Day: June 18, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti Straight lines, like those annually held by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, must arrange for all candidates to participate in presidential elections in 2018. This view was expressed by Deputy Chairman of the KPRF Central Committee Dmitri Novikov, reports “Interfax” on Friday, June 16. In his opinion, none of the candidates for the highest office in the country should not shy away from the debate, “everyone should get with the program” during the election campaign. “It is very important that the presidential election became an occasion for large, national discussion”, — said the Deputy. Novikov added that the Communist party is ready for this kind of discussion. In addition, he noted that the leaders of the major political parties should have more opportunities to communicate with nationals of the country for the presentation of his program. The next presidential elections will be held in March 2018. By

Photo: RIA Novosti Citizens of Russia can take part in the discussion of the text of the oath to obtain citizenship of the country. This was stated by the Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. “We believe that in any case, it is important to discuss all the options (text of the oath. — RT), and then choose the best. And maybe even to have such a discussion with the participation of the population to understand what the text is correct, we should be as the norm of the law,” TASS quoted Volodin. He also stressed that decision-making in this area — “a really big step.” Previously, the newspaper “Izvestia” wrote that part of the group to develop the text of the oath to obtain citizenship of the Russian Parliament will examine the oath, which bring in the US and the Netherlands. On June 6 Russian President Vladimir Putin

The first flight from Japan sent to the southern Kuriles NAKASHIBETSU (Hokkaido, Japan), 18 Jul — RIA Novosti. The first Charter flight departs on Sunday morning from the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the southern Kuriles to their former residents were able to visit the graves of their ancestors under the visa-free exchange between the two countries. So far for these trips were used Maritime transport, but in April of this year during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Moscow, an agreement was reached on granting the former residents of the South Kuril Islands to visit them by plane. As previously reported, the flight will perform Russian airline “Aurora”. According to the visit program, distributed the day before during a ceremony on the occasion of the flight in the town Nakashibetsu, a Charter plane will fly from the local airport at 08:30 local time (02:30 GMT) and

UAE suggested that the West monitor Qatar The Minister of foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates Anwar of GARCIAs said about the complete lack of trust in Qatar. He suggested that Western countries to establish a system of monitoring the activities of the government of Qatar. United Arab Emirates invited the Western countries to create a mechanism for monitoring the actions of Qatar to force it to stop supporting terrorists. As reported by The Guardian, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of the UAE Anwar Gargash. According to the publication, Gargash arrived in London to organize diplomatic support of the embargo of Qatar, declared the Arab countries. “We are talking about changing behavior,” — said the Minister. “If we get a clear strategic signals that Qatar intends to change that it will cease funding Islamist militants, it will be the basis for discussion, but we need a monitoring system,”