Day: May 4, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti The Federation Council member Alexei Pushkov called “double accounting” statement of German Chancellor Angela Merkel about wanting to cancel anti-Russian sanctions. The German head of government touched on the issue of sanctions at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin held in Sochi on may 2. Merkel said that she would like the cancellation of sanction restrictions with the implementation of the Minsk agreement on Ukraine. According to Pushkov, similar statements comparable to “double accounting”, as parallel to the statements about “the hope that the lifting of sanctions,” Merkel continues to firmly insist on the prolongation of the action limits. Double-entry bookkeeping. Merkel “trusts for the lifting of sanctions”, but insists on their continuation. NATO “wants to cooperate”, but continues the conflict. — Alexei Pushkov (@Alexey_Pushkov) may 2, 2017. Similarly, the attitude has NATO: the Alliance leadership expresses the desire to cooperate with Russia, while in reality,

Photo: RIA Novosti The main result of negotiations of presidents of Russia and of Germany — confirmation of no alternative to the Minsk agreements on Ukraine and common goals to combat terrorism, said RIA Novosti the head of the international Committee of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev. “A very important fact of the visit, the first in two years. The main substantive result is an absolute confirmation of no alternative to the Minsk agreements and the effectiveness of the current modes of implementation”, — said the Senator. According to him, “no less important is the confirmation of overlapping goals in the fight against terrorism”. Given the accumulated differences on the actual agenda of international relations is already done, he said. “Anyway — better than nothing (than earlier in for some time insisted the German side)”, — the politician concluded.

© Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, may 4. /TASS/. The level of electoral support of Russian President Vladimir Putin is 61-66%, the number of his supporters is growing, despite the economic and foreign policy difficulties. Moreover, among young people who because of their age will be the first to vote in the presidential election in March 2018, 65% intend to maintain the incumbent leader of the country. These data are presented in the study of the Foundation for civil society development (Fcsd) entitled, “Putin’s majority” on the eve of a big election cycle.” 4 may Forgo the third time will present a report on the phenomenon of “Putin’s majority”. The study is based on the data of research holding Romir (the exclusive representative of Gallup International in Russia and CIS), the all-Russia centre of studying of public opinion (VTSIOM) and Fund “Public opinion” (FOM). Politically active most “Studies show that the level

In Fargo find out how many Russians ready to support Putin in the elections-2018 MOSCOW, may 4 — RIA Novosti. The level of electoral support of the incumbent President of Russia Vladimir Putin is in the range of 61-66% in the case of his participation in the presidential elections of 2018, he can vote about 70-75% of the voters, however, none of the potential opponents will not be able to make a meaningful competition and the campaign will be of a referendum scenario, according to the Foundation for civil society development (Fcsd). Thursday Fcsd presented another study on the phenomenon of “Putin’s majority”. In preparing the report, the Fcsd experts analyzed the data of sociological surveys conducted by Romir, VTSIOM and FOM. “Russian President Vladimir Putin enjoys an unprecedented support of the population. None of the possible opposing candidates in the upcoming elections cannot be meaningful competition to the incumbent

The human rights activists, the United States faces a year in prison for laughter in Congress WASHINGTON, may 3. /Offset. TASS Andrey Shitov/. Activist of women’s human rights movement, Code Pink (“Code pink”) Desiree Fairuz laughed in January at a hearing in the U.S. Congress. Now she herself and two of her friends faces for this year’s jail time. In the high court of WA a jury found all three in violation of public order. Women came on January 10 at the confirmation hearing Jeff and Roman sessions with the new Minister of justice and attorney General of the USA in pink headdresses and torches, like the statue of Liberty, and posters to protest against the racism and xenophobia. According to them, they intended to Express disagreement with the appointment and Roman sessions and in General with the approach of the new US administration to the admission of refugees. To