Day: April 8, 2017

Photo: TASS/Marina Lystseva The Federal air transport Agency in early April, stopped the issuance of certificates of commercial civil aviation pilots graduates of correspondence departments of higher educational institutions. The reason — the lack of correspondence required amount of flight experience. A Directive sent to all interregional territorial administration of air transport. As told “Izvestia” in the Federal air transport Agency, in February of this year, has revealed a scheme allows to obtain the testimonies of commercial pilots to people who did not have the required amount of flight training. — About 300 people were going to use this channel in the near future, among them were those who earlier pilot certificate has already been cancelled, — told “Izvestia” in the Federal air transport Agency. — Currently we have stopped the issuance of certificates for all who studied in absentia. According to the representative of Rosaviation, the scheme was as

Photo: RIA Novosti Chairman of the Board of the German oil and gas company Wintershall Mario Mehren stated that the more favorable alternative to Russian gas for Europe does not exist. “Europe has, of course, there is a need for additional gas imports. In the end, production in the North sea is declining. Europeans should be open to all sources that you can use. This gas, which comes via pipeline from Russia, Norway and even North Africa, as well as transoceanic liquefied natural gas,” said Meren in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt. “Then the market will be free to decide which gas in the end to buy. But I am convinced that there is a more profitable alternative than the Russian gas. Natural gas from Russia will be able to withstand any competition”, — he added. Wintershall is currently in Russia is implementing several projects, including for the development

Photo: Getty Images/KTSDESIGN The government is discussing ways to improve work with documents. One solution could be the transfer of interdepartmental document circulation on the blockchain or any other secure system for remote information exchange, and use machine learning technology. This is a subclass of artificial intelligence that is able to learn based on specific parameters. The use of both fashionable technologies discusses the working group “smart economy” at the economic development Ministry. “Izvestia” managed to get acquainted with its working plan. The Ministry Maxim Oreshkin seriously working on a plan to increase growth rates above the global average until 2025. The Ministry has set up 10 working groups, one of them is “smart Economics”. Its objective is the digital reform of the government, where there is still any exchange of information takes place on paper, which slows the promotion of any initiative. In this corporate technology management and information

Maria Zakharova © Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova reminded US that the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria were engaged the whole world community. She declared it on air of TV channel “Russia 1”, commenting on the speech of U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, who at a meeting of the Security Council suggested that Russia might not fulfil the obligations to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria.

The defense Ministry suspends operation of the hotline communication with the Pentagon on Syria MOSCOW, 7 Feb — RIA Novosti. The defense Ministry informed the Pentagon about the termination of the channels “hot line” communications on Syria, said the official representative of Department major General Igor Konashenkov. “On military-to diplomatic channels to the Pentagon sent a diplomatic note of the Ministry of defense of Russia on the termination of work under the Memorandum of channels “hot line” communication,” he said. Memorandum on safety in Syria between the military of Russia and the USA acted in October 2015. Parties regularly held videoconferences of the working group on implementation issues. The last such conference was held on March 24. As stated in the Kremlin, the Memorandum has lost its meaning after the missile strike the US on the Syrian air base In the night of Friday, the US President Donald trump ordered