Day: June 5, 2017

Putin hopes that the 17 years in power, it personally did not affect

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Putin hopes that the 17 years in power, it personally did not affect MOSCOW, 5 Jan — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes that the 17 years of his leadership has not affected his personality. “I hope not” — he said, responding to a question in an interview with U.S. television channel NBC. Meanwhile, Putin stressed that he feels a direct connection with Russia and its history, which was full of tragic events. “What am I feeling? I feel a direct living connection with the land, with history, with the country. You said that in St. Petersburg for a few days. Yesterday (June 1 — ed.) spoke with the Prime Minister of India, he visited the Piskarevskoye memorial cemetery, where are buried about 400 thousand of Leningrad, as a rule, civilians who died during the Second world war in the blockade. They died of starvation. And in one of

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Putin: sanctions helped Russia to turn the brain

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Photo: RIA Novosti Anti-Russian sanctions, despite the damage to the economy, gave impetus to the development of several industries, including high-tech, said the President of Russia Vladimir Putin during the plenary session at SPIEF-2017. “Whether it caused damage to us? Yes, of course. These restrictions are detrimental to us. Mainly, this is due to limitations of funding and our financial organizations with transfer of technology. But there is a plus. Because we, for example, prompted the development of entire sectors of the Russian economy,” Putin said. A significant increase was observed in agriculture, but the stimulus received and the high-tech industry. “Our agriculture is growing at a rate above 3% each year. Well, about about 3%. This had never happened before. This phenomenon, to be honest. I had big concerns, how do we solve the problems. Solved. If this is ten years ago, it was, by the way, we wouldn’t

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The President of Russia advised US to switch to direct elections

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Vladimir Putin The United States, if important to them justice, it would be to change the electoral law and to make presidential elections direct. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with NBC. The Russian leader pointed out that the American Constitution and election legislation is constructed in such a way that the candidate can vote a greater number of electors, which is a smaller number of voters. “And such cases in the history of the United States are. Really?” — said Putin. “So if we talk about some socio-political justice, then we need to change is the electoral law to bring the case to enable the direct secret ballot elected the head of state and was a direct calculation, which can be easily controlled,” said he. “That’s all. And there’s nobody to point to and blame someone else for their troubles to those who lost

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Sechin described the target of anti-Russian sanctions

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Igor Sechin The aim of anti-Russian sanctions is to affect the socio-economic situation in the country, said the head of “Rosneft” Igor Sechin. This opinion he expressed in an interview with the Financial Times. “Worse and affect elections. It is my deep conviction,” he said. “To be honest, I don’t like to talk about sanctions. I think they are absolutely unreasonable and even illegal. It is impossible to pass political responsibility to the corporate level. We are not part of international politics. We don’t set policy,” — said Sechin. “I was sweating, trying to raise capitalization. It was 93 billion dollars. And then decide to impose sanctions. And my capitalization, the product of my effort is reduced to 62 billion dollars”, — said the head of “Rosneft”. On 28 March the European court of Justice in Luxembourg upheld the EU sanctions against “Rosneft”. This decision was a response to the

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A number of Arab countries severed relations with Qatar

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (left, foreground) and the king of Bahrain Hamad bin ISA al Khalifa (right foreground) Bahrain breaks off diplomatic relations with Qatar, reports Reuters, citing state media Kingdom. In Manama has accused Qatar in supporting terrorism and interfering in the internal Affairs of Bahrain. Air and sea connections between the countries ceased. Bahrain has also ordered its nationals to leave Qatar within 14 days. Citizens of Qatar also have two weeks to leave the territory of Bahrain, and Qatari diplomats given 48-hour deadline, reports Al Arabiya. In turn severed diplomatic relations with Qatar and ceased to transport with him to Saudi Arabia. As stated in Riyadh, this step is necessary to protect the Kingdom from “terrorism and extremism”. Saudi Arabia called on “all brotherly countries and companies to do the same thing.” After Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to break off relations with Qatar declared Egypt also

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A number of Arab countries severed relations with Qatar

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (left, foreground) and the king of Bahrain Hamad bin ISA al Khalifa (right foreground) Bahrain breaks off diplomatic relations with Qatar, reports Reuters, citing state media Kingdom. In Manama has accused Qatar in supporting terrorism and interfering in the internal Affairs of Bahrain. Air and sea connections between the countries ceased. Bahrain has also ordered its nationals to leave Qatar within 14 days. Citizens of Qatar also have two weeks to leave the territory of Bahrain, and Qatari diplomats given 48-hour deadline, reports Al Arabiya. In turn severed diplomatic relations with Qatar and ceased to transport with him to Saudi Arabia. As stated in Riyadh, this step is necessary to protect the Kingdom from “terrorism and extremism”. Saudi Arabia called on “all brotherly countries and companies to do the same thing.” After Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to break off relations with Qatar declared Egypt also

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Putin denied the information about the “channels of communication” between the team of trump and the Kremlin

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Vladimir Polypropolene: the President of Russia advised US to switch to direct elections Russia did not have any channels with any of the staffs of candidates in presidents of the United States, said Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with NBC, commenting on the fact that the Ambassador in Washington Sergey Kislyak discussed with Jared Kushner, now the adviser of the President of the United States Donald trump, the possibility of creating a “secret channel of communication with the Kremlin” during the election campaign. “Russia no channel is not created and no one had any channels. Perhaps had some official contacts with the staffs of all the candidates, it’s normal diplomatic practice,” he said. According to Putin, what makes Kislyak, is the ongoing work of the Ambassador, and no “meetings” with U.S. officials. “What do you think, from around the world and from the United States Ambassador me every

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The President of Russia advised US to switch to direct elections

Russia

Vladimir Putin The United States, if important to them justice, it would be to change the electoral law and to make presidential elections direct. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with NBC. The Russian leader pointed out that the American Constitution and election legislation is constructed in such a way that the candidate can vote a greater number of electors, which is a smaller number of voters. “And such cases in the history of the United States are. Really?” — said Putin. “So if we talk about some socio-political justice, then we need to change is the electoral law to bring the case to enable the direct secret ballot elected the head of state and was a direct calculation, which can be easily controlled,” said he. “That’s all. And there’s nobody to point to and blame someone else for their troubles to those who lost

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Putin: there should be no doubt about the development of Russia in a democratic way

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Putin: there should be no doubt about the development of Russia in a democratic way MOSCOW, 5 Jan — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that no one has any doubt about the development of Russia in a democratic way should not be. “I want to say that Russia is developing in a democratic way. It is by far, and this should not have any doubt,” Putin said an interview with the American TV channel NBC. “Why do you feel entitled to ask us such questions, and continuously engage in moralizing and teach us to live?” — asked the head of state.

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