Day: September 13, 2017

The Prosecutor General’s office of Spain began a crackdown on 700 mayors of cities in Catalonia The Prosecutor General’s office of Spain opened 700 criminal cases against mayors and heads of municipalities of the Catalan cities because of the preparation for the referendum on independence. Reported by the Associated Press. According to La Vanguardia, the attorney General of the Kingdom of Jose Manuel Maza sent a circular letter to the heads of the Supervisory authorities of the major Catalan cities of Barcelona, Gerona, Tarragona and Lleida. Officials were ordered to begin the prosecution of governors who intend to facilitate voting. If they do not appear before the court voluntarily, they may be detained. Earlier, on September 7 Maza said that his Department will investigate and stop any attempts of preparations for the plebiscite — the publication and distribution of promotional materials, flyers, and equipment areas. A day earlier, the Parliament

The best and worst passports of the world-2 To be a Russian became more profitable. Matter how talented the person, the limit of its possibilities in the majority of cases is determined by the place where he was born and where he lives. In this case the determining factor will be not just a city or a country, and the passport: it is possible to understand what the conditions of life available to the person initially, and which can be obtained, for example, when moving to another country. Whose passport is more valuable, trying to figure out a consulting company Henley & Partners, who presented the second “Index citizenships of the world” (Quality of Nationality Index, QNI), created in collaboration with Dimitri by Kochenower, Professor in constitutional EU law at the University of Groningen. The authors of the study tried to give an objective assessment of various nationalities, examining their

“Kalashnikovs” from the Pentagon The Pentagon has allocated more than $2 billion to purchase weapons and Soviet-style ammunition to Syrian opposition groups. This is stated in the report submitted by the Center for the study of corruption and organized crime (OCCRP) and the Balkan investigative reporting network (BIRN). According to the authors, large-scale procurement began in September of 2015 during the administration of President Barack Obama. Moreover, the program was conducted separately from the already collapsed on the initiative of the President trump the CIA program of training rebels fighting against Syrian government forces. According to the magazine Foreign Policy, the U.S. Department of defense intentionally uses the documents are vague, not allowing to understand that the arms were sent in Syria. Experts warn that such practices could undermine international efforts to combat illicit trafficking in arms. The U.S. Department of defense funneling arms of the Soviet sample units of

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the charges of the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco in violation of the rules of incineration performance, intended to justify barbaric actions of the American special services on the territory of the diplomatic mission. This opinion was expressed on his page on the social network Facebook.

© Artyom Korotayev/TASS MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/. The party “United Russia” final count received 68.1 percent (368) of all mandates in the representative bodies of the Moscow region, for which the region held the fight in a single voting day on September 10. About this to journalists on Wednesday, Chairman of the election Committee of the Moscow region Irina Konovalova.

Photo: depositphotos.com The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia expressed a protest in connection with a “hostile U.S. actions” and “infringement of diplomatic immunity.” This was reported on the website of the Department. “The Russian side reiterated the protest in connection with the hostile actions of the United States, assault on diplomatic immunity. Provided that the conditions of stay of American diplomats in Russia will be brought into compliance with the limits for our representatives,” — said the Agency. On 11 September, Deputy foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov held talks with US Deputy Secretary of state Thomas Shannon. The meeting was held in Helsinki. The representative of the Ministry called searches, arranged on 2 September by US law enforcement in the diplomatic missions of Russia in San Francisco and Washington, “a flagrant violation of the Vienna conventions on diplomatic and consular relations”. 31 August, the us government demanded Russia to September

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin held telephone talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. During the conversation the parties discussed the process of settlement of the armed conflict in the Donbass. This is stated in the message on the Kremlin website. “Emphasized the inadmissibility of any violations of the ceasefire regime, undermining the so-called school of the truce agreed upon in the contact group and supported by the leaders of States in Normandy format”, — said in a statement. Putin also told Merkel that Moscow is ready to complement within the framework of resolution functions the mission of the United Nations (UN) in the Donbass. According to the initiative of the head of state, peacekeepers will have the opportunity to carry out their functions not only on the frontline but also in other parts of the region. On 5 September, Russia sent to the UN security Council resolution on

Photo: RIA Novosti Moscow will soon reduce the number of American Embassy staff in Russia. This statement was made by Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The speech of the diplomat published in the account of the Ministry in Facebook. “If they took the parity as a criterion, we now consider the conditions in which the work of American missions in Russia and Russian in the United States and will bring these conditions into full compliance with what is called parity,” Lavrov said. His statement Lavrov made at a press conference in Amman, the Jordanian capital. This requirement will push Moscow to Washington in connection with the demand of the American authorities to close the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco. In addition, the US authorities demanded to close one diplomatic facility in new York and Washington. Probably, the number of employees of the US diplomatic mission in Russia will