Day: June 16, 2017

© Alexei Nikolsky/press service of the Russian President/TASS On the Showtime held a screening of the Oliver stone movie “Interview with Putin” — a documentary film created on the basis of 30 hours of dialogue directed with the President of Russia. TASS has selected key quotes Vladimir Putin aired. On the appointment of a successor to Yeltsin “I don’t know why Yeltsin stopped the choice on me. But when I Yeltsin proposed the first time, I refused… Said it’s a big responsibility, it must change the whole of my life, and I’m not sure I’m ready for it. One thing to be a civil servant, even of high rank, you can live the life of an almost ordinary person, to visit, to go freely to the cinema, to the theatre, to chat with friends. And do not carry a personal responsibility for everything that happens in the country, for the

© Alexey Nikolsky/TASS MOSCOW, June 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin “as commander in chief, of course, regularly receives the necessary reports from the defense Department”. Thus the press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov has answered the question, reported to Putin about the possible killing of the leader of grouping “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia) Ibrahim Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Photo: TASS The President of Russia Vladimir Putin admitted that a positive attitude to political longevity, if it complies with the laws of the country. “I look at what is happening in other countries, and there please, we know how are the political processes that know the political old-timers, it’s basically okay, if it is within the framework of democratic procedures, and if it is in compliance with the law,” – said the head of state to journalists after the “Straight line”. “We have a law in this sense, no one violated”, – he stressed.

Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian authorities do not discuss the return of the death penalty. This statement was made by press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. The words of the representative of the Kremlin, reports TASS. “No. Such discussions in the Kremlin is not” — said Peskov. Vladimir Putin during a straight line said that “is what will be the result of the referendum” to abolish the moratorium on the death penalty. “I can imagine what will be the result of the referendum. However, there is raised the question, not whether to apply the death penalty to murderers”, — said the President. Putin joked in response to a question about the difficulty of obtaining the hectares of land in the far East, that “a hundred years ago, I (Peter) Stolypin with his primitive tools of such errors was not.” The head of state said that in modern

Photo: Showtime/Komandir The US President Donald trump, who was elected in November, well-built campaign, based on the expectations of the people, although “too far on many issues,” said the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in an interview with the American Director Oliver stone. “Apparently, the people of the United States is expecting any serious changes. It concerns issues of security, it concerns the fight against unemployment and creating new jobs in the country. It concerns the protection of traditional values, after all, largely the United States is such a puritanical country. To a large extent. In any case, the heartland of the United States. Trump and his team are very wisely built his election campaign. They knew, knew exactly where their voter, in some States a larger number of electors. When I watched his campaign speech, I thought: well, he clearly goes too far on some issues. But it turned