Day: May 19, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti Plenipotentiary representative of Russian President in the Siberian Federal district Sergey Menyailo went to Tungokochenskogo in the TRANS-Baikal region, where in the mine the miners declared a strike over unpaid wages, reports RIA “Novosti” with reference to the Siberian district information center. “Sergei Menyailo, who was on a working trip in the Republic of Buryatia, urgently left the city of Ulan-Ude in Tungokochenskogo district in Zabaykalsky Krai. To use air transport is impossible due to the difficult weather conditions”, – is spoken in the message. According to the apparatus Menyailo, may 18 at the mine South-West, OOO “Darasunskiy Rudnik” 81 the company’s employee refused to leave the mine due to the fact that, according to preliminary data, to date they are not paid wages for April. The investigative Committee of Russia began checking the information on unpaid wages of the miners in the settlement of Vershino-Darasunskiy. “Currently,

Photo: RIA Novosti The development of regional cooperation with European countries helps not only to improve the standard of living in Russian regions, but also to establish good neighborly relations with neighboring States. This direction is the more valuable that EU sanctions did not touch the projects of cross-border cooperation, said at the opening of the III forum of the border regions in Pskov, the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. “The expansion and deepening of cooperation with European colleagues is one of the leading and the constant priorities of Russia,” she said. According to the Senator, the CBC program “does not solve the most pressing problems of border territories, but also to establish mutually beneficial cooperation and good neighborly relations with our European partners.” “I want to emphasize that despite the complicated foreign policy situation, cross-border cooperation remains one of the few unaffected areas of practical cooperation between

Photo: RIA Novosti MOSCOW, may 18. /TASS/. The profile state Duma Committee on family, women and children recommended the lower house adopt the second reading of the bill, which establishes the obligation of Roskomnadzor during the day to inform the interior Ministry about the discovery of Internet prohibited content, including those associated with the inducement of children to suicide, for further preliminary examination. The author of the document original by the Vice-speaker of the state Duma Irina Yarovaya, later joined by the deputies of “United Russia” and “Fair Russia”. The initiative is part of a package of draft laws on criminal liability for creation of the so-called group of death at the Internet calling on minors to commit suicide. The rate of new responsibilities for Roskomnadzor proposed to amend the law “On information, information technologies and protection of information”. As pointed out by the authors in the explanatory note, currently,

The state Duma approved the new regulation of meetings of deputies with voters The state Duma adopted in the second reading a bill equating a meeting of deputies with voters to rally. It is reported Agency city news “Moscow” on Friday, may 19. According to the amendments, the Deputy must apply to the relevant authorities notice street meeting not earlier than 10 days before the event and no later than seven days before him. While meeting with voters in specially designated areas the provisions of the law will not be distributed. In the first reading the bill was passed by the lower house of Parliament on 5 April. Its author was a member of the Duma Committee on state construction and law Irina Belykh (“United Russia”), among the co-authors — members of the same faction Magomed Selimkhanov and Irina Guseva. 8 February it was reported that the St. Petersburg authorities

NATO has found the Russian submarine threat to Atlantic MOSCOW, may 19 — RIA Novosti. NATO could revive the Supreme command in the Atlantic to oppose Russia, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing officials of the organization. According to the publication, this week in Brussels, the plan suggested that the generals of the Alliance. The Alliance framework could be revised by February 2018. “We need to consider potential threats on all fronts, including in the North Atlantic and the Arctic”, — said Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Peter Paul. Military experts believe that now the possibility of NATO’s monitoring of the region has declined and the Russian submarine fleet’s ability to operate in the Arctic and North Atlantic unnoticed, the newspaper said. Analysts of the Center for a new American security in report to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that in case of conflict, the Russian submarine can

Mattis: the impact of the coalition in Syria fell on forces under the command of Iran WASHINGTON, may 19 — RIA Novosti. Pentagon chief James Mattis said that the impact of the coalition in Syria on Thursday fell to forces under the command of Iran. Mattis also reiterated at a press conference that the Pentagon suggests that Russia tried to prevent the incident. “It was a defensive action by our forces, which become necessary after an offensive maneuver with the use of offensive weapons by the forces, which, we believe, are commanded by Iran. I don’t know if the Iranians themselves. It was forces under the command of the Iranians inside the established agreed upon areas to avoid conflict. We believe that they have progressed in this area against the advice of Russian. I also can not confirm, but seems like the Russians tried to convince them,” said Mattis. Earlier