Day: February 13, 2018

Ex-Director of Shell admitted that the rumors about the meeting at Putin’s dacha MOSCOW, February 13 — RIA Novosti. Ex-Director of Shell Jeroen van der Veer said that he is the source of the story about a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at his dacha in 2006, which told the foreign Minister of the Netherlands Halbe Zijlstra however, the Minister incorrectly interpreted the words of the Russian leader, according to the newspaper Volkskrant. Zijlstra informed in interview to the newspaper Volkskrant said that he lied about the presence at the meeting with Putin at his dacha in 2006. Since 2014 he has repeatedly stated that during this meeting personally heard Putin called Byelorussia, Ukraine, Baltic States and Kazakhstan parts of the “great Russia”. In a new interview, the Minister said that he invented the fact of his presence, because he was trying to protect the real participant stories, from

The Committee of the Federation Council proposed to replace Klintsevich of the first Deputy Chairman The Federation Council Committee on defense and security considered at the Tuesday meeting, the statement of the first Deputy Chairman of the Committee Franz Klintsevich with a request to release him from his post, announced to RIA Novosti a source in the Committee. According to him, the vacant place was offered the candidacy of the Senator from Karelia Alexander Rakitin, who until September of 2017 held the position of head of the FSB of Russia in the Western military district. Finally, these changes in the Committee will approve the Federation Council on Wednesday, the General solution of senators at the plenary session of the chamber. On Monday, a source in the Federation Council told RIA Novosti that Klintsevich wrote a letter of resignation from his post. He will remain a member of the Committee as

MIA of Ukraine announced the arrest of Saakashvili during working off of places of concentration of illegal migrants The interior Ministry of Ukraine reported details of detention of ex-President of Georgia and leader of the “movement of new forces” of Mikhail Saakashvili. “When conducting coordinated interdepartmental working off in one of the establishments, law enforcement officers found the person without citizenship, Saakashvili N. M. Against him at the request of GMS (the state migration service — if), the Polish side agreed on readmission”, — says the website of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine. The interior Ministry indicate that territorial authority of the migration service took the rejection of Saakashvili’s recognition of the refugee or person in need of complementary protection, and the decision was ruled legal in the courts. In this regard, the Department believes that Saakashvili has lost legitimate grounds for further stay in Ukraine. “For the

First Deputy Chairman of Committee of Federation Council on defense and security Frants Klintsevich © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS./ The Federation Council Committee on defense and security endorsed the statement of the Senator Franz Klintsevich of resignation from the post of first Deputy Chairman of the Committee. The Committee will propose to the upper house of Parliament on Wednesday to support the appointment of the candidacy of Alexander Rakitin. The decision was taken at the Committee meeting on Tuesday.

First Vice-speaker of the state Duma Ivan Melnikov © Sergei Savostyanov/TASS MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS./ The Duma Council approved the transfer of the contribution for the financing of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for 2018. About it to journalists on Tuesday said the first Vice-speaker of the lower house of Parliament Ivan Melnikov.