Day: May 3, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti The number of countries allocated a personal armed security supervisor of Russian embassies and diplomatic missions at the request of the Ministry of foreign Affairs. As reported “Газете.Ru” in a press-service of the Russian foreign Ministry, it was made after the assassination of the Russian Ambassador in Turkey Andrey Karlov. “After the terrorist attack in Ankara, the number of States at our request, gave to the heads of Russian diplomatic missions personal armed escorts. Also made the necessary contacts between special services to ensure the safety of diplomats” – said in the Ministry. The Russian foreign Ministry stressed that with the emergence of potential threats diplomatic missions are taken under the strengthened protection of police. The Ministry noted that the basis for the physical protection of embassies and consulates is the duty of the commandants service, which is increasingly formed by specially trained military guards. “For the

Secretary of the Central election Commission of the Russian Federation Maya Grishina © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, may 3. /TASS/. Convicted for grave and especially grave articles of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation are not eligible to nominate for election. About this provision of the law said the Secretary of the CEC Maya Grishina of Russia, commenting on the prospect of participation in the presidential campaign of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. On Wednesday, the Kirov regional court upheld the conviction of Alexei Navalny and Peter Ofitserova businessman convicted in the case of embezzlement of funds of the company “Kirovles” for 5 years and 4 years imprisonment respectively. The sentence came into legal force. “Without regard to any persons, Russian citizens are not eligible to be elected if they are convicted to imprisonment for committing grave and especially grave crimes and have a day of voting in elections and unwithdrawn

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President of Russia Vladimir Putin © Mikhail Metzel/TASS SOCHI, may 3. /TASS/. The opportunity to discuss the Syrian crisis demonstrates the full restoration of relations between Russia and Turkey. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening the meeting with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a narrow format. “It is good that we have the opportunity here, in operation, to meet, to speak on key issues of bilateral cooperation and major issues of the international agenda, including in such acute as the Syrian crisis, the President said. – The fact of such a mode of our collaboration suggests that Russian-Turkish relations have a special character in the complete format recover”.

US military aircraft to reconnoiter the situation at the borders of the Russian Federation on the Baltic sea Moscow. May 3. INTERFAX.RU — Two U.S. warplanes on Wednesday carried out another reconnaissance flights on the borders of the Kaliningrad region. This is evidenced by data from Western sites, tracking movement of military aviation. According to them, the patrol anti-submarine aircraft of the US Navy P-8A Poseidon tail number and call sign 168762 TALON83 taking off from Ramstein air base in Germany, three hours was a reconnaissance marine borders of the Kaliningrad region, performing a flight along the coast at a height of 4.5 thousand meters. In some moments the American plane was approaching the Russian coast at a distance of 35-40 km. At the same time on Wednesday, strategic reconnaissance aircraft, the U.S. air force RC-135W tail number and call sign 62-4139 VELVA58, rising from the air base Mildenhall in

Russia will write off Kyrgyzstan’s debt of $240 million MOSCOW, may 3 — PRIME. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree which approved a one-time write-off of Russia’s debt on loans to Kyrgyzstan in the amount of $ 240 million, should be published on the official portal of legal information of the document. “As of March 30, 2017, the amount of debt of the Kyrgyz side to the Russian side … is 240 million dollars … 100% of the amount of debt of the Kyrgyz side to the Russian side … are subject to non-recurring write-off of the date of entry into force of this Protocol”, — stated in the message. It is noted that the cancellation is made within the framework of Russian official development assistance to Kyrgyzstan. Moscow and Bishkek in 2012 signed an intergovernmental agreement on the settlement of debt totaling some 500 million dollars. The document

The court upheld the sentence Navalny in the case of “Kirovles” KIROV, may 3 — RIA Novosti. Kirov regional court on Wednesday upheld a 5-year suspended sentence Alexei Navalny on charges of embezzling more than 16 million rubles of the company “Kirovles”, the correspondent of RIA Novosti news from the courtroom. In addition, the court upheld the lower court decision to forcibly deliver the Bulk process in the Leninsky district court of Kirov, as the opposition has repeatedly missed meetings without valid reason. According to investigators, Alexei Navalny and businessman Pyotr Ofitserov organized a supply agreement with forestry unitary enterprise “Kirovles” on obviously unprofitable conditions for the latter, and then spent transferred under this agreement, the timber 16.1 million rubles. Earlier the court during the retrial found Navalny guilty and sentenced to five years probation. The first sentence Navalny on the case (also five years ‘probation) was cancelled by the