Day: August 22, 2017

The Russian foreign Ministry blamed the visa Department of the USA in insufficiently effective work The Russian foreign Ministry commented on the US decision to change the order of registration of visas to citizens of Russia. The Russian foreign Ministry urged the US “not to direct shadow on the fence” and not to use the reduction of personnel in Russia as an excuse to add the “irritants” in relations between the two countries. The Russian foreign Ministry called the far-fetched thesis that a reduction in the number of employees of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia prevents the normal exercise of consular functions. In reality the problem lies elsewhere — in the lack of effectiveness of the visa departments of representations of the USA in Russia. At the time, as, for example, consular employees 16 Italy has processed in the past year 478 thousand visa requests, and 5 their Spanish

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin visits youth camp “Tavrida” in the Crimea, late for seven and a half hours. Communication of the President with the participants of the session “Creative team” was supposed to start today at 11:00. However, without explanation the meeting perenesli. In the end, Putin arrived at the camp around 18:30, according to RBC. Almost all of the day Putin was expected by the reporters, the inhabitants of the camp and the first Deputy head of the presidential administration Sergei Kiriyenko. The press service of the Kremlin has yet to respond, what was the reason for the delay.

Photo: RIA Novosti Oppositionist Alexei Navalny said about the constant surveillance of the representatives of power structures. Such a conclusion he made after at Sheremetyevo airport met the son, who returned from the camp in the United States. “When children are taken out of the inspection zone, around them immediately stood up with cameras, filming as much from two perspectives. Quite cleverly, this time, I did not notice. Living under a microscope. Any holiday (and not only in Russia) turns into a show “Behind the glass” infinite “operational shooting”, transfer them to a variety of linuz for legalization and publications. Video and surveillance footage of airports give a “sent by citizen journalists”, — Navalny wrote on his website. However, he advised the authorities to spend the same amount of effort “surveillance and operational work in the environment of Islamist extremists”. The opposition leader has accused law enforcement officials that they

Photo: RIA Novosti The first zamglavy of the presidential administration Sergei Kiriyenko did not answer the question about the readiness to head the campaign headquarters of candidate for presidency in 2018. “I’m not going to answer,” he said. The administration of the President yet does not answer the question of the participation of Vladimir Putin in the campaign of 2018. In early August, Putin was on a working trip to Buryatia. During the meeting the question of liquidation of consequences of forest fires in the Republic of Buryatia and the Irkutsk region via video link before the President delivered one of the residents whose house was damaged in a fire. At the end of his story, he said: “we Have to ask you: when are the next presidential elections, we all ask you to stand for the post”. The President thanked and said I’d think about it.