Day: June 20, 2017

USA made 38 individuals and entities to the list of sanctions against Russia This is stated in a statement posted Tuesday on the website of the U.S. Treasury. WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, June 20. /TASS/. The U.S. Treasury introduced Tuesday in the sanctions list of 38 persons and organizations, including “two Russian civil servants” and their two assistants. This is stated in a statement the Agency. Among Russians in the list are member of the Federation Council, special envoy of the President of the Russian Federation for interaction with organizations of compatriots abroad Alexander Babakov and his two employees — Alexander Vorobev (probably sparrows — approx. TASS) and Michael Plisek. Other names in the relevant section do not appear. Under the sanctions were 11 people and organizations from the Crimea, which the Americans continue to believe the Ukrainian. In the black list organizations proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics (DND and LNR), as

The head of the Duma Committee proposed to create in Russia alimony Fund Moscow. June 20. INTERFAX.RU the Head of the Duma Committee on family, women and children Tamara Pletnev said about the need to create a state alimony Fund, so that children in single-parent families are not left without financial support. “We would like to create a state alimony Fund. If he were created, then it would be, perhaps, the government quickly tracked down alimony” — said Pletnev on Tuesday at a roundtable to discuss issues of improving the legislation on alimony. She reported that the Committee has already prepared a proposal for the formation of such a Fund and sent them to the Duma Committee for labor and social Affairs. The head of the Committee criticized the initiative on restriction of the time search evading from payment of the alimony on minor children. Pletnev called this idea “nonsense”.

In the Kremlin considered inappropriate “race” with Poroshenko for a meeting with trump MOSCOW, 20 Jun — RIA Novosti. Moscow is not going to have a race with Kiev in the issue of the meeting with the US President Donald trump, said press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. Talks Donald trump and Petro Poroshenko will be in Washington on Tuesday. Commenting on the upcoming meeting, the Ukrainian leader said it was important that the US President will take it earlier than Putin. “We do not believe that it is appropriate to arrange some kind of race. Information about the real situation with the Ukrainian settlement in Washington are well known, and, if desired, in Washington can easily see all details of the obligations that lie on Kiev in accordance with the signed in Minsk agreement,” — said Peskov. According to him, to comment on possible contact between the presidents

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS MOSCOW, June 20. /TASS/. The Kremlin hopes that during the meeting of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and U.S. President Donald trump Washington will give a signal to Kiev of the need to implement the Minsk agreements. This was stated to journalists the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin will soon go on business trips to Udmurtia and the Sverdlovsk region, where check the work of the acting heads of these regions, the newspaper “Izvestia”. It is noted that Udmurtia Putin will visit before the end of June. As reported, the President’s visit was planned to the “straight line” and is associated with the defence industry. However, it added, the issue of dilapidated housing in the Republic after the complaint of the inhabitant of Izhevsk during the “straight line”. In Yekaterinburg, Putin will arrive in July, where he plans to visit the international industrial exhibition “Innoprom-2017”, which will be held from 10 to 13 July. “The press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the visits of Vladimir Putin will also be linked and on the first results of the work of the acting heads of regions”, — notes the edition.

Photo: RIA Novosti The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in an interview with TV channel “Mir” said the Minister Sergei Lavrov did not make her harsh scolding, as a diplomat. The reporter reminded Zakharova, in an interview, the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that sometimes receives a severe scolding from Vladimir Putin. “And all so jealous of him!” – said the representative of the foreign Ministry. The question of how this happens in the Russian MFA Zakharova said that it was “some sort of oxymoron”. “To Sergei Viktorovich [Lavrov], and undiplomatic. It does not happen. So we have the scolding overdiplomatic”, she added. 10 Aug 2015 Zakharova heads the Department of information and press of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia and is the official representative of the Ministry.