Day: February 15, 2018

The Minister of Finance again, the United States announced the imminent expansion of sanctions against Russia Moscow. 14 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — administration of the President of the United States Donald trump is actively working on new sanctions against Russia, said Wednesday Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at the hearings in the Senate. “These sanctions should be expected in the near future”, — quotes Agency Bloomberg statement by Minister in the Finance Committee of the Senate. The Minister on Wednesday called the report the “first stage” of preparation for sanctions. Thus Mnuchin repeated his statements about sanctions made after the publication by the Ministry of Finance so-called “the Kremlin list” at the end of January. In a list of 210 people who joined including senior Russian officials, businessmen, heads of state companies. “Kremlin report” was one of the measures taken in the framework of the adopted in the USA in early August,

The CEC called a complaint Sobchak Putin for the registration of a candidate untenable MOSCOW, 14 Feb — RIA Novosti. Ksenia Sobchak, who announced his candidacy in the presidential election, has appealed to the Supreme court with the complaint to the registration of Vladimir Putin as a candidate for the presidency. The CEC gave its arguments untenable. In the statement of claim, a copy of which is available to RIA Novosti, Sobchak indicates that Putin “has no right to run”, as repeatedly held the position of President, and in addition, performed the duties of head of state from 31 December 1999 to 7 may 2000. Secretary of the CEC, Maya Grishina told RIA Novosti that he had not seen this lawsuit, but called these arguments “untenable”. The Supreme court has announced that it has received a complaint Sobchak and pass it in the first instance, which will decide whether to

Xenophobia ceases to be an acute problem for Russia The Moscow Bureau for human rights presented a report on the level of nationalism in the country. The Russians are concerned primarily socio-economic and international problems and therefore much less than in previous years, fear of ethnic and religious conflicts. Such a conclusion contains the report of the Moscow Bureau for human rights on the aggressive manifestations of xenophobia and radical nationalism in Russia in 2017. Experts note that “fan xenophobia” remains at a high level, and urge the authorities to pay attention to it on the eve of the world Cup. The report was prepared by the Moscow Bureau for human rights within the framework of a project carried out with funds of the presidential grant. Member of the Council under RF President on development of civil society and human rights, Director of the Moscow Bureau for human rights Alexander

The building of the Russian Embassy in Washington © AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta WASHINGTON, February 15. /Corr. TASS Anatoly Bochinin/. The practice of abduction of Russians in third countries is illegal and contrary to the agreements on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. About it the correspondent of TASS said the Russian Embassy in the United States in response to a request to comment on the sentencing of Russian citizen Vladimir Drinkman.

The Plenipotentiary of Russia in the contact group on settling the situation in Eastern Ukraine, Boris Gryzlov © EPA/SERGEI CHIRIKOV MINSK, 14 February. /TASS./ Without a political solution to the conflict in the Donbass will be permanently “frozen”. On Wednesday following the meeting of the contact group on settling the situation in Eastern Ukraine, said the Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov.