Day: September 26, 2017

Putin dismissed the head of Rossotrudnichestvo MOSCOW, September 26. /TASS/. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin by his decree dismissed the head of the Federal Agency for CIS Affairs, compatriots living abroad and international humanitarian cooperation Lyubov Glebova. The corresponding presidential decree published on the official Internet portal of legal information. Earlier it was reported that Glebova became a member of the Federation Council of the Udmurt Republic.

Erdogan was threatened with famine and the oil embargo of Iraqi Kurdistan Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened an oil embargo and starvation of the Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the referendum on independence held on 25 September. About it reports Reuters. “They will be in trouble as soon as we begin to apply sanctions. The end will come when we turn off the oil valve. All income will stop and they will have nothing to eat as soon as our trucks will no longer travel to Northern Iraq,” he said. Erdogan added that if a neighboring state will organize an economic blockade of Iraqi Kurdistan, Israel, who supported the plebiscite will not be able to help the Kurds. The Turkish leader added that support for Israel is unlikely to help the Kurds “to their country”. As an example, Erdogan said that Kosovo did not become a state, although

Social assistance the Russians will decrease with increasing the minimum wage MOSCOW, September 26 — RIA Novosti. Social assistance the Russians will decrease with increasing minimum wages, said Minister of labor and social protection Maxim Topilin during the discussion of the Federal budget in the state Duma. “Of course, the social assistance will decrease, we will increase the minimum wage, and if people will get higher wages… turning to the social security Fund, none of them will qualify for social assistance, which is very good because people will be earning money on their own, and in no case should not say that we maintain social assistance, when we raise wages, we need to be careful, but pay twice, I think not worth it,” — said Topilin. Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Russian government on 10 October submitted to the state Duma a bill to raise the minimum wage (SMIC)

Valery Shantsev © Sergey Fadeichev/TASS Valery Shantsev has headed the Nizhny Novgorod oblast in August 2005, succeeding to the post of Governor Gennady Khodyrev. Prior to that, he was a close ally of Yury Luzhkov, Vice-mayor of Moscow and even experienced during the election campaign for this position attempt: in 1996 at the entrance of his residential building explosive device, causing Shantsev has received more than 140 shrapnel wounds and burns almost 50% of the body. Customers and executors of the assassination, then were not found. Shantsev’s candidacy, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed at that time, the presidential envoy to the Volga Federal district (PFO) Sergei Kiriyenko. 5 years later, in 2010, the regional Parliament approved Shantsev as Governor on representation of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. 14 Sep 2014 Shantsev was elected Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, gaining 86,93% of the vote. Kancevska construction In

Valery Shantsev © Alexander Ryumin/TASS MOSCOW, September 26. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted the resignation of Valery Shantsev as Governor of Nizhny Novgorod region and has appointed temporarily fulfilling duties of the head of the region first Deputy head of the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation Gleb Nikitin. This was reported by the press service of the Kremlin.