October 31, 2017 – Page 6 – Russian Reality

Abe: North Korea has developed missiles capable of reaching Europe

October 31, 2017 RR Politics

Abe: North Korea has developed missiles capable of reaching Europe TOKYO, 31 Oct. /TASS/. North Korea has developed Intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the territory of Europe, said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Tokyo. “(The DPRK) has developed Intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach Europe. This is a serious threat facing the entire international community” — led the Agency Kyodo. Following the talks, Abe reiterated that “at the moment we need to strengthen to the maximum pressure, not the (lead) dialogue to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear and missile programs.” I heard this suggestion and following the meeting with Stoltenberg heads the Ministry of foreign Affairs and the Ministry of defense of Japan, Taro Kono and Itsunori Onodera. In a joint statement, Prime Minister of Japan and the NATO Secretary General demanded the DPRK to stop its nuclear

Facebook, Twitter and Google produced new data on the possible influence of the Russian Federation on elections in the United States

October 31, 2017 RR Politics

Facebook, Twitter and Google produced new data on the possible influence of the Russian Federation on elections in the United States Moscow. 31 Oct. INTERFAX.RU — Representatives of the American social networks are ready to provide the US Congress with new information about alleged related to the elections of 2016 activities of Russia, reports on Tuesday Agency Associated Press. So, Facebook is going to tell the legal Committee of the U.S. Senate that presumably related to Russia the group has put more than 80 million advertising messages during and after the elections. The potential audience of these posts are estimated 126 million users and 29 million people they appear directly in news feed. Twitter is preparing to announce that has identified and blocked 2,75 thousand accounts, which, according to the company intentionally promoted the Pro-Russian views during the American elections. This is about 14 times more than the social network

Campaign Manager Ksenia Sobchak left its headquarters

October 31, 2017 RR Politics

Campaign Manager Ksenia Sobchak left its headquarters As it became known””, the night before the election the headquarters of the journalist Ksenia Sobchak, who announced his intention to run for President of the Russian Federation, all members of the left group analyst Alexei Sitnikov. About this “Kommersant” said one of the members of staff. “This morning, the headquarters is empty, Sitnikov led off with a nearly two-thirds of all members of staff. Just quietly gone and all,” — said the source “b”. Alexei Sitnikov comments were not available. Ksenia Sobchak has presented members of his election headquarters on 25 October. Doctor of psychology and economic Sciences Alexei Sitnikov, who worked in 1996 at the headquarters of Boris Yeltsin, was presented as the head of the “offline-direction”: his responsibilities included the organization of work of staff, interaction with volunteers, organization of collection of signatures. Mr. Sitnikov is also known as one

The militants of the IG told about life in the Caliphate with video games and Cycling

October 31, 2017 RR World

Shabazz Suleman British Sulaiman Shabazz (Shabazz Suleman) who joined the militants of the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia) three years ago, told Sky News about life in the Caliphate. According to 22-year-old men, most of the time spent with the terrorists, he “played on the PlayStation in Grand Theft Auto V and Metal Gear Solid and ride the bike”. Suleiman claims that the first doubts emerged five months after he joined the ranks of the militants. “At first it was Jihad, steeped in romanticism, we were going to defend the locals and not to kill and decapitate,” said he. The man said that initially he was sent to the front, where he “did not kill anyone, but carried a weapon, which is not used”, but then was transferred to the “military police”, where he was to monitor the local population. According to the British, it’s more

Rescuers found the body of a crew member crashed near Spitsbergen, the Russian Mi-8

October 31, 2017 RR World

Rescue service of Norway found the body of a member of the crew of a Russian Mi-8, crashed in the Arctic ocean off Spitsbergen. This was announced by the Governor of the archipelago Kierstin Eckholt, reports TASS. According to her, the body was found with the submersible at the bottom 130 metres from the scene of the sinking of the helicopter. Eckholt said that it will try to raise to the surface in the near future. Russian Mi-8 crashed on Thursday, October 26. In addition to a crew of five on Board were three members of the research Institute of the Arctic and Antarctic. The rescue operation was not successful. Scientists Oleg Golovanov, Nikolai Fadeev and Maxim Kaulio, the aircraft commander Eugene Baranov, the second pilot Vladimir Frolov, mechanic Alex, Paulauskas technician Marat Muhtarov and engineer Alexei Korolev was declared dead.

