Day: February 13, 2018

The fate of the Commonwealth: the Queen will be succeeded by Prince Charles? The Commonwealth of Nations, became known as bi-Bi-si, the beginning of the process of consideration of a question on transfer of powers of the head of the organization. At the moment the Commonwealth is headed by Queen Elizabeth II, which in April marks 92 years. Question about the transfer of powers is highly sensitive: as head of the Commonwealth is not a title and is not inherited, so it may not pass automatically to the Prince of Wales after the death of the Queen. For the consideration of the management of the Commonwealth was formed “high level group”. A meeting of the members of this group have yet to take place. Officially, the theme of the meeting is stated as “discussion of questions of management of the organization”. The source bi-Bi-si said that at the meeting, to

In Kiev, the Russian military was sentenced to 13 and 14 years in prison Ukrainian courts were convicted of treason and desertion of Russian soldiers Maxim Odintsov and Alexander Baranov, told RIA Novosti lawyer Valentin Rybin. “The Podolsk district court of Kiev recognized Baranova guilty, he was sentenced to a 13 years in prison, now we got the copy of the verdict. We have a month to appeal,” said Rybin. Darnitskiy district court of Kiev sentenced Odintsova to 14 years in prison. According to the lawyer, protection is considering filing an appeal. Facts In November 2016, the security Service of Ukraine detained Baranov and his colleague Maxim Odintsov in the Kherson region on the border with Crimea. Later, the RIA Novosti source said that the SBU has lured Russian contract to the checkpoint “Dzhankoi” allegedly for the transfer of documents on higher education, where he was detained. Both the military

© Alexei Nikolsky/press service of the Russian President/TASS MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS./ Russian President Vladimir Putin during yesterday’s telephone conversation thanked the President of the United States Donald trump for offering to help in the investigation of the crash of An-148. The journalists said the press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov.

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS./ Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov urged not to use media reports as a primary source of information about the alleged victims the Russians in Syria and considers that these reports should be verified. “In this case we appeal to all not to use media reports as the source. Of course, let us be aware that in many countries there is a considerable number of our compatriots, Russians and, of course, here to have some information very difficult. Although, of course, that these reports need verification,” said a Kremlin spokesman told reporters.

Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov © Mikhail Metzel/TASS Moscow, February 13. /TASS./ Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov forwarded to the Central election Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation the question of whether agitation repeat on the First channel display of a documentary film by Oliver stone about Vladimir Putin.