Day: August 28, 2017

A toxic cloud has covered the beach in England

Russia

In the South-East coast of great Britain a toxic cloud covered the beach, injured more than 200 people. About it reports BBC News. The incident occurred in the afternoon on Sunday, August 27, in the Eastern Askese. According to eyewitnesses, people vacationing on a hot Sunny day at the beach, Birling Gap, felt a strong smell of chlorine. The beach was empty in 10 minutes. The victims, who complained of difficulty breathing, eye irritation and vomiting, was taken to hospital. All medical aid was required 233 patients. The cause of poison clouds is unknown, under investigation.

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The special representative of the USA has warned about Russia’s isolation over Ukraine

Russia

The continuation of the crisis in Ukraine will harm relations between the United States and Russia unless a solution was found. About this newspaper Financial Times said the US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker. According to him, currently there is a growing sense that the situation with the conflict is getting worse and will continue to worsen if nothing is done. “The situation with Russia when this will be frozen diplomatic relations, economic relations, of course, not what would Russia. I think they should make their choice, and their own calculations,” — said Walker. In addition, the special representative confirmed that Washington was “seriously considering” the issue of arms supplies to Ukraine, but the decision is not accepted. August 24, the Pentagon chief James Mattis said that the US is studying the possibility of supplying lethal weapons to Kiev. July 31 edition of the Wall Street Journal reported that

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The court will solve a question on prolongation of arrest of the former mayor of Vladivostok Pushkarev

Events

The court will solve a question on prolongation of arrest of the former mayor of Vladivostok Pushkarev MOSCOW, August 28 — RIA Novosti. The Moscow city court on Monday will consider the petition of a consequence about prolongation of term of arrest of ex-mayor of Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev, accused of massive corruption schemes, told RIA Novosti press-service of the court. “The court will consider the investigator’s petition to extend Pushkarev period of detention,” — said the press service. The consequence accuses eks-the head of Vladivostok in the theft of 160 million rubles. 75 million rubles. According to investigators, in the period from 2009 to 2016 Pushkarev has ensured the purchase of building materials subordinated to the city administration MUPV “Roads of Vladivostok” in controlled by his close relatives of the firms included in the group of companies “Vostoktsement”. Investigators believed, “Roads of Vladivostok” acquired the materials only from companies “Vostokcement”

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The Consulate General of Russia in Houston was in the flood zone

Events

The Consulate General of Russia in Houston was in the flood zone WASHINGTON, Aug 27 — RIA Novosti, Tatyana Kalmykova. The building that houses the Consulate General of Russia in Houston, was in the area of flooding and access to it yet, told RIA Novosti the Russian Consul General in Houston Alexander Pisarev. “We have a building of Consulate General, we rent a room in an office building in Houston. There flooded the area around this building, it was in the flooded area. We have warned the fellow who signed up for tomorrow at the reception, that reception will not be tomorrow. It is obvious that this situation (tomorrow) will not be corrected”, — said the Agency interlocutor. Tropical storm “Harvey” has led to catastrophic flooding in one of the largest cities in the U.S. state of Texas Houston on Sunday, reports the national weather service (NWS). This is a

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Development Fund civil society has proposed to reform the municipal filter

Politics

Development Fund civil society has proposed to reform the municipal filter The experts of the Foundation for civil society development (Fcsd) has published a report which proposed to prohibit candidates for Governor to collect more signatures than necessary for the passage of the municipal filter. The report also says that the bar filter is necessary to reduce and to exempt from collecting signatures for candidates from the parties having representation of at least a quarter of the municipalities in the region. In addition, parties should be encouraged to nominate candidates in local elections and to work with municipalities. In Fargo I think we need to exclude recurrence of the situation, when the candidate of the parliamentary parties represented in most of the municipalities in the region, “is on the sidelines”. The Fcsd experts recalled that this year happened with the candidate on elections of the head of Buryatia from the

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“Y”: the meeting of the intergovernmental Commission on military-technical cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia will be held before the end of the year

Army

The Director of the Federal service for military-technical cooperation Dmitry Shugaev © Sergey Bobylev/TASS MOSCOW, August 28. /TASS/. The first meeting of the intergovernmental Commission on military-technical cooperation (MTC) between Russia and Saudi Arabia will take place before the end of 2017. The Director of the Federal service for military-technical cooperation (FSMTC) Dmitry Shugaev said in an interview with the newspaper “Kommersant”. In July, the General Director of state Corporation “rostec” Chemezov announced the signing of the Russian Federation and Saudi Arabia the preliminary agreement in the sphere of military-technical cooperation in the amount of $3.5 billion.

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