Published the shortlist for the International man Booker prize Moscow. April 20. INTERFAX.RU — the jury of the International Booker prize on Thursday announced the shortlist of nominees for one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, reports The Guardian. It included six authors: Matias ENAR (France), David Grossman (Israel), Roy Jacobsen (Norway), Dorti North (Denmark), Amos Oz (Israel) and Samantha Sublin (Argentina). The international Booker prize is awarded to English-language authors and those whose books have been translated into English. In this case also awarded to the translator. So, all the authors and the translators, who are in the shortlist will receive the reward of 1000 pounds (about $1300). The main prize of 50 thousand pounds ($64000) will be divided in half. The winner will be announced June 14.
Day: April 21, 2017
The Supreme court has recognized “Jehovah’s Witnesses” extremist organization and liquidate it
The Supreme court has recognized “Jehovah’s Witnesses” extremist organization and liquidate it The assets of the organization converts to the property of the state. MOSCOW, April 20. /TASS/. The Supreme court has recognized “Jehovah’s Witnesses” extremist organization, eliminated and banned its activities in the country. Thus was satisfied the claim of Ministry of justice of the Russian Federation. In the decision the court stated the immediate cessation of the activities of all offices 395 “Jehovah’s Witnesses” in the country The assets of the organization, the court turned to the state income. On Thursday, judge Yury Ivanenko read out only the operative part of the decision, the full text of which will be given to the parties at hand for five days. The organization has already stated that they will appeal the decision to the court of appeals of the Supreme court. The organization’s representative noted that they intend to walk
Cosmonaut Yurchikhin and astronaut Fisher went to the ISS
Cosmonaut Yurchikhin and astronaut Fisher went to the ISS Moscow. April 20. INTERFAX.RU — the Crew of the next expedition, landed on the ship of a new modification of “Soyuz MS-04”, came on Board the International space station, the correspondent of “Interfax” from the cosmodrome “Baikonur”. “The transfer hatches between the spacecraft and station opened,” said the speaker on the speakerphone. The vehicle docking with the research module Rassvet of the ISS was made on the six-hour program in automatic mode. The spacecraft delivered to ISS reduced to a two-man crew consisting of Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and U.S. astronaut Jack Fischer. On the space provided for the third crew member, the ISS went cargo of food weighing 70 kg. The planned duration of the expedition is 136 days. HelpHow to become an astronaut?”Roscosmos” has announced an open competition in the cosmonaut detachment. Read more
In the Crimea, to create an offshore area
Photo: RIA Novosti Crimean authorities discuss the idea of starting an offshore zone on the Peninsula, said the head of the region Sergey Aksenov. “Discussed this project”, — quotes Aksenova Thursday RBC. The topic of offshore Crimean authorities are discussing with the Federal government, including the Ministry of economic development. We can talk about “a convenient option that still did not work and which can be applied for the first time in the Crimea.” In turn, the source of RBC, close to the government, explained that the offshore zone in Crimea would solve the problem of protecting information about investors on the Peninsula. Relevance store the information on investors due to the fact that investments in the Republic entail the application to them of Western sanctions imposed after the reunification of the Crimea with Russia. At the moment, decisions about how implementing the idea of offshore zones, according to Aksenov,
Premiere prompts
Photo: Kommersant Dmitry Medvedev, in his annual report to the state Duma, yesterday assured the deputies that the signs of economic recovery apparent, and the government’s actions are effective and mostly accurate. Parliamentary questions were reserved, unless the Communist Nikolai Kolomeitsev asked the Prime Minister, what prevents him to defend himself from the attacks of Alexei Navalny. The faction leaders were harsher in response, the Prime Minister offered to “all fall to the ground.” This was the first report of the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to the Duma, which was elected in 2016, and the last before the presidential election in 2018. In his speech, the Prime Minister was vigorous and energetic. “Progress, albeit small, is in each of the sectors that are critical to the development of the country, so it’s not just individual successes, and system improvement”, – announced Dmitry Medvedev. What was very disturbing before-sanctions and cheap
