Day: May 2, 2017

Photo: Kommersant Vakhitovsky district court of Kazan have arrested Deputy Chairman of the Tatarstan branch of the “Open Russia” 23-year-old Daria Kulakov for participation in the action “Bored”. She was found guilty under part 2 of article 20.2 of the administrative code (organizing or conducting a public event without filing the prescribed notification procedure) and under part 1 of article 19.3 (disobedience to the lawful order of a police officer), told “Kommersant-Kazan” in the “Open Russia”. In the first article, she was appointed administrative arrest for 10 days, second seven days. Penalties are not cumulative. Thus, given that MS Kulakova held on the eve of the night in the police Department, she will stay in detention until may 9th. Recall Akdarya. and Laysan Ismagilova was detained during the action “Tired”, after activists handed treatment in the office of the President of the Russian Federation. In Kazan “Open Russia” had planned

Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian leadership has instructed regional authorities to prevent attacks on the opposition, said “Газете.Ru” sources in the Kremlin. “In fact, such attacks only lead to their promotion,” commented this decision is one of the sources. According to him, law enforcement officials will also be recommended to prevent crimes and bring criminals to justice. However, another source noted that the governors prefer not to take the initiative in such matters and agree actions with management.

© Alexei Nikolsky/press service of the Russian President/TASS SOCHI, may 2. /TASS/. The international community has no right to forget about tragedies such as the events in Odessa in 2014, and should prevent such crimes in the future. This was stated by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at press conference following talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “As you remember, three years ago in Odessa, this, too, can’t remember, was a terrible tragedy – the Ukrainian nationalists were driven defenseless people in the House of trade unions and burned them alive. The perpetrators are still not brought to justice, punished. The international community has no right to forget about it, to prevent the repetition of such barbaric crimes in the future”, – Putin said.

In Sochi ended the talks between Putin and Merkel The President of Russia Vladimir Putin after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that they were able to discuss the situation in Syria, in Ukraine and preparations for the G20 summit. He stressed that the Ukrainian issue is a concern of the parties. “MS Merkel are in constant contact with the other members of the Normandy format,” — said the Russian leader. With regard to the Syrian conflict, the Russian President stressed that his decision can be found only by peaceful means and under the auspices of the UN. “We also exchanged views on the situation in Syria, called for intensification of the negotiation process in the framework of the Astana and the Geneva format,” he said. Also at the meeting the two leaders discussed the situation of gays in Chechnya. “I talked about what was a very negative report

The Ministry proposed to assign degrees without dissertation The Ministry of education and science proposed to simplify the award of degrees. To obtain title under certain conditions, is not necessarily to defend the thesis. The Ministry of education and science has prepared a draft law “On scientific, scientific-technical and innovation activities in the Russian Federation”, which proposes in particular to simplify the procedure of awarding scientific degrees. As told TASS the Director of the Department of science and technology Minister Sergey Matveev, get a degree with no thesis defense, in the totality of publications in scientific journals or obtained patents. According to him, the need to “relieve” unnecessary formalities “active and productive researcher, who does work, gets the scientific results, publish them or get the patents.” Matveyev said that the proposals of the Ministry of education has already received a high estimation of expert Council under the Committee on science

Le Pen was accused of plagiarism because of the citation of the speech of Fillon Presidential candidate of France’s extreme right National front, marine Le Pen, accused of using speech of her opponent françois Fillon, lost in the first round of elections. The representative of the party, Le Pen said in response that it was not plagiarism, a quote from a hint. The similarity of the speeches, first drew the attention of the French satirical YouTube channel to Ridicule a TV, made a video in which excerpts from the speeches of Le Pen and Fillon almost perfectly superimposed on one another. “There is such a Rhine frontier — the most open, the most dangerous and the most promising of the Germanic world that we so often come into conflict and with which we are yet so closely together”, — quotes Reuters an excerpt from the speech of Fillon’s announcement to