Day: July 31, 2017

Putin announced a reduction of 755 employees of American diplomatic missions in Russia Now in the American diplomatic missions in the country are more than a thousand employees. Moscow. July 30. INTERFAX.RU — Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the 755 employees of American diplomatic missions will have to leave Russia. “More than a thousand diplomats and technical workers have worked and still work in these days in Russia. 755 will have to cease their activity”, — Putin said in an exclusive interview to TV channel “Russia-1”. As Putin said, “this is sensitive”. On Friday, July 28, the U.S. Senate approved new sanctions against Russia. In this regard, the Russian foreign Ministry announced retaliatory measures against Washington. So, from September 1 the number of diplomatic and technical staff working at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, at consulates General in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok should be reduced to 455 people

Putin signed a law on the regulation of messengers MOSCOW, 30 Jul — RIA Novosti. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed the law on regulation of messenger, binding to identify users by phone number and to deny them the exchange of messages failure to comply with this condition. The document published on the official portal of legal information. According to the text of the law, user identification is performed using a subscriber number on the basis of the agreement of identification signed by the messengers with the operator. This establishes that the messengers, who are Russian legal entities or citizens of the Russian Federation, entitled to carry out identification of the user by determining the subscriber number without a contract. It is also noted that “along with the responsibilities of identification for messengers entrusted with the obligation to ensure the technical capabilities of the waiver users from receiving electronic