Day: July 23, 2017

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev before a meeting on the development of electric vehicles took a ride on a driverless bus “Shuttle”. About it on Friday, July 21, according to RIA Novosti. The Prime Minister presented the only released model of the vehicle. “In March 2018, we will have four such instance. You might receive approval to use it on the world Cup”, — said the Deputy General Director, State scientific centre NAMI Alexey Gogenko. Moreover, Medvedev got acquainted with the work of the Department of electrical engineering and electronics for vehicles of the scientific enterprise. The Prime Minister was shown the stage of development of modern electronic and hybrid cars. According to Medvedev, the government adopted a decision to allocate about 600 million rubles of subsidies to Russian manufacturers of unmanned vehicles, and this amount in 2018 is increased. In November last year, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin

Dmitry Peskov Telephone negotiations of leaders of Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine will take place on July 24. This information was confirmed by press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, reports on Friday, July 21, RIA Novosti. Previously the date of telephone negotiations “channel four” called the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. “On Monday [24 July] held telephone talks in the “Normandy format”. And I will demand immediate support of the ceasefire regime along the contact line” — reports the words Poroshenko “112 Ukraine”. German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a four-party telephone conversation on 8 July, a briefing on the results of the “Big twenty” in Hamburg. On the sidelines of the summit, the leaders of three countries — Russia, France and Germany discussed the situation in Ukraine and noted the serious lags in the implementation of provisions of the Minsk agreements. The representative of Ukraine at the talks was

Alexei Pichugin The former head of security service of Yukos, Alexei Pichugin denied clemency. About it RIA Novosti said the representative of the Commission on clemency in Orenburg region. “The Commission concerning pardon in territory of the Orenburg region rejected the petition for clemency from the former head of security service Alexey Pichugin”, — he said. Pichugin was several times requested clemency, each time, in his petition, he refused to admit his guilt. The former head of the security service of the YUKOS oil company was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 after he was convicted of the murder of Nefteyugansk mayor Vladimir Petukhov, Director of the Moscow company “the Phoenix” Valentina Root and Tambov businessman Sergey Gorin and his wife. In addition, he was charged with the attempt on Olga Kostina, a former adviser on public Affairs to the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, businessman Sergey Rybin.