The analyst: part of the Gordon presidential elections will complicate their drama

October 31, 2017 RR Politics

MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/. Participation in the presidential election campaign journalist, singer and human rights activist Catherine Gordon will make elections more interesting and, in the case of the registration will give an alternative to those who wish the country was ruled by a woman. This opinion was expressed on Monday in an interview with TASS the head “Political expert group” Konstantin Kalachev.

A scientist answered the question of Putin about collecting biogennych Russians

October 31, 2017 RR Uncategorized

A scientist answered the question of Putin about collecting biogennych Russians Doctor of biological Sciences, bioinformatic Mikhail Gelfand explained what kind of collection of biological material before said the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. In comments to the National news service (NSN), he stressed that we are not talking about all the ethnic groups of the country. “Vladimir Putin who cheated. Collect data not all ethnic groups of the country, but only Russian. Based on the information, which is, we are talking about the genetic determinants of diseases of the joints. Don’t know why they is Russian, perhaps because they want to separate the mutations that cause the predisposition, purely historical trace. It’s always a problem”, — said Gelfand. According to the scientist, using the collected material to create genetic weapons is excluded. “It’s kind of disgusting lies. Such weapons do not exist. People are too similar to each other,

It is estimated the number of working poor in Russia

October 31, 2017 RR Russia

Every sixth working Russians could not provide for themselves and their families. On Tuesday, October 31, says family-owned Demyan Kudryavtsev, the newspaper “Vedomosti” with reference to the materials of the analytical center for the government. According to Rosstat, wages below the subsistence minimum receives nearly two million Russians, which is more than seven percent of working citizens. When taking into account not only wages but also other revenues and that these revenues are spent on family members, the number of working poor increases dramatically — about 12.1 million people in 2016, or nearly 17 percent of the working population, analysts say. “Most of the poor in Russia are working people with children, whose salary does not exceed two minimum subsistence levels, if two children, and 1.5 of the living wage if one child” — said the Director of the Institute for social policy, HSE Ovcharova. About 60 percent of all

Facebook and Google have revealed the scale of the “Russian intervention” in U.S. elections

October 31, 2017 RR Russia

Google, Facebook and Twitter has published the data on Russia’s intervention in U.S. elections. The company claim that the network has published millions of posts from fake accounts, which was in charge of “online research”. The new data emerged on the eve of hearings in the us Congress, where the Internet giant needs to explain why their platform does not prevent dissemination of misinformation. Extracts from the reports of Reuters and the Associated Press. Facebook announced that posts allegedly related to the interests of Russia, the social network has seen 126 million Americans, or about 40 percent of the population. Google claims that Pro-Russian content has moved through its YouTube. The company consisted of 17 channels, which published 1108 Pro clips with a total duration of 43 hours. From June 2015 to November 2016, they received 309 thousand views. Facebook and Google claim that the production of content was involved

Chubais predicted the Russian energy crisis

October 31, 2017 RR Russia

Anatoly Chubais The head of RUSNANO Anatoly Chubais predicted the Russian energy crisis. In an interview to “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, he said, adding that the country already a few years may face a capacity deficit in the absence of development of new technologies. “Power – this is not a question of fuel supplies or reserves of oil coal or gas. Power is power. And to start it four years later, we have to make a decision about its input,” he said. According to him, six or seven years resource is exhausted, which was introduced in the last decade. “Suppose we do nothing. Say: well this renewable energy, we have cheap coal and gas is full. But it takes three-five to seven years, and it turns out that is already cheaper to build a solar plant than coal. And we have none. This means that we have only one way — import,