Day: August 20, 2017

Photo: RIA Novosti Russia and Japan held talks, the theme of which was the joint economic activity on the South Kuril Islands. It is reported RIA Novosti citing a statement by the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia. “The parties discussed the list of possible priority projects of mutually beneficial cooperation in the framework of joint economic activities and agreed to present the results of joint work in the leadership of the two countries”, — said the Agency. From the Russian side the talks were attended by Deputy foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, with the Japanese Deputy Minister for foreign Affairs of Japan Takeo Akiba. It was the second round of consultations. The agreement on joint economic activities on southern Kuriles was reached in December 2016 during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan. The main focus of the joint activities on the Islands will be tourism, fisheries, environment

Photo: AP Photo / Oriol Duran ROME, August 18 — RIA Novosti, Sergei Elders. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Italy Angelino, Alfano in connection with the terrorist attack on Thursday in Barcelona, instructed to send to the city employees of the Crisis unit of the Ministry to assist the compatriots. On Thursday, the minibus drove into a crowd of people in the tourist center of Barcelona — near Las Ramblas. The authorities of the Spanish Autonomous region of Catalonia confirmed the death of 13 people, 100 wounded. Catalan police have classified the incident as a terrorist attack. The Italian Ministry of foreign Affairs, placed at the disposal of RIA Novosti, said about the strengthening of the Consulate General of Italy in Barcelona for the “support to compatriots in any way possible”. “Some of our staff Crisis group will fly to Barcelona on the first flight,” said Alfano. Earlier it

Putin urged to minimize the state’s influence on filtering of the information content The President has offered “to think together about the creation of such mechanisms.” BAKAL SPIT /Crimea/, August 20. /TASS/. The creative community should take action to filter television and Internet content, the influence of the state here should be minimized. This was stated by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at a meeting with participants of the all-Russian educational forum “Tavrida”, commenting on the proposal of one of the participants talks about the introduction of a filter for TV Internet content, to get rid of the domination of aggressive and criminal information, which negatively affects the younger generation. According to Putin, “it should be forbidden that which is forbidden in the law, everywhere — online, on television and in other media.” “But everything else can be accomplished only one way — filtering with the help of the

The project of moving the capital of the Urals transferred to the Ministry of economic development The project of moving the capital from Moscow to the Urals transferred to the Ministry of economic development of Russia. On Sunday, August 20, RIA Novosti was told by the author of the document, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of demography, migration and regional development Yury Krupnov. Also, the official commented on the possibility to organize debates on this issue with Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin. “Under his post among others discussing I invited him to the debate, because I appreciated the wit and the irony. But the problem is so serious that I offered to discuss it outside of social networking. I don’t think you need some official invitation,” he explained. Earlier Krupnov suggested the Moscow mayor to hold a discussion on the topic of moving the capital. “Sure, Mr