The defense Ministry responded to reports of the movement of equipment to the borders of the DPRK
The defense Ministry responded to reports of the movement of equipment to the borders of the DPRK The Ministry of defense of Russia commented on the information about the movement of military equipment to the borders of the DPRK. The Department explained that the redeployment of troops takes place in the framework of the planned exercises and not to do with politics, reports “Interfax”. According to him, military equipment, spotted earlier by the inhabitants of the Far East, was involved in large-scale exercises for the groups of air defense and aviation, which took place at a specialized landfill Telemba in Buryatia, and is now returning to the places of permanent deployment. Gordeyev said that the exercise involved air defense equipment. “Participated including connections to the combined arms army in Primorye”, — he added. In addition, according to Gordeyev, returns to the place of permanent deployment of artillery equipment which was
The state Duma has forbidden to name children swear words and figures
The state Duma has forbidden to name children swear words and figures MOSCOW, 21 APR — RIA Novosti. The state Duma a year after making adopted on Friday in the third final reading a law prohibiting the when you register the name of the child to use numbers, swear words, punctuation marks and titles, but allowing at the same time to give the baby a double surname. Senator Valentina Petrenko introduced a bill to the state Duma on 21 April 2016. The law supplementing the Family code provision stating that the choice of parents name of child not allowed the use of numbers, alphanumeric symbols, and the use of numerals, symbols and non-letter characters except for the character “hyphen” or any combination or abusive language, instructions on positions and titles. While in the Federal law “On acts of civil status”, the deputies placed a ban on the entry in the
Dvorkovich suggested to introduce to the officials “the right to be wrong”
Dvorkovich suggested to introduce to the officials “the right to be wrong” According to the Vice Prime Minister, such a right must be civil servants, focused on ambitious outcomes rather than the current process. KRASNOYARSK, April 21. /TASS/. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich supported the proposals of the participants of the Krasnoyarsk economic forum to change approaches to ensure the efficiency of public administration, however, proposed to introduce a “right to error”. This opinion was expressed at a session of the forum on key elements of the reform of the public administration system. “Of course, should not have the right to the second and third mistake. It’s too much. But one mistake should certainly be right” — said Dvorkovich. According to him, is entitled to a mistake must have officials focused on ambitious outcomes rather than the current process. “This is very important, but it must be formulated at the
Assad accused Turkey of supplying weapons to terrorists in Syria
Bashar Al-Assad Damascus a hundred percent sure that the supply of chemical weapons to the rebels, Ankara is. The President of Syria Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with RIA Novosti. “From Turkey. Directly from Turkey, and there is evidence that some of them were presented on the Internet a few years ago,” — said Assad, answering a question of where terrorists could get chemical weapons. According to him, “the only route for terrorists to get money, weapons, any material support, recruits and similar materials goes through Turkey, not the other way North, they have not.” On 20 April it was reported that the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) by a majority of votes rejected the proposal of Russia and Iran to investigate the incident in the Syrian town of Khan shaykhun, Idlib province. Earlier in the day Moscow had submitted to the OPCW a range of
Japan issued guidelines in case of missile attack of the DPRK
The government of Japan issued guidelines for citizens in case of a missile attack. About it reports TASS. The rules were presented at a meeting in Tokyo meeting with the participation of senior officials of the government and representatives of all 47 prefectures of the country. At the meeting it was explained that the government will try very quickly to sound the alarm in areas struck. Local authorities should receive information about the attack through a system of warnings about the disaster J-Alert, telecommunication, government e-mail. The population is expected to notify through speakers on the streets, with messages to mobile phones and emergency announcements on television and radio. The population is given by the Council in urgent circumstances to hide in cellars or inside permanent structures. If the alarm finds a person on the street or in the car, it is recommended to immediately stop the car to hide