Day: April 9, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/. The state Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that clarifies the cases in which liability for the wrong age coded transmission in television lies with chief editors of print media. Changes are envisaged in the law “On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development”. “The bill proposes to introduce a ban on the circulation of the unsigned information products programs for television and radio, as well as catalogues and lists of information products”, – stated in the accompanying materials. The developers explain that currently the responsibility for the wrong age labeling of TV programs in printed media are the main editors of the publications. Their liability arises even if the newspaper reprinted the erroneous data on the labeling, which were provided by the broadcasting company. “The proposed changes clarify the responsibilities for this violation,” the authors

Photo: RIA Novosti Recent US actions in Syria runs counter to the interests of the struggle against international terrorism. This view was expressed by the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, said in a press release received by the editors”.ru” on Friday, April 7. “Instead of driving to the unification of efforts to combat terrorism, Washington has dealt a blow to the Syrian army, which not only is at the forefront of this struggle, but it achieves great success,” said the Senator, commenting on a missile strike by the US on the Syrian airfield shirt, inflicted on the night of 7 April by order of the American President Donald trump. The incident, in her opinion, will affect Russian-American relations. “And taking into account their key importance for global security, the rocket fire was a step that created a new problem on the way to strengthening peace and cooperation”, —

Photo: RIA Novosti The inhabitants of the Crimea with Ukrainian passports will be able to receive biometric document for visa-free travel to Europe. This statement was made by Deputy Director of Department of European Union Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Serhii Saenko. His words RIA Novosti reported. Sayenko added that to the paperwork required on the territory of Ukraine. On 6 April the European Parliament approved the introduction of visa-free regime with Ukraine. The liberalization of the visa regime for short trips only and does not provide the right to work. Only visa-free regime allows to travel freely to 22 countries of the Schengen area, four countries that are not members of the European Union (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland and four candidate countries for accession to the Schengen area (Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus). In order for a visa-free regime entered into force, it needs to support the Committee

Tillerson: the US is not going to overthrow the leadership of the DPRK WASHINGTON, April 9. /Offset. TASS Anton Cranks/. The American administration is not going to interfere in the internal Affairs of the DPRK. This was announced by the U.S. Secretary Rex Tillerson revealed today in an interview with ABC television. “We have no intentions to change the regime in North Korea, it is not our goal, he said. — It is absolutely clear that our goal is the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” According to Tillerson, at the last U.S.-China summit, Chinese President XI Jinping “expressed agreement that the situation has reached new levels of seriousness and threat.” “He (XI Jinping) would like to support the attempt to influence Pyongyang to change its attitude to the need for this (nuclear) weapons,” — said the Secretary of state, noting that Washington expects Beijing in this regard for further action.

Erdogan said that Europe will be responsible for “unfair attitude” towards Turkey ANKARA, 9 Aug— RIA Novosti. Europe will be responsible for the unfair, in his opinion, the attitude towards Turkey after the constitutional referendum on 16 April, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Relations between Turkey and the EU have become aggravated after the authorities of Germany and the Netherlands have banned the statements of the Turkish Ministers to the voters of Turkish origin ahead of a referendum on a package of amendments to the Constitution, which the citizens of Turkey will vote for a transition to a presidential form of government. Earlier, Erdogan said the possibility of holding another referendum, which he offers to submit the question of the advisability of continuing negotiations on the country’s accession to the EU. “Expect from Turkish citizens residing in European countries, a high turnout (for a referendum). Representatives of the Turkish Diaspora have