the Criminal code, providing punishment for repeated violations at rallies”, — the newspaper writes. According to the publication, at this stage, we conducted a study of the decisions of the COP, “deadline for proposals will be prepared”. The newspaper notes that their development will take about three months. Specifies that the result should be the decision on the amendment of the criminal rules, and also what can be